IEP Development
IEP stands for this.
What is Individualized Education Plan?
True or false: Eligibility and Diagnosis are different.
What is true? Eligibility for special education is not the same as a medical diagnosis. The main difference for eligibility is that the team is looking at school-related impact.
True or false: If the child has more than one teacher, only one needs to attend.
What is true?
FAPE stands for this.
Free & Appropriate Public Education.
This is what SELPA stands for.
What is Special Education Local Plan Area?
A good rule of thumb for drafting an IEP before a meeting is to come with an "open mind, not a blank mind" - true or false.
What is true?
True or false. The Other Health Impairment includes ADHD, Anxiety, Seizure disorders, and other disorders.
What is true?
Other health impairment means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that—
(i) Is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome; and
(ii) Adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
True or false: Family members or other IEP team members who speak Spanish can act as a translator for a team member.
What is false? No team member can serve multiple roles. If a translator is needed to provide meaningful participation, the school needs to provide someone qualified to do that and that is focused on only that for the meeting.
The parts of the FAPE continuum.
What is evaluation, present levels, goals, services, educational benefit?
The federal law that provides students with disabilities the right to a free, appropriate public education.
What is IDEA?
All academic goals must be common code and grade level aligned, even if the child is functioning below grade level - true or false.
Generally true. All academic goals must be in support of the child's access to their general education and progress on the common core standards.
Students with the same eligibility will get the same services - true or false.
What is false?
Parents are able to decline parts of the IEP and consent to others - true or false.
True or false: schools have the right to conduct initial evaluations for students whether or not the parent has consented.
What is false?
The purpose of IDEA.
The purpose of the IDEA is “to ensure that all students with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education that includes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs and prepare them for further education, employment, and independent living.”
In an IEP LRE stands for this.
What is Least Restrictive Environment? - 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 not disabled.
It is true or false that if a student has an outside diagnosis, the team uses this alone to make the student eligible for special education.
What is false? An outside diagnosis can be "considered" or may trigger the school-based evaluation process, but is not sufficient in and of itself for IEP eligibility.
The members required to form the IEP team.
Without evaluation, if the team at the IEP meeting all agrees a kid should have a new service or exit a service, it's legal to change that in the IEP - true or false.
What is false? Formal evaluation should be completed whenever exiting or entering a service to follow the thread of Ed Benefit.
Legal documents are only those uploaded in SEIS - true or false.
What is false? In California, the student's paper file is 'technically' the legal document, not what's in SEIS, but things must be uploaded there for our school since paper documents can be lost or destroyed.
Predetermination means this is the IEP process.
What is “Predetermination is a procedural violation and it occurs when an educational agency has made its determination prior to the IEP meeting, including when it presents one placement option at the meeting and is unwilling to consider other alternatives?”
In California, these are the 13 categories of disability students can qualify for Special Education under.
What is 1. Intellectual Disability (ID) 2. Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHH) 3. Speech and Language Impairment (SLI) 4. Visual Impairment (VI) 5. Emotional Disturbance (ED) 6. Orthopedic Impairment (OI) 7. Other Health Impairment (OHI) 8. Established Medical Disability (EMD) 9. Specific Learning Disability (SLD 10. Deaf Blindness (DB) 11. Multiple Disability (MD) 12. Autism (AUT) 13. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)?
The reasons why we cannot provide different options of services and service delivery to families and have them select what they want.
1. Everything we suggest at an IEP meeting could be interpreted as an offer and we'd be obligated to provide that.
2. The parent has the ultimate right to consent or decline, but the school has the obligation to make a SINGLE offer of FAPE that includes all the supports and services we think are needed for a child to receive Educational Benefit.
It is possible to have services without goals in that area - true or false.
What is false? A service is ALWAYS driven by goals.
The main differences between a 504 plan and an IEP.
What is a 504 plan is through general education and an IEP is through special education? Both plans provide accommodations for students with disabilities, but an IEP generally has more goals and services attached, while a 504 plan will generally only require accommodations and adjustments.