Adaptive behavior
Daily living skills ability of child to take care of self (brush
teeth, money, laundry, dress etc.)
Assistive technology
devices that help the disabled learn (speech to text software, pencil grip)
Case conference committee
A group who determines the eligibility and write the IEP members are
adm, gen ed, sped, parents and others. (psychology at first meeting to
share testing info)
Consent
Parent agrees to test and provide services.
Continuum of services
range of placemats such as resource, special school, special class in
a building, residential.
Evaluation
testing includes IQ, achievements, informal, and other.
Free appropriate public education
free education to families, and no extra cost to parents
Functional behavior assessment
is a variation on procedures originally developed to ascertain the
purpose or reason for behaviors displayed by individuals with severe
cognitive or communication disabilities
IEP
plan with goals and objective related services, PLOP, disability,
placement and services
Individualized family service plan
An Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) is a plan for special
services for young children with developmental delays. An IFSP only
applies to children from birth to three years of age. Once a child
turns 3 years old, an Individualized Education Program (IEP) is put
into place.
LRE
educated with non-disabled to appropriate level.
Manifestation
A Manifestation Determination is a process, required by the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004), which is
conducted when considering the exclusion of a student with a
disability that constitutes a change of placement.
Multidisciplinary team
evaluation team, test, observe, create the evaluation report (SPED,
psych, teacher, adm)
Paraprofessional/assistant/paraeducator
works with a supervision of licensed teacher
Related services
other items need, such as speech, OT, PT, transportation
Teacher of service
teacher providing services to a student with disability
Teacher of record
licensed teacher with license for disability that the child has,
responsible for IEP.