Eligibility
The number of disability categories that quality a student for Special Education.
What is 13?
The two areas of information required in a PLAAFP, hence the acronym.
What are Academic Achievement and Functional Performance.
The number of goals required by law for any student receiving Special Education services.
What is one.
It is what the acronym SDI stands for.
What is Specially Designed Instruction?
Name three examples of Special Education services?
What are resource, inclusion, OT, PT, vision, deaf and hard of hearing, orientation and mobility, speech and language, co-teaching, personal care, etc. (not an exclusive list).
A student's eligibility for Special Education must be re-evaluated ___.
What is annually.
What the Impact Statement establishes in the PLAAFP.
What is the impact of the student's disability on his/her access to and progress in the general education curriculum.
The four required components of any legally compliant goal.
What are a timeline, a condition, a students behavior, and a criterion for mastery.
The two functions which any Specially Designed Instruction should do.
Allow the student to access and progress in the general education curriculum despite the impact of his/her disability; teach and measure progress on an IEP goal.
What drives decisions about student placement.
Where is the best program to implement the IEP with fidelity?
The name of the assessment which determines a student's eligibility for Special Education.
What is a Full Individualized Evaluation, or FIE.
What are reading, written expression, and math.
An absolute requirement for any mastery criterion.
What is it must be quantifiable.
When a Special Education teacher provides Specially Designed Instruction in a general education class.
What is inclusion or co-teach.
It is who decides a student's placement.
What is the ARD Committee.
In combination with an identified disability, the second prong required for a student to qualify for Special Education.
What is an educational need for specialized instruction.
The reason PLAAFP section comes directly after the eligibility section.
What is because the rest of the IEP must align with information and data in the PLAAFP.
The way you know a student behavior is appropriately used in a goal.
What is observable.
When a Special Education teacher provides Specially Designed Instruction in a special education class.
What is resource?
It is the frequency with which student placement decisions are made.
What is at least annually?
The disability category which applies to 80% of all students receiving Special Education services.
What is a Specific Learning Disability.
Name at least two data sources that must be included in the PLAAFP.
What are teacher feedback, local assessments, state assessments, progress of previous goals, information from the FIE, parent input.
The numerical foundation of any goal.
What is baseline data?
The primary driver in decision-making about what services the student needs.
What are the Goals?
It is, by federal and state law, a critical consideration in determining a student's placement.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment.