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Components of the Assessment Process
Assessment Critical in these Impt Decisions
Disability Categories (Under IDEA)
Legal Matters
IDEA
100
The process and understanding of patterns in a child's educational, social, developmental, environmental, medical, and emotional history.
What is Analysis?
100
Information collected in the assessment process can provide detailed information on whether a child is eligible for special education services.
What are Eligibility Decisions?
100
Concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes severe communication and other developmental and edcational problems.
What is Deaf-Blindness?
100
This is the famous 1954 court case, where the court ruled that it was illegal practice under the Fourtheenth Amendment to arbitrarily discriminate against any group of people. The court, then, applied the principle to the schooling of children, holding that a separate education for African-American students is not an equal education. Separate but equal would no longer be accepted.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka)?
100
IDEA is the re-authorization of PL-94-142 and was enacted in this year.
What is 1990?
200
The suggestions concerning educational placement and program that need to be made to the school, teachers, and parents.
What is Recommendation?
200
Information collected in the assessment process is critical in planning goals/objectives appropriate to the child's special social, academic, physical and management needs.
What are Instructional Planning Decisions? (Will also accept "What are IEP Development Decisions?")
200
Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.
What is Mental Retardation?
200
In PASE v. Joseph Hannon (1980), the judge found that the use of this type of test was not discriminitory and could, therefore, be used in psychoeducational assessment, so long as they followed all of the procedural safeguards under federal law.
What is an IQ Test?
200
IDEA was amended in 1997 and included significant changes, such as the expansion of the number of members on a student's IEP team. In addition to the parents, the team now was mandated to include these two members.
Who are the Regular Education Teacher and the Special Education Teacher?
300
The process of tracing and gathering information from the many sources of background information on a child such as school records, observation, parent intakes, and teacher reports.
What is Collection?
300
Information collected in the assessment process can provide detailed information of a student's strengths, weaknesses, and overall progress.
What are Evaluation Decisions?
300
A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, or voice impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is Speech or Language Impairment?
300
This is a civil rights law enacted in 1973 to prevent discrimination against all individuals with disabilities in programs that received federal funds. This law also helps students who many not qualify for accomodations under IDEA.
What is Section 504 of the Vocaitonal Rehabilitation Act?
300
IDEA was amended, re-authorized and signed again in 2004 by this President.
Who is George W. Bush?
400
The assessment of a child's intellectual, academic, psychological, emotional, perceptual, language, cognition, and medical development to determine areas of strength and weakness.
What is Evaluation?
400
Information collected in the assessment process can provide detailed information so that appropriate decisions can be made about the child's LRE
What are Educational Placement Decisions?
400
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3, that adversely affects a child's educational performance (Note: this term does not apply if the child has an emotional disturbance.)
What is Autism?
400
Also referred to as the Buckley Amendment, this gives parents of students the right to examine records kept in the student's cumulative, personal file. (Passed in 1974)
What is the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
400
This is the name of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and was signed into law in 2001.
What is No Child Left Behind Act?
500
The decision of the presence of a suspected disability using knowledge of the criteria that constitute each category.
What is Determination?
500
Information collected in the assessment process can provide detailed information of the specific nature of the student's problem or disability.
What are Diagnostic Decisions?
500
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
What is Specific Learning Disability?
500
This is the official name of PL - 94-142. Hint: it flies in the face of political correctness!
What is The Education of All Handicapped Children Act?
500
This is the term for the right to an impartial hearing if parents do not agree with the decisions made about their child in the assessment process.
What is Due Process?