Calendar & School Days
Components of an IEP
IDEA
Special Education Forms
Acronyms
100
The number of days to respond to Parent or Teacher request for an IEP meeting.
What is 10 calendar days from date of request?
100
A required component of an IEP. Each annual goal must have at least two of these.
What is an objective or benchmark?
100
The law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
100
A process to improve understanding of problem behaviors in order to identify what skills need to be taught. The process includes observation, interviews, and data collection to identify when, where, and why the behavior is occurring.
What is a Functional Behavior Assessment?
100
INA
What is the acronym for an Identification of Needed Assessments?
200
When a parent should be provided with copy of a revised IEP.
What is immediately after IEP meeting?
200
The amount of loss of skills a child experiences over an instructional break (primarily summer vacation) and the amount of time it takes him/her to recover the lost skills
What is Regression/Recoupment?
200
Once a child has been determined eligible for special education services, the goal of the IEP is to address the needs of the child in this setting.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
200
Describes in language that the parent and all professionals can understand, where the student is functioning so that a year from now the parent and educators can determine if progress has been made.
What is the Present Level of Performance?
200
FBA
What is the acronym for Functional Behavior Assessment?
300
The number of days to complete evaluation and convene IEP meeting to determine eligibility.
What is within 60 school days off receipt of parent consent?
300
Appropriate measurable postsecondary goals based upon age appropriate assessments related to training, education, employment, and, where appropriate, independent living skills
What is the transition plan?
300
In accordance to IDEA, the law states that every child is entitled to this.
What is a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?
300
Complete this form when determining whether a student's behavior that resulted in disciplinary action was a symptom of his/her disability.
What is the Manifestation Determination form?
300
LEA
What is the acronym for the Local Education Agency?
400
The number of days to respond to a request for an evaluation.
What is within 14 school days of receipt of request for evaluation?
400
Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is a Cognitive Disability?
400
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects a students right to this.
What is a student's right to confidentiality?
400
This form must be signed by the parent or guardian and returned to the school prior to conducting any formal evaluation of the student.
What is the Evaluation Consent Form or INA?
400
OSEP
What is the acronym for the Office of Special Education Programs?
500
The number of days to provide written notice to parent of revocation and impact upon services.
What is within 10 calendar days of parent revocation?
500
Four criteria that excludes the primary eligibility of a specific learning disability.
What is a visual, hearing, motor, cognitive, or emotional disability; cultural factors, or environmental or economic disadvantage?
500
Provided to the Parent or Guardian annually, this outlines the special education process including procedure and state mandated timelines, in addition to notifying parents of their rights.
What is the Notice of Procedural Safeguards?
500
This member of the IEP team cannot be excused from an IEP meeting use the Parent/Guardian Excusal of IEP Team Member.
Who is the LEA ?
500
FERPA
What is the acronym for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?