IDEA
Interventions
Special
Education Laws
Disabilities
Common
Terms
100

Federal law that requires schools to serve the educational needs of eligible students with disabilities.

What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)? 

100

Written goals and a focus plan of actions that are created by a student's specialized team

What is the/an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?

100

Year in which all American children were granted the right to a free and appropriate education. 

What is 1975? 

100

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 Speech Impairment?

100

A physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities. 


What is Disability?


200

A program that specializes in services for children from birth until 3 years with developmental disabilities. 

What is Early Interventions? 


200

The process of modifying instruction and content to fit the needs of students who need extra support 

What is differentiation/differentiated instruction? 

200

Act that held schools to be accountable for academic performance of all students, whether or not they had disabilities.

What is No Child Left Behind Act? 

200

A combination of sight and hearing loss that affects a person’s ability to communicate, access information, and get around. 

What is Deaf-Blindness? 

200

A disadvantage imposed on an individual.

 

What is Handicap?

300

Autism, Deaf-blindness, Deafness, Emotional disturbance, Hearing impairment, Intellectual disability, Multiple disabilities, Orthopedic impairment, Other health impairment (including ADHD), Specific learning disability, Speech or language impairment, Traumatic brain injury, Visual impairment, including blindness

What is Eligibility for Disability Categories

300

Popular form of instructional intervention which uses a series of increasingly intense interventions until the student’s area of academic need is met

What is the 3 Tiers of Instruction? 

300

Act that forbid discrimination in schools based on disability and persevered the rights of students and their families. 

What is The Rehabilitation Act of 1973? 

300

A disability that affects the ability to understand or use spoken or written language, do mathematical calculations, coordinate movements, or direct attention. 

What is Learning Disability?

300

Specially designed instruction that meets the needs of exceptional students

What is Special Education?

400

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects a student's right to this

What is a student's right to confidentiality?

400

Standardized curriculum used to present levels of growth. Designed to be administered in individual sessions, and provide grade equivalent, standardized and age equivalent scores. 

What are Individualized Achievement Tests? 

400

Law requires that all public schools accepting federal funds must provide equal access to education for children with physical and/or mental disabilities.

What is Education for all Handicapped Children Act (EHA)? 

400

A chronic condition including attention, difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. 

What is ADHD? (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?

400

Changes in the delivery of instruction, type of instruction, tripe of performance, or method of assessment that does not significantly change the content or conceptual difficulty of the curriculum

What is Accommodation?

500

This ensures that all individuals/students from birth until age 21 who have a qualifying disability receive at public expense supervised special education and related services that meet their specific educational needs.

What is Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?

500

Important tool in working with autistic and learning delayed students designed to determine language and critical learner skills

What is Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABLLS)? 

500

Act that was created to instate provisions not covered by EHA.

What is Handicapped Children’s Protection Act (HCPA)? 

500

A developmental disability caused by differences in the brain. 


What is Autism?

500

Provides effective and high-quality instruction, monitors all students progress, and provides additional support to students who are struggling

What is RTI (Response to Intervention)?