The Basics
Special Education Law
Let's Collaborate!
High Incidence Disabilities
Everything in Between
100
How many types of services does Special Education include and what are they? 
Three and they are Special Designed Instruction, Related Service, and Supplementary Aids and Services.
(Friend, M. & Bursuck, W. 2019)
100
What does the acronym IDEA stand for?
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. It has procedures and categories on identifying if a student is eligible to receives special education services along with the rights of parents who may disagree with their son or daughter receiving such services.
Friend, M. & Bursuck, W. (2019)
100
What are the three ingredients for successful collaboration to best support a student?
Personal beliefs, effective skills for interacting, a supportive environment. 
100
What type of disabilities fall under high incidence?
Speech/ language, learning, emotional disturbance, and or mild intellectual disabilities.
100
What is INCLUDE?
A strategy for accommodating students with special needs in the general education classroom.
200
What is the difference between accommodations and modifications? Give an example of each.
Accommodations are changes in how students learn the curriculum. Example: Instead of writing a book report he can draw or act out the story to show understanding of the book.
Modifications is what a student learns and this may imply removing some part of the curriculum. Example: Only learning key components of a lesson.
(Friend, M. & Bursuck, W. 2019)
200
What is the federal number of learning disabilities categories for K through 12 grade students?
13.
Tracy-Bronson, C.P. (2015).
200
Who usually collaborates in providing high incidence disabilities students with special education services? 
Some answers could be:
School Psychologist
Counselors
Speech Pathologist
Social Worker
Paraprofessionals
Administrators
200
What percentage does high incidence disabilities make up out of all students who receive special education services?
70%
200
Specifically, who receives modifications?
Students with significant intellectual disabilities require modifications.
300
When the percentage of students with disabilities within a district is not higher than the number of students with disabilities within any classroom in that district is called? 
Natural Proportions.
Causton, J & Tracy-Bronson, C.P. (2015)
300
What are the six core principals of the IDEA?
Free Appropriate Education, Least Restrictive Environment, Individualized Education, Nondiscriminatory Evaluation, Due Process, and Zero Reject/Child Find.
Friend, M. & Bursuck, W. (2019).
300
Who are crucial individuals in the students lives whom school professionals should have a good relationship and can ultimately not allow students to receive special education?
The parents/ legal guardians.
300
If learning and behavioral disabilities are two different things why are the both grouped under high incidence disabilities?
Because these two type of learners benefit from the same instructional practices.
300
As inclusion education gets more widespread throughout the education field, what should educators focus on?
Students strengths and what they bring to the classroom.
400
Fill in the following blank:
Special Education is a _________, not a place.
Service.
Causton, J. & Tracy-Bronson, C.P. (2015).
400
In 2004 what was added to the IDEA and what was the purpose of doing so?
Response to Intervention (RtI). It is a prevention strategy to determine if a student has a disability. If the intervention made up by a team of school professionals works, the student does not have a disability.
400
What is Co-teaching and how many different approaches are there to co-teach? & please name them.
Co-teaching is when two or more educators, a general education teacher and a special education teacher or other specialist, share the instruction for a single group of students, in a typical classroom setting.
There are 6 co teaching approaches: One teach, one observe, station teaching, parallel teaching, alternative teaching, teaming, one teach, one assist.
400
Although learning styles in bound to come up when giving special education services as part of the intervention what is the best thing to practice?
Evidence-based practices.
Learning styles have no proven research that supports it.
400
Fill in the blanks:
If you know one student with autism you know __________ __________ with autism.
One student with autism.
500
True or False:
General Education teachers are NOT responsible for students with disabilities in their classroom.
False, General Education teachers are responsible for ALL students in their classrooms.
Friend, M. & Bursuck W. (2019).
500
Who can receive an IEP and what is the difference between an IEP and a 504? 
Every student who receives special education services must have an IEP (Individualized Education Program).
It gives the accommodations and modifications a student must receive in order to be successful. It also has short and long term goals the student needs to meet.
A 504 plan may be given to a student who does not qualify for special education services but needs assistance to succeed in school. This also includes students with health problems such as diabetes.
500
Who is involved when the IEP is written?
Educational professionals, parents/legal guardian and the student.
500
Why are social and emotional needs important to address of students with learning and behavioral disabilities?
Students who have social and emotional needs need to be supported correctly so they do not manifest any of these in the classroom or social setting. A student with a social or emotional need might be disruptive, cry, start fights, and if not corrected early on could possibly have problems with the law.
500
Why should educators and everyone who work with special education students work towards dis-labeling?
Because we are to see the student as a human being just like anyone else and not let their disability define them. The disability is just something the person brings with them, not who they are.
