Procedures
State and Federal Laws
Components of an IEP
IEP Team Members
Awesome Acronyms
100

A parent of a child, a school district, a public agency, other persons knowledgeable about the child may initiate a request for an initial evaluation to determine if the student is eligible for special education.

What is a referral?

100

Students' rights to a free appropriate public education.

What is FAPE?

100
This section of the IEP describes the current classroom functioning of the student.
What is the Present Level of Academic Performance?
100

This IEP team member is responsible for Affirming and Attesting the IEP

Who is the case manager?

100
IEP
What is Individual Education Program?
200

60 Calendar Days

How long is the evaluation timeline?

200

To the maximum extent appropriate in the general education environment with students who are nondisabled

What is Least Restrictive Environment?

200
Once a child has been determined eligible for special education services, the goal of the IEP is to address the needs of the child in this setting.
What is the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
200

In the event of Initial Eligibility, this IEP team member will compile reports into a Evaluation Team Report.

Who is the School Psychologist?

200
ASD
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
300

This date is one year minus one day from the IEP meeting.

What is the IEP End Date?

300

The Education for all Handicapped Children Act was originally passed in 1975, amended in 1990, 1997, and 2004, and is now known as this...

What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA-04)?

300

When describing services in the offer of FAPE, name 3 of the 6 things that must be documented.

What is the amount of time, frequency, service provider, type of service, beginning date and ending date?

300

Prior to initiating special education services, permission must be obtained from this mandatory team member.

Who is the Parent or Guardian?

300
ABA
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
400

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects a students right to this.

What is a student's right to confidentiality?

400

A form that is used as a written explanation of a change the school district wants to make or refuses to make in a child's IEP.

What is a Prior Written Notice?

400

This form must be completed prior the student's turning 14.

What is a Transition Plan

400

Of the mandatory team members of an IEP meeting, this participant's role is to make financial decisions on behalf of the school/district.

Who is the Administrator or Admin Designee

400

PWN

What is Prior Written Notice?

500

This form must be signed by the parent or guardian and returned to the school prior to conducting any formal evaluation of the student including FBAs.

The Parent Consent for Evaluation form.

500
The acronym I.D.E.A., which describes the law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation, stands for this.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?
500

Breaks the goal into incremental learning steps all of which are necessary to achieve the goal but not necessarily sequential.

What is an objective?

500

This IEP team member is not a required member. 

Who is the Related Service Provider?

500
ID
What is Intellectual Disability?