Special Education
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A principle under IDEA that ensures students with disabilities are educated with their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is LRE: Least Restrictive Environment
A severe hearing and visual impairment that causes communication and developmental needs for a student.
What is deaf blindness
This system includes three parts: short term, long term, and working memory.
What is Memory
This is used to help students plan and organize their writing in the beginning stages by using a visual or diagram.
What is a Graphic Organizer
A PLC is a meeting OR a process
What is a Process
A three step practice that schools use in the general education setting to ensure that students receive interventions and support in reading, writing and math.
What is RTI : Response to Intervention
Significantly below average intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior that significantly impact educational performance.
What is an intellectual disability
This system includes distributing mental energy to finish tasks and stay alert. This system helps you to filter out distractions and stay focused.
What is attention control
This is used to support a student with writing when they have a hard time getting started or have limited language.
What is a Sentence Starter
In a PLC, teachers are discussing students that struggle OR all students
What is All Students
The range of placement and support options available to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities. This can range from resource room to outside residential placement.
What is Continuum of Services
A communication disorder, such as, stuttering, articulation needs, or language impairment that adversely affect's a child's educational performance.
What is Speech and Language Impairment
This system includes problem solving, logic reasoning, critical thinking and creative thinking.
What is higher thinking
This is when a teacher provides temporary supports to help a student reach a higher level of understanding, and then removing the supports as the student makes gains.
What is Scaffolding
When teachers collaborate in a PLC, afterward they will all teach the same way OR there is room for autonomy.
What is there is room for Autonomy
This is a written annual education plan for a student with a disability. This document outlines placement, services, accommodations and modifications necessary to meet a student's needs in the least restrictive environment.
What is an IEP: Individualized Education Program
An acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force that adversely affects educational performance.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury
This system includes the processing chains of information and ordering information in chronological order.
What is Sequential Ordering
These are tools that may be given to a student when they are dysregulated (too much energy or too little energy). An example of these tools are fidgets, putty, coloring activities to reduce stress, or breathing activities.
What is Self Regulation Tools
In PLCs, it a teacher driven process OR led by administration.
What is a Teacher Driven Process
A requirement of Public Law 94-142. Every child in the US has a right to go to school at no cost.
What is FAPE: Free Appropriate Public Education
A condition that causes limited strength, vitality or alertness due to chronic health problems, such as but not limited to, ADHD, Diabetes, Asthma, and Generalized Anxiety.
What is OHI: Other Health Impaired
This system includes communication and interpretation of feelings. It includes code switching, topic selection and maintenance, understanding humor and sarcasm and perspective talking.
What is Social Thinking
This is when a teacher will select certain students to work together to address their readiness levels based on assessment data.
What is Small Group Instruction
PLCs are for teachers OR for all educators (also speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists)
What is for All Educators
A multidisciplinary team established in every school district under IDEA and Part 200 State Regulations. The team's purpose is to identify, evaluate and determine eligibility for special education services for school age students.
What is CSE:Committee on Special Education
A significant deficit in one of these academic areas: listening, reading, writing, or/and math that adversely impacts a student's ability to learn.
What is LD: A Learning Disability
If you are strong in this system, you may have very good eye-hand coordination, you may be fast at typing, and have good handwriting.
What is Motor System
This is a research based instructional tool that teachers use to support learning. These are outlines or handouts with a structured format for taking notes. They contain some information and the students fill in missing pertinent information.
What is Guided Notes
In PLCs, it is expected that educators challenge their colleagues ideas and practices OR agree on all practices.
What is Challenge Each Others Ideas
This is a federal law that ensures special education and related services to eligible children with disabilities in the United States. This federal law provides guidelines for how schools must identify, evaluate, and support students to ensure they receive an individualized and equitable education.
What is IDEA: The Individuals with Disabilities Act
A severe physical disability that affects a student's ability to move or use their body effectively.
What is Orthopedic Impairment
If you are strong in this system, you may be able to concentrate on a teacher's lecture for an extended amount of time, finish lengthy assignments in one sitting, and have consistent work behavior at school.
What is Attention Control
This is when a teacher incorporates time in the lesson that allows students to get out of their seats to increase overall attention and focus.
What is Movement Breaks
PLCs meet once or twice a week OR monthly.
What is once or twice a week
This is a systematic process used to identify the underlying causes or functions of student's challenging behavior in order to develop effective interventions and supports.
What is a FBA:Functional Behavioral Assessment
The presence of two or more disabling conditions (ex. intellectual disability and orthopedic impairment).
What is MD : Multiple Disabilities
If you are not strong in this system, you may often put shoes on the wrong foot, button your shirt incorrectly, or get lost easily.
What is Spatial Ordering
This is used at the end of the period to quickly assess students needs and requires a student response.
What is an Exit Ticket
PLCs are set up for the four main subjects OR set up for all subjects (including art, music, health).
What is For All Subjects
A licensed professional that assesses, and treats communication disorders and identifies expressive, receptive and pragmatic language needs in students.
What is a SLP: Speech and Language Pathologist
A developmental disability that significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction and behaviors. Symptoms usually appear before age 3 and may include repetitive movements, resistance to change and sensory responses.
What is Autism
If you are not strong in this system, you may forget steps in multi-step directions, be late to class, misjudge how long an assignment may take or have difficulty remembering phone numbers or formulas.
What is Sequential Ordering
This support is when a teacher records herself reading the required book for class and makes it available for students to access online.
What is an Assistive Technology Support
PLCs use test data to make decisions OR test data, work samples, behavior data and engagement evidence.
What is test data, work samples, behavior data and engagement evidence
A federal civil rights law that protects students from discrimination and ensures they have equal access to education (even if they may not qualify for special education). It allows for accommodations and supports to remove barriers in the general education setting.
What is a 504 Plan
A condition showing one or more of the following over a long period and to marked degree:
-inability to learn not explained by other factors
-difficulty building or maintaining relationships
-inappropriate behaviors or feelings
-general unhappiness or depression
-physical symptoms or fear related to school
What is ED: Emotional Disability
If you are strong in this system, you may think in pictures, easily visualize dramatic events occurring in a story, have a photographic memory and work best when you have a visual of the task at hand.
What is Spatial Ordering
This is a support for students that have significant difficulty with written expression and have barriers that impede them in writing and spelling. They are able to express their ideas by speaking.
What is Speech to Text Software
PLCs are for new teachers and teachers that need support to improve their practices OR PLCs are for all educators
What is PLCs are for all educators