NBPTS - Exceptional Needs Specialist
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FAPE - ✔✔Special Education Services that are provided at public expense must meet
standards of that state's educational agency. Must be available to preschool, elementary,
and secondary levels and must follow individual education plans
IDEA - ✔✔Under the individuals with disabilities education act, local educational
agencies are legally obligated to provide all children, not some and not others, but all
children eligible to receive special education and related services with a FAPE.
compensatory education - ✔✔a compensation fund that helps your child catch up on
lost time, hours, and related services for the duration of when your child was denied a
FAPE, the amount of time and services that your child missed is what we commonly
refer to as compensatory education
modification - ✔✔Changing the content, material, or delivery of instruction. Change
"what" is learned.
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,accommodation - ✔✔changes "how" a student learns the material. Typically the
environment and materials.
IEP - ✔✔Individualized Education Plan - Provides individualized special education and
related services to meet a child's unique needs.
These services are provided at no cost to families.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - ✔✔Is a section of the a federal civil rights
law which reads in part, that no "otherwise qualified handicapped individual" shall be
excluded from participation in program or activity receiving federal financial assistance
("college, university or other post-secondary institution, or a public system of higher
education") It is much broader in its definition of "handicap" than is the IDEA and it is a
much more general law in that it doesn't not provide specific direction on how to
address the needs of individuals with disabilities, referring only to the fact that schools
must make "reasonable accommodations." Because of its broader definition students
who do not qualify for special education services under the IDEA may be considered
"handicap" under Section 504.
IEP vs. 504 - ✔✔IEP students are protected by IDEA
504 students are protected by ADA
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, Americans with Disabilities Act - ✔✔Passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned
discrimination against the disabled in employment and mandated easy access to all
public and commerical buildings.
IEE - ✔✔Families can ask the school district to pay for an independent educational
evaluation (IEE) by an outside expert. The district doesn't have to agree.
Families can always pay for an outside evaluation themselves, but the district may not
give it much weight.
IFSP - ✔✔early intervention services and planning for an infant/toddler to three years
old and their family
Annual Goals (IEP) - ✔✔The IEP document lists the academic and functional
(everyday) skills the IEP team thinks a student can achieve by the end of a school year.
These goals are geared toward helping students take part in the general education
curriculum. IEP goals need to be realistic and measurable .
SMART goals - ✔✔Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound
Assistive Technology - ✔✔Any device, equipment, or software that helps students
learn, communicate, and function better in school. AT ranges from simple tools (like
highlighters) to high-tech software (like apps that read text aloud).
BIP - ✔✔A plan designed to proactively teach and reinforce positive behavior.
Typically, the plan uses strategies to prevent and address behavior that gets in the way
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FAPE - ✔✔Special Education Services that are provided at public expense must meet
standards of that state's educational agency. Must be available to preschool, elementary,
and secondary levels and must follow individual education plans
IDEA - ✔✔Under the individuals with disabilities education act, local educational
agencies are legally obligated to provide all children, not some and not others, but all
children eligible to receive special education and related services with a FAPE.
compensatory education - ✔✔a compensation fund that helps your child catch up on
lost time, hours, and related services for the duration of when your child was denied a
FAPE, the amount of time and services that your child missed is what we commonly
refer to as compensatory education
modification - ✔✔Changing the content, material, or delivery of instruction. Change
"what" is learned.
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,accommodation - ✔✔changes "how" a student learns the material. Typically the
environment and materials.
IEP - ✔✔Individualized Education Plan - Provides individualized special education and
related services to meet a child's unique needs.
These services are provided at no cost to families.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - ✔✔Is a section of the a federal civil rights
law which reads in part, that no "otherwise qualified handicapped individual" shall be
excluded from participation in program or activity receiving federal financial assistance
("college, university or other post-secondary institution, or a public system of higher
education") It is much broader in its definition of "handicap" than is the IDEA and it is a
much more general law in that it doesn't not provide specific direction on how to
address the needs of individuals with disabilities, referring only to the fact that schools
must make "reasonable accommodations." Because of its broader definition students
who do not qualify for special education services under the IDEA may be considered
"handicap" under Section 504.
IEP vs. 504 - ✔✔IEP students are protected by IDEA
504 students are protected by ADA
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, Americans with Disabilities Act - ✔✔Passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned
discrimination against the disabled in employment and mandated easy access to all
public and commerical buildings.
IEE - ✔✔Families can ask the school district to pay for an independent educational
evaluation (IEE) by an outside expert. The district doesn't have to agree.
Families can always pay for an outside evaluation themselves, but the district may not
give it much weight.
IFSP - ✔✔early intervention services and planning for an infant/toddler to three years
old and their family
Annual Goals (IEP) - ✔✔The IEP document lists the academic and functional
(everyday) skills the IEP team thinks a student can achieve by the end of a school year.
These goals are geared toward helping students take part in the general education
curriculum. IEP goals need to be realistic and measurable .
SMART goals - ✔✔Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound
Assistive Technology - ✔✔Any device, equipment, or software that helps students
learn, communicate, and function better in school. AT ranges from simple tools (like
highlighters) to high-tech software (like apps that read text aloud).
BIP - ✔✔A plan designed to proactively teach and reinforce positive behavior.
Typically, the plan uses strategies to prevent and address behavior that gets in the way
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