Special Ed Eligibility Categories
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, usually evident by age 3, that adversely affects a student's educational performance.
What is autism
A philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community members together to create schools based on acceptance, belonging, and community.
What is inclusion
This can strengthen the connection between school and home, create a shared commitment to learning, support student learning, and build support for your inclusive classroom
What is good collaboration and communication
Prereading activities to to preview new vocabulary, academic language, word pronunciation, and text structures.
Previewing
This is materials that are found in students natural environments
What is environmental print
A communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language or voice impairment, that adversely affects a student;s educational performance
What is speech or language impairment
Requires schools to educate students with disabilities as much as possible with their peers who do not
What is the least restrictive environment
This is where teachers work together to educate all students in inclusive classrooms
What is co-teaching, cooperative, or collaborative teaching
This allows you to differentiate instruction to meet student strengths and challenges
What is tiered Assignments
These are short books that use pictures and illustrations to enhance the reader's understanding of the meaning and content of the story.
What are picture books
A hearing impairment that is so severe that the student is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a student’s educational
What is deafness
Seeks to provide opportunities, social interactions, and experiences that parallel those of society
What is normalization
This involves working together to solve problems and implement mutually agreed on solutions to prevent and address learning and behavioral difficulties and to coordinate instructional programs for all students
What is collaborative consultation/collaborative problem solving
This levels the playing field between students with and without disabilities
What are accommodations
These words can be cued by miming the distinct qualities or actions associated with them.
What are physical prompts
A severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a student's educational performance.
What is orthopedic impairment
The setting where young children commonly learn everyday skills
What is natural environments
A professional who helps transfer information between indiciduals who do not communicate in the same wayWhat is a
What is an educational interpreter
Here students are given lessons in the same curricular area as their peers, but at varying levels of difficulty
What is multilevel teaching
Herfe students work in dyads with one student making a prediction about half page of text, orally reading the text, and the summarizing the main idea.
What is prediction relay
Concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability-blindness, intellectual disability-orthopedic impairment, etc.), the combination of which cause such severe educational needs
What is Multiple Disabilities
The planning and delivery of practices that help young children make transition to general education classrooms
What is transition practices
Are helpful in enhancing the teaching effectiveness of all educators, they are particularly helpful for promoting the induction, retention, and success of professionals who are beginning their careers
What is mentoring and coaching
This is teaching a diverse group of students individualized skills from different curricular areas
What are curricular overlap
These are small heterogeneous groups of student who work collaboratively to share their reactions to and discuss various aspects of books that all group
What are literature circles and literature response journals