Exceptional Children
EC Acronyms
Early Childhood
Early Childhood Acronyms
Category Acronyms
100

Differentiation

What is the practice of adjusting instruction for learners at various levels of mastery.

100

IEP

What is an Individualized Education Program?

100

Play-Based Learning

What is a context for learning through which children organize and make sense of their social worlds, as they actively engage with people, objects, and representations?

100

PD

What is Professional Development?

100

DD

What is Developmentally Delayed?

200

Early Intervention

What are services provided to children aged 0-3?

200

LEA

What is the Local Education Agency?

200

Formative Assessment

What is ongoing data collection to determine growth across time?

200

DCDEE

What is the Department of Child Development and Early Education?

200

SLI or SI

What is Speech Language Impairment?

300

Adaptations and Modifications

What is the process of changing activities or instruction to support learning?

300

IFSP

What is Individualized Family Service Plan?
300

Summative Assessment

What is the assessment used to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit?

300

ELL/ML

What is English Language Learner or Multilingual Learner? 

300

AU

What is Autism?

400

Parents and families should be included on this team.

What is the Individualized Education Plan team?

400

IDEA

What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?

400

Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)

What is an approach to teaching grounded in the research on how young children develop and learn and in what is known about effective early education. Its framework is designed to promote young children’s optimal learning and development.

400

FAPE

What is a Free and Appropriate Public Education?

400

HI

What is Hearing Impairment?

500

Children with special needs should be educated/served in this type of setting.

What is the Least Restrictive Environment?

500

LRE

What is the Least Restrictive Environment?

500

The age range defined by "Early Childhood"

What is birth to age 8?

500

FERPA

What is the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act?

500

OHI

What is Other Health Impairment?

600

The people qualified in North Carolina to provide general education and special education to children with special needs.

What is a Birth-Kindergarten certified teacher?

600

OCR

What is the Office of Civil Rights?

600

Curriculum is defined as

What is the content chosen to be taught during early childhood education programs? 

600

NAEYC

What is the National Association for the Education of Young Children? 

600

VI

What is Visual Impairment?