Definition 1
AAC includes all forms of communication (other than oral speech) that are used to express thoughts, needs, wants, and ideas.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Device
Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Act wherein states have flexibility to chart their own path to educational success, through submitting a plan to the U.S. Department of Education explaining how they will reach these goals.
Every Student Succeeds Act
A public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools
Local Education Agency
Least Restrictive Environment
Students with disabilities must be educated in the general education setting as much as possible.
Applied Behavior Analysis
A technique for correcting behavior and social skill deficits in children with special needs. It is based on the understanding that children are more likely to repeat desired behaviors when these behaviors are met with positive reinforcement, and that they are less likely to repeat undesirable behaviors that are not rewarded.
A plan that targets one to three of a student’s undesirable behaviors with interventions that are linked to the functions of the behavior; each intervention specifically addresses a measurable, clearly-stated targeted behavior.
Behavior Intervention Plan
Services provided beyond the normal school year of a school district — that includes both the days of the school year and the hours of the school day. ESY services must be provided at no cost to the parents.
Extended School Year
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is a unit within the U.S. Department of Education and is dedicated to improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities ages birth through 21 by providing leadership and financial support to assist states and local districts.
Office of Special Education Programs
Universal Design for Learning
An approach that makes a curriculum accessible to all students, regardless of their backgrounds, learning styles and abilities.
Grade Equivalent
The grade equivalent represents the grade level and month of the typical (median) score for students.
A technique for correcting behavior and social skill deficits in children with special needs. It is based on the understanding that children are more likely to repeat desired behaviors when these behaviors are met with positive reinforcement, and that they are less likely to repeat undesirable behaviors that are not rewarded.
Applied Behavior Analysis
A process which describes a student’s disruptive behaviors, looks for the reasons behind the behaviors and offers interventions that teach new behaviors to replace the undesired ones.
Functional Behavior Assessment
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a proactive approach to establishing the behavioral supports and social culture and needed for all students in a school to achieve social, emotional and academic success.
Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports
Functional Behavior Assessment
A process which describes a student’s disruptive behaviors, looks for the reasons behind the behaviors and offers interventions that teach new behaviors to replace the undesired ones.
Office of Special Education Programs
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is a unit within the U.S. Department of Education and is dedicated to improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities ages birth through 21 by providing leadership and financial support to assist states and local districts.
CESAs make it possible for schools, regardless of size, to work together to share staff and equipment, save money, and extend educational opportunities to all corners of the state and to all children. CESAs provide these services without mandates, without levying taxes, and with virtually no direct state appropriations.
Cooperative Educational Service Agency
The grade equivalent represents the grade level and month of the typical (median) score for students.
Grade Equivalent
A school-age parent is any person under the age of 21 who is not a high school graduate and is a parent, an expectant parent, or a person who has been pregnant within the immediately preceding 120 (calendar) days.
School Age Parents
Cooperative Educational Service Agency
CESAs make it possible for schools, regardless of size, to work together to share staff and equipment, save money, and extend educational opportunities to all corners of the state and to all children. CESAs provide these services without mandates, without levying taxes, and with virtually no direct state appropriations.
Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a proactive approach to establishing the behavioral supports and social culture and needed for all students in a school to achieve social, emotional and academic success.
A program or instructional practice that is evidence based has gone through rigorous research and has demonstrated a record of success; there is reliable, trustworthy and valid evidence to suggest the program is effective; evidence supporting the practice should be scientifically based
Evidence-Based Practices
The person teaching the skill places his hand over the hand of the student, and may actually manipulate the hand of the child.
Hand over Hand
Sensory integration is the process by which we receive information through our senses, organize this information, and use it to participate in everyday activities.
Sensory Integration
Behavior Intervention Plan
A plan that targets one to three of a student’s undesirable behaviors with interventions that are linked to the functions of the behavior; each intervention specifically addresses a measurable, clearly-stated targeted behavior.
Every Student Succeeds Act
Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Act wherein states have flexibility to chart their own path to educational success, through submitting a plan to the U.S. Department of Education explaining how they will reach these goals.