Law and Policy
This is the law that provides free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities. (You must say the whole name of the law)
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act? (IDEA)
IEP is the acronym for this.
What is Individualized Education Program?
A form of visual support that acts as an organizer.
What is a graphic organizer?
NOTE: These are especially useful for students with Down syndrome, autism, and language-learning disorders.
SLD stands for this.
Specific Learning Disability
ADHD stands for this
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
This is the law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in many areas of public life including jobs, schools, and transportation. (you must state the full name of the law)
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
FAPE is the acronym for this.
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
Once a child is found eligible for special education under one of the 13 categories, the team develops this.
What is an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
Dysfluency is also sometimes called this.
What is stuttering?
EBD stands for this
Emotional Behavioral Disorder/Disability/Disturbance
This is a plan that provides accommodations for a student who has a disability and requires accommodations but not specially designed instruction.
What is a Section 504 accommodation plan?
Section 504
OHI is the acronym for this.
What is Other Health Impairment?
This refers to any change in standardized testing materials or procedures that allow student with a disability or English language learners to provide evidence of their knowledge or skills.
What are accommodations?
NOTE: Accommodation do not change WHAT is assessed, only HOW it is assessed.
TBI stands for this.
This can be used to promote access, inclusion, and progress for students with disabilities with a focus on accessing learning opportunities in the general education classroom and curriculum
What is Assistive Technology?
These are the people mandated to participate in an IEP meeting
What are parents, general education teacher, special education teacher, district representative/LEA, person to interpret implications of assessment results, the student when appropriate?
RtI is the acronym for this.
What is Response to Intervention?
A large percent of students with disabilities spend most of their day in this environment.
What is the general education classroom?
The characteristics of this disability are significant limitations in intellectual functioning, significant limitations in adaptive behavior, and origination occurs before age 18.
What are key features of Intellectual Disability?
This disability significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, is generally evident before age 3, and adversely affects a student's educational performance.
What is Autism/Autism Spectrum Disorder?
These are the four goals of our nations disability law (name all four).
What is Equal Opportunity, Full Participation, Independent Living, and Economic Self Sufficiency?
SWPBIS is the acronym for this
What is School Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports?
When educators create a more accessible and flexible learning environment for all students, including those with disabilities.
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?
These are seven specific academic areas that fall under the specific learning disability category of special education. Name three.
What is
Basic Reading, Reading Comprehension
Math Calculations, Math Reasoning/Problem Solving
Written Expression
Listening Comprehension, Oral Expression?
This disability can be described in terms of severity, type and sidedness.
What is Hearing Impairment? (Deaf or Hard of Hearing also accepted)