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Miscellaneous
100
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
What is IDEIA?
100
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia, that affects a student’s educational performance.
What is Specific learning disabled (SLD)?
100
Use of research-based educational practices and focus attention on accountability and improved results for students with disabilities. Teachers try many different techniques, seating arrangements, and testing methods, then add their creative spin to the things they try.
What is pre-referral?
100
Be sure you have all students’ attention. Allow the class to select the direction clue to be used each month. Check to see that everyone has the necessary materials for recording directions. Try not to scold anyone before giving directions. Offer small prizes to sections of the class that focus on the direction clue first. Number each direction if more than one is to be used.
What is Before Giving Directions?
100
The teacher is able to individualize instruction, assist those with delays and/or difficulties, and understand the process to help the student received specialized instruction.
What is the reason to know about special education?
200
Individualized Education Plan
What is an IEP?
200
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3, that adversely affects a student’s educational performance. Other characteristics include engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
What is autism?
200
If a student continues to experience difficulty after the teacher has looked at classroom variables, instructional methods, and student variables and upon further investigation using informal assessment, the teacher notices that the student only minimally understood the subject. At times, a more formal assessment is necessary. When a student appears to have difficulty mastering content or skills at the appropriate grade level, the teacher may use a curriculum-based assessment to pinpoint the areas of difficulty.
What is Pre-Referral Assessment?
200
Limit the amount of material on each page. Focus on only one concept at a time. Provide large, readable print or type. Make sure the work sheet teaches what you intend it to teach. Do not use work sheets for busy work. Keep directions simple. Do not hand out numerous work sheets at one time. When a student finishes one work sheet, do not just hand out another.
What is Work Sheet Modifications?
200
Including all students in the general education classroom.
What is Inclusion?
300
Least Restrictive Environment
What is LRE?
300
Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a student’s educational performance.
What is Intellectual Disability?
300
A group of people to help schools develop a system within the school whereby teachers were provided ideas and suggestions through support teachers and teams to help students who were at risk for school failure.
What is Instructional Support Teams?
300
Consider the sources from which the notes will be given. Tell students about the type of test to expect from the notes, use tape recorders for recording lectures or discussions, use the chalkboard to help students organize the information.
What is Note Taking Accommodations?
300
Establish and explicitely teach expectations and rules. Reinforce with praise. Correct behaviors as needed.
What is Positive Behavior Interventions?
400
Free Appropriate Public Education
What is FAPE?
400
A severe impairment that adversely affects a student’s educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures). 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 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, Tourette syndrome, and HIV/AIDS, or an acquired brain injury which may result from health problems such as an hypoxic event, encephalitis, meningitis, brain tumor, or stroke, and that adversely affects a student’s educational performance.
What is Significant Orthopedic and Other Health Impairments?
400
To obtain information that will be useful in determining whether a child has a disability. Provides useful information as well for making education decisions about interventions that may be necessary for the student’s success. This information is obtained with norm-referenced tests.
What is Formal Assessment?
400
Breakdown of skills within into sequential steps.
What is Task Analysis?
400
Method to process include (1) defining the target behavior, (2) collecting baseline data, (3) reviewing the data to select an intervention that is appropriately matched to the need, (4) implementing the intervention with consistency, and (5) continuing the process to refine practices and increase student success.
What is Data Collection?
500
No Child Left Behind
What is NCLB?
500
A communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a student’s educational performance.
What is Speech/Language Impairment?
500
The team, by law, has 65 days to conduct evaluations and determine whether the child is eligible for special services. The initial evaluation consists of procedures that will determine whether the child has a disability and his or her educational needs. The team is responsible for reviewing the case study evaluation or reevaluation, determining whether a disability exists that interferes with learning, identifying the adverse affects of the disability, identifying educational needs, and determining whether the child is eligible for special services.
What is Eligibility Determination?
500
Do not require that all questions be answered. Reword questions to simplify vocabulary or sentence structure. Avoid questions that require lengthy responses. Allow students to answer questions without writing down the questions. For students who have difficulty reading, make a study list of all questions the way they occur either within the context of the chapter or at the end of the chapter. Record questions and answers on tape. Teach all students that the answers to questions usually occur sequentially within the text.
What is Assignment Accommodations?
500
Using the hypothesis statement generated from the functional assessment, the team may develop and implement intervention plans and strategies that emphasize skills students need in order to behave in a more appropriate way or provide motivation to conform to required standards will be more effective than plans that simply serve to control behavior. Interventions based upon control often fail to generalize and many times serve only to suppress behavior. Plans should include methods to monitor the fidelity of implementation and evaluate the effectiveness of the behavior intervention plan.
What is Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)?