Disorders
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance
What is Autism
A communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance
What is Speech or Language Impairment
A form of prereferral intervention that measures a student’s response to increasingly intensive, scientifically validated instruction to determine whether the child’s struggles to learn are the result of poor or insufficient instruction or of a disability for which a special education evaluation is needed
What is RTI, RTII
a substantially limiting physical or mental impairment that affects such basic life activities as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking, learning, working, or caring for oneself
What is Disability
Children who are considered to have a greater than usual chance of developing a disability
What is at risk
A type of pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) that involves delays in the development of basic skills, including socializing, coordination, and the ability to communicate
What is Aspergers Syndrome
A neurologically-based, often familial, disorder that interferes with the acquisition and processing of language.
What is dyslexia?
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or perform mathematical calculations.
What is Learning Disability
Special education term used by IDEA that states you have been fully informed in your native language or other mode of communication of all the information about the action for which you are giving consent and that you understand and agree in writing to that action
What is Parent Consent
Characterized by cycles of mania alternating with depression. It is difficult to diagnose children with this disorder and is often controversial
What is Bipolar Disorder
A rhythm disorder characterized by the repetition of a sound, word, or phrase
What is Dysfluency
Impairment in sight that even with correction adversely affects a child’s educational performance
What is Visual Impairment
Term used to describe the committee of parents, teachers, LEA representatives, and school personnel that provides services to the student
What is IEP Team
A child who defies authority by disobeying, talking back, arguing or being hostile in a way that is excessive compared to other children and this pattern continues for more than six months may be determined to have...
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Term used to describe services that place students with disabilities in general education classrooms with appropriate supports and services
What is Inclusion
Provide consultation and support to staff to improve a student’s educational performance related to fine motor, gross motor and sensory integration development.
What is Occupational Therapist
basic behaviors (e.g., mealtime skills) a child has mastered or needs to master to get along as independently as possible in society
What is Functional Behaviors
A provision that requires districts to maintain special education services when a parent/guardian disputes a change to a student's IEP
What is Stay Put
Student protected under IDEA who is not yet identified as a student with a disability relevant to disciplinary situations
What is Thought to Be
An educational framework based on research in the learning sciences, including cognitive neuroscience, that guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences
What is UDL
Some students with mild to moderate disabilities are provided with (e.g., additional time, large prints) these when taking district and state wide tests
What is Accommodations
Term used to describe a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder that lasts for a significant duration and meets the criteria within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
What is Emotional Disturbance
A federal law that mandates accommodations for students that have a disability that "substantially impacts" a life function
What is Section 504 of ADA