Chap 1-6 Vocabulary
Chap 7-12 Vocab
Cognitive Disabilities
Physical Disabilities
Members of the IEP Team
100
An education that involves delivering and monitoring a specially designed and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based, and universally designed instructional and assessment practices and related services to students with learning, behavioural emotional, physical, health, or sensory disabilities.
What is Special Edcuation
100
When a rewarding stimulus is given for a desired behavior which increases the rate of positive behaviors or makes it more likely for that behavior to occur again.
What is Positive Reinforcement
100
A disorder that causes people of all ages, including students, to suffer from fluctuating moods that vary from depression to mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder
100
A treatable respiratory ailment causing difficulty in breathing due to constriction and inflammation of the airways.
What is Asmtha
100
Key members who have known the student the longest and can provide valuable information on the student's adaptive behavior and medical, social, and psychological history.
What is Family members
200
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools and other social institutions based on acceptance, belonging, and community.
What is Inclusion
200
When students are given lessons in the same curricular areas as their peers but at varying levels of difficulty
What is Multilevel teaching
200
A neurobiological and chronic psychiatric condition that compels them to think about or perform repeatedly an action that appears to be meaningless and irrational and is against their own will.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
200
A chronic metabolic condition that causes people to lack enough insulin and therefore have trouble gaining energy from food.
What is Diabetes
200
An individual in a higher position who supervises the district wide services and usually serves as the chairperson of the IEP team
What is School administrators
300
Conducting ongoing assessments to make data based decisions regarding your student's learning progress and the effectiveness of your instructional practices.
What is Progress Monitoring
300
assessments that relate to your use of assessment strategies during instruction to monitor your student's learning progress and to use this information to adjust your instruction to foster student learning
What is formative assessments
300
A inherited neurodevelopmental condition which symptoms usually include involuntary multiple muscle movements and tics and uncontrolled, repeated verbal responses, such as noises
What is Tourette Syndrome
300
A disorder which affects voluntary motor functions and muscle tension or tone, and is caused by damage to the central nervous system before birth or during the early years.
What is Cerebral Palsy
300
A non-special education teacher who has worked with the student and who can offer information on the student's strengths and challenges as well as data on the effectiveness of specific teaching methods.
What is General Educator
400
An education program that employs both the native and the new language and culture of students to teach them
What is bilingual education
400
Assessment that focuses on your use of assessments at the end of instruction to assess student mastery of specific content, topics, and concepts and skills taught and to report student achievement
What is summative assessments
400
An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment that adversely affects educational performance.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury
400
A disorder caused from the failure of the vertebrae of the spinal cord to close properly, usually resulting in paralysis of the lower limbs as well as loss of control over bladder function.
What is Spina Bifida
400
a non-general educator who provides information on the student's academic, behavioral, and social skills and the student's responses to different teaching methods and materials.
What is Special Educators
500
Instruction where two teachers work together to educate all students in inclusive classrooms and share responsibilities and accountability for planning, differentiating, and delivering instruction and evaluating, grading, and disciplining students
What is Co-teaching
500
Breaking down comments and concepts that students do not understand or tasks that students have difficulty performing into smaller components that promote understanding or mastery
What is Scaffolding
500
A syndrome that affects people of moderate to exceptional IQs that causes them social skill challenges, fordcing them to be very literal and fact oriented, have good but rigid verbal skills, and adhere strictly to routines.
What is Asperger Syndrome
500
A disorder which causes tonic-clonic, tonic, absence, and complex and simple partial seizures to occur on a regular basis.
What is Epilepsy
500
A psychologist specifically trained in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of standardized educational achievement and intelligence tests.
What is a School Psychologist