Benefits for Exceptional Children Flashcards
Audiology
is primarily provided to support the needs of children with hearing loss and includes (but is not limited to) key services such as determining the range, nature, and degree of a child’s hearing loss.
Counseling Services
means services provided by qualified social workers, psychologists, guidance counselors, or other qualified personnel. According to the American School Counselor Association, counseling services are intended to help all children in the areas of academic achievement, personal, social and career development. This can include helping children with personal and social concerns such as developing self-knowledge, making effective decisions, learning healthy choices, and improving responsibility.
Early Identification and Assessment
means the implementation of a formal plan for identifying a disability as early as possible in a child’s life. This is focused on system-level issues such as setting up screening programs for specific disabilities (e.g., autism, speech-language impairment, visual and hearing impairments) and establishing mechanisms within the educational system by which children at risk of learning problems are quickly identified and their learning issues addressed.
Interpreting Services
indicates a range of possible services (e.g., oral transliteration, cued language), all of which refer to specific communication systems used within the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
Medical Services
means services provided by a licensed physician to determine a child’s medically related disability that results in the child’s need for special education and related services.
Occupational Therapy (OT)
means services provided by a qualified occupational therapist. It improves, develops, or restores functions impaired or lost through illness, injury, or deprivation. This can improve the ability to perform tasks for independent functioning if functions are impaired or lost, and prevent, through early intervention.
Orientation and Mobility Services
means services provided to blind or visually impaired children by qualified personnel to enable those students to attain systematic orientation and safe movement within their environments in school, home, and community.
Parental counseling and training
entails assisting parents in understanding their child’s special needs and providing them with information about child development.
Physical therapy services
are provided by a qualified physical therapist.” These services generally address a child’s posture, muscle strength, mobility, and organization of movement in educational environments. It may be provided to prevent the onset or progression of impairment, functional limitation, disability, or changes in physical function or health resulting from injury, disease, or other causes.
Psychological services
are delivered as a related service when necessary to help eligible children with disabilities benefit from their special education. These include administering psychological and educational tests and other assessment procedures; interpreting assessment results; and obtaining, integrating, and interpreting information about child behavior and conditions relating to learning.
Recreation
generally is intended to help children with disabilities learn how to use their leisure and recreation time constructively. Through these services, children can learn appropriate and functional recreation and leisure skills. Recreational activities may be provided during the school day or in after-school programs in a school or a community environment.
Rehabilitative Counseling Services
means services provided by qualified personnel in individual or group sessions that focus specifically on career development, employment preparation, achieving independence, and integration into the workplace and community of a student with a disability.
School Health Services and School Nurse Services
means health services that are designed to enable a child with a disability to receive FAPE as described in the child’s IEP. School nurse services are services provided by a qualified school nurse. School health services are services that may be provided by either a qualified school nurse or other qualified person.
Social Work Services
Issues or problems at home or in the community can adversely affect a child’s performance at school, as can a child’s attitude or behavior in school. Social work services in schools may become necessary in order to help a child benefit from his or her educational program.
Speech-Language Pathology Services
are provided by speech-language professionals and speech-language assistants, in accordance with state regulations, to address the needs of children and youth with disabilities affecting either speech or language.
