SPED Final Flashcards
(35 cards)
What are the 6 principles of IDEIA?
- zero reject
- nondiscriminatory evaluation
- appropriate education
- least restrictive environment
- procedural due process
- parental and student participation
Explain IDEA part B and C.
Part B - serves children ages 3-21
Part C - serves children age birth - 2
What is the eligibility for services for IDEA?
- pro vides services from birth to age 21
What is and IEP?
- Individualized Education Plan
- Purpose is to provide an appropriate education that meet specialized needs of students with disabilities
- It is mandated by IDEA and must be conducted annually
- reviewed and revised at least once a year
- required by law
What is an ISFP?
- ## is developed by a multidisciplinary team to design a plan that meets the needs of a child and their family through the age of 3
What is an IEP team?
- a team of teachers, parents, the students, principal, counselors, and any other specialist that may be needed that writes out a plan and consider any accommodations a student may need
What is a transition plan?
- Begins at 16
- focus on instruction and support services to help the child move from the school environment and into a job, college, vocational program, or other program designed to promote independent living
What is Inclusion?
All students with disabilities are educated with their non-disabled peers.
What is Collaboration?
a style for direct interaction between at least two coequal parties voluntarily engaged in shared decision making as they work towards a common goal
What is the Continuum of Services?
- Extend from the regular education classroom to residential settings, in order to accommodate the needs of all children with disabilities
- Makes it more likely that each child would be placed appropriately in an environment that is specifically suited to meet his/her needs.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
- Movement in the 60’s and 70’s
- systematic efforts made to move people out of institutions and back into communities.
- resulted in more with disabilities being raised by their families.
- smaller facilities and group homes were more common
What are some examples of professional influences of SPED? (medicine, psychology, social work)
- the field of psychology focused attention on children with special needs
- the widespread use of intelligence tests
- sociologist, social workers, and anthropologists studied the effects of disabilities on families and the way communities respond
What is the roles of parent organization?
- support groups
- provide information regarding services and potential resources
- provide structure for obtaining needed services, including legal issues
What is the definition of families?
According to the US Census Bureau, “2 or more people who are related and live together”
What is the definition of culture?
shared beliefs values, groups, and ethnicity
What are the requirements for SLD?
- a heterogeneous group of students who, despite adequate cognitive functioning and the ability to learn some skills quickly, have great difficulty learning other skills
- student does not achieve commensurate with their age and ability level in one or more specific areas when provided with appropriate learning experiences.
What does a SLD NOT include?
- visual, hearing, or motor disability
- mental retardation
- emotional disturbance
- environmental, cultural, or economic, disadvantage
- lack of appropriate instruction in reading
What are some causes of LD?
- disorder in basic psychological processing
- discrepancy between expected and actual achievement that can be documents through low RTI
- difficulty with academic and learning tasks
What is the prevalence of LD compared to other disabilities?
- approximately 9% of school-age identified as having disabilities
- 47% of this group or 4% of school-age population were identified with specific learning disabilities
- over the last three decades the number of students identified has more than doubled
What are some reading problems?
- dyslexia
- dysnomia
- dysgraphia
What is dyslexia?
Severe difficulty in learning to read, particularly with decoding and spelling
What is dysnomia?
Severe difficulty learning to write, including handwriting
What is dysgraphia?
Severe difficulty in learning mathematical concepts and computations
What is Universal Design?
Seeks to make learning accessible to all students
