Assessments
This comprehensive evaluation assesses a student's cognitive, academic, and socio-emotional functioning to determine eligibility for special education services.
What is a psycho-educational evaluation?
The New York State law that aims to create a school environment free from harassment, bullying, and discrimination.
What is the Dignity for All Students Act?
IEP
What is the Individual Education Program?
A deed, Lease agreement, utility bills, pay stubs, and a driver’s license.
What are the documents that can be used to prove residency?
The number of credits required to earn a High School diploma.
What is 22?
The process of determining why a student engages in behaviors that impede learning and how the student’s behavior relates to the environment.
What is an FBA?
An alternative to suspension that focuses on repairing harm and strengthening relationships within the school community.
What is restorative justice?
ASD
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
An affidavit or letter from the person you pay rent to, saying you live there or a letter from another person saying you live at your address.
Documents that can be used to prove residency if you do not have a lease or deed?
Credentials available when exiting high school for students unable to receive a high school diploma.
What are CDOS (Career Development and Occupational Studies Credential) and SACC (Skills and Achievement Commencement Credential)?
A method to determine if a student qualifies for special education, especially for a learning disability, by monitoring how they respond to interventions.
What is the Response to Intervention?
The time frame in which the school district must notify a parent in writing that they plan to suspend their child.
What is 24 hours?
ABA
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
The student’s initial enrollment into the district, when a student leaves the district and then returns (re-entry) and on an individual basis, when there is colorable suspicion that a student does not reside in the district.
What are the only times when the School Districts may require parents to prove residency?
An IQ below 60, an IQ between 60-69 or Qualifying Diagnosis and an adaptive behavior assessment or an IQ above 70 and Qualifying Diagnosis and adaptive behavior challenges that impact daily life skills and demonstrate your child will be unable to function at a fully independent level.
What are the eligibility requirements in order to receive respite services, medicaid funded employment supports, day programming options, and Self-Direction through OPWDD?
A test that measures cognitive abilities and is often used to help evaluate learning disabilities or intellectual disabilities.
What is an IQ or cognitive assessment?
The amount of alternative instruction a SD must provide to a secondary school student while on OSS.
What is 15 hours a week?
MDR
What is Manifestation Determination Review?
What a parent/guardian must do if they disagree when a school district make a non-residency non-residency determination.
File an appeal to the Board of Education within 30 days of the decision?
The application for eligibility, documentation of a qualifying diagnosis from a medical professional, a psychological and psycho-social evaluation report including IQ and Adaptive Behavior Scores.
What is needed to apply for services through OPWDD?
A compilation of information from parents and caregivers to understand a child's early development, social interactions, and medical background, providing context for their educational needs.
What is the social history?
The amount of education a student is entitled to when suspended out of school if they are not a special education student and they are over compulsory school age.
What is none?
PWN
What is Prior Written Notice?
30 days.
The time within which a parent or guardian must file an appeal of a denial of residency?
A Consumer Directed Program where families work with a broker and Fiscal Intermediary to create a life plan and budget that includes all of the programs and services a client would need to live a fulfilling and independent life.
What is Self Direction?