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Special Education Vocabulary
The IEP Process
Eligibility Criteria
Special Education Timelines
District 202 Special Education Programs
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IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
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School districts are mandated to identify, find and evaluate students who live within their boundaries suspected of having a disability.
What is child find.
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A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction.
What is Autism?
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Time allowed to make a decision and notify parents when a referral for evaluation is made
What is 14 School Days?
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Serves students with cognitive impairments, autism, health impairments and multiple disabilities who require and alternative, functional curriculum
What is FBI/SCORE (Grades K-12) FBI Program (K-8) SCORE Program (High School) Intensive Classes (K-12) - ABA principles utilized
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This ensures that no changes can be made in a child's program without prior notice to the parents. It also provides a mechanism for the resolution of disagreements when parents disagree with the program recommendations of the school district.
What is due process?
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Parents, teachers or other school personnel can do this
Who can make a referral for special education ?
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Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior
What is Intellectual Disability
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Convene IEP meeting to determine eligibility after consent for evaluation is obtained.
What is 60 school days?
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Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders have a dual placement to provide opportunities to generalize social and communication skills to the natural environment.
What is Project Class (K-3) C=Communication L=Language S=Social S=Skills
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FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
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Autism, Blindness, Deafness, Emotional Disturbance, Hearing Impairment, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Orthopedic Impairment, Other Health Impaired, Specific Learning Disability, Speech or Language Impairment, Traumatic Brain Injury, Visual Impairment
What are the 13 categories of special education defined by IDEA.
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Simultaneous impairments the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.
What is Multiple Disabilities? (does not included deaf-blindness)
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Timeline to convene MDR, draft or review/revise FBA/BIP after a student is suspended more than 10 days.
What is 10 school days?
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A 5 hour a day instructional special education program at the EC (Early Childhood) level.
What is Project LEAP? The class will utilize research based instructional methodologies in order to support students’ learning. Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Verbal Behavior (VB) will be utilized within the framework of the curriculum. The program will provide small group and individualized instruction in order to increase students’ foundational skills to help support their transition into an inclusive instructional environment.
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This must occur within 10 school days of any decision to change the placement of a child with a disability because of violation of school code.
What is a Manifestation Determination meeting (MD)? IEP team must review all relevant information in the student's file to determine if the conduct in question was caused by the child's disability or if the conduct was a direct result of the school district's failure to implement the child's IEP.
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Referral for Special Education Evaluation The Evaluation Determining Eligibility Writing the Individual Education Program The IEP Meeting
What is the IEP process?
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Having limited strength, vitality or alertness including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli that results in limited alertness with respect to the education environment that a) is due to a chronic or acute health problems b) adversely affects a child's education performance
What is Other Health Impairment?
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Respond to parent/student request to inspect/copy records after receipt of request
What is 15 school days?
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A highly structured, behaviorally focused learning environment. Uses preventive teaching, individual instruction, corrective teaching, referral for therapeutic teaching of skills.
What is Emotional Disability Programs? (K - 5) Wesmere Elementary School (6 - 8) Ira Jones Middle School, Plainfield Academy Middle School, TAP Middle School (9 - 12) Plainfield Central High School, Plainfield Academy High School, TAP High School
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LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
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No otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall solely, by reason of his handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
What Section 504? An educational plan that is written for a student who needs modifications or accommodations within the general education classroom environment.
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A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics of an extended period of time, to a marked degree & adversely affects a child's education performance: 1)Inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory or health factors 2) Inability to build or maintain satisfactory relationships with peers & adults 3) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances 4) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression 5) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
What is Emotional Disturbance?
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Provide notice to parent of district's recommended action & provide a copy of IEP summary to parent
What is immediately after IEP meeting.
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In-Lieu of Expulsion Program (High School)
What is the Turnabout Program