Purpose and Promise of Special Education
Children who experience difficulties in learning as well as those whose performance is so advanced that modifications in curriculum and instruction are necessary
What are exceptional children?
Prereferral Intervention, Multifactored Evaluation. Eligibility Determination, IEP, LRE, Special Education and related services, Progress monitoring, annual review and reevaluation
What is the Special Education Process?
Parent advocacy, legislative mandates, and educators' desire to increase their effectiveness
What are the three factors responsible for the increased emphasis on parent and family involvement?
a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the inability to listen, think, speak, write, spell or do mathematical calculations
What is specified learning disability?
Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a child's educational performance
What is intellectual disability?
The loss or reduced function of a particular body part or organ
What is impairment?
Multidisciplinary teams, interdisciplinary teams, transdisciplinary teams
What are three teaming models?
Grief cycle, confronting, adjusting, and accepting or adapting, period of emotional crisis characterized by shock, denial, and disbelief
What are some challenges and stressors of parents have who have children with disabilities?
Shifts identification from a "wait to fail" model to one of early identification and prevention
What is RTI (response to intervention}
A series of questions, problem-solving, memory and other task assumed to require certain amounts of intelligence to answer or solve correctly
What is an IQ test?
Children who are considered to have a greater than usual chance of developing a disability
What are children at risk?
Those underrepresented and overrepresented in Special Education
What are culturally and linguistically diverse students?
Caregiver, provider, teacher, counselor. behavior support specialist, Parent of siblings without disabilities, parent and/or co-parent and information specialist
What are roles of parents of children with disabilities?
General term that refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant difficulties in the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning or mathematical abilities
What are learning disabilities?
Mark has an IQ of 43. He has demonstrated difficulties with daily living skills and has not met some important developmental milestones. What could Mark's diagnosis be?
What is intellectual disability- moderate?
Recognize meaningful differences, provide access to accommodations, may negatively affect the child's self-esteem, requires the expenditure of a great amount of money
What are advantages and disadvantages of labeling and classification?
Setting closest to the regular classroom that also meets the child's special educational needs
What is least restrictive environment?
Understanding how differing values and belief systems may influence families' perspectives, wishes and decisions
What is cultural reciprocity?
Reading problems, written language deficits, Math underachievement, Poor Social Skills, ADHD, challenging behavior, low self-esteem or self-efficacy, severe low achievement despite generally effective instruction
What are characteristics of learning disabilities?
Alice has been diagnosed with an Intellectual Disability. Her IQ score is a 29. What is her ID level?
What is intellectual disability- severe?
Zero Reject, nondiscriminatory evaluation, free appropriate public education, child find system, IEP, and least restrictive environment
What are the six major principles of IDEA?
The key operational element of the family-professional partnership
What is ongoing two-way communication?
Severe discrepancy between student's intellectual ability and academic achievement not the result of another known condition and in need of special education services to succeed in school
What are three criteria most states require?
Intellectual Disability
What is impaired mental ability?