Special Education Vocabulary/Acronyms
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Goals should be developed from the information/data contained in what document?
What is the PLAAFP (Present Levels of Academic and Functional Performance)?
Is there a reason to suspect that the student has a disability and is there a reason to suspect that because of the disability the student needs special education?
What are the 2 childfind questions?
Time allowed to respond to a staff member or parent request to convene an IEP Meeting.
What is 5 SCHOOL days?
This must occur within 10 school days of any decision to change the placement of a child with a disability because of a violation of the student code of conduct.
What is a Manifestation Determination Review meeting (MDR)? 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.
FIE
What is a Full and Individual Evaluation?
The age a student needs a transition plan developed to address life outside the public school system.
What is no later than the student's 14th birthday?
School districts are mandated to identify, find and evaluate students who live within their boundaries suspected of having a disability.
What is child find?
The number of days the campus has to respond to a parent that requests (either verbal or written request) an evaluation for their student.
What is 15 SCHOOL days?
Antecedent, Behavior and Consequences
What is the ABC of behavior?
Autism, Deaf-Blindness, Developmental Delay, Emotional Disability, Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Orthopedic Impairment, Other Health Impairment, Specific Learning Disability, Speech Impairment, Traumatic Brain Injury, Visual Impairment
What are the 13 categories of special education defined by IDEA.
When a child appears to be struggling in school parents, teachers or other school personnel can do this
Who can make a referral for special education ?
Once parents sign consent for an initial evaluation, the evaluation team has this many days to complete and write the evaluation.
What is 45 SCHOOL days?
The steps that are needed after a student has been restrained.
What is restraint paperwork should be completed, parent notified and a copy of the paperwork sent home, paperwork sent to SpEd PEIMS, and a copy retained in the AP office within 24 HRS after the restraint has occurred.
Referral for Special Education, Evaluation, Determining Eligibility, Writing the Individual Education Program & holding an IEP Meeting
What is the IEP process?
The document collaboratively written by the Student Assistance Team when denying a parent's request for an evaluation.
What is the PWN (Prior Written Notice)?
The number of FAPE free days a student is allowed each SCHOOL YEAR.
What is 10?
The number of days we have to convene a Manifestation Determination Review and offer/review/revise FBA/BIP.
What is by their 10th FAPE free school day?
PLAAFP
What is Present Levels of Academic and Functional Performance
This ensures that no changes can be made in a child's program without prior notice to the parents. It also provides a mechanism for the resolution of disagreements when parents disagree with the program recommendations of the school district.
What is due process?
The Emotional Disability criteria includes a specifier of time and severity, i.e. "over a long period of time and to a marked degree." Generally case law has indicated the period of time is...
What is 4-6 months?
The time parents have to invoke stay put if they dispute the IEP by filing a due process complaint or agreeing to mediation after an IEP meeting.
What is 5 school days from the day they receive the PWN (Prior Written Notice) of the decisions of the ARD committee?
The instance in which you would return the student to the placement from which they were removed if the parent and LEA do not agree to a change of placement.
What is if the conduct in question is a manifestation of the student's disability?