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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| RTI | Response to Intervention; student's change or lack of in an academic performance |
| MTSS | multitiered system of support |
| LRE | least restrictive environment |
| Perreferral | the process schools use to support a student before formally referring them for special education evaluation. |
| multidisciplinary | prevent an inaccurate placement in special education |
| CBM | curriculum-based measurements; involves student's responses |
| IFSPs | Individualized family service plans that describe the services that the child will receive |
| IEP | Individualized education program ensuring that the student receives the instruction needed to succeed as much as possible. Legal document that describes the educational services a student receives. |
| transition plan | plan that helps a student with a disability prepare for life after high school focusing on goals for the future, job training and outlines the services and supports needed to reach those goals. |
| supported employment | service that helps individuals with disabilities find and keep a job in the community |
| LRE | least restrictive environment; students should be separated from nondisabled class mates |
| collaborative consultation | the special education teacher providing advice to the general education |
| Cooperative learning | instructional strategy that many proponents of inclusion believe is an effective way to integrate students with disabilities into groups of non disabled peers |
| peer mediated instruction | commonly refer to peer tutoring |
| peer tutorting | use of peer confederates |
| peer confederates | managing behavior problems, or any other arrangement in which teachers deliberately recruit and train peers to help teach an academic or social skills to a classmate |
| CWPT | class wide peer tutoring; for all students in general education classes for reading and math. |
| partial participation | another instructional strategy entailing students with disabilities participate, on reduced basis, in virtually all activities experienced by all students in the general education classroom |
| Modifactions | take the form of amended materials or assignments that differ change in curricula |
| Accommodations | changes in instruction that don't significantly change the content |
| Adaptions | involving more significant modifications of instruction than accommodations |
| Tiered assignment | an example of adaptations wherein teachers provide choices of varying difficulty for assignments on a simple topic. |
| rate(pace) | the speed of the lesson- introduction and new concepts |
| intensity | difficulty or complexity |
| explicit | clear, distinct |
| Relentlessness | tenacity; stick to it |
| structure | predictability, teacher direction, tolerance, immediacy of consequences |
| reinforcement | reward for desired behavior |
| Corrective feedback | Communicating to a student the difference between a correct and incorrect response |
| student teacher ratio | number of students per teacher |
| cirriculum | content of instruction, purpose of activity |
| Monitoring (assessment) | keeping track of progress |
| cochlear implantations | artificial inner ears to be used whenever possible to aloow dad children to hear. |