Disabilities
A neurological disorder beginning in childhood that involves stereotypical, repetitive motor movements (tics).
What is Tourette’s Syndrome?
A teaching method which focuses on drill and practice with lots of immediate feedback and student response
What is Direct Instruction?
Responsible for determining if a student is eligible for special education and for developing an appropriate educational program for the student.
What is an ARD committee?
The ability to stop an intended response, or an ongoing response, to protect an ongoing response from interruption, and the inability to refrain from responding immediately to a stimulus, thought, or impulse.
What is behavioral inhibition?
An alternative form of assessment that reflects the actual learning and activities of students.
What is authentic assessment?
A genetic condition occurring as a result of an abnormality in the twenty-first pair of chromosomes.
What is Down Syndrome?
A method of behavior change which focuses on the control of environmental events, particularly consequences.
What is behavior modification?
A legal term giving a person legal authority to make decisions, including educational decisions, for another person. It can apply to parents who have children with severe disabilities.
What is guardianship?
Social, behavioral, and practical skills used to function in everyday life.
What is adaptive behavior?
An assessment in which a student reads a selected series of texts that gradually increase in difficulty.
What is an informal reading inventory (IRI)?
A condition resulting in low cognitive ability and low adaptive behavior skills.
What is an intellectual disability?
An instructional approach in which students work in groups that are mixed in terms of ability, gender, and ethnicity.
What is cooperative learning?
This document must contain a statement of the student’s present levels of educational performance, annual goals related to areas of deficit, short-term objective describing the intermediate steps to the annual goals, criteria and procedures for determining the achievement of the objectives, and educational services to be provided to the student.
What is an IEP?
Literally “thinking about your thinking.” It refers to monitoring or being conscious of one’s own thought process.
What is metacognition?
Tests where a student’s performance is compared with a norm group, or a representative sampling students similar to the student.
What is a norm-referenced assessment?
Assumed to be caused by central nervous system dysfunction that results in processing problems, learning disabilities can take a number of forms and impact a number of academic, behavioral, and social areas.
What is a learning disability?
The support and guidance provided by an adult that helps a student function or achieve at a higher level.
What is scaffolding?
This is usually determined in a hearing and is required when a student’s behavior violates school rules and before the school can undertake disciplinary action that might result in a student’s suspension from school.
What is Manifestation Determination?
Refers to motivation of an individual, where s/he thinks success or failure originates.
What is locus of control?
An instrument used to assess a product or process. It contains a description of each of the traits or characteristics of the standard that is being measured.
What is a rubric?
One of the disorders along the autism spectrum it is characterized by extreme social withdrawal and impairments in communication.
What is autism?
Procedures n which students are asked to describe the processes they are using as they engage in cognitive activities.
What are Think Alouds?
A legal term from the IDEA that specifies that students with disabilities must be educated as close to the same environment as their typical (nondisabled) peers.
What is "The Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
Any of a variety of repetitive behaviors that are sometimes found in individuals who are have autism, blindness, or who have a severe intellectual disability.
What are Stereotypic Behaviors?
This is a particular type of criterion-referenced test that is very specific and focused on a particular part of the curriculum, i.e. two-digit multiplication, vowel diagraphs, etc., and provides more in-depth information about the exact nature of the student’s academic difficulty.
What is a diagnostic probe?