Exam 1 Flashcards
What is Child Find
A public outreach awareness system to locate and identify children thought to be eligible for special education
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Civil rights legislation
- Section 504
- Major life activities
- Reasonable accommodations
- PA Regulations
Cedar Rapids v. Garret F 1999
Needed nursing assistance
Non physician health services need to be provided
History of Special Education
Standardized tests
New professional fields
Medical advances
Technological advances
IDEA Principles
Child find IEP Nondiscriminatory evaluation Shared decision making LRE FAPE Related services Assistive technology Supplementary aids and services Confidentiality Procedural Safegaurds
FERPA
Family Education Rights & Privacy Act
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Originally ESEA Accountability Highly qualified teachers Assessments AYP
Framework for Teaching by Charlotte Danielson
A comprehensive and coherent framework that identifies those aspects of a teacher’s responsibilities
“Validated”
Multiple Measure of Teacher Effectiveness - observation and evidence
Planning and preparation
Classroom environment
Instruction
Professional responsibilities
*4 domains
Initial Level Knowledge and Skill Sets
Individualized Common Core (ICC)
Individualized General Education Curricula (IGEC)
Learning Disabilities (LD)
Initial Level Content Standards
- Fountains
- Development and Characteristics of Learners
- Instructional Strategies
- Individual Learning Difference
- Learning Environments and Social Interactions
- Language
- Instructional Planning
- Assessment
- Professional and Ethnical Practice
- Collaboration
Indicators suggesting the presence of a disability
Rate of progress not what is expected
Level of performance discrepant from peers
Physical/health conditions affecting educational performance
Behavior adversely affects educational performance
Response to classroom accommodations not successful
Homelessness
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Continue in school in which last enrolled Enroll immediately Provide transportation Provide educational services *involve community agency
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
Remove barriers and provide access
Prerefferal Intervention Questions
What are the needs?
Can the needs be helped?
Does the student need special education?
Pre-referral Invention
Avoid premature referral special education
Building-based teams
RTI
Type of Teams
Multidisciplinary
Interdisciplinary
Transdisciplinary
Collaborative - most interaction
Protections in Evaluations
No single procedure Variety of assessment tools Test instruments Not racially/culturally diverse Students native language
Oral vs Written Request - ERF/RRF
Consent if they agree
Written if no
Procedural safeguard notice not enclosed
Revaluation consent form
PTE Consent Form
60 calendar days from when request to when parents receive form