Agencies, Organizations, & Programs
Child Find is a federal requirement that schools must actively identify and locate children from birth to this age who have disabilities or may be entitled to special education services.
What is 21 ?
A neurological disorder in which individuals display attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
What is Attention Deficit Disorder?
This is called "the heart of IDEA"
What is Individualized Education Program?
Choosing between these three types of therapy: Physical, Speech, or Occupational, which one significantly impacts an individuals ability to engage in daily life activities that are meaningful and lead to productive daily routines.
What is Occupational Therapy?
This law ensures that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education; ensures that the rights of children with disabilities and their parents are protected; and to assist state and local educational agencies in providing for the education of children with disabilities.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act?
This nonprofit organization links families of individuals with disabilities or special needs to a volunteer peer support parent for the purposes of support and information.
What is Parent to Parent ?
A developmental disability that involves challenges in verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction, and repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
A federal mandate that all children with disabilities must receive appropriate education at no cost to families.
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
Another name for a teacher assistant who works side-by-side with a special education teacher to provide appropriate education to students with special needs.
What is a Paraprofessional?
This 2001 Act expected school districts to make adequate yearly progress, ensure that all children were taught by highly qualified teachers, and appropriate curriculum and instructional methods were being used.
What is No Child Left Behind?
The state agency responsible for the state supervision of all schools and educational programs in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
What is the Pennsylvania Department of Education?
Stuttering is an example of this rhythm disorder characterized by the repetition of a sound, word, or phrase.
What is Dysfluency?
An IDEA requirement that children with disabilities must be educated with children without disabilities, to the maximum extent possible.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
This form of communication uses the face, hands, and body to convey meaning in a grammatical structure that differs from English.
What is American Sign Language ?
This protects the privacy and transfer of student education records.
What is The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act?
A federal program that provides comprehensive preschool education programs for children ages three to five from low-income families.
What is Head Start?
A repetitive body movement or object movement, such as hand flapping, head banging, or rocking side to side, that may interfere with the child's ability to "sit still" and pay attention.
What is Self-Stimulation?
A universal prevention strategy aimed at reducing behavior problems within schools and improve school safety.
What is Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports?
Critical skills for children who are blind or visually impaired enabling them to move safely, efficiently, and independently in school and other environments.
What is Orientation and Mobility?
This law, which is closely intertwined with IDEA, protects the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
The largest advocacy organization in the United States for citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
What is the Arc of Pennsylvania?
An abnormal sensitivity to touch indicated by avoidance or rejection of touching and handling.
What is Tactile Defensiveness?
A statistical analysis used to measure the influence of a district or school in Pennsylvania on the academic progress rates of individual children and groups of children from year to year.
What is the Pennsylvania Value - Added Assessment System?
Community mental health services prescribed by a psychiatrist or a psychologist to be provided in home and school settings.
What are Wraparound Services?
A six year plan built around 20 federally-required indicators of compliance and performance. It contains measurable goals, rigorous targets for each year of the plan, and improvement activities to meet the targets.
What is a State Performance Plan?