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100

A pattern of repeated seizures

What is epilepsy?

100

This federal law ensures that all youths with disabilities have the right to free, appropriate public education.

What is IDEA? (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)

100

This is very useful in helping children at elementary school level who are not proficient in English to learn English more efficiently.  It involves pairing a student with another student for support.

What is Classwide peer tutoring?

100
These assessments are frequent, quick-and-easy measures that teachers administer at regular intervals and that provide information on whether a student is learning as expected.
What is Progress monitoring?
100

(FAS) Abnormalities associated with the mother’s drinking alcohol during pregnancy; defects range from mild to severe, including growth retardation, brain damage, intellectual disability, hyperactivity, anomalies of the face, and heart failure; also called alcohol embryopathy.

What is fetal alcohol syndrome?

200

Ability to detect objects in the environment by auditory echoes (sound waves) created by footsteps, tapping a cane, clicking one’s tongue. Similar to sonar, the echoes can be used to interpret the location and size of objects. This ability is used by bats and porpoises, and can be developed in humans.

What is echolocation?

200

This refers to a students change (or lack of change) in academic performance or behavior as a result of instruction. Usually associated with learning disabilities and academic learning.

What is Response to Intervention?

200

Strategies and techniques used to increase desirable behavior and decrease undesirable behavior. May be applied in the classroom, home, or other environment.

What is behavior management?

200
This method of assessment involves students' responses to their usual instructional materials; it entails direct and frequent samples of performance from the students curriculum.
What is CBM? (curriculum-based measurement)
200

A way of enhancing content with visual displays using lines, circles, and boxes to organize information.

What are graphic organizers?

300

(ADA) Civil rights legislation for persons with disabilities ensuring nondiscrimination in a broad range of activities.

What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?

300
Some extreme behaviors require the use of more than just social support, families may need to help apply behavioral principles in interacting with their children. These are two effective approaches.
What is FBA (functional behavioral assessment) & PBIS (positive behavioral intervention and support)?
300
The legal document that describes the educational services a student receives. Vary greatly in format and detail from different children and school districts.
What is IEP? (individualized education program)
300

(BIP) A plan for changing behavior with an emphasis on positive reinforcement (rewarding) procedures.

What is a behavioral intervention plan?

300

Mainstreaming; the idea of placing students with disabilities in general education classes and other school activities.

What is inclusion?

400

The ability to convert print to spoken language; dependent on phonemic awareness and understanding of the alphabetic principles; a significant problem for many people with reading disabilities.

What is decoding?

400

(ABA) Highly structured approach that focuses on teaching functional skills and continuous assessment of progress; grounded in behavioral learning theory.

What is Applied Behavioral Analysis?

400

(ADHD) A condition characterized by severe problems of inattention, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity; often found in people with learning disabilities

What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?

400
A highly structured, teacher directed method of instruction. Programs include task analysis, frequent assessments, achievement grouping, curriculum based upon mastery learning, and field-tested scripted lesson plans.
What is DI (Direct Instruction)?
400

A systemic disease with major symptoms involving the muscles and joints; an autoimmune disorder occurring before 16 years of age in which the muscles and joints are affected; the cause and cure are unknown.

What is juvenile rheumatoid arthritis?

500

Changes in the delivery of instruction, type of student performance, or method of assessment that do not significantly change the content or conceptual difficulty of the curriculum.

What is an accommodation?

500

Learners with these major categories were covered in the textbook..

What is Learning disabilities, autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, emotional and behavioral disabilities, communication disorders, low-incidence and severe disabilities, physical disabilities, deafness and blindness.

500

Refers generally to a person’s ability to regulate his or her own behavior (e.g., to employ strategies to help in a problem-solving situation); an area of difficulty for persons who have intellectual disabilities.

What is self-regulation?

500

A system in which raised dots allow people who are blind to read with their fingertips; each quadrangular cell contains from one to six dots, the arrangement of which denotes different letters and symbols.

What is braille?

500

(PBS) Positive reinforcement (rewarding) procedures intended to support a student’s appropriate or desirable behavior.

What is positive behavioral support?