Miscellaneous Flashcards
IDEA
Passed in 1990, Individual with Disabilities Act
What is IDEA?
Available and free appropriate public education to students with disabilities.
ensures special education and related services to those children.
ages 3-21
intellectual disabilities
must have low IQ and problems with adaptive functioning.
Metacognition
ability to evaluate and monitor one’s own performance.
PBIS
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Why do you need to collect baseline data and final data?
The data lets us know if the PBIS plan is working or not
How does a functional behavior assessment work?
By identifying the purpose of the problem behavior and replacing it with a more desirable behavior
According to Bernard Weiner’s theory, all of the following are factors affecting attributions, EXCEPT:
Ability
Effort
Economic status
Task-difficulty
Economic status
Pre-alphabetic phase
Children can identify words, but they do so by treating words as visual objects, rather than applying letter-sound associations
Partial Alphabetic Phase
children know some letters and letter-sound associations and can use them along with context clues
Full alphabetic phase
children apply alphabet knowledge systematically when decoding and often decode words letter by letter
Consolidated alphabetic phase
recurring letter patterns become consolidated. Rather than sounding out words letter by letter, children recognize that certain groups of letters function as units
Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)
A problem-solving process for addressing student problem behavior. FBA relies on a variety of techniques and strategies to identify the reasons for a specific behavior and to help IEP Teams select interventions that directly address the problem behavior.
Echolalia
“parrot talk” repeats what they hear
Echololia: beyond ____ years is atypical
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