Special Education Reviewer - Modules 1 & 2

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the Special Education reviewer covering fundamental terminology, models of disability, and historical foundations.

Special Education

A program offered to a child with special needs through individualized instruction.

Curriculum

The actual subject taught.

Equity

Providing support tailored to specific needs.

Equality

Giving the same source/resource despite individual backgrounds.

Accomodation

Allows students to learn without changing the curriculum (students adjust).

Modification

Alters what is taught to the student by changing the curriculum complexity (curriculum adjusts).

Main Goal of SPED

Empower students with disabilities to be independent.

AAC

Attentative Alternative Communication.

Multi Sensory Materials

Materials that engage more than one sense at a time to help identify and remember longer.

IEP

Individualized Education Program; a legal document tailored for children with special needs.

Early Intervention

Activities designed to provide assistance to a person with a disability.

Selective Placement

Placement that depends on the severity of the child's disability.

Learning Continuum

Range of learning opportunities and support that helps students move from their current level of knowledge to higher levels of learning.

LRE

Least Restrictive Environment; a guiding legal principle where students with and without disabilities learn together.

MRE

Most Restrictive Environment; setting where students receive more intensive services outside the regular classroom because their needs cannot be met in the LRE.

Mainstreaming

An option where students with disabilities learn in a regular classroom if they meet academic and behavioral expectations; student is part-time in regular classes and receives special education for the rest.

Inclusion

A philosophy following LRE where students with or without disabilities learn together in a regular classroom with needed support; student is placed full-time or nearly full-time in general classroom.

Individualized Planned

A dimension of special education designed for one person's needs rather than for everyone.

Specialized

A dimension of special education that uses different senses to make the student process content (includes accommodation and modification).

Intensive

A dimension of special education requiring instructions to have higher precision.

Goal Oriented

A dimension of special education focused on achieving specific learning based on student's needs.

Researched Based

A dimension of special education using strategies supported by reliable studies and evidence.

Guided by Student's Performance

A dimension of special education where teaching methods are adjusted according to student needs.

Structured Curriculum

A well-organized learning plan.

Medical Model of Disability

Views disability as a problem or impairment with the subject that needs to be treated.

Biopsychosocial Disability

Understanding disability by looking at three factors: biological, psychological, and social.

Social Model

Model of disability asserting that society creates barriers.

Microsystem

The immediate environment in Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System Theory.

Mesosystem

Refers to the connection between two or more microsystems in Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System Theory.

Age of Inclusion (1990-Present)

Historical period marked by the enactment of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1990.