Any item, equipment, or product used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities.
Does Assistive Technology include surgically implanted medical devices or replacement of such a device (such as cochlear implants).
No
What is a Charter School?
A public school, operating under State statute, which exempts it from certain State or local rules that would inhibit flexible operation and management and which has a performance contract with the public chartering agency that describes how student performance will be measured.
Define Child with a Disability
A child evaluated as having mental retardation, hearing impairment (including deafness), speech or language impairment, visual impairment (including blindness), serious emotional disturbance, orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, other health impairment, specific learning disability, deaf-blindness, multiple disabilities, or developmental delay, and who, due to the disability, needs special education.
Age range of children who can be categorized as being Developmentally Delayed?
3 through 9, including ages 3 through 5
What are the areas of developmental delays?
Physical, cognitive, communication, social or emotional, or adaptive.
Define Autism
Developmental disability significantly impacting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction.
Define Deaf-blindness
concomitant hearing and visual impairments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Define Deafness
hearing impairment that is so severe as to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Define Emotional Disturbance
exhibiting 1 or more of the following over a long period of time and to a marked degree--inability to learn not explained by intellectural, sensory, or health factors; inability to maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships; inappropriate behaviors; pervasive unhappiness or depression; or physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
Define Hearing impairment
impairment in hearing that affects educational performance, but not included under definition of 'deafness'
Mental Retardation
significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, with deficits in adaptive behavior
Define Multiple Disabilities
co-occurring impairments, causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf-blindness
Define Orthopedic Impairment
severe orthopedic impairment, including impairments caused by congenital anomaly, disease, and other causes.
Define Other Health Impairment
limited strength vitality, or alertness resulting in limited alertness in the educational environment attributable to chronic or acute health problems, such as asthma, ADD/ADHD, diabetes, epilepsy, heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, Tourette syndrome, and sickle cell anemia
Define Specific Learning Disability
disorder in 1 or more psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language, that may be manifest as an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do math; does not include learning problems primarily resulting from visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, mental retardation, emotional disturbance, or environmental, cultural, or economic factors.
Define Speech or language impairment
communication disorders, or language or voice impairments
Define Traumatic Brain Injury
acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both.
Define Visual Impairment
vision impairment including partial sight and blindness
If a parent revokes consent after child began receiving sped services, how must the parent revoke consent?
In writing
If parent revokes consent in writing for continued services after the district has initiated sped services, what must the district provide to the parent?
prior written notice a reasonable time before it stops providing sped services to the student
Can the district use parent refusal to consent to 1 service to deny student any other services?
no
What can district do without consent?
1-review existing data as part of student's eval/reeval
2-give student a test that can be given to any student, unless this test requires consent from all parents
When trying to obtain consent, do contact attempts need to be documented?
yes
What are ways to contact parent, in order to get consent?
1-phone call
2-written correspondence
3-visits to parent's home or work
If new testing is to be conducted as part of reeval, parent consent is needed unless what?
1-district took reasonable steps to obtain consent
AND
2-parent did not respond
Does district need consent if new testing is to be conducted as part of reeval?
yes
If sped services have been discontinued, does the student need to start the regular process for referral for initial sped services again, if in the future, an eval for sped services is needed again
yes
If sped services are discontinued by the district because parent revoked consent for continued services after the district initiated sped services, what must be included on the prior written notice?
1-date that the district will stop providing services
AND
2-statement that district is not in violation of the requirement to make FAPE available to student
AND
3-statement that district is not required to have IEP meeting or developing IEP for further provision of sped services.
Students remain eligible for sped services for how long?
1-until student is reeval'd and found to no longer qualify for services
2-student graduates with a high school diploma
3-parent provided written revocation of consent for continued provision of sped services
Is a foster child who has a foster parent considered a Ward of the State?
no
Define Ward of the State
1-foster child not placed with a foster parent
2-is in custody of the Dept of Social and Health Services.
When does a district NOT need consent from parent for an initial eval?
1-despite reasonable efforts, the district can't find parent
2-parent's rights as a parent have been legally terminated
3-a 3rd party individual has been assigned to make educational decisions and this person has provided consent for an initial eval.
4-student is a Ward of the State and is not living with the parent.
Does the district need consent before providing services for the first time?
yes
Is a Prior Written Notice needed to conduct an initial eval to determine eligibility for sped?
yes
Does the district need to amend a student's educational records to remove any reference to the student's receipt of SPED services, if a parent revokes consent?
no
If a parent revokes consent after child began receiving sped services, must it be in writing?
yes
When can consent be revoked?
anytime
What 3 documents can parents receive via email?
1-prior written notice
2-procedural safeguards notice
3-due process hearing notices
Prior Written Notices must be provided in parent's native language. T or F?
true
What 7 things must be included in a prior written notice?
1-what the district is proposing or refusing to do
2-explanation of why district is proposing or refusing to take action
3-description of other options considered by IEP team and why those options were rejected
4-description of each eval procedure/assessment or report/info used as a basis for the action
5-description of any other factors relevant to the action
6-statement that parents are protected by safeguards
7-sources to contact to get help understanding safeguards
When is district required to send a written notice?
After a decision has been made, but before implementing the decisioin
Define Prior Written Notice
a written notice about important decisions that affects a child's sped program
Can district's make their own Procedural Safeguards Notice to give to parents?
yes
When is a copy of the Procedural Safeguards Notice given to parents?
1-once a year
2-upon initial referral or parent's request for eval
3-upon a district's receipt of a parent's citizen complaint
4-upon a district's receipt of the parent's due process hearing request
5-when there's a change of placement
6-upon a parent's request
IDEA requires schools to provide parents with a notice containing rights and regulations.
T or F
true
Define IDEA
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
If parents revoke consent, is revocation retroactive?
no
What are the core academic subjects
English
reading and language arts
math
science
foreign languages
civics and government
economics
arts
history
geography
Define FAPE
Free Appropriate Public Education
special education provided at public expense and without charge
2-meet state educational agency standards
3-include appropriate preschool, elementary, or secondary school education
4-are provided through an IEP
Define IEP
individualized education program
All sped teachers mush have State sped certification or have passed State licensing exam, and have license to teach special education.
T or F?
true
What is the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?
Federal law that provides funding for states to ensure educational enrollment for homeless children (Children who don't have a regular residence (such as: sharing others' housing, living in motels/campgrounds, living in emergency or transitional shelters, living in cars, or awaiting foster care placement)).
Define IFSP
Individualized Family Service Plan (a written plan for infants and toddlers, under age of 3, with disabilities)
Define Related Services
services necessary for a student to benefit from special education services.
Define SDI
Specially Designed Instruction (adapting content, or delivery of instruction to meet the child's needs resulting from the disability)
Define SAS
Supplementary Aids and Services
aids, services, and other supports to help children with disabilities in regular education classes
Define Transition Services
services to help transition to postsecondary, vocational, integrated employment, independent living or community participation
FAPE must be provided to what age range?
3 through 21
An IEP or IFSP must be developed and implemented by the child's 3rd birthday
T or F
