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Chapter 2 Exception
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| IEP | Individualized Education Program. To ensure students receive proper instruction needed to succeed as much as possible. |
| LRE | Least Restrictive Environment. That the student should be separated from nondisabled classmates and from home, family, and community as little as possible. |
| IFSP | Individualized Family Service Plan. It describes the services that the child will receive. A broaden focus to involve the family more. |
| IDEA | Federal Law that ensures all children with a disability be given a free appropriate education FAPE. |
| Response to Intervention RTI. | RTI. How a student changes (academic performance and behavior) due to the instruction (intervention). How they react. |
| Accommodation | Changes in instruction that doesn't significantly change the difficulty of the material. |
| Partial Participation | Another instructional strategy that entails having students with disabilities participate on a reduced basis, in virtually all activities experiences by all students in the general education classroom. |
| Adaptations | More significant modifications of instruction than accommodations. |
| Tiered Assignments | An example of adaptations where a teacher provides choices of varying difficulty for assignments on a single topic. |
| Co-Teaching | Mutuality and reciprocity in collaborative consultation a step further. Co-teaching between special education teachers and general education teachers to ensure the best education for all students. |
| Collaborative Consultation | Special education resources within the general education classroom through this. The special ed. teacher (or whoever may be) |
| Cooperative Learning | An instructional strategy that many proponents of inclusion believe is an effective way to integrate students with disabilities into groups of nondisabled peers. |
| Peer-mediated Instruction | Research-based instructional strategies to enhance the integration of students with disabilities. |
| Peer tutoring and confederates | The use of peer confederates in managing behavior problems, or any other arrangement in which teachers deliberately recruit and train peers to help teach an academic or social skill to a classmate. |
| Class wide peer tutoring CWPT | When the whole class is involved in the peer tutoring. |
| Modifications | Takes the form of amended materials or assignments and differ from changes in curricula or instructional strategies. |
| Screening Instruments | To identify certain students that may be at increased risk of school failure. |
| Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) | A form of progress monitoring. It involves students' responses to their usual instructional materials. |