Special Needs Appropriate Practices
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ADA means - ✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act.
Federal law that prohibits discriminiation based upon mental or physical
disability.
Disability means - ✔✔The result of any physical or mental condition that affects
or prevents one's ability to develop, achieve, and/or function in an educational
setting at a normal rate.
IDEA means - ✔✔Individuals with disabilities education act.
Federal law that requires all states to provide a free appropriate education to
eligible children and youth with disabilities.
Inclusion means - ✔✔The philosophy that all children have the right to be
included with their peers in all age appropriate activities throughout life;
accommodating all students in the natural environments they would otherwise
be in if not a child with special needs.
Mainsteaming - ✔✔Children with special needs - based in special education
class settings - earn the right to join peers in typical education classes by
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,demonstrating ability to "keep up" with workload. Usually limited to the one or
two subject areas at which the child excels. This term is no longer
used.
Multidisciplinary - ✔✔A team approach involving specialists from more than
one discipline, such as a team made up of a physical therapist, a speech and
language pathologist, a child development specialist, an occupational therapist,
or other specialists as needed.
Natural Environment - ✔✔(Caring for a child with special needs in) home and
community settings in which children without disabilities participate; the day-
to-day settings, routines and activities that promote learning for all children.
Also, incorporating therapeutic activities into daily activities to avoid disturbing
the normal daily routine of the child.
Related services - ✔✔Transportation and development, corrective and other
support services that are required by a child with special needs in order for
them to benefit from education. Examples include speech/language pathology
and audiology, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy,
recreation, counseling services, interpreters for those with hearing
impairments, medical services for diagnostic and evaluation purposes and
assistive technology devices and services.
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, Student with disability - ✔✔Children whose development or health is viewed
by parents and professionals as atypical. This includes children with mental,
physical, sensory, emotional/ behavioral, medical and other special needs.
Support Services - ✔✔Agencies and organizations that offer various types
of educational and ancillary resources for children with special needs and their
families. Agencies such as Head Start, Agency for Persons with Disabilities,
Subsidized Child Care, Child Care Resource and Referral Network and Florida
Directory of Early Childhood Services Central Directory Network, and Children's
Forum offering a variety of related services
Transdisciplinary - ✔✔A model that uses teaching, learning, and sharing of
information across disciplinary boundaries enabling one team member, along
with the family, to carry out intervention strategies for a child with special
needs.
People First Language give appropriate term from this inappropriate term:
"Handicapped People" - ✔✔Person with a disabiity or special needs
People First Language give appropriate term from this inappropriate term:
"Crippled" - ✔✔Person with a physical disability
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ADA means - ✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act.
Federal law that prohibits discriminiation based upon mental or physical
disability.
Disability means - ✔✔The result of any physical or mental condition that affects
or prevents one's ability to develop, achieve, and/or function in an educational
setting at a normal rate.
IDEA means - ✔✔Individuals with disabilities education act.
Federal law that requires all states to provide a free appropriate education to
eligible children and youth with disabilities.
Inclusion means - ✔✔The philosophy that all children have the right to be
included with their peers in all age appropriate activities throughout life;
accommodating all students in the natural environments they would otherwise
be in if not a child with special needs.
Mainsteaming - ✔✔Children with special needs - based in special education
class settings - earn the right to join peers in typical education classes by
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,demonstrating ability to "keep up" with workload. Usually limited to the one or
two subject areas at which the child excels. This term is no longer
used.
Multidisciplinary - ✔✔A team approach involving specialists from more than
one discipline, such as a team made up of a physical therapist, a speech and
language pathologist, a child development specialist, an occupational therapist,
or other specialists as needed.
Natural Environment - ✔✔(Caring for a child with special needs in) home and
community settings in which children without disabilities participate; the day-
to-day settings, routines and activities that promote learning for all children.
Also, incorporating therapeutic activities into daily activities to avoid disturbing
the normal daily routine of the child.
Related services - ✔✔Transportation and development, corrective and other
support services that are required by a child with special needs in order for
them to benefit from education. Examples include speech/language pathology
and audiology, psychological services, physical and occupational therapy,
recreation, counseling services, interpreters for those with hearing
impairments, medical services for diagnostic and evaluation purposes and
assistive technology devices and services.
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, Student with disability - ✔✔Children whose development or health is viewed
by parents and professionals as atypical. This includes children with mental,
physical, sensory, emotional/ behavioral, medical and other special needs.
Support Services - ✔✔Agencies and organizations that offer various types
of educational and ancillary resources for children with special needs and their
families. Agencies such as Head Start, Agency for Persons with Disabilities,
Subsidized Child Care, Child Care Resource and Referral Network and Florida
Directory of Early Childhood Services Central Directory Network, and Children's
Forum offering a variety of related services
Transdisciplinary - ✔✔A model that uses teaching, learning, and sharing of
information across disciplinary boundaries enabling one team member, along
with the family, to carry out intervention strategies for a child with special
needs.
People First Language give appropriate term from this inappropriate term:
"Handicapped People" - ✔✔Person with a disabiity or special needs
People First Language give appropriate term from this inappropriate term:
"Crippled" - ✔✔Person with a physical disability
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