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Special Education
The practice of educating studnets iin a way that provides accommodations that address their individual differences, disabilities and needs.
IEP/IFSP
What is: Individual Educational Plan IFSP - Individualized Family Service Plans for young children (Birth to age 3) with a disability.
A disorder related to processing information that leads to difficulties in reading, writing and comparing.
What is a Learning Disability (LD)?
A simultaneous significant hearing loss and significant vision loss.
What is Deaf-blindness?
FAPE
What is a free appropriate public educaiton
Assistive Technology
A variety of technology applications or devices designed to help a studdent with disabilities learn, communicate and function independently.
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment
Significant problems in social-emotional function to a degree that learning is affected.
What is an emotional disturbance (ED)?
A disorder related to accurately producing the sounds of langugage or meaningfully using language to communicate.
What is a Speech and Language Impairment?
What are related Services?
What is aide support, speech & language, wocial work, psychological services, occupational therapy, physical therapy, specialized transportation, etc?
MTSS
A comprehensive evidence-based approach to responding quickly to students' academic and berhavioral challenges. It is based on the principles of Response to Intervetion and Positive Behavior Supports.
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to ensure that students with disabilities recieve special education and related services.
A non specific disanbility category that states may use as an alternative to specific disabiity lables for student up to age 9.
What is a Developmental Delay (DD)?
A disorder chacterized by extraordinary difficulty in social response.
What is Emotional Distrubance?
LRE
What is the least restrictive environment?
Related Services
Related services include speech and language therapy, social work services, Phyiscal or occupational therapy, psychological or social work services.
Section 504
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which ensures equal opportuity for participation in the full range of school activities.
Significant limitations in intellectual ability and adaptive behavior.
What is an Intellectual Disability? (Generally replaces the term mental retardation.)
A disease or health impairment that is so significant that it negatively affects learning.
An approach to the identification of learning disabilities based on whether student leanring progresses or fails to improve after receiving research based interventions.
What is Response to Intervention (RtI).
Response to Intervention
A system used to determine if a student has a learning disability. School personnel design instrucitonal intervention(s) to support the student. If over time the interventions are successful, there is no disability. If interventions are unsuccessful there is a disability.
Inclusion
When students with disabilities are integrated as full members of general eucation classroom with support.
A medical condition of a serious brain injury that occurs as the result of an accident or injury.
What is a Traumatic Brian Injury (TBI)?
A significant physical limitation that impairs the ability to move or complete motor activities.
What is Orthopedic Impairment (OI)?
This model of disability would see disability as a result of the way society is structured that limits equal access for all.
What is the Social Model