Autism (AU/ASU)
"A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, usually evident before age 3 that adversely affects a child's educational performance."
"A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, usually evident before age 3 that adversely affects a child's educational performance."
Deafness (HI)
"A hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child's educational performance."
Deaf-Blindness (D-B)
"Means concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness."
Emotional Disturbance (EBD)
"A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child's educational performance:
(A) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
(B) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
(C) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances.
(D) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
(E) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems."
Hearing Impairment (HI)
"A hearing impairment so severe that a child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child's educational performance."
Intellectual Disability (ID)
"Means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance."
Multiple Disabilities (MD)
"Means concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability-blindness or intellectual disability-orthopedic impairment), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments."
Orthopedic Impairment (OI)
"A child whose severe orthopedic impairments adversely affects their educational performance to the degree that the child requires special education. This term may include: (1) Impairment caused by congenital anomalies, e.g., deformity or absence of some limb."
Other Health Impairment (OHI)
"Means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment due to a chronic or acute health problem, including but not limited to asthma."
Specific Learning Disability (SLD)
"A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions."
Speech/Language Impairment (SLI)
"Means a communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child's educational performance."
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
"An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child's educational performance."
Visual Impairment (VI)
"Is impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness."
*Developmental Delay (DD)
"A child who is experiencing developmental delays, as measured by appropriate diagnostic instruments and procedures, in one or more of the following areas: physical development, cognitive development, communication development, social or emotional development, or adaptive development, or (ii) who has an established physical or mental condition that has a high probability of resulting in developmental delay;
Special Education Laws are written at the National Level to provide protection for all student regardless of which state they live in
True
What does IEP stand for?
Individualized Education Program
"Schools are to educate students with disabilities with children without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate" is the definition for which provision under Special Education law?
Free Appropriate Public Education
Which of the following is NOT a related service that when appropriate must be provided to a student with a disability as described in Special Education Law?
Art Therapy
Provision that all students, regardless of the severity of their disability, have a right to education
Procedural Safeguards
Extensive set of procedures that schools must follow to protect the rights of students with disabilities
Child Find System
Requires schools to locate, identify, and evaluate all students that have or may have a disability
Assistive Technology
Any item or device that is required or used to promote improved capacities of students with disabilities
Extended School Year
Services provided outside of the typical 180 day school year to promote progress maintenance and prevent learning loss
Schools that suspend or expel students with disabilities must continue to provide those students with special education services.
True
Evaluations for Special Education must be unbiased and multifactored is a protection under which principle of IDEA?
Nondiscriminatory Evaluation
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