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Chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prereferral | A process where a student is looked out to need special education or wheter adjesting intruction is needed first. |
| Multidisciplinary Team | People from distracting schools who typically see students and referr them to special education or adjustment to teaching and instruction. |
| Response to Intervention (RTI) | A way of determinding wheter a student has a leanring disability; increasingly intensive levels of instrucational intervention are delivered. |
| Screening Instrument | Quick measures administered to determine who may need further assessments. |
| Progess Monitoring | Asseesments are frequent to measure teachers administer at regular intervals to see if a student is learning as expected. |
| Curriculum-based Measurement | A formative evaluation method designed to evaluate performance in the curriculum to which a students are exposed. |
| Early Intervening Service | Provided for students who have niot yet been identified as having a disability but need these supports to be successful in the general education curriculum. |
| Individualized Education Program (IEP) | One created for each expectional learner; must include a statement of present educational performance, instructional goals, educatikonal services, criteria and procedures for determinding that the instructional objectives are being met. |
| Individualized Family Service Plan (IESP) | Provide services for young children with disabilities and their families (similar to IEP for older students). |
| Transition Plans | A plan defined in a student's IEP that specifices the student's goals and services related to transitioning from high school to post-high school experiences. (transtion plan before the age of 16) |
| Supported Employment | A method of integrating people with disabilites who cannot work independently into competitive employment;includes use of an employment specialist, or job coach, who helps the person with a disability function big or small. |
| Least Restrictive Environment | A legal term referring to the fact that exceptional children must be educated in as normal an environemtn as possible. |
| Collabortive Consultation | An approach in which a speical education and a general educator collaborate to come up with teaching strategies for a student with disabilities. The relationship between the two professionals is based on the premises of shared responsibility/ authority. |
| Co-teaching | Between general and special education involoves general and special education teachers working together in the general education classroom to address he educational needs of both students with and without disabilities. |
| Cooperative Learning | A teaching approach in ehich the teacher places stduents with heterogeneous abilities (for example, some might have disabilites) together to work on assignment. |
| Peer-mediated Instruction | The deliberate use of a student's classroom peer(s) to assist in teaching an academic or social skill. |
| Peer Confederates | Peers who assist the teacher |
| Classwide Peer Tutoring (CWPT) | An instrucational procedure in which all students in the class are invloved in turtoring and being turtoed by classmates on specific skills are directed by their teachers. |
| Partical Participation | An approach in which students with disabilities, while in the general education classroom, engage in the same activities as students without disabilities but on a reduced basis; the teacher adapts the activity to allow each student to participate. |
| Modifications | Changes made in instruction or assessment to make it possible for a student with a disability to respond more normally. |
| Accommodations | Changes in the delivery of instruction, type of student performance, or method of assessments that do not siginificantly change the content or conceptual difficulty of the currculum. |
| Adaptations | Changes in curricular content or conceptional difficulty or changes in instructional objectivies and methods. |
| Tiered Assignments | Assignments varying in difficulty but on a single topic. |
| Universal Design for Learning (UDL) | Designing lessons that are appropriate for all learners. |