Disabilities and Behaviors
This is a developmental disability generally evident before age three that significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction, and educational performance. Other characteristics often associated with this disorder include, engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
This changes HOW special education students are learning.
What is an accommodation?
A child with a disability must be educated within the same classroom as typical mainstreamed non-disabled peers to the fullest extent possible.
What is Least Restrictive Environment?
This protects the privacy and transfer of student education records.
What is FERPA (The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act)?
An ongoing, coordinated set of activities designed to meet the unique needs of students with a disability and prepare them for further education, employment, and independent living.
What is Transition?
A learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling. Characteristic features of the disorder are difficulties in phonological awareness, verbal memory and verbal processing speed.
What is dyslexia?
This changes WHAT special education students are being taught.
What is a modification?
The practice of educating students with special needs in general education classes.
What is Mainstream?
This is a federal mandate that all children with disabilities must receive appropriate educational programs, tailored to their unique needs, from which they receive educational benefit at no cost to families.
What is FAPE (Free Appropriate Public Education)?
Education courses that provides students and adults with the academic and technical skills, knowledge and training necessary to succeed in future careers and develop skills they will use throughout their careers.
What is Career and Technical Education?
This s a neurological disorder in which individuals display developmentally-inappropriate behavior including poor attention skills and impulsiveness. These characteristics arise in early childhood, typically before age seven, and have duration of at least six months. Children may experience difficulty in the areas of social skills and self-esteem. They may be eligible for special education services under the other health impairment (OHI) disability category.
What is Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)?
A request for an evaluation if the student continues to experience difficulty in the general classroom after the provision of interventions.
What is a referral?
Where all special education students have access to and can participate in the general education environment, given the appropriate supports, such as an aide.
What is Inclusion?
A committee is the team that meets to determine eligibility based on a full and individual evaluation report, and to develop an individualized education program (IEP) for the child, if applicable.
What is ARD?
The state agency that oversees primary and secondary public education. It is headed by the commissioner of education.
What is the Texas Education Agency?
This is a disability in which a child’s intellectual and adaptive behavior is below average, which impacts upon the child’s education.
What is cognitive delay? (Intellectually disabled, specific learning disability, learning disability)
The ongoing process of locating, identifying and evaluating all children with disabilities from birth through age 21.
What is Child Find?
The use of a specially designed classroom where instruction is supplemented and reinforced and encourages students to take responsibility for learning.
What is a Content Mastery ?
This provides the legal authority for early intervention and special education services for children from birth to age 21. Part B outlines services for children ages three to 21. Part C outlines services for children from birth to age three.
What is IDEA (The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
An organization that provide developmental and support services which empower individuals in attaining a full life in the community to children and adults who have disabilities.
What is Opportunities Inc.?
A communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is speech or language impairment?
These students have intellectual abilities significantly above average.
What is Gifted and Talented?
A separate, remedial classroom in a school where students with educational disabilities, such as specific learning disabilities, are given direct, specialized instruction and academic remediation as individuals or in groups.
What is Resource?
This is a written statement of a child’s current level of educational performance and of the child’s individualized plan of instruction, including the goals, specific services to be received, the staff members who will carry out the services, the standards and timelines for evaluating progress, and the amount and degree to which the child will participate with typically-developing peers (see Least Restrictive Environment). This document is developed by the child’s parents and the professionals who evaluated the child and/or who are providing the services. It is required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for all children who are in need of special education services.
What is an IEP (An Individualized Education Program)?
Shared Service Arrangements (SSAs) are agreements between member districts and the Education Service Center. They allow schools to pool funds and receive services at a discounted rate through these partnerships.
What is the Co-Op/ WBCSSA?