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SpEd Acronyms
Assessment
Misc.
What Would Julie Say?
100
A "parent" or school district can request this if they wish to dispute assessment results or challenge a decision in the implementation of an IEP.
What is a due process hearing?
100
This specific department within the U.S. Department of Education is responsible for monitoring and enforcing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
What is the OSERS? or What is the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services?
100
This is to determine if a student is eligible for special education services. If the student is eligible for special education services an IEP team is formed and the student’s IEP is created to ensure a free and appropriate public education.
What is the purpose of assessment?
100
This IDEA-mandated system requires states to actively seek out children in public and private schools, children that are homeless, and migrant children who have a disability or are suspected to have a disability.
What is child find?
100
When writing lesson plans and creating goals for projects, write a solid one now and you'll only have to adapt it later. In other words, ...
What is don't reinvent the wheel?
200
This court case focused on IQ testing of young black children, and argued that those children had been inappropriately placed in Educable Mentally Retarded (EMR) classrooms solely on the basis of an IQ score. The court held that IQ tests were culturally biased against black children and banned California school systems from using them when evaluating black children for special education. The court went further by requiring record-keeping and data-collection systems so that schools could track the numbers of minority children in EMR classrooms and justify the presence of black children in those settings.
What is Larry P v Riles?
200
This group of professionals evaluates a special education referral from a teacher. It usually consists of an administrator, special education teacher, and a general education teacher.
What is a Multidisciplinary Team? or What is an MDT?
200
The process of collecting information for the purpose of making decisions about students. This may include test data, work samples, and the results of observations, interviews, and screenings. In special education this involves decisions in several areas, including prereferral classroom decisions, entitlement decisions, programming decisions, and accountability/outcome decisions.
What is assessment?
200
These are interventions that are delivered in the student's regular classroom before he/she is referred for formal special education evaluation. This is seen in many schools as a response-to-intervention system. These are not subject to the strictures of IDEA because the student is has not yet qualified for formal services.
What are prereferral interventions?
200
When preparing for meetings with MDTs or parent/teacher conferences, it is important to use this.
What is Parent Friendly Language?
300
The Larry P v Riles decision was later modified by a federal court of appeal to leave in place the original ban of using IQ tests for placement in classrooms for students with EMR but not prohibit the overall use of IQ tests, suggesting they can be a valuable part of evaluation process as long as they are not racially or culturally discriminatory, and are not the only criterion for placement.
What is Crawford v. Honig
300
If a parent/guardian disagrees with the results of a non-discriminatory assessment, he or she has the right to request this, which is an assessment conducted by a professional not employed by the school district.
What is an IEE? or What is an Independent Educational Evaluation?
300
Pushing for a non-discriminatory evaluation in the student's native language, and individualization through the MDT’s use of professional judgement and not relying solely on metrics and formulas are examples of this.
What are ways to use assessment to advocate for students?
300
More assessments will be taking place at this level by virtue of these years being the first time most students are in school and elementary school may be the first opportunity educators have to observe some disabilities. Students at this level are not highly capable of advocating for themselves, but parent involvement at this level is typically more in general so there may be a higher level of parent involvement with assessments at this level.
What is the elementary level?
300
Being knowledgeable about the laws and ethics of Special Education will help a teacher avoid going here.
Where is IEP Jail?
400
In this court case, a school district failed to file a due process complaint until approximately 11 weeks after an Independent Educational Evaluation was requested by a parent. The court found the school’s unexplained and unnecessary delay waived its right to contest the student’s request for an IEE at public expense.
What is Pajaro Valley Unified Sch. Dist. v. J.S.?
400
In this model, school districts are no longer required to formally evaluate 'severe discrepancy' and instead are given the option of documenting underachievement through a process that determines if the child responds to scientific, research-based intervention as part of the evaluation procedures.
What is RTI? or What is Response To Intervention?
400
These 4 Types of decisions are made in the special education assessment process.
What are prereferral, entitlement, programming, and accountability/outcome?
400
Fewer assessments will likely take place at this level if most students who grew up in the US are evaluated before reaching this level. Educators may be less familiar with the process as a result. Students are able to advocate for themselves at this level and as educators part of our role is to teach students to advocate for themselves. Parent involvement is typically lower at this level, making self advocacy imperative.
What is the secondary level?
400
"If I/we don't give something to you, then..."
What is "you're not responsible for it."?
500
This is not required when a student graduates or ages out, and can be disputed through due process.
What is reevaluation?
500
This section of an IEP will include statements addressing any educational needs that have been revealed through assessment.
What is the PLAAFP section? or What is the present levels of academic achievement and functional performance section?
500
This can be requested by parents at any time but is required every 3 years, and must have parental consent, and is required prior to significant change in placement under Section 504, when school is contemplating long-term suspension or expulsion of a student with disabilities.
What is reevaluation?
500
This covers the IDEA requirement that schools select and administer tests that are not racially or culturally discriminatory, due in part to the tendency in special education to select biased materials and procedures, particularly tests that use a global score, like IQ tests.
What is non-discriminatory evaluation?
500
If you have a question, just ask it. Don't do this...
What is apologize? or What is explain why you're asking?