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Adequate Yearly Progress
(AYP)
A provision in the no child left behind act that requires each state to implement a statewide accountability system that documents how students are making academic progress, as defined by academic standards, each school year.
Clinical Fellowship
A program in which, during the first year of professional; employment, the novice SLP receives mentoring by a professional who hold a CCP
Cognitive- Development Model
A service delivery approach in which the SLP first determines the stage of cognitive development then structures the environment and linguistic input to enhance the child's learning processes within that developmental age
Disaggregated results
When a school district reports student's scores on statewide assessments for the purposes of documenting AYP, the scores for all groups must be reported separately (which makes it disaggregated results)
Highest qualified provider
ASHA says this is a professional who holds an ASHA certificate of clinical competence
Inclusive practice
The educational mandate of bringing special education and support services to the student requiring them in the least restrictive environment through a collaborative team effort
Individualized Education Program
(IEP)
The process and product that ensures a student with a disability will receive as free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment. Must be created by a team including parent and is updated yearly
Individualized Family Service Plan
(IFSP)
The process and product that ensures a child with a disability, between the ages of birth and three's family receives the services they need to achieve outcomes implemented in a natural environment. Updated every six months
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act
(IDEA)
The federal law ensures the right of all children with a disability receive a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment and also ensures the due process rights of parents or legal guardians
Knowledge and Skills Acquisition
(KASA)
A document created by ASHA that delineates all of the academic and clinical standards set forth by ASHA that describe what an SLP should know and be able to do on completion of masters degree
Least Restrictive Environment
(LRE)
The educational mandate, that to the maximum extent possible, that a student with a disability should be educated with his or her non-disabled peers
Mainstreaming
A program format that was the precursor to inclusive practices; the student with disabilities was pulled out of the classroom for special education and related services. he or she participated in the gen-ed classroom for only a small portion of the day in order to build social skills.
Para-educator
A person who has acquired a 2-year technical degree that prepares him or her to function as an assistant, with a limited scope of practice, under the supervision of a fully certified SLP
Stutter
A disruption in the fluency, timing, or patterning of speech and the speakers emotional reaction before, during or after the event
Caseload
The number of students who receive services from an SLP through a variety of delivery methods
Case Manager
The professional who manages all aspects of the individualized education program on behalf of a student, conducts all relevant communications, maintains required legal documentation and facilitates meetings
Compensation Language
Language written into the master contract between a school district and it's employees that allows for payment of additional monies when the workload exceeds the terms agreed on within the master contract with respect to wages, hours, and working conditions
Complimentary Teaching
A team-teaching delivery service model in which both partners teach in the classroom from their own area of expertise
Consultation / Consultative intervention
A team-teaching delivery service model in which the SLP or special educator offers ideas to the general educator or parent, tailored specifically to an individual student's needs in order to maximize a student's learning or communication competence
Diagnostician
A professional whose primary purpose is to conduct and/or collect assessment data for the purposes of identifying and distinguishing the difference between an impairment, delay, disorder, or difference
Free Appropriate Public Education
(FAPE)
The mandate in the IDEA Act in 2004 which states that public school districts must offer every child with a disability special education and related services at no additional cost to the parents or legal guardians
Indirect Services
All services provided for and on behalf of the student with a disability that are necessary to free and appropriate education
National Outcomes Measurement System
(NOMS)
A national outcomes database created by ASHA for SLP's and audiologists
Programs Support Teachers
(PSTs)
Fully certified SLP's that offer field-related information, guidance, supervision or assistance to other SLP's serving a school district or area
Resource Room
A service delivery model in which the SLP or special educator integrates the IEP goals into curriculum based support as the students complete homework assignments in a specifically designed learning environment
Speech Club
A service delivery model in which the SLP monitors how well the student with a disability is able to carry-over his or her goals into unstructured social environments with other children who are not disabled
Supportive Teaching
A service delivery model in which the SLP provides supplemental information related to the information that the regular education teacher introduced
Teaming for Reading
A service delivery model in which the SLP collaborates with other educators to provide a comprehensive literacy program for children with disabilities and their non-disabled peers
Team Teaching
A service delivery model in which the SLP and regular education teacher share all the roles and responsibilities related to the education process
Weighted Formula
A way of calculating the time intensity of tasks
Workload
All professional activities that a professional does with, for, and on-behalf of students on a caseload that are mandated by law
Workload Week
One week out of a set of weeks during which the professional conducts indirect services for or on behalf of students on a caseload, rather than providing direct intervention with students
Baseline Data
Assessment data collected on a target behavior before the initiation of an intervention program
Buddy System
Pairing a student without a disability with a student who has a disability and allowing that child to offer assistance to the child with a disability
Emphatic Stress
Use of voice intonations and patterns to focus on the critical aspects of a communicated message
Foster Parent Program
a volunteer program instituted by school districts in which senior citizens in the community receive a free school lunch in exchange for offering some assistance to the teacher and children in a public school classroom
Local Education Agency
(LEA)
A school or school district in which the child is enrolled for services
Mediation
A process by which an impartial third party facilitates discussion by 2 opposing parties for the sake of resolving conflict
Multimodality
Using more than one of the five senses in the learning process
Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance
(PLAAFP)
A narrative summary of a students strengths, interests, learning style, and challenges based on a synthesis of information acquired by an individualized education program team via the assessment and evaluation process
Youth-Tutoring-Youth Program
A volunteer program instituted by school districts in which high school students who aspire to become educators use their study hall time to work with younger students under the supervision of the classroom teacher