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ACRONYMS
IEP
Careers/Specialists
LEGISLATION
HODGE PODGE
100
IEP
What is Individualized Education Plan (or Program)?
100
The IEP has been created and finalized and now launched. Teachers are now responsible for providing students with necessary accommodations.
What is implementation?
100
These specialists help people across the lifespan participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities.
What is an occupational therapist?
100
Legislation established in 2001 that holds individual schools accountable for student achievement in math and reading.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
100
Changes in students' thinking as they mature and acquire experiences.
What is cognitive development?
200
RTI
What is Response to Intervention?
200
Services or supports used to enable a student to fully access the subject matter and instruction.
What are accommodations?
200
These specialists work with patients who have impairments, limitations, disabilities or changes in physical function and health status resulting from injury, disease or other causes. Their role includes examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis and interventions toward achieving the highest functional outcomes for each patient/client.
What is a physical therapist?
200
In 1974, Congress passed this act which made school records accessible to students and their parents.
What is FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)?
200
The practice of placing students of similar abilities into groups, and matching instruction to the needs of each group.
What is ability grouping?
300
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
300
A written request for evaluation or eligibility for special education and related services.
What is a referral?
300
These specialists help children and youth succeed academically, socially, behaviorally, and emotionally. They collaborate with educators, parents, and other professionals to create safe, healthy, and supportive learning environments that strengthen connections between home, school, and the community for all students.
What is a school psychologist?
300
The first major law that guaranteed the right to a public education for all children, ages 5 to 21 in 1975.
What is Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA)?
300
A set of instructional strategies used to help learners meet specific learning and social-interaction objectives in structured groups.
What is cooperative learning?
400
IDEA
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
400
The process of administering global methods to determine if the child has a suspected disability and whether the child should have evaluations to determine if he qualifies for special education services.
What is screening?
400
These specialists diagnose and treat communication and swallowing disorders in patients.
What are speech and language pathologists?
400
A civil rights law to prohibit discrimination solely on the basis of disability in employment, public services, and accommodations.
What is ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)?
400
A School in which learning for all students is maximized.
What is an effective school?
500
FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
500
A Statement in the IEP of the child's current baseline of strengths and needs as measured by formal and informal evaluations.
What is PLOP (Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance)?
500
This specialist works with students who have a wide range of learning, mental, emotional and physical disabilities. With students who have mild or moderate disabilities, they ensure that lessons and teaching strategies are modified to meet the students’ needs. With students who have severe disabilities, they teach the students independent living skills and basic literacy, communication, and math.
What is a special education teacher?
500
An education act to provide federal financial assistance to State and local education agencies to guarantee special education and related services to eligible children with disabilities.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
500
A gifted and talented program that provides richer and more varied content through strategies that supplement usual grade-level work.
What is enrichment?