Head injury causing reduced cognitive functioning, limited attention, and impulsivity.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
100
Used to grade a school's effectiveness, affect student promotion, and sometimes impact the school's funding.
What is Adequate Yearly Progress
100
Free and Reduced Meals
What is FARM?
100
Management tool to identify and organize needed services.
What is Individual Education Plan?
100
A condition of hyperactivity, impulsivity, inattention; included in other health impairments.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
200
reauthorization of the Elementary Act mandating higher standards for both students and teachers, inluding an accountability system
What is No Child Left Behind?
200
Students learning English as their second language.
What is English Learner Language?
200
A disability of unexpected underachievement typically involving reading that is resistant to treatment.
What is Learning Disability?
200
Increases access to the curriculum and instruction for all students.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
200
Management tool to identify and organize needed services.
What is Individual Education Program?
300
A group of disorders with similar characteristics including difficulties with communication, social interaction, and manneristic behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
300
Ensures that students with disabilities recieve necessary education and services without cost to the family.
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
300
Largest international professional organization dedicatrd to improving the educational success of individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and talents.
What is Council for Exceptional Children?
300
Antidiscrimination legislation guaranteeing basic civil rights to people with disabilities.
What is American with Disabilities Act?
300
Guaranteed a free and appropriate private/public education for all students with disabilities; the special education law.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
400
inludes a functional assessment and procedures to prevent and intervene for behavioral infractions.
What is Behavioral Interventional Plan?
400
Educational placement with the most inclusion and integration with typical learners as possible and appropriate.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
400
Progress monitoring, peer mediated instruction.
What is Positive Behavior Intervention Supports?
400
Mental retardation is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behaviors as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills.
What is Mental Retardation Intellectual Disabilities?
400
A disability characterized by behavioral or emotional responses very different from all norms and referent groups with adverse effects on educational performance.
What is Emotional or Behavioral Disorders / Emotional Disturbance?
500
other methods for communication, such as communication boards, communication books, sign language, and computerized voices.
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices?
500
A multi-tiered prereferral method of increasingly intensive interventions; used to identify "nonresponders" or students with learning disabilities.
What is Response to Intervention?
500
Identifies and organizes services and resources for infants and toddlers and their families.
What is Individualized Family Service Plan?
500
A process in which interviews, observations, and environmental manipulation are conducted to determine why certain behaviors occur.
What is Functional Behavioral Assessments?
500
Students who come from backgrounds different from American mainstream society.