RtI
Special Education Law
The Special Education Process
IDEA
Mystery Question
100

All students receive universal screenings and high-quality classroom instruction

What is Tier 1?

100

On November 29th, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed this "Bill of Rights" for children with disabilities. 

What is the Education for all Handicapped Children Act? 

100

A student is provided with interventions developed by a school-based team. 

What is pre-referral/phase 2 of the IEP process? 

100

This law or section required special education teachers to be highly qualified and mandated that students with disabilities participate in testing with accommodations or alternative assessment.   

What is IDEA ' 04 (reauthorized)? 

100

In 2010, this law changed the terms mental retardation to intellectual disability in federal law. 

What is Rose's Law? 

200

Outside of regular instructional time, 6 students are receiving increased opportunities to practice reading comprehension and fluency due to mild skill deficits. 

What is tier 2?

200

This court case was the foundation for future jurisdictions ensuring that children with disabilities could not be denied from school. 

What is Brown V. Board of Education? 

200

A teacher notices that a student is performing significantly below his peers. 

What is recognition/phase 1 of the IEP process? 

200

In 1990, this law added autism and traumatic brain injury as a disability category.

What is IDEA? 

300

The curriculum, fidelity of implementation and behavior management.  

What three factors have researchers identified essential to the success of a RtI framework? 

300

In 1972, this case ruled that all students with disabilities had a right to a free public education. 

What is Mills v. the Board of Education District of Columbia? 

300

The student does not respond to pre-referral interventions and is therefore referred for an evaluation. 

What is referral/phase 3 of the IEP process? 

300

The Education for all Handicapped Children Act, which eventually became IDEA, guarantees these two critical rights to students with disabilities. 

What is FAPE (Free and Appropriate Education) and LRE (least restrictive environment)? 

400

 A group of three students are receiving intensive remediation support in math every school day and close monitoring, as they are performing significantly below their general education peers. 

What is tier 3? 

400

In 1973, this law or section set the stage for IDEA and ADA as it mandated accommodations for people with disabilities in school and society.  

What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act? 

400

With consent from the parents, the student is evaluated with a battery of academic and cognitive assessments, as well as related service evaluations. 

What is the evaluation/phase 4 of the IEP process? 

400

IDEA '97 (reauthorized) is the reason why students with this diagnosis may be eligible for an IEP under the category of OHI.

What is ADHD? 

500

In 1990, this law or section banned discrimination towards people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, and telecommunications. 

What is ADA/the American with Disabilities Act? 

500

The IEP team determines that the student has an educational disability. They need an IEP to benefit and progress in school; the parents and a multidisciplinary team then meet to discuss the evaluation findings and generate an IEP. 

What are phase 5 (eligibility) and phase 6 (the IEP) of the IEP process?