FEDERAL LAWS OF SWD
This individualized plan includes annual goals and specially designed instruction.
What is an IEP?
The IEP section that describes the student's current academic achievement and functional performance.
What is present levels/PLAAFP?
This refers to the date when the school begins providing the special education services, accommodations, and supports listed in a student’s IEP by signing this document.
What is Initiation of services
The teacher assign a seat/places the student close to instruction and away from distracting areas.
What is preferential seating?
Teachers bring examples of the student’s completed assignments to show current academic performance.
What are work samples?
Teachers maintain this evidence to show that IEP services, accommodations, and student progress were provided and monitored.
What is documentation?
This plan provides accommodations for a student with a disability who does not require specialized instruction.
What is 504 Plan?
The measurable statements describe the academic, behavioral, or functional skills a student is expected to achieve within one year.
What is annual goals?
Service providers & Staff must protect this when handling student records and information.
What is confidentiality?
The teacher gives the student a visual framework with boxes or sections to organize ideas before writing.
What is a graphic organizer?
Before the meeting, teachers review these measurable targets to determine the student’s progress.
What are annual IEP goals?
This meeting must be held at least once every 12 months to review and update a student’s educational program.
What is the annual IEP review meeting?
The rights of students with disabilities to appropriate education at no cost to the family
What is FAPE?
These IEP or 504 supports either change how a student learns or demonstrates knowledge, or change what the student is expected to learn
What is accommodations and modifications?
Teachers should share or communicate student progress and concerns with this person for an upcoming IEP meeting
What is IEP case manager?
The student receives additional time beyond the standard testing or assignment period.
What is extended time?
Teachers collect grades, assessment results, observations, attendance, and behavior information before the meeting.
What is student data?
Teachers must provide these supports, such as preferential seating, extended time, and scheduled breaks, exactly as written in the 504 Plan.
What are 504 accommodations?
The suspension over 10 days requires Manifestation Determination
What is discipline?
This support changes how a student takes an MCAP assessment, such as receiving extended time, small-group testing, or text-to-speech.
What is testing accommodation?
These are quarterly written updates to inform families and the IEP team about a student’s advancement toward their annual goals.
What is progress reports>
Instead of reading the assigned grade-level novel, the student reads a shorter text written at a lower grade level.
What is modified reading material?
Teachers review this section before the meeting to ensure they understand and consistently provide the student’s required supports.
What are accommodations and modifications?
Teachers collect and record this information to determine whether the student is progressing toward the annual IEP goals.
What is progress-monitoring data?
The federal funding statute that provides a free appropriate education (FAPE) to children with disabilities
What is IDEA?
This written plan identifies strategies and supports to prevent challenging behaviors and teach appropriate replacement behaviors.
What is BIP?
These sources of information—including assessment results, grades, attendance, behavior records, work samples, and progress reports—help the IEP team understand a student’s needs and progress.
What is data collected during IEP meeting?
While classmates solve multi-step equations, the student works on basic addition and subtraction aligned with different learning standards.
What is a modified assignment or curriculum?
Before the meeting, teachers prepare information describing what the student does well, what remains difficult, and what support is effective.
What are the student’s strengths, needs, and effective strategies?
Before the IEP meeting, teachers review this plan and bring behavior data showing the student’s triggers, targeted behaviors, prevention strategies, and appropriate staff responses.
What is a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)?