IDEA requires that all children suspected of having a disability receive a nondiscriminatory evaluation to determine whether the child has a disability and identify the educational needs of the child.

his is patterened after the rehabitiation act that extended civil rights protection of people with disabilities to private sector employment, public services and accommodation, transportation, and telecommunications

This is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.

The original federal special education law.

____ is the centerpiece of the special education process.

An efficient indicator of key reading skills for early identification of children at risk for reading difficulties and to assess the effects of interventions designed to prevent such failure.

All children with disabilities, regardless of the type or severity of their disability

This is when both teachers present different content at the same time to two equal groups of students and then switch groups and repeat the lesson

This court case challenged the practice of segregating students according to race

This is the simplest type of home–school written message. It is a brief note informing parents of something positive their child has accomplished at school.

An observable response made to an instructional antecedent, occurs when a student emits a detectable response to ongoing instruction.

This is one of several assessment tools included in the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), comes in teacher report, parent report, and self-report forms

The primary source for diagnosis codes and definitions for students with disabilities.

Parents of five students with severe disabilities claimed that their children tended to regress during the usual breaks in the school year and called on the schools to provide a period of instruction longer than 180 days

Refers to the extent to which students use what they have learned across settings and over time.

Assesses a student’s strengths in 52 items across five areas of functioning: interpersonal strengths; family involvement; intrapersonal strengths; school functioning; and affective strengths

An observer records a temporally sequenced account of each occurrence of the problem behavior(s) in context of the antecedent conditions and events and consequences for those behaviors as those events unfold in the student’s natural environment.

This is a criterion for identifying a student as unresponsive in a response to intervention (RTI) approach when the student (a) fails to make adequate growth in the presence of instruction and (b) completes Tier 2 intervention(s) below the benchmark criteria

Law that provides federal support for demonstration programs at a national research center on the gifted and talented, competitive grants to institutions of higher education and state and local school districts to develop and expand models serving students who are underrepresented in gifted and talented programs, and competitive grants for state agencies and school districts to enhance gifted education curricula and programs?

Students who exhibit too little social interaction with others are said to exhibit ..

Conceptualized and implemented from a prevention perspective, with a continuum of instructional interventions and behavioral supports that become more targeted and intensive as indicated by students’ needs. Most implementations entail three tiers of supports

Three-step multiple gating screening process for progressively narrowing down the number of children suspected of having serious behavior problems

The same questions and tasks are always presented in a prescribed way, and the same scoring procedures are used each time the test is administered

This case challenged a state law that denied public school education to children considered “unable to profit from public school attendance”

Causes that are biological factors in emotional and behavioral disorders