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Chapter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prereferral | The process of referring a child suspected of having a disability to a multidisciplinary team that decides whether the student should be referred speical education evaluation or whether adjustments in teaching should be tried first to see if the student |
| Response to intervention or response to treatment approach | Way of determining whether a student has a learning disability; increasingly intensive levels of instructional intervention are delivered, and if the student does not achieve at some point, he or she is determined to have a learning disability. |
| Multidisciplinary team | A team of individuals from different disciplines. general education, special ed, school psychology, speech/language pathology, typically decides whether a struggling student should be referred for special ed evaluation |
| Screening Instruments | Quick measures administrated to determine who may need further assessment |
| Progress Monitoring | Assessments are frequent measures that teachers administer at regular intervals and that provide info on whether a student is learning as expected |
| CBM | A formative evaluation method designed to evaluate performence in the curriculum to which students are exposed; usually involves giving students a small sample of items from the curriculum in use in their schools. |
| Early intervening services | IDEA allows for academic or behavioral support or related services for students in grades K-12 with an emphisis on grades K-3 |
| IEP | IEP is an individualized plan for a student. It must include a statement of present educaional peerformence, intructional goals and services need to be provided |
| IFSP | A plan mandated by PL 99-457 to provide for young children who have disabilites under the age of 3. Families and professionals draw up plans. |
| Transition Plan | A plan designed in a students IEP that has the students goals and services related to transitioning from high school to post high school life experiences. This is required if you have an IEP |
| Supported employment | Method of integrating people with disabilites who cannot work independently into competitive employment; this includes use of an employment specialist |
| LRE | A legal term refering to the fact that exceptional children must be educated in as normal of an enviornment as possible |
| Collaborative Consultation | An approach in which a special educator and a general educator collaborate to come up with teaching strategies to help the student with disabilites. |
| Co-Teaching | A special educator working side by side with a general educator in a classroom, both teachers providing instruction to the group |
| Cooperative Learning | A teaching approach in which the teachers puts students with disabilties together to work on assignments. |
| Peer- meditated instruction | The delibrate use of a students classroom peers to assist in teaching an academic or social skill |
| Peer tutoring | A method to integrate students with disabilites into the general education classroom based on the notion that students can effectively tutor one another. |
| Peer Confederates | Peers who assist the teacher |
| CWPT | An instructional procedure in which all students in the class are involved in tutoring and being tutored by the classmates on specific skills |
| Partial Participation | Students with disabilites participate in the general education classroom but just on a reduced basis. |
| Modifications | Changes made in instruction or assessment to make it possible for a student with a disibility to respnond normally. |
| Accomodations | Changes in delivery or instruction, type of student performance or method of assessment that do not significantly change the content of difficulty of the curriculum |
| Adaptations | Changes in curricular content or conceptual difficultiy or changes in instructional objectives and methods |
| Tiered assignment | Assignments varying in difficulty but on a single topic |
| Universal design | Design of new buildings, tools, and instructional programs to make them usable by the widest possible population or users |
| UDL | Designed lessons that are appropiate for all learners |