SPED 161 Flashcards
(29 cards)
What is the alteration of environment, curriculum format, or equipment that allows an individual with disability to complete a task?
Accommodations
A change in what is being taught to or expected from students?
Modifications
What rights do parents or guardians have under Section 504?
- Request a hearing
- File a grievance complaint
- Receive Notice
- Examine (their child’s educational records)
- Periodically review their child’s 504 plan
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act outlines how students with disabilities can….?
Access learning by removing barriers through accommodations
A civil rights law that does not tolerate discrimination against individuals with disabilities & safeguards these individuals so they have equal access to education with accommodations and modifications if necessary?
504
Characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior. Diagnosed before 18?
Intellectual Disability
Learning Disability in reading?
Dyslexia
Writing disability - (causes a person’s writing to be distorted or incorrect)
Dysgraphia
Disorder that affects a person’s ability to do math?
Dyscalculia
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write or spell?
Specific Learning Disability
Requires educators to meet the individual needs of all students, regardless of disability?
504
System of rules about sounds and sound combinations for a language?
Phonology
The smallest unit of sound that combines with other sounds to make a word.
Phoneme
The smallest units of language that convey meaning?
Morphemes
Commonly known as grammar, governs how morphemes and words are correctly combined?
Syntax
Language content; objects, actions and relations between objects.
Semantics
Commonly known as the speaker’s intent?
Pragmatics
A test in which the individual’s performance is measured against mastery of curriculum criteria?
Criterion-Referenced Test
A test of an individual’s performance of objective of a curriculum; this performance is measured in terms of what objectives are mastered.
Curriculum-Based Assessment
A test in which the individual’s performance is compared to the group that was used to calculate the performance standards in this standardized test.
Norm-Referenced Test
Breaking an academic or behavioral task into a sequence of steps?
Task Analysis
The I.D.E.A. is the _______ special education law covering children ages birth-21.
Federal
A tool used typically at the beginning that allows teachers to evaluate student knowledge & skills?
Pre-Assessment/Diagnostic Test
Improves the ability to read words & comprehend what is read; this instruction helps children learn to read & write?
Phonemic Awareness
