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chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Specical education has a rich history of _______ and ______ | Controversy and change |
| Prereferral | Process of refering a child suspected of having a disability to a multidisciplinary team that decided wether the student should be refered for special education evaluation or adjuestments in teaching should improve |
| Multidisciplinary team | Team of individuals from different disciplines (general education, special education, school psychology), that typically decide wether a stuggling student should be referred to a specialist |
| Response to intervention (RTI) | A way of determining wether a student has a learning disability, increasing instructional levels as needed |
| Screening instruments | Quick measures administered to determine who may need further assessment |
| Progress monitoring | Assessments are frequent measure that teachers administer regular intervals and that provide info on wether a student is learning as expected |
| Curriculum-based measurment (CBM) | A formative evaluation method designed to evaluate performace in the curriculum to which students are exposed |
| Early intervening services | IDEA allows for academic or behavioral supports or realted services for students in grades K-12, to be provided for students who may have not been identified with a diability but still need support |
| Individualized family service plan (IFSP) | Mandated plan to provide services for young children (under 3) with disabilities and their families, created by professionals and parents (similiar to IEP for older children) |
| Transition plans | A plan in the students IEP that specifies the student's goal and services related to transitioning from high school to post-high school experiences, before the age of 16 |
| Supported employment | Intergrating people with disabilities who cannot work independently into competitive employment |
| Least restrictive enviroment (LRE) | Legal term referring to the fact that exceptional children must be educated in as normal enviroment as possible |
| Collaborative consultation | An approach in which a special educatior and a general educator collabortem to come up with teaching stratigies for a student with disabilities |
| Co-teaching | General education classroom and specail education teachers teach together in the general classroom |
| Cooperative learning | A teaching apporach in which the teachers places students with heterogeneous abilities (disability) together to work on assignments |
| Peer-mediaed instruction | The deliberate use of a student's classroom peer(s) to assist in teaching an academic or socail skills |
| Peer confederates | Peers who assist the teacher |
| Peer tutoring | A method to intergrate studentws with diabilities into general education classroom, the role of the learner or teachers may be assigned to either the student with a disability or the student who does not have a disability |
| Classwide peer tutoring (CWPT) | An instructional procedure in which all students of the class are involved in tutoring and being tutored by classmates on specific skills directed by their teacher |
| Partial participation | Students with disabilities, while in the general education classsroom, engage in the same activities as students without diabilities but on a reduced basis; the teacher adapts the activity to allow each student to participate as much as possible |
| Accommodations | Changes in the delivery of instruction, type of student preformance, or method os assessment that do not significantly change the content or conceptual diffculty of the cirruculum |
| Modifications | Changes made in instruction or assessment to make it possible for a student with a disability to respond more normally |
| Adaptations | Changes in curricular content or conceptual difficulty or changes in instructional onjectives and methods |
| Tiered assignments | Assignments varying in difficulty but on a single topic |
| Universal design | The design of new buildings, tools, and instructional programs that make them usable bt the widest possible population of potintial users |
| Universal design for learning (UDL) | Designed lessons that are appropriate for all learners |
| Cochlear implantations | A surgical procedure that allows people who are deaf to hear some enviromental sounds, external coil that is attached to a microphone |