Test scores that indicate inconsistency and don't "cluster" well.
What is variation in performance?
100
an IEP Plan under OHI, an IEP Plan under a co-morbid condition, or a 504 Plan
What are the three ways students with ADHD can get special services in school?
100
The clinical handbook used by mental health professionals to diagnose psychiatric conditions
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?
100
Special paperwork required for students with Emotional Disturbance that seeks to answer "Why does he do that?"
What is a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)?
200
Life skills like counting, making change, and telling time.
What are adaptive behaviors?
200
How an individual receives, stores, uses, and expresses information
What is information processing?
200
Predominantly Inattentive, Predominantly Hyperactive-Impulsive, and Combined Type
What are the three types of ADHD?
200
The period from conception to age 18 when issues related to Intellectual Disabilities must manifest to meet the requirement under special education law.
What is the developmental period?
200
The timeline of how children develop their speech sounds
What are articulation norms?
300
The name of the 2010 law which changed the term "mentally retarded" to "intellectually disabled." It was named after a little girl from Maryland who was named Rosa.
What are the 7 ways identified in law that a specific learning disability can manifest?
300
When the child who takes medication for his/her ADHD stops taking that medication for a short period of time
What is a drug holiday?
300
When an individual has two disorders or diagnoses at the same time
What is co-morbid?
300
The most commonly used Behavior Rating Scale used by mental health professionals to aid in the diagnosis of ADHD
What is Conners Rating Scale?
400
How intellectual functioning is measured
What is an Intelligence Test (IQ Test)?
400
An unexplainable gap in the test scores that the Referral/Assessment team looks
What is a discrepancy?
400
A health condition that is long-term and life-long or a health condition that is short-term and severe but is not life-long
What is a chronic or acute health condition?
400
Externalizing behaviors such as aggression, rule breaking, disobedience, noncompliance, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Conduct Disorder
What are behaviors that are easily observed and more typical for boys?
400
how language is used
What is pragmatics?
500
The terms mild, moderate, severe, and profound based on the individual's IQ.
What is the traditional classification of intellectual disability?
500
When the teacher either teaches in the area of deficit or teaches ways to "work around" the deficit (i.e. teaching the student to better comprehend text material or teaching the student strategies and tools like graphic organizers to aid in their comprehension
What is remediation or compensation?
500
The DSM says this instead of saying "adversely affects educational performance"
What is that it must impair social, academic, or occupational functioning?
500
Internalizing behaviors such as schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, and bipolar disorder
What are behaviors less obvious to others and more typically observed in girls?
500
The term used in the category of Emotional Disturbance that has no clear definition, although some have likened it to children who engage in criminal behavior.
What is social maladjustment or socially maladjusted?