medical model - correct answer ✔✔Focuses on the illness or disability and how it presents itself
in the body, professionals are the experts and provide solutions
social model - correct answer ✔✔considers barriers, negative attitudes, and exclusion by
society, views society as responsible for placing a disability on an individual
interface model - correct answer ✔✔incorporates medical diagnosis and environmental factors,
interventions are designed collaborative by individual with disability and professionals
biopsychosocial approach - correct answer ✔✔underlies the WHO ICF, biological,
social/emotional, and environmental factors related to a disability and an individual's
functioning
-Used for early intervention because it focuses on the child and their family, is family-centered,
naturalistic, and strengths-based
EAHCA (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) - correct answer ✔✔This act provides that
all handicapped children be afforded a free, appropriate public education including and IEP,
related services, due process procedures, and education in the least restrictive environment
(LRE) for ages 3 - 21.
IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - correct answer ✔✔Provides a free
appropriate public education for students with disabilities, child find mandate- legal
requirement that states locate all children with disabilities as early as possible, must evaluate
any child with a suspected disability so they can receive special education services if needed,
covers children 3-21
- correct answer ✔✔•IFSP: Individual Family Service Plan
•0-3, family focused, team-based
, •Services provided in natural environment = early intervention
•Part C of IDEA
•Reviewed every 6 months
•IEP: Individual Education Plan
•3-21, educationally focused, team-based
•Services provided in school
•Part B of IDEA
•Reviewed every year
•Team = anyone who is important to or knowledgeable of the child's developmental or
academic needs
IDEA Part C - correct answer ✔✔part of federal law that outlines services for
birth to 3 students with disabilities, early
intervening services
•IFSP
•Parents are decision-makers in this process
•Services are typically free, meet needs of the child AND family, and are governed by state
standards
Part C of IDEA - correct answer ✔✔Part C of IDEA was established by Congress in 1986 in order
to
•(1) "enhance the development of infants and toddlers and minimize potential for
developmental delay";
•(2) "reduce educational costs to society";
•(3) "maximize the potential for independent living in society"; and