category: dictionary
- Special Education Dictionary
A special education dictionary will help
everyone involved with these special people understand what the
professionals trying to say and provide a...
- ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act
This act was intended to make it illegal to keep disabled individuals from having reasonable access to recreation, employment, education, and any ot...
- AMAO - Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives
In the Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAO) program each state creates guidelines to abide by this act as they interpret it. In theory th...
- APD - Auditory Processing Disorder in Children
Children who have auditory processing disorder (APD) are unable to process verbal information the same way other children can, due to the ears and b...
- CST - Child Study Team
What is a Child Study Team?
Child Study Team (CST) is a multidisciplinary group of professionals typically employed by the board of education to pr...
- EHA - Education for All Handicapped Children Act
This ensures that
handicapped children in public schools will get one free meal each
school day and and will have just access to an education. The...
- FAPE - Free Appropriate Public Education
This law falls under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and also the Rehabilitation Act. A Free Appropriate Public Education mea...
- IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Services provided
under idea include early intervention to children birth to five years
old, special education services and curriculum modificatio...
- IDEIA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) contains four parts:
Part A
outlines IDEIA's purpose and defines term...
- IEP - Individual Education Plan
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), established in 1990, states that an IEP must be established for any child that qualifies for...
- IHCP - Individualized Health Care Plan
These children have or are at risk of having developmental, emotional, behavioral or chronic physical conditions and require extensive health and ...
- LD - Learning Disabled
It is often a surprise to some people
at how large a population the learning disabled community is and how
varied it is as well.
The cause of m...
- LDT-C - Learning Disabilities Consultants
Out of every seven people in the population of the U.S.A., at least one
is affected by learning disabilities. This is according to Camille
Betram,...
- LRE - Least Restrictive Environment
Some disabilities prevent the child from being fully mainstreamed with typical peers. These are the children for whom Individualized Education Teams...
- ODD - Oppositional Defiant Disorder
This is a psychiatric behavior disorder that can disrupt the learning ability of a person because it has the tendencies of making a person aggressive ...
- How to Deal with Children with Defiant Disorders Violent and Disruptive Behavior
They will not be taught using the normal methods employed with other children. Children who are extremely violent need to undergo stress management, w...
- OHI - Other Health Impairments
Whether a condition falls under OHI depends on the limitations the condition places on the student in three different areas: alertness, strength a...
- PWN - Prior Written Notice
This responsibility holds true whether the school board is referring the child for testing and evaluation or whether they’re planning to place t...
- RTI - Response to Intervention
Its main objective is to identify the weakness in a child and develop strategies to enable the child learn effectively, regardless of how long it ta...
