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| Assimilation is the cognitive process of fitting new information into exiting cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding . This means that when you are faced with new information, you make sense of this information by referring to information you already have and try to fit the new information in the information you already have. |
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| Accommodation is the cognitive process of revising existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding so that new information can be information, you actual adjust information you already have to make room for this new information. This is related to assimilation. |
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| CEC has embraced this responsibility and has been a leader among education association in the development of Ethical Principles, Professional Practice Standards, and Preparation Standards, CEC has and continues to use a research-based collaborative process that ensures that its standards are current, research-based, and fully address the knowledge and skills special educators must master. |
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| Texas Essential Knowledge and skills of TEKs are the state standards for Texas public schools from kindergarten to year 12. They detail the curriculum requirements for every course. State-mandated standardized tests measure acquisition of specific knowledge and skills outlined in this curriculum. It is also used in international schools outside of Texas. The TEKS are taught to students and within the end of the year, they take a standardized test based on the TEKS called the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness. |
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| IDEA (Individual Disabilities Education Act) |
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| The individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal law that requires schools to serve the educational needs of eligible students with disabilities. Schools must evaluate students suspected of having disabilities, including learning disabilities. |
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| Culturally Responsive Teaching vs. Differentiation |
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Culture is central to learning. It plays a role not only in communicating and receiving information, but also in shaping the thinking process of groups and individual. A pedagogy that acknowledges, responds to, and celebrates fundamental cultures offers full, equitable access to education for students from all cultures.
1) Positive perspectives on parents and families
2) Communication of high expectations
3) Learning within context of culture
4) Student-centered instruction
5) Culturally medicated instruction
6) Reshaping the curriculum
7) Teacher as facilitator |
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| FAPE Free and Appropriate Public Education |
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FAPE means that the child with disabilities will receive the same education as a child without disability or handicap, can be achieved by giving the child special services, usually written in an individualized education IEP. |
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| LRE Least Restrictive Environment |
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LRE means that a student who has a disability should have the opportunity to be educated with non-disabled peers, to the greatest extent appropriate |
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| UDL Universal Design Learning |
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UDL is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences, including cognitive neuroscience, the guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences. |
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| ARD is an admission, review, dismissal committee. They are the team that meets to discuss the IEP and evaluations of special education. |
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| IEP is an individual education program developed for students age 3 or older who qualify for special education services. |
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| RTI (Response to Intervention) |
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RTI is an approach to academic and behavioral intervention used in the United States to provide early systematic, and appropriately intensive assistance to children who are at risk for or already underperforming as compared to appropriate grade-or age- level standards |
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Both IDEA and NCLB hold a multitude of requirements and expectation for states and school districts.
1) Clarifying which provisions of NCLB reference IDEA and impact the education of students with disabilities.
2) Raising key issues that need to be considered regrading the intersection of IDEA an NCLB |
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| ESSA is a US Law passed in December 2015 that governs the United States K-12 public education policy. The law replaced its predecessor, the NCLB, and modified but did not eliminate provisions relating to the periodic standardized test given to students. NCLB; ESSA is a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which established the federal governments expanded role in public education. |
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1) Assessment
2) Accountability
3) Teaching quality and paraeducator quality |
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| ABA (Adaptive Behavior Analysis) |
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Adaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is used to adjust to another type of behavior or situation.
These behaviors are most often social or personal behaviors. |
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| BIP (Behavior Improvement Plan) |
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1) Provides more intensive intervention and monitoring
2) Increase support around student
3) Provides an individualized plan for success
4) Address specific issues in a specific manner
5) Help teachers, support staff, student, parents |
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| Inclusion/Inclusive Classroom |
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The integration of students with special educational needs into the regular education setting. |
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Students do not have the same support in a regular education classroom as compared to a self-contained classroom.
Students staying in one classroom all day have a instructional assistance with them would be helpful |
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Dyslexia is delay in speaking, difficulties and pronunciation reading and visual problems. |
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| SLI (Speech or Language Impairment) |
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SLI is speech difficulties
1) Saying hamber for hammer
2) Fwog-frog |
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| Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) |
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An augmentative and alternative communication. System is commonly used as a communication aid for children with autism spectrum disorder.
PECS has been described as an emerging treatment shown to increase communication skills for individual with ASD.
PECS training is not limited by age but rather by a small set of criteria.
1) Candidate for PECS training should be an intentional communicator
2) The individual should have some personal preferences, in addition to having intentional.
3) Cognitive and physical impairments including: cerebral palsy, blindness and deafness. |
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| Pervasive Developmental Delay (PDD) |
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1) How a child typically develop problems socialization and communication delays.
2) All autism spectrum
3) Rett syndrome |
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| Multidisciplinary Collaboration |
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| a new approach designed to guide thinking and practise with healthcare within healthcare system |
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| an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities. Including the process used in selecting locating and using them. (Hearing aid) |
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| OT(Occupational Therapy) vs. PT (Physical Therapy) |
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| these are treatments tailored for people with various impairments. PT deals mainly with physical impairments, such as injury or disease, with goal of improving strength, mobility, range of motion or deceasing pain. PT-aims to increase mobility and function. OT is focused on helping people live as independently as possible. |
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| Intervention vs Differentiation |
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| Intervention is defined as the act of inserting one thing between others like a person or strategy which is designed to help. Differentiation is defined as the act or process of differentiating to make someone or something different in some way. Design to make things different. |
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| theory of intelligence that differentiates it into specific (primary sensory) modalities rather than seeing intelligence as dominated by a single general ability. |
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