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Chapter 2
Needs for Exceptional Learners
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prereferral | Students receive evidence-based instruction before they are evaluated for special education. |
| Multidisciplinary Team | Helps prevent an inaccurate placement in special education. |
| Response to Intervention | A process that determines whether the child responds to scientific, research-based intervention evaluation. |
| Screening Instruments | Identify students who may be at increased risk of school failure. |
| Progress Monitoring | Provides information on whether a student is learning as expected. |
| Curriculum-based measurement | Students' responses to their usual instructional materials; it entails direct and frequent samples from the student's curriculum. |
| Early Intervening Services | A service or program that helps and assists with younger children. |
| Individualized Education Program | To ensure students to receive instruction needed to succeed. |
| Individualized Family Service Plan | Describes the services that the child will receive |
| Transition Plans | A coordinated set of outcome-oriented activities that promote movement from school. |
| Supported Employment | Students with disabilities get help finding a job and support. |
| Least Restrictive Environment | Student should be separated from nondisabled classmates and from home, family, and community as little as possible |
| Collaborative Consultation | The Special Ed teacher provides advice to the General Ed teacher |
| Co-teaching | General and special teachers working together to address the needs for both disability and non-disability students. |
| Cooperative Learning | Instructional strategy that many proponents of inclusion believe is an effective way to integrate students with disabilities into groups. |
| Peer-Mediated Instruction | Managing behavior problems or help train peers to help teach an academic or social skill to a classmate. |
| Class wide Peer Tutoring | All students in the general ed classroom routinely engage in peer tutoring for particular subject matter. |
| Partial Participation | Entails students with disabilities to participate in general ed classroom activities. |
| Modification | Form of amended materials or assignments and differ from changes to curricula or instructional activities. |
| Accommodations | Changes in instruction to help students with the difficulty in learning. |
| Adaptations | Making changes to the learning environment. |
| Tiered Assignments | Teachers can provide choices of varying difficulty for assignments. |
| Universal Design for Learning | Make learning accessible to more students in inclusionary programs. |