Special Education and Inclusion
Technology
Collaboration
Transition
Evaluating Progress and Effectiveness
100
A philosophy that brings together diverse learners, families, educators, and community members to create schools based on acceptance.
What is Inclusion
100
Any item, piece of equipment, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability.
What is an assistive technology device?
100
One teaching/one helping Parallel teaching Station teaching Alternative teaching Team teaching
What are co-teaching arrangements
100
Transitioning to General Ed Classrooms Transitioning Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Transitioning to New Schools Transitioning to Adulthood
What are the different types of transition?
100
Variations in testing administration, environment, equipment, technology, and procedures that allow students to access tests and accurately demonstrate their competence, knowledge, and abilities without altering the integrity of the tests
What are testing accommodations?
200
All learners have equal access Individual strengths and challenges and diversity Reflective practices and differentiated instruction Community and collaboration Mainstreaming
What are the principle of effective inclusion?
200
Teacher made communication boards, reading masks, pencil grips are examples of this type of technology.
What are low technology devices?
200
Goal and problem clarification and identification Goal and problem analysis Implementation of plan Evaluation of plan
What are the steps of collaborative consultation?
200
Gives students techniques for understanding the important vocabulary and concepts to guide instruction in the inclusive setting.
What are Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency Skills?
300
Written to correlate with No Child Left Behind Act. Schools are held accountable for the success of students with disabilities and short-term objectives were eliminated from IEPs
What is IDEIA 2004
300
IPads, motorized wheel chairs, and electronic communication devices are examples of this type of technology.
What are high technology devices?
300
Family members School administrators General educators Special educators Paraeducators School psychologists Speech and language clinicians Social workers School counselors Vocational educators School physicians and nurses PT, OT, and APE Staff from community agencies
Who are the members of the comprehensive planning team?
300
When the special educator uses the curriculum, teaching style, and instructional format of the general education teacher to aid in transition.
What is preteaching?
300
Conducting ongoing assessment to examine students' learning progress and the effectiveness of teaching practices and instructional programming.
What is progress monitoring?
400
Universal screening Identification of students Tiered instruction Fidelity of effective interventions Collaboration Progress Monitoring
What is RTI
400
Any device that helps students with speaking intelligibility issues.
What is an augmentative and alternative communication system?
400
Recognizes the importance of the roles that students and their families play as advocates in identifying meaningful goals and appropriate strategies and services for meeting them.
What is person/student centered planning?
400
A four step process to prepare students for inclusive settings that includes environmental assessment, intervention and preparation, generalization to the new setting, and evaluation in the new setting.
What is transenvironmental programming
400
Meaningful, complex, relevant, open-ended learning activities that are incorporated into the assessment process and are linked to curriculum and learning standards.
What are authentic/performance assessments?
500
A concept or philosophy that guides the design and delivery of products and services so that they are usable by individuals with a wide range of capabilities and diversities
What is universal design
500
An inquiry-oriented, cooperatively structured group activity in which some or all of the information comes from the internet.
What is a webquest?
500
Logical relationship among the curriculum, learning goals, teaching materials, strategies, and supportive services.
What is congruence?
500
A component of the student’s IEP that features an assessment of students’ career goals and interests an assessment of students’ current and desired skill levels an identification of transition placement an assessment of the new environment to determine the skills necessary for success a list of related services, functional supports, accommodations, and assistive technologies that can affect success
What is an individualized transition plan?
500
Ways to evaluate the impact of an inclusion program on students' social and behavioral performance.
What observational and sociometric techniques?