While learning disabilities, communication disorders, and emotional disturbances are considered high-incidence disabilities, deafness, blindness, and severe intellectual disabilities are considered this...
What are low-incidence disabilities?
100
The instrument used to ensure that educators focus on the needs of individual students with disabilities as mandated by IDEA.
What is the Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
100
The philosophical belief in special education that every individual even the most disabled, should have an educational and living environment as close to normal as possible.
What is normalization?
100
A method used to identify students for special education identification is known as R-T-I or this...
What is response-to-intervention?
100
Assessing students using this approach is limited because the language used may be unfamiliar to members of some microcultures.
What are the traditional standardized testing approaches?
200
A professional who must attain special expertise in instructing students with learning problems, managing serious behavior problems, using technological advances, and knowing the special education law.
Who is a special educator?
200
The legal term requiring a student to be separated from nondisabled classmates and from home, family, and community as little as possible.
What is the least restrictive environment?
200
The social movement of the 1960s and 1970s whereby large numbers of persons with intellectual disabilities and/or mental illness were moved from large mental institutions into smaller community homes or into the homes of their families. It is recognized as a major catalyst for integrating persons with disabilities into society.
What is deinstituitionalization?
200
The subcultures of particular importance for special education.
What are ethnic groups and exceptionality groups?
200
One of the main criticisms of traditional assessment procedures is that the focus is on the student rather than this.
What is the environment in which he or she is being taught?
300
The percent of exceptional students who are now educated in regular classrooms all of the time.
What is almost 50%?
300
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)?
300
The right to make one's own decisions regarding important aspect of one's life, which includes where to work and life, who to be friends with, and the type of education they choose to pursue.
What is self-determination?
300
A long-standing problem is the disproportionate representation in special education of these two groups.
Who are males and ethnic minority students?
300
The instructional method that is particularly useful in helping children at the elementary school level, who are not proficient in English, increase their proficiency.
What is classwide peer tutoring?
400
A student who performs or behaves poorly in school and appears likely to fail or fall short of his or her potential might be considered this...
What is "at risk"?
400
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court made its first interpretation of P.L. 94-142 in this case involving a child who was deaf.
What is Hudson v. Rowley?
400
A situation where all students with disabilities attend only general education classes for the entire day. The general education teachers have primary responsibility for all students, including those with disabilities.
What is full inclusion?
400
One of the most effective ways of breaking down prejudice and encouraging appropriate interaction among students with different characteristics.
What is cooperative learning?
400
The use of this to assess students' progress is particularly beneficial to students from diverse populations because it involves students' responses to their usual instructional materials and thus decreases the likelihood of cultural bias.
What is curriculum-based measures?
500
The most important goal of special education.
What is finding and capitalizing on exceptional students' abilities and providing specially designed instruction that meets their unique needs?
500
According to IDEA-04, this is when an IEP is written...
When is before placement or eligibility decisions have been made.
500
A team made up of a variety of professionals, many times including general and special educators, who work with general education teachers to generate techniques for teaching difficult-to-teach children.
What is a prereferral team?
500
Technique to aid memory, such as "I before E".
What is mnemonics?
500
Chue, a second grader whose primary language is Hmong, has been receiving instruction in English for most of the school day from the beginning of her schooling. This approach to teaching is referred to as...