Principals of IDEA
- This principal concerns how students receive FAPE. Students must be educated in the setting most that of their typical peers in which they can succeed when provided necessary supports and services.
What is least restrictive environment?
significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period , adversely affects a child’s educational performance
What is intellectual disability?
Means a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, which adversely affects a child's educational performance. Other characteristics are engagement in repetitive activities and stereotypical movements, restricted interests, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
What is autism?
- It is presumed that the general education setting is the most like that of typical peers. IDEA creates a presumption in favor of inclusion in the general education classroom by requiring that a student’s IEP include a justification and explanation to the extent if any to which the student will not participate with nondisabled peers in the general academic curriculum, extracurricular activities and other nonacademic activities.
What is least restrictive envionment?
) means a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child's educational performance: (A) An inability to make educational progress that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors. (B) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers. (C) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances. (D) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression. (E) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
What is serious emotional disability?
individualized text or story that describes a specific social situation from the student’s perspective. The description may include where and why the student the situation occurs, how others might feel or react to it or what prompts those feelings or reactions.
What is a social story?
Core principle in Individuals with Disabilities Education Act specifying that students with disabilities are entitled to receive an education designed to address their specific needs, at no costs to parents.
What is free appropriate public education?
. Means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the impaired ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
What is specific learning disability?
is a cue designed to get a student to perform a specific behavior and it is effective in promoting student achievement. Prompts include physical prompts, gestural prompts and verbal prompts. The goal is to eventually fade prompts as students learn appropriate behavior.
What is a prompt?
IDEA requires that schools use nonbiased, multifactored methods of evaluation to determine whether a child has a disability and if so, whether the child requires specially designed instruction to benefit from education.
What is non-discriminatory evaluation?
) A communication disorder, such as an impairment in fluency, articulation, language, or voice/resonance that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
(ii) Language may include function of language (pragmatic), the content of language (semantic), and the form of language (phonologic, morphologic, and syntactic systems).
(iii) A speech or language impairment may result in a primary disability or it may be secondary to other disabilities.
What is speech language disability?
are supports and services provided to help a student access the general education curriculum and validly demonstrate learning.
What is an accommodation?
Information regarding a student’s disability is highly confidential and can only be shared with individuals who are working with a student. Schools are required to maintain a log of anyone who accesses these student records. Parents also have a right to participate in the decision- making process related to identification and development of an Individual Education Program (IEP) plan for their child.
What is parent participation?
including blindness means an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness. A visual impairment is the result of a diagnosed ocular or cortical pathology.
What is visual impairment?
A set of disorders on a continuum from students with average cognitive ability to significant intellectual disabilities?
What is autism spectrum disorder?