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A child who differs from the norm to the extent that special education
services are required for the child to develop to maximum capacity.
Ans✓✓✓Child with Exceptionalities
The attitudes, values, customs, and language that form an identifiable
pattern or heritage. Ans✓✓✓Culture
A view of exceptionality that examines the individual in complex
interaction with environmental forces and believes that exceptionalities
should be remediated by modifying elements in the environment to
allow more constructive interactions between the individual and the
environment. Ans✓✓✓Ecological Model
Empowering families to take a lead role with professionals in
determining what is best for their child. Ans✓✓✓Family-Centered
Model
The disabilities that are most prevalent in the US, composing at least 1%
of the school population. Ans✓✓✓High-Incidence Disabilities
A program written for every student receiving special education; it
describes the child's current performance and goals for the school year,
the particular special education services to be delivered, and the
procedures by which outcomes are to be evaluated.
Ans✓✓✓Individualized Education Program (IEP)
,A model that describes learning as a series of components that involve
sensory stimulation/input, processing/thinking, and output, or the
sharing of what has been learned. Ans✓✓✓Information Processing
Model (IPM)
A substantial difference among people along key dimensions of
development. Ans✓✓✓Interinvidual Differences
A major variation in the abilities or development of a single child.
Ans✓✓✓Intraindividual Differences
The disabilities that comprise less than 1% of the school population in
the US. Ans✓✓✓Low-Incidence Disabilities
A view of exceptionality that implies a physical condition or disease
within a patient. Ans✓✓✓Medical Model
A multilevel approach to helping children face difficulties in school.
Proposes a range of interventions from general classroom to special
education. Ans✓✓✓Response to Intervention (RtI)
Federal legislation passed in 2009 to stimulate economic recovery,
including large one-time grants for early intervention services.
Ans✓✓✓American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
, Passed in 1990, this civil rights legislation prohibits discrimination
based on disability. Ans✓✓✓Americans with Disabilities Act
Tools that enhance the functioning of persons with disabilities.
Ans✓✓✓Assistive Technology (AT)
Measuring a child's ability by means of an in-class assignment.
Ans✓✓✓Authentic Assessment
Similar to the IEP, in which a team of professionals, in collaboration
with the family and student, lay out a plan to counteract unacceptable
behavior and develop positive behaviors for a student who has been
excluded for disciplinary reasons. Ans✓✓✓Behavior Intervention Plan
(BIP)
A legal case in which the results of the suit apply to an entire class of
people, not just the immediate persons involved in the case.
Ans✓✓✓Class Action Suits
These curriculum standards were developed at the request of the
National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School
Officers to provide a single set of standards for children throughout the
US in reading/language arts/English and mathematics in K-12.
Ans✓✓✓Common Core State Standards (CCSS)