Laws
a law that mandates a free and appropriate education be provided to all students with disabilities, regardless of the nature and severity of their disability.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
includes teaching models such as parallel, station, alternative, one teach/one data collecting and congruence.
What is cooperative teaching?
a persistent condition that includes engaging in a range of behaviors impacting daily activities, such as difficulties paying attention to details and concentrating, making careless errors, and organizing oneself as well as constant talking, fidgeting, being out of seat, and waiting one's turn.
What is ADD/ADHD?
Present levels of academic achievement and functional performance.
What is PLAAFP?
What is English as a Second Language (ESL)?
a document that protects the rights of people with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public and highlights equal employment opportunities.
What is American Disabilities Act (ADA)?
LRE
What is least restrictive environment?
includes learning disabilities, mild emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, attention deficit disorders, and speech/language disorders.
What is high incidence disabilities?
any item, piece of equipment, or product system - whether bought, modified, or customized - that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of an individual with a disability.
What is assistive technology?
a philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community inclusion.
What is inclusion?
a document that protects the rights of people with disabilities. This ensures that people with disabilities cannot be denied services or discriminated against because of their disability.
What is Section 504?
partial or fulltime programs that educate students with disabilities with their general education peers.
What is mainstreaming?
a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language that may appear as an impaired ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
What is specific learning disabilities?
a team of people including the general education teacher, special education teacher, school psychologist, speech and language clinicians, social worker, OT, PT, family members, administration, etc. to evaluate the needs of a student when creating an IEP.
What is the multidisciplinary team?
employ both the native and the new language and culture of students to teach them. This helps students maintain their first language and pride in their cultural backgrounds.
What is bilingual education?
created and protected by IDEA, a written, individualized education program listing the special education and related services students with disabilities will receive to address their unique academic, social, behavioral, communication, functional, and physical strengths and challenges.
What is an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP)?
a framework for developing a program to prepare students for success in inclusive settings.
1. ecological assessment
2. intervention and preparation
3. generalization to the new setting
4. evaluation in the new environment
What is transenvironmental programming?
physical, sensory, and multiple and significant cognitive disabilities make up approximately 6% of students with disabilities.
What is low incidence disabilities?
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 test accommodations?
students who give evidence of high performance capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who require special services or activities not ordinarily provided by the school.
What is gifted and talented?
holds states accountable for creating free and appropriate education for all students. This law has evolved from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in that it gives states more leeway with the assessments they use to measure student achievement.
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which has evolved from No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
differentiation, accommodation, modification, multilevel teaching, co-teaching methods.
What are Methods of inclusion teaching?
hard time processing nonverbal, visual-spatial information and communications, such as body language, gestures, and the context of linguistic interactions.
What is nonverbal learning disabilities?
educators respond to student needs by differentiating content, process, product, affect, and the learning environment to meet the needs of the student.
direct services from special education teachers usually in a separate room in the school to provide individualized remedial instruction related to specific skills and provide supplemental content area instruction that supports and parallels the instruction given in the general education classroom.
What is a resource room?