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Agencies, Organizations, and Programs
Disabilities and Behaviors
Educational Terms
Assessments, Services, and Therapies
Gov. Regulations and Legalities
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It is responsible for the education of students with disabilities from ages 3-21.
What is the Bureau of Special Education?
100
It is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or perform mathematical calculations.
What is a Learning Disability?
100
A change that gives a child with a disability an alternate method of demonstrating knowledge.
What is Accommodation?
100
In early intervention and special education programs, it refers to treatment provided by specialized service providers, most commonly in the form of occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech language therapy.
What is Therapy?
100
The section of the Pennsylvania State Education Law that provides special education regulations in compliance with Federal education law, namely IDEA 2004.
What is Chapter 14?
200
It is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or individuals who are gifted.
What is the Council for Exceptional Children?
200
It is a developmental disability generally evident before age three that significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction, and educational performance.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
200
A process in which parents and school personnel try to settle disagreements with the assistance of a specially trained impartial mediator provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
What is Mediation?
200
An individual who represents or speaks on behalf of another person's interests, as in a parent for his/her child.
What is an Advocate?
200
Primary federal education legislation addressing kindergarten through high school for children at risk.
What is o Child Left Behind?
300
It is a federal program aimed at providing comprehensive preschool education programs for children ages three to five from low-income families.
What is Head Start?
300
It 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?
300
Specialized instruction tailored to fit the unique learning strengths and needs of students with disabilities.
What is Special Education?
300
The gathering of information by qualified personnel about a child's development and the needs and priorities of his/her family.
What is Assessment?
300
A six-year plan built around 20 federally-required indicators of compliance and performance.
What is a State Performance Plan?
400
It coordinates and manages PA's special education mediation and due process systems. It provides help concerning procedural safeguards to parents, advocates, school districts, charter schools, intermediate units, and approved private schools.
What is the Office for Dispute Resolution?
400
It is an impairment of the ability to perform coordinated physical movements.
What is Dyspraxia?
400
Benchmark measures that define what students should know and be able to do at specified grade levels beginning in grade three.
What are Standards?
400
Special education professional who works side-by-side with a special education teacher to provide appropriate and meaningful educational programs to students with special needs.
What is a Paraprofessional?
400
It protects the civil rights of individuals with disabilities. It is closely intertwined with IDEA.
What is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
500
It is a state advisory panel required by federal law to provide policy guidance with respect to special education and related services for children with disabilities.
What is the Special Education Advisory Panel?
500
It is a recurrent pattern of negative, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures, which persists for at least six months.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder.
500
A score derived from a standardized intelligence test that estimates a child's capacity to learn.
What is an Intelligence Quotient?
500
Any item, piece of equipment, product, or system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of children with disabilities.
What is Assistive Technology?
500
Protects the privacy and transfer of student education records.
What is the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act?