Test 2.2 Flashcards
Explain the importance of meeting deadlines.
Missing deadlines is not professional behavior and can lead to bad habits and a bad reputation at work. It can affect evaluations and ultimately a person’s ability to keep their job. However, being able to meet deadlines as a school psychologist is important not only for the school psychologist’s reputation at work, but also for the school they are working for and the students they are helping. Missing a deadline can have a domino effect. For example, if a school psychologist was supposed to conduct a survey on bullying behaviors at their school, but misses the deadline, it will delay the implementation of anti-bullying programs, which could lead to students getting hurt when it could have been avoided had the survey been conducted on time. Being able to meet deadlines will also improve morale and keep your clients happy. Also, when a plan is documented during an ARD meeting, it becomes legally binding. There are certain time periods that assessments, evaluations, and other school psychologists duties have to be completed, and it is important that they be able to keep up with these deadlines.
Give an example of deadlines a school psych has.
when a disability is suspected a referral is made, and a parent signs a consent to evaluate form, a timeline begins which generally is about 60 days (differing in each state). These reports are required to be written before the IEP/ARP meeting and a copy is required to be given to parents in advance. The IEP development time period consists of 30 calendar days, with implementation ASAP or within 10 school days. The IEP is reviewed annually.
What are the 13 disability categories?
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- Autism
- deaf-blindness
- deafness
- emotional disturbance
- hearing impairment
- mental retardation
- multiple disabilities
- orthopedic impairment
- other health impairment
- specific learning disability
- speech or language impairment
- traumatic brain injury
- visual impairment including blindness
What is autism?
a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects the child’s educational performance. Other characteristics often associated with autism are engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. Autism does not apply if a child’s educational performance is adversely affected primarily because the child has an emotional disturbance.
What is deaf-blindness?
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.
What is deafness?
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.
What is emotional disturbance?
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:
An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances.
A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems
Emotional disturbance includes schizophrenia. The term does not apply to children who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have an ED.
What is hearing impairment?
an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance but that is not included under the definition of deafness in this section.
What is mental retardation?
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.
What is multiple disabilities?
concomitant impairments (such as mental retardation-blindness, mental retardation-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. Does not include deaf-blindness.
what is orthopedic impairment?
a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects the child’s educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (cerebral palsy, amputations, or fractures or burns that cause contractures).
What is other health impairment
having limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that–
Is due to chronic change or acute health problems such as asthma, ADHD, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, Tourette syndrome; and
Adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is specific learning disability?
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 an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. SLD does not include learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
What is speech or language impairment?
a communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is traumatic brain injury?
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 the child’s educational performance. TBI applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgement; problem-solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.TBI does not apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative, or to brain injuries induced by birth trauma.
