Abbreviations
Tenets of IDEA 04
The Brain
Dyslexia
EBDs
100
SLD
What is Specific Learning Disability?
100
This tenet requires instructors to give more than just 1 test and to provide the testing in the student's native language.
What is Non-Discriminatory Evaluation?
100
This part is a cluster of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
100
This connection between the written letter or symbol and the sound/s it can make is a struggle for those with dyslexia.
What is the grapheme/phoneme connection?
100
This disability, which makes people interpret reality abnormally, is listed under IDEA as a Emotional Disturbance.
What is schizophrenia?
200
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
200
It is the guardian's input into the evaluation and IEP goals.
What is Parental Participation?
200
These are the chemicals responsible for signal transmission between the individual neurons?
What are neurotransmitters?
200
Another term for Word Blindness, it is a learning disorder in which symbols, letters, words, and even phrases can appear reversed or transposed in reading.
What is strephosymbolia?
200
Some examples include bullying, cruelty to animals, destroying property, ignoring, and tantrums.
What are externalizing behaviors?
300
IDEA
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
300
This is the right to challenge the findings of an evaluation report, as well as the right to disagree with the IEP, disciplinary actions, and even the hearing officer.
What is Due Process?
300
This hemisphere of the brain is associated with creativity, visual imagery, music, and spatial orientation.
What is the Right Hemisphere?
300
This French neurosurgeon discovered that the left inferior area of the frontal cortex, which is named after him, has a tremendous role in the process of language.
Who is (Paul) Broca?
300
This anxiety disorder is characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears that lead to repetitive behaviors.
What is OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)?
400
FIDs
What is Frequency, Intensity, and Duration?
400
This tenet states that students cannot be denied for any reason.
What is Zero Reject?
400
This lobe is associated with speech, body movement, executive functioning, behavior, and judgment.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
400
This German neurologist located an area in the posterior section of the left temporal lobe that is responsible for processing the words we hear.
Who is (Carl) Wernicke?
400
Some examples of these can be complaints of physical illness, silence, nervousness, fear, and obsessions.
What are internalizing behaviors?
500
IEP
What is Individual Education Plans?
500
This tenet calls for total integration in not just the General Education environment, but also in part-time and full-time classes, hospitals, and at home.
What is LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)?
500
This is the brain's ability that when a certain area of the brain is damaged, other parts of the brain take over the function of that area.
What is plasticity?
500
This is a method to test for dyslexia, a model that reduces false positives by having students work their way up three different tiers, each getting a more individualized teaching environment.
What is the RtII (Response to Intervention and Instruction) model?
500
This kind of disorder, which can be because of a biological difference in the prefrontal cortex, is the most common behavior disorder found in schools.
What is Conduct Disorder?