Public Laws
What does PL 101-336 American with Disabilities Act state?
It prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability.
What does IEP and LRE stand for?
What is the Individualized Educational Plan and
Least Restrictive Environment
What are exceptional children?
Individuals who differ from societal or community standards of normalcy/ Differences due to significant physical, cognitive, sensory, or behavioral characteristics. Require a customized education to provide supports for their unique needs that alters the curriculum and instructional strategies.
What is collaboration?
how people work together and the style of interaction that professionals
choose in order to accomplish a shared goal
What is station teaching?
Teachers present different lessons and students rotate to each other.
What does the PL 107-110 No Child Left Behind Act state?
It is a reform effort focusing on academic achievement of students & qualification of teachers.
What does the IEP outline that the student will accomplish in school and when and how progress will be reported?
What is annual goals, objectives or benchmarks.
What are some related services that help special education students?
What are speech therapists, social workers, occupational and physical therapists, special transportation to school, or medical support
What is a consultation with consultative services?
a focused, problem-solving process in which one individual offers
expertise and assistance to another, such as how to modify the learning
environment, teaching tactics, and make accommodations for the specific
learning needs of the individual with a disability.
What is co-teaching?
Teachers work together to present the same lesson-each equally participating in the instruction.
What does PL 114-15 Every Student Succeeds Act state?
It ensures access to the general curriculum, accommodations on assessments, and use of universal design for learning principles.
Who is present during an IEP meeting?
What is the special education teacher, general education teacher, case manager, parents, student, principal, vision specialist, occupational/physical therapist, speech/language pathologist
What is a disability?
a limitation imposed on an individual by a loss of functioning or problems in learning.
What is multicultural education?
involves issues of race, language, social class, and culture as well as disability and gender. An educational strategy wherein the cultural background of each student is valued, viewed positively, and used to develop effective instruction.
What is one teach, one observe?
What is one teacher presents the lesson while the other teachers observes and assists students as needed
What does the PL 94-142 Education for all handicapped Act state?
It enforces free and appropriate education for all children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment, IEP, due process, nondiscriminatory assessment, and parent participation and involvement.
What are possible places where a student could be educated to be in the LRE for themselves?
What is a self-contained classroom, resource room, small group, general education classroom/
What is a handicap?
the impact or consequence of a disability and not the condition itself. It refers to problems the person encounters because of the disability that impede function and daily interaction in life.
What are the differences between macro and micro cultures?
Macroculture-the shared or national culture of a society
Microcultures-distinct subcultures within a larger culture that maintain their own values, norms, folkways, and identification
What is one teach, one prompt?
What is one teacher presents the lesson while the other teacher comments and encourages students to ask questions.
What does PL 111-256 Rosa's Law state?
It removes the terms mental retardation and mentally retarded from federal health, education, and labor statues. More appropriate term is intellectual disability.
What are the three main consideration factors in an IEP?
What is the result of the initial or most recent evaluation of the student, strengths of the student, and academic developmental and functional needs of the student.
What is the difference between prevalence and incidence?
Prevalence is the total number of individuals with a particular disability existing in a population at a given time...a percentage of the population exhibiting that exceptionality during a specific time period
Incidence is the rate of new incidences of disabilities occurring within a given time frame
What are the seven disability categories?
Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD)
Speech or Language Impairment (SLI)
Intellectual Disability (ID)
Other Health Impairments (OHI)
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Emotional Disturbance (ED)
What is the difference between parallel teaching and alternative teaching?
Parallel teaching is when both teachers present the same lesson to different groups of students within the same classroom where alternative teaching is teachers the teachers do the same thing but the material is presented in different ways based on the needs of the children.