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Pre-referral Intervention

intervention strategy that occurs prior to initiation of referral for special education services

dylexia

Difficulty in reading and often poor listening is the root communicative disorders.

Inclusion

Educating a child with special education needs full-time in the regular classroom.

multidisciplinary team

a cooperative group that includes professionals with different qualifications, skills, and areas of expertise

handicapped

a disadvantage imposed on an individual

FAPE (Free Appropriate Public Education)

ensures that students with disabilities receive necessary education and services without cost to the family

Dysgraphia

A learning disability that involves difficulty in handwriting.

accommodation

E.g. More home for the same test

heritability studies

A method for assessing the degree to which a specific condition is inherited; a comparison of the prevalence of a characteristic in fraternal versus identical twins.

disability

An inability to do something, the lack of a specific capacity(most people can do, consider age and ability)

cooperative learning

Approach to instruction in which students work with a small group of peers to achieve a common goal and help one another learn.

Co-teaching

Both the Special Education Teacher and the General Education teacher actively teach in the general education class

modification

Changing the content, material, or delivery of instruction

Jean Marc Gaspard Itard

Father of Special Education

Philip Pinel

Founded humane movement to treat mentally ill, first to classify disorders as medical illnesses (medical model)

IEP

Individualized Education Program

Adaptation

More help on instruction (between accommodation & modification)

screening instruments

Predicts which students may have difficulty on assessment

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Provides a free appropriate public education for students with disabilities

Collaborative consultation

Special education teacher gives advice and suggests changed to the general ed teacher

RTI (Response to Intervention)

Student's change

Resource

Students go to special ed teacher certain times a day for help

Non-discriminatory evaluation

The evaluation addresses all areas of suspected disability and is as free of language and cultural bias as possible.

Prevalence

The percentage of a population or number of individuals having a particular exceptionality

self-contained

a separate classroom for children with disabilities, usually found in a public school

LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)

a setting that is as similar as possible to that of non-disabled children

partial participation

a teaching approach that acknowledges that even though an individual with severe disabilities may not be able to independently perform all the steps of a given task or activity, she can often be taught to do selected components or an adapted version of the task

Class Wide Peer Tutoring (CWPT)

an instructional procedure in which all students in the class are involved in tutoring and being tutored by classmates on specific skills as directed by their teacher

chromosomal disorders

breakage, loss, or translocation of genetic material during meiosis

Samuel Gridley Howe

founder of the first American school for the blind students

Curriculum Based Measurement

frequent measurement comparing a student's actual progress with an expected rate of progress

anoxia

lack of oxygen

Deinstitutionalization

moving people with psychological or developmental disabilities from highly structured institutions to home- or community-based settings

Education for All Handicapped Children Act

required public schools to provide education for children with physical or mental disabilities

Special Education

specially designed instruction to meet the unusual needs of an exceptional student and that requires special materials, teaching techniques, equipment and/or facilities

exceptional learners

students that require special educational modifications and, perhaps, other services that align with their abilities and potential

Normalization

the belief that people with disabilities should be physically and socially integrated into the mainstream of society regardless of the degree or type of disability

peer-mediated instruction

the deliberate use of a student's classroom peer(s) to assist in teaching an academic or social skill

Progress Monitoring

the frequent and systematic assessment of a pupil's academic progress

inability

the state of being unable to do something

Dyscalculia

unusual difficulty with math, probably originating from a distinct part of the brain

IEP (Individualized Education Plan)

written statement that is specifically tailored for the disabled student

Due Process

知情权（Before evaluate）