Acronyms
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
School districts are mandated to identify, find and evaluate students who live within their boundaries suspected of having a disability.
What is child find?
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction.
What is Autism?
How long do we have to convene an IEP meeting to determine eligibility after consent for initial evaluation is obtained.
What is 60 calendar days?
A services designed to help students with receptive language, expressive language, and social communication.
What is Speech Therapy?
BIP
What is Behavior Intervention Plan?
When a child appears to be struggling in school parents, teachers or other school personnel can do this.
Referral for a special education assessment
Significantly below-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior.
What is Intellectual Disability?
How long in advance are parents required to notify the school district if they plan to record an IEP meeting, even without the school district’s permission.
What is 24 hours’ notice?
Similarly, a school district may tape record a meeting with 24 hours’ notice to the parent. However, the district cannot tape record the meeting if the parent objects.
Changes how a student learns the material.
What is an Accommodation?
FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
To be eligible for Individualized Education Program (IEP), students need to meet the requirements for at least one of these.
What are the 13 Eligibility Categories?
This category covers a specific group of learning challenges. These conditions affect an individual’s ability to read, write, listen, speak, reason, or do math.
What is Specific Learning Disability?
A meeting of the IEP team to determine whether a student with a disability may be recommended for expulsion from school or have their services and/or placement change to ensure FAPE.
What is Manifestation Determination meeting?
IEP team must review all relevant information in the student's file to determine if the conduct in question was caused by the child's disability or if the conduct was a direct result of the school district's failure to implement the child's IEP.
A service designed to help students develop skills of independence including self-care, sensory regulation, and strengthening fine motor skills.
What is Occupational Therapy (OT)?
FBA
Referral for Special Education, Parent Consent, Evaluation, Determining Eligibility, and holding an IEP meeting.
What is the IEP process?
This is a brain injury caused by an accident or some kind of physical force.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
Parents disagree with a school district’s assessment, you may ask the district to pay for an independent educational evaluation. The district must respond to your request for an IEE...
What is "without unnecessary delay"?
An item or piece of equipment that helps a person with a disability increase, maintain, or improve a student’s functional capabilities.
What is Assistive Technology?
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
An accommodation plan that requires classroom teachers and other school staff to provide accommodations necessary for eligible students to participate in and benefit from public education programs and activities.
What is Section 504?
A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics of an extended period of time, to a marked degree & adversely affects a child's education performance: 1)Inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory or health factors 2) Inability to build or maintain satisfactory relationships with peers & adults 3) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances 4) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression 5) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
What is Emotional Distrubance?
Asserting this right ensures that your child continues to get the same amount of services while you and the school resolve a dispute.
What is stay-put?
Focuses on the instruction of students with special needs, ensuring their success in a general education program by addressing learning challenges and barriers in addition to behavioral, and social-emotional needs
What is Specialized Academic Instruction (SAI)?