SAFMEDS Flashcards
Committee on Special Education
district-level team that determines whether a student has a disability. Typically, the team includes district and building administrators, parents, teachers, a school psychologist, and others.
CST or SST
team of professionals in the school who convene regularly to provide support to teachers who need ideas and help for an individual student. This not special education teams and a student does not need to be receiving special education services for a teacher to ask for support
Individualized Education Program
A written document denoting agreement about special education and related services for a child or youth with a disability that is developed, reviewed, and revised annually in accordance with IDEA.
IEP
Individualized Education Program
CSE
Committee on Special Education
Annual Evaluation
is another term for the IEP meeting
Least Restrictive Environment
students with disabilities are educated with their peers without disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate.
504 Plan
plans provided for students who have a disability that does not necessarily adversely affect educational performance
Response to Intervention
is an intervention that provides assistance to students who have difficulty with learning. It is divided into three tiers of support.
RTI
Response to Intervention
3ps Approach
An approach to assessment in which physical educators write a description of the child’s skills and abilities related to their process (movement or skill ability), product (number of times, how fast, or how far something is executed), or parameter (environmental needs)
AccessSports Model
A teaching approach based on the needs of those with visual impairments for delivering sport and physical activity to individuals with visual impairments.
HIV
An immune virus that affects the bodies ability to battle infection.
Adapted Physical Education
The term used to describe educational services delivered to school aged children and youths with disabilities in physical education.
APE
Adapted Physical Education
Adventure Education
A branch of outdoor education that aims to develop both inter and intrapersonal relationships; a curricular model that has been successful at integrating individuals in various inclusive settings
Asperger Syndrome
A syndrome that usually involves more mild symptoms than classic autism disorder characterized by display of similar social inadequacies and unusual behaviors, yet without communication problems or intellectual disabilities
CHARGE Syndrome
A syndrome that is a leading cause of deafblindness at birth as well as child onset deafblindness characterized by vision problems, swallowing and nasal issues, hearing difficulties and growth delays
Childhood Degenerative Disorder
A condition in which children develop typically until the age of 3 or 4 then demonstrate inability for expressive and receptive language and a decrease in adaptive behavior abilities, play, or motor abilities
CDD
Childhood Degenerative Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder
A group of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social, communication, and behavioral challenges.
Criterion Referenced Assessment
Assessment that involves the description or referencing of an individuals performance in relation to pre-established criteria, as opposed to reference to the normative performance of others.
Developmental Coordination Disorder
An impairment in the development of motor coordination characterized by motor performance that falls substantially below the expected level of age and intelligence while interfering with academic achievement and daily living.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
A syndrome that results from maternal alcohol consumption causing prenatal damage.
Universal Design
A set of principals, conceptual frameworks, mindset, and processes for the design of a wide range of educational products, technologies, curricula, and environments that support access and opportunity for all students
Token Economy System
A reinforcement system that is based on the use of secondary rein forcers that are earned collected and later redeemed for backup reinforcers
Special Education
Specifically designed instruction, at no cost to parents, to meet the needs unique needs of a child with a disability…
Learning Disorder
A condition that adversely affects learning and significantly interferes with academic achievement.
Inclusion
A social and educational practice that supports the placement of students, whatever their diverse abilities or disabilities, in classes with their same aged peers; in receipt of proper accommodation and support.
Individualized Health Plan
A written and formal agreement developed by an interdisciplinary collaboration of school staff, health care, providers and others that addresses the health services of and special healthcare needs of those with disabilities
Individualized Transition Plan
A statement that provides describes transition services emphasizing course of study to reach post school goals.
Motor Activity Training Program
A program of special Olympics designed for athletes with severe or profound intellectual disabilities who are unable to participate in official Special Olympics sport competition.
MATP
Motor Activity Training Program
Equity Pedagogy
teaching that enables teachers to provide equitable, culturally relevant education and to assist students in becoming reflective and active citizens within a democratic society
Schedule Thinning
systematic behavioral training program designed to help prevent people from losing control and, if necessary, de-escalate themselves and others when they have lost control.
Mandt System
A schedule of reinforcement that provides reinforcement for the first correct response following the elapse of variable durations of time occurring in a random or unpredictable order
Morbid Obesity
Having a BMI that equals or exceeds 40
Macular Degeneration
A disease that affects central vision (field of vision when looking straight ahead and causes photophobia (sensitivity to light), poor color vision, nor- mal peripheral vision
Picture Exchange Communication System
augmented and alternative communication that uses pictures or “icons” instead of words to help children communicate, especially children with autism who have delays in speech development.
PECS
Picture Exchange Communication System
Motor Delay
Any significant lag in the development of the motor domain.
Rehabilitation Specialist
A specialist who works on vocational skills, independent living, and recreational skills primarily with adolescents and young adults with visual impairments to help them students become ready for life outside of school.
Seizures
Involuntary, sudden disruptions of the central nervous system
Unidirectional Peer Tutoring
Peer tutoring in which the trained peer tutor teaches the entire time, and the individual receiving the tutoring remains the student in the pair.
Social-Cultural Competency
A teacher’s ability and willingness to work effectively and justly in cross-cultural situations
LRE
Least Restrictive Environment