ESL
A student who is in the process of acquiring English and has another language as the primary language.
What is an English Learner?
This civil rights law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
A federal mandate stipulating that, to the maximum extent possible, students with disabilities be educated with their non-disabled peers.
What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
This disabilities characteristics may include: Variable shaped and poorly, formed letters and/or, spacing creating illegible writing. Awkward or inconsistent pencil grip. Hand fatigue. Slow writing or copying. Difficulty with spelling or composing.
What is dysgraphia?
_______ is a free referral and information service that helps connect children with learning challenges to school-based support programs.
What is Child Find?
This committee is the voice that initiates, articulates, deliberates, and determines the best instructional program for a student who is an emergent bilingual.
What is the Language Proficiency Assessment Committee?
An agency of the federal government within the Department of Education that is charged with enforcing a number of civil rights statutes. An important responsibility of this office is to eliminate discrimination on the basis of disability against students with disabilities.
What is the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)?
An assessment of a student's abilities to determine his eligibility and needs for special education services.
What is Full and Individual Evaluation (FIE)?
This brief assessment of the skill or ability to read can highly predict a later diagnosis of dyslexia.
What is a dyslexia screener?
When your child turns 14, these services are a coordinated set of activities designed to help the child move from high school to post-secondary activities such as college, joining the military or the workforce.
What is transition services?
The LPAC shall meet in conjunction with the _____ committee members to review and provide recommendations with regard to the educational needs of the dual-identified student.
What is the Admission, Review, Dismissal (ARD) committee?
This type of service is for a student confined at home or a hospital for a minimum of 4 weeks (not need be consecutive) in which a medical condition temporarily prevents them from attending school.
What is a homebound services?
A federal law that regulates the management of student records and disclosure of information from those records, with its own administrative enforcement mechanism.
What is Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
This book provide procedures for school districts, charter schools, campuses, teachers, students, and parents/guardians in early identification of, instruction for, and accommodations for students with dyslexia.
What is the Dyslexia handbook?
A written component of an IEP: skills the student is expected to reasonably achieve in one year maximum (reviewed and re-evaluated by the IEP team at least annually)
What are goals?
An assessment program for students in Texas public schools who are learning the English language.
What is Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS)?
This service is intended to reduce or even eliminate the effects of student's disability on academic tasks but do not change the learning expectation.
What is accommodations?
A survey required by the Office of Civil Rights upon a student’s admission to a public school to determine the predominant language spoken in the student’s home.
What is a home language survey?
This program utilized by our reading specialist is a systematic, explicit, and intensive reading program designed to improve the reading abilities of students with dyslexia.
What is Reading by Design?
When a child receives special education, it means that a public school provides custom services and instruction specific to the needs of that student. Special education is available because of this federal law, which provides students with disabilities and their parents special legal rights to receive these individualized learning opportunities.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) ?
The four domains of the TELPAS assessment are writing, speaking reading and _______.
What is listening?
This document contains accommodations and services that the individual student needs and makes sure that the student has equal access to learning to the same extent as non-disabled students.
What is a 504 Plan?
A written plan that helps a person, address identified behavioral concerns. The plan outlines actions to improve or replace the behavior.
What is a behavior intervention plan?
This disorder is a learning disability that is neurobiological and is characterized by a student having difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.
What is dyslexia?
A collection of information that identifies your child’s disability, shows your child’s current strengths and areas of need, identifies goals to be worked on, and shows the special education and related services that are required for your child to be successful.
What is an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)?