Acronyms
ARD
What is Admission, Review, Dismissal?
This is a developmental disability significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is Autism?
The school is required to give you this document only one time a school year. It must be given upon initial referral or request for evaluation and upon receipt of the first special education complaint filed with TEA, upon receipt of the first due process hearing complaint in a school year; when a decision is made to take disciplinary action that constitutes a change of placement; or upon your request.
What is the Notice of Procedural Safeguards?
Tommy cannot focus for long periods of time and needs to sit near instruction.
What is preferential seating?
This person works with students who need assistance with hand function, oral-motor function, sensory motor skills and accessibility in order to be successful in the school environment.
Who is the Occupational Therapist?
ESY
What is Extended School Year?
This is an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance but is not included under the definition of “deafness.”
What is a hearing impairment?
This must be considered when placing a student in the setting most like that of his typical peers in which they can succeed when provided with the needed supports and services.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
Janna struggles to complete math computations and needs concrete representations to complete assignments and assessments.
What are math manipulatives?
This person will conduct hearing evaluations, provide management for hearing aids and other assistive listening devices, participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, assist in program placement and counsel families about the educational effects of hearing loss. Services are provided through classroom consultation with teachers.
What is an Educational Audiologist?
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
This disability is characterized by a significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently [at the same time] with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is an Intellectual Disability?
This entitles all students with disabilities to a public education regardless of the nature or severity of their disabilities.
What is Zero Reject?
SueEllen becomes easily frustrated and overwhelmed when presented with long assignments. Her teacher accommodates her assignments using this.
What is shortened assignments?
This person assesses and treats the communication disorders of articulation, language, voice, and stuttering for students age 3 through 21.
Who is a Speech-Language Pathologist?
IDEA
What is Individuals with Disabilities Act?
A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is a Speech Impairment?
The education to which all students with disabilities are entitled. Parents and family members cannot be asked to pay for special edcuation services.
What is a Free and Appropriate Education?
Moe is slow to complete his work.
What is extra time?
This person will provide direct consult/ collaborative services to special education students, ages 3 through 21, who need assistance with mobility, positioning, and/or accessibility in order to be successful in the school environment.
Who is a Physical Therapist?
RTI
What is Response to Intervention?
An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is a Traumatic Brain Injury?
Parents have the right to request to see and obtain copies of all records kept regarding their child with a disability and to dispute information they perceive as not correct.
What is Parent and Family Rights to Confidentiality (FERPA)?
Theo struggles to complete written tasks. The occupational therapist works with him weekly and has recently begun teaching him how to use a word processor to type written assignments.
What is assistive technology?
This person works with school teams to support and evaluate students with significant behavioral and/or social-emotional problems. They provide services to students, teachers and/or parents through classroom consultation and short-term counseling.
Who is a Licensed School Psychologist?