Alphabet Soup
The acronym: IDEA
What is the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act"?
This IDEA concept refers to the necessary agreement of the IEP team in decision making.
What is a "consensus"?
This IDEA concept is designed to ensure children with disabilities are educated alongside children who do not have disabilities to the greatest extent possible.
What is "inclusion"?
According to Oklahoma laws, once a parent makes a request for initial evaluation for special education, the LEA (school) has _____ school days to complete the evaluation.
What is "45 school days"?
This IDEA concept ensures that parents are notified of meetings in sufficient time.
What is "prior written notice"?
The acronym: LRE
What is "Least Restrictive Environment"?
This IDEA concept refers to the requirement to meet at a time that works for the school team and the parent.
What is "mutually agreeable time"?
This IDEA concept refers to the plan that helps determine what the child may do after they graduate high school.
What is "transition planning"?
Once eligibility for special education is determined, Oklahoma law requires the IEP to be written and implemented within ____ calendar days.
What is "30 calendar days"?
This term is used to describe functional behaviors the student exhibits in performing daily life functions or interactions with others.
What are "adaptive behaviors"?
The acronym: FAPE
What is a "Free Appropriate Public Education"?
This IDEA concept refers to the requirement that evaluation/testing must occur in the students' native language and/or with materials that are not biased against the child's specific variables.
What is "non-discriminatory assessment"?
This is the name of the document that must be given to parents every time they come to an IEP meeting.
What is the "Procedural Safeguards and Parents Rights" document?
An IEP must not be longer in duration that ____ calendar days or ___ year(s).
What is "365 days or one year"?
This concept refers to the process by which the LEA/district must identify children with disabilities living within their jurisdiction.
What is "child find"?
The acronym:PLAAFP
What is "Present Levels of Academic and Functional Performance"?
This IDEA concept refers to the requirement that states that one IEP team, including administrators and parents, cannot make decisions alone; the team must reach consensus.
What is "no unilateral veto power"?
This refers to process by which parents challenge an IEP, in anticipation of proceeding to court if a resolution is not found.
What is "due process"?
A multidisciplinary team evaluation that determines continued eligibility for special education occurs every ___ years.
What is 3 years?
This concept refers to qualification for Extended School Year Services (ESYS) based on a child's struggle to remember concepts when coming back from weekends and school breaks.
What is "regression and recoupment"?
The acronym: LEA
What is a "local education agency"?
This IDEA concept refers to the rules and processes by which parents can appeal/challenge decisions made by a school.
What are "procedural safeguards"?
This refers to the requirement that parents must attempt to work disagreements with school personnel by utilizing the district chain of command before going directly to an attorney.
What is a "exhaust administrative remedies"?
An interim IEP, sometimes called an assessment IEP, can be developed when a child transfers from another district. This IEP can only last ___ calendar days.
What is "30 calendar days"?
This concept refers to Extended School Year Services (ESYS) qualification based on data that shows a student has just mastered a critical skill that may be lost over the summer or is nearing mastery of a critical skill and the summer break would hinder achievement of mastery.
What is "critical point of instruction"?