Terms 1
Any device or process used to commuicate with others. These include high tech - computers, a personal speech device like Go Talk, computer program and low tech options like gestures and pictures.
What is AAC - Augmentative Assistive Communication
What is it called when two professionals meet to discuss a student and problem solve without direct services provided to a student.
What is consultation
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?
Name the two types of language skills essential for learing.
What is expressive and receptive language. *Bonus - can you explain these two terms?
Any technology application or device designed to help a student with disabilities learn, communicate, and function independently.
What is Assistive Technology
What term would a teacher use for a child who appears to avoid or refuse to attempt tasks they find difficult.
What is learned helplessness
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 is it called when two teachers (general education and classrooom teachers) meet to discuss a student and problem solve wihtou direct services provided to the student.
What is consultation
A comprehensive evidence-based approach to respond quickly to students' academic and behavioral challenges. It is based on the principles of Response to Intervetion and Positive Behavior Supports.MTSS
What is Multi-Tiered System of Support
IDEA
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act which helps 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?
The least restrictive school enviroment is generally this setting
What is the age/grade appropriate general education classroom with co-teaching support.
Speech and language therapy, social work services, Phyiscal or occupational therapy, psychological and/or social work services.
What are Related Services
This plan is developed in accordance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to ensure an individual has equal opportuity for participation in the full range of school and work related activities.
What is a 504 plan
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.
What is Other Health Impairment (OHI)?
An approach to the identification of learning disabilities based on whether a student learning progresses or fails to improve after receiving research based interventions.
What is Response to Intervention (RtI).
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.
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)
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 such as cerebal palsy that impairs the ability to move or complete motor activities.
What is Orthopedic Impairment (OI)?
A condition that substantially limists a major life activity such as learning is the definition of disability under which law.
Americans with disabilities act - ADA