Vocabulary
An acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Civil Rights act designed to integrate individuals with disabilities into the social and economic mainstream of society.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Students that differ in their strengths, interests, motivation, learning styles, and needs.
Both teachers teach the same material at the same time to two equal groups of students.
Parallel teaching
A plan focusing on how the learning environment will change to address a student's behavior, characteristics, strengths, and challenges that include specific measurable goals for appropriate behaviors and the individuals, interventions, supports and services.
Behavioral intervention plan
Specific Learning Disorder
Requires that students be educated in the least restrictive environment.
Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
A pull-out program that uses students' native language and culture to develop their skills in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing English.
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Both teachers teach different content or review that content or use different learning activities at the same time to two equal groups of students.
Station teaching
Highly effective method for motivating students to engage in positive behaviors.
Positive reinforcement
A licensed professional who focuses on the assessment and training of the lower extremities and large muscles and helps students strengthen muscles, improve posture, and increase motor function and range.
Based on six fundamental principles that govern the education of students with disabilities.
IDEA
A program that helps maintain the student's first language and pride in their cultural backgrounds.
Bilingual education program
One teacher works with a smaller group or individual students while the other teacher works with a larger group.
Alternative Teaching
A variation of cooperative group testing.
Two-tiered testing
A condition characterized by seizures that occur on a regular basis.
Epilepsy
The principle of a free and appropriate education requires schools to follow individually tailored education for each student
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
An educational philosophy for structuring schools so that all students are educated together in general education classrooms.
Inclusion
Both teachers plan and teach the lesson together to the whole class and blend their content knowledge, perspective, and instructional, assessment, and management practices.
Team Teaching
Assess students learning at the end of the lesson by having students complete a _____.
Exit slip/ticket
A psychiatric condition that is characterized by difficulty identifying and maintaining attention to relevant classroom directions, information, and stimuli that affects school performance.
ADHD attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
A component that addresses natural transition points and includes a set of coordinated activities within a results-oriented process that is designed to improve the student's areas of training, education, employment, community participation, and where appropriate, independent living skills.
Transition Services
An individually based principle that calls for schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not have disabilities
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
One teacher instructs the whole class while the other teacher circulates to collect information on students' performance or to offer support.
One teaching/one collecting data/helping.
Multilevel prevention, assessment, and instructional data-based decision model for assessing the extent to which your students respond to and need more intensive and individualized research-based intervention.
Response to Intervention (RTI)