Name that Acronym
IEP
What is an Individualized Education Plan?
FAPE
What is Free and Appropriate Public Education?
The 1990 amendments to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act changed the name of the law to this.
This term refers to children who are considered to have a greater than usual chance of developing a disability.
What is at risk?
This is the simplest form of Collaboration
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
LER
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
The intent of this act is to improve the achievement of all students, with a particular emphasis on children from low-income families
What is No Child Left Behind?
This term refers to the loss or reduced function of a particular body part or organ
What is an impairment?
These groups are composed of professionals from different disciplines who work independently of one another.
What are multidisciplinary teams
ADA
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
UDL
Universal Design for Learning
This section of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 means that no person with disabilities may be excluded from a program because of the lack of an appropriate aide.
What is Section 504?
This exists when an impairment limits a person's ability to perform certain tasks.
What is a disability?
Although each professional in these groups conducts discipline-specific assessments, members meet to share information and develop intervention plans.
What are interdisciplinary teams
RTI
What is Response to Intervention?
IFSP
Individualized Family Service Plan
The most recent reauthorization of IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004?
This term refers to a problem or disadvantage a person with a disability or impairment encounters when interacting with the environment.
What is a handicap?
Members of this team seek to provide services in a uniform and integrated fashion through joint assessment, information sharing, and shared goals.
What are transdisciplinary teams?
AYP
What is annual yearly progress?
MFE
What is multifactored evluation?
This is the only federal program that addresses the needs of the nation's 3 million gifted and talented students.
What is the Javits Act?
This term includes children who experience difficulties in learning as well as those whose performance is so advanced that modifications are necessary.
One teaching/one helping, Parallel teaching, and station teaching are all examples of this type of teaching method.
What is co-teaching?