Sped Definitions

1. Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD)-Texas term, it won't be in your book - a meeting that takes place between a special ed. student and their parents, and school officials to review evaluations and assessments to determine what actions, if any, should be taken to help improve the students educational needs.

2. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)- a law that mandates the accommodations of those with disabilities. Such as ramp or automatic doors for wheelchair-bound people. It also states that these people can not be discriminated against.

3. Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) - is a determined plan of action to improve a students behavioral issues. This may include changing the students environment to keep them from becoming frustrated and acting out.

4. Child Find - is a process to help identify young children that are in need of a early intervention program.

5. Continuum of Alterative Placements- is a separate place away from the regular ed. Classroom where a student can get an education in the least restrictive place as possible. These places include: regular classes, special classes, special schools, instruction in hospitals

and institutions, and instruction in the home

6. Disability vs. Handicap - a disability is when a set of actions, movements or mental interpretations are not possible. A handicap is when a person is not able to finish a task that the wish they could. The disability hinders the person and the handicap is the action that he is trying, but unable, to complete.

7. Exceptional Learners - those that require special education to reach their full potential

8. Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) - set forth by IDEA- simply states that all children with disabilities are given the right to a free and appropriate public education.

9. Functional Behavioral Assessment - understanding why a child behaves the way they do, and developing strategies to stop the disruptive behavior.

10. Inclusion- including the special ed. students in the regular ed. classroom. Full inclusion is when the students have all of their core classes in the regular ed. classroom. Partial inclusion is when only some of the core classes are attended in the regular ed. classroom and the rest are in a separate classroom with a special ed. teacher.

11. Individual Education Plan (IEP)-What are the elements that must be included? Who develops this? A plan developed by the schools special ed team that identifies a students specific goals and the methods used to obtain those goals.

12. Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP)-what ages are these plans used for?

13. Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA)-give the history of the IDEA legislation (start with Education of all Handicapped Children