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Special Ed Acronyms
Other Disabilities
Colleen's Grab Bag
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This disability is characterized by the following: • a pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression; or • a tendency to develop negative physical symptoms or fears related to personal or school
What is Emotional Disturbance?
100
IEP
What is Individualized Education Plan?
100
This diagnosis is characterized by a pattern of becoming easily distracted and have trouble concentrating. They may also be excessively active or have trouble controlling their impulses.
What is ADHD?
100
This diagnosis is a psychiatric disorder in which a person who is normally capable of speech is unable to speak in given situations or to specific people. It usually co-exists with shyness or social anxiety.
What is selective mutism?
100
Examples of these are extra time, having test questions read aloud, testing in a separate location, and use of a calculator.
What are testing accommodations?
200
This disability is characterized by: -problems that affect the brain's ability to receive, process, analyze, or store information. These problems can make it difficult for a student to learn.
What is a learning disability?
200
LRE
What is the Least Restrictive Environment?
200
Students with this Disorder are characterized by social isolation and eccentric behavior in childhood. There are impairments in two-sided social interaction and non-verbal communication.
What is Asperger's Syndrome?
200
This is a repetitive body movement, such as hand flapping. Repetitive movement, or stereotype, is often referred to as this word under the hypothesis that it has a function related to sensory input.
What is self-stimulating behavior or "stimming?'
200
IEP meetings are held this often.
What is annually?
300
This disability is a range of complex neurodevelopment disorders, characterized by social impairments, communication difficulties, and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior.
What is autism?
300
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
300
This diagnosis involves any of various reading disorders associated with impairment of the ability to interpret spatial relationships or to integrate auditory and visual information.
What is dyslexia?
300
Functions that require large muscle movements. For example walking, jumping.
What are gross motor movements?
300
THis is what PDD/NOS stands for.
What is Pervasive Developmental Disorder/ Not otherwise Specified?
400
This disability is characterized by deficits in one or more of the following areas: - Articulation - Fluency - Voice - Language
What is a speech/language disorder?
400
DOE
What is the Department of Education?
400
This diagnosis is characterized by a nondegenerative, noncongenital insult to the brain from an external mechanical force, possibly leading to permanent or temporary impairment of cognitive, physical, and psychosocial functions, with an associated diminished or altered state of consciousness.
What is TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)?
400
These students are characterized by an ongoing pattern of uncooperative, defiant, and hostile behavior toward authority figures that seriously interferes with the youngster’s day to day functioning.
What is ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)?
400
A classification under IDEA often referred to as the umbrella classification. The student is characterized with limited strength, vitality or alertness including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that is due to chronic or acute health problems
What is Other Health Impairment?
500
These students can't process the information they hear in the same way as others because their ears and brain don't fully coordinate. Something adversely affects the way the brain recognizes and interprets sounds, most notably the sounds composing speech.
What is an Auditory Processing Disorder?
500
ASD
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
500
This diagnosis is characterized by visual-spatial difficulties, which result in a person having trouble processing what the eye sees, and Language processing difficulties, which result in a person having trouble processing and making sense of what the ear hears.
What is dyscalculia?
500
Functions that require tiny muscle movements. For example: writing or typing
What are Fine motor skills?
500
the cognitive ability to visualize and plan ahead. It includes the short term ability to understand the steps needed to complete a task. Help by breaking down tasks for the student.
What is the executive function?