IDEA
SpEd Timelines
IEP
DISABILITIES
MISC
100

Students with disabilities must have access to the general education curriculum but it may look different depending on the student’s needs

What is FAPE?

100

When a parent orally requests an evaluation, the LEA must provide the Permission to Evaluate Request form to the parent.

What is 10 Calendar Days?

100

A documented program to meet the needs and strengths of the individual.

What is an IEP?

100

This disability affect a child’s ability to read, write, listen, speak, reason, or do math.

What is Learning Disabilities?

100

Specific Rights and Protections

What are the Procedural Safeguards?

200

This document allows students with disabilities to get the education they need to thrive.

What is IDEA?

200

After the LEA recieves written parental consent, the initial evaluation must be completed and a copy of the ER presented to the parents.

What is 60 Calendar days?

200

Plans for school after high school, job training, getting a job, living on their own, and/or life in the community.

What is a Transition Plan?

200

This disability mainly affects a child’s social and communication skills. It can also impact behavior.

What is Autism?

200

Any item a child needs to keep up or do better in school, it can be low-tech, such as a pencil grip. It can be a high-tech item, such as a computer,

What is Assistive Technology?

300

Part C of IDEA

What is Early Intervention?

300

The parents must receive a copy of the ER prior to the IEP meeting.

What is at least 10 School Days?

300

A problem solving process for addressing inappropriate behavior.

What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment?

300

People with this disability have below-average intellectual ability. They may also have poor communication, self-care, and social skills.

What is Intellectually Disabled?

300

LEA

What is Local Educational Agencies?

400

Children with disabilities must be taught together with children who don’t have disabilities as much as they can be.

What is Least Restrictive Environment?

400
The LEA must convene the IEP meeting after the completion of the ER.

What is 30 Calendar Days?

400

Changes that allow a person with a disability to participate fully in an activity.

What are accommodations?

400

Various mental health issues can fall under this disability. They may include anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression.

What is Emotional Disturbance?
400

A scientifically based practice used to assess a child's academic progress on IEP goals and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction

What is Progress Monitoring?

500

IDEA revolves around six foundational principles

What are FAPE, LRE, appropriate educations, IEP, parent involvement and decision making, Procedural Safeguards?

500

An initial IEP for a student must be implemented.

No later than 10 School Days after parental consent.

500

Name the 7 steps of the IEP process.

What are: Step 1: Pre-Referral Step 2: Referral Step 3: Identification Step 4: Eligibility Step 5: Development Of The IEP Step 6: Implementation Step 7: Evaluation And Reviews ?

500

Children with this disabililty lack function or ability in their bodies. An example is cerebral palsy.

What is Orthopedic Impairment?

500

A single curriculum that applies to all students as adopted by a school district.

What is the general education curriculum?