Disability Rights Legislation
A law that ensures equal opportunities for people with disabilities in employment and public services.
What is Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
This term refers to a change in how a student learns the material, without altering the learning expectations.
What is an accommodation?
This type of information includes a students likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses to help the teacher better support a students learning.
What is student background information?
This term describes the two-way partnership between educators and caregivers that support a child's learning, development, and success both at school and at home.
What is family engagement?
This learning style describes students who learn best with seeing information through visuals, pictures, or charts.
What is a visual learner?
Term for the laws that banned people with visible disabilities, deformities, or diseases from public places. Enacted from the late 19th to mid-20th century.
What are Ugly Laws?
This term refers to a change in what a student is expected to learn, often altering the curriculum or their performance expectations.
What is a modification?
This term describes the preferred way that a student likes to learn.
What is a learning style?
While verbal communication is crucial, what other kind of communication is important?
What is non-verbal communication?
This learning style is for students who prefer learning from discussions, lectures, or listening.
What is an auditory learner?
An act that determined students with disabilities are entitled to receive a free, appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment providing specialized instruction and related services.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
A student receives extended time on a math test but completes the same number of problems with the same difficulty. Is this an accommodation or a modification?
What is an accommodation?
This practice involves adapting instruction to fit the preferences and needs of each student.
What is differentiated instruction?
What language should teachers use when conversing about family dynamics?
What is neutral language?
A student who learns best through movement fits into this learning style.
What is a kinesthetic learner
Act in 1973 that prohibited discrimination in programs receiving federal funding which ensured equal access and accommodations.
What is Section 504 (Rehabilitation Act of 1973)?
A student is assigned a shorter, simplified version of a reading passage while the rest of the class reads the original version. What type of support is being provided?
What is a modification?
This type of document is legally binding and outlines a student's goals, services, and accommodations.
What is an IEP?
This principle encourages teachers to questions their biases, generalizations, and stereotypes of caregivers.
What is challenging assumptions about families?
Students who prefer hands-on lessons prefer what learning style?
What is a tactile learner?
A protest that was the longest occupation of a federal building in U.S. history that paved the way for the ADA.
What was 504 Protest in San Francisco?
A student uses speech-to-text software to write an essay, and the teacher reduces the required essay length and simplifies the rubric. What support(s) is present?
What are an accommodation (speech-to-text) and a modification (reducing expectations)?
You notice a student struggles with long lectures but excels when shown diagrams or utilizes graphic organizers. What does this tell you about the student?
What is a visual learning preference
Understanding each family's individual background, needs, and circumstances allows educators to offer what kind of support?
What is tailored support?
A student struggles to understand a concept during a lecture but grasps it easier when shown a picture and allowed to manipulate the materials. What combination of learning styles does this student prefer?
What are visual and tactile learning styles?