Procedures
A district has this many days to hold a parent requested IEP meeting.
What is 15 Calendar Days
The document for each student who is found to be eligible for special education services. Which must be designed to meet the unique educational needs of that child in the least restrictive environment appropriate.
This section of the IEP that outlines specific steps adults must take in order to support a child with behavioral needs.
What is the Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)?
A developmental disorder that refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication.
What is Autism?
The assessment team has this many calendar days to complete assessments, once the assessment plan is signed by parents/guardians.
What is 60 Calendar Days?
To the maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities, including children in public or private institutions or other care facilities, are educated with children who are non disabled; and Special classes, separate schooling, or other removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment occurs only if the nature or severity of the disability is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
What is Least Restrictive Enviornment
The following are examples of...Extra Time, Adapted Paper, Notes, Outlines, Visual Cues
What are classroom accommodations?
One or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The term does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, of intellectual disability, of emotional disturbance or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.These disorders involve difficulty in one or more, (1) input (auditory and visual perception), (2) integration (sequencing, abstraction, and organization), (3) memory (working, short term, and long term memory), (4) output (expressive language), and (5) motor (fine and gross motor).
What are Specific Learning Disabilities?
ESY
What is Extended School Year?
This section of the IEP describes the current classroom functioning of the student, with input from general education teachers.
What is Present Levels of Academic Performance?
The Education for all Handicapped Children Act was originally passed in 1975, amended in 1990, 1997, and 2004, and is now known as this...
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA-04)?
The goals written in an IEP are to be targeted for this long.
1 year. (Annual Goals)
This means a communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is a Speech and Language Impairment?
BCBA
Board Certified Behavior Analyst
When is a child who is receiving special education services reevaluated?
What is every 3 years? (Triennial)
Students' rights to a free appropriate public education.
What is FAPE
What are short-term objectives? (Benchmarks)
Having limited strength, vitality or alertness, due to chronic or acute health problems such as a heart condition, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, nephritis, asthma, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, epilepsy, lead poisoning, leukemia, or diabetes, which adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is Other Health Impairment (OHI)?
LEA
What is Local Education Agency?
This form must be signed by the parent or guardian and returned to the school prior to conducting any formal evaluation of the student.
The Assessment Plan
The acronym I.D.E.A., which describes the law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation, stands for this.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
What are the 6 areas that speech/language goals target?
*Hint: PFAERV
Pragmatics, Fluency, Articulation, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Voice
Under special education, an approach that stresses educating students with disabilities, regardless of the type of severity of that disability, in the regular classrooms of their neighborhood schools and delivering special education and related services within the classroom to the extent possible.
What is Inclusion?
ELL
What is English Language Learner?