Special Education Law
The federal law governing special education.
What is IDEA
The special education instructional setting where students are removed from the general education setting for less than or equal to 49% of the instructional day.
What is the Resource setting?
I-E-P
What is Individualized Education Plan?
A disability in which the individual exhibits deficits in oral sound production, receptive and expressive language skills, and/or speaking fluency.
What is a Speech Impairment?
The portion of the IEP that indicates what a student will/is working on.
What are IEP Goals?
Legal statute that requires all special education services to be provided at no cost.
What is FAPE (free and appropriate public education)?
The instructional setting in which the student spends 50- 100% of their instructional day in a special education classroom.
What is self-Contained?
B-I-P
What is Behavior Intervention Plan?
The timeline for completing an initial evaluation for special education.
What is 45 school days?
The portion of the IEP where type, frequency, and duration of special education services are listed.
What is the Schedule of Services?
Required in order to evaluate for a disability or provide special education services.
What is Informed Consent?
An instructional setting where the student receives all instructional services within their personal residence.
What is Homebound?
M-D-R
What is Manifest Determination Review?
A disability in which the individual presents with an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations despite adequate access to instruction and intervention.
What is a Specific Learning Disability?
The portion of the IEP dedicated to describing the student's strengths, weaknesses, needs, and impact of identified disability/ disabilities.
What are the PLAAFPs (present levels of academic achievement and functional performance)?
The time requirement for IEP review.
What is annually?
The instructional setting where all special education services are provided in the general education classroom.
What is Mainstream?
F-I-E
What is Full and Individual Evaluation?
The portion of the evaluation that includes information about the student's medical history.
What is the Health and Motor section?
The portion of the IEP that documents the student's areas of disability.
What is the Determination of Eligibility section?
The time requirement for reevaluation.
What is every 3 years?
The instructional setting where all instructional services and living accommodations are provided in a facility outside of the student's home district.
What is Residential Facility?
L-R-E
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
A disability that is characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication and by restricted or repetitive patterns of thought and behavior.
What is an Autism Spectrum Disorder?
The portion of the IEP that gives a general synopsis of what was discussed and the decisions made.
What are the deliberations?