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Survey of Special Education
Study Guide for SPED 600
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10/07/2012

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Term
What does DD mean? 
Definition
Developmentally Delayed
Term
What does SLI mean? 
Definition
Specific language impairment
Term
What does ID mean?
Definition
Intellectual Disability
Term
What does ED mean? 
Definition
Emotional Disturbance
Term
What does SLD mean?
Definition
Specific Learning Disability
Term
What does OHI mean? 
Definition
Other Health Impairment
Term
What does AUT mean? 
Definition
Autism
Term
What does TBI mean? 
Definition
Traumatic Brain Injury
Term
What does VI mean? 
Definition

Visual Impairment

 

Term
What does HI mean? 
Definition
High Incidence
Term
What does DB mean?
Definition
Deaf/Blind
Term
What does MD mean? 
Definition
Multiple disabilities. 
Term
What does OI mean? 
Definition
Orthopedic Impairment
Term
List the criteria for a disability.
Definition
  • MR
  • Hearing Impairment
  • Speech/Language Impariment
  • Visual Impairment
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Orthopedic Impairment
  • Autism
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Other Health Impairment
  • Specific Learning Disability
  • Deaf Blindness
  • Multiple Disabilities
  • Because of one of these requires special education
Term
What are the ages of children diagnosed as developmentally delayed?
Definition
3 to 9
Term
Autism
Definition
a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child's educational performance
Term
Mental retardation
Definition

—significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

Term
List the 5 factors of emotional disturbance.
Definition

—(A) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
—(B) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
—(C) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances.
—(D) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
—(E) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.

Term
What unique disorder does emotional disturbance include?
Definition
Schizophrenia 
Term
Learning disability
Definition
disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
Term
What is not included in the definition of learning disability? 
Definition
  • Disorders
  • learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage
Term
Define OHI.
Definition

—Other health impairment means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that—
—

  (i) Is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome; and

 

  (ii) Adversely affects a child's educational performance

Term
Define speech/language impariment. 
Definition

—communication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

Term
What are the components of an IEP? 
Definition

—Description of the student – Present Level of Performance (PLoP)
—Goals
—Accommodations
—Testing Participation
—Services
—Transition
—Placement justification (LRE)
—Parental approval

Term
What are 4 cognative assesments? 
Definition

¡Stanford-Binet 5
¡WISC IV
¡DAS
¡Reynolds Intellectual Assessment ScalesTM (RIASTM)

Term
When using direct observation, what three things are you looking for? 
Definition
  • frequency
  • duration
  • intensity
Term
What principle is functional behavioral assesment based on? 
Definition
All behavior is to gain or avoid something
Term
Who decides on placement? 
Definition
The IEP team. 
Term
Who decides on the Least Restrictive Environment? 
Definition
IEP Team
Term
What is placement outside the classroom based on? 
Definition
Needs that cannot be met in the general classroom setting. 
Term
What 3 things must goals be? 
Definition

—Observable
—Measurable
—Achievable

Term
What is included in a family services plan? 
Definition

Demographic Information (who is the child)
Family concerns and priorities
Child and family strengths

Child’s present level of development

Goals

Services

Transition Plan

Term
What are the components of a goal in a family services plan? 
Definition

¡Goal or Outcome
¡Family/child strengths and resources related to the goal
¡What will be done
¡Who is responsible

Review schedule

Term
What decisions must be made about the support system when creating the family services plan? 
Definition
Frequency, location, group or individual, cost (who pays), natural environments, start and stop dates
Term
Adaptation
Definition
specific changes made to the way content is presented and the way students respond to instruction
Term
Modification
Definition
refers to changes made to the content itself
Term
Accomodation
Definition
more general term that refers to changes that are made to support students within various educational settings 
Term
Setting
Definition
Aspects of the physical learning environment that teachers can manipulate to enhance the conditions for learning.
Term
Study skills
Definition
Tools for learning that can be described as those specific skills that individuals employ toacquire, record, remember and use info efficiently
Term
What are learning strategies? 
Definition
task specific techniques that students can use in responding to classroom tasks
Term
What are the 4 types of social skills problems?
Definition

total skill deficit (no social skills)

partial skills deficit (critical elements of skill absent)

performance deficits ( person can demonstrate a skill, but does not use it)

control deficits (undesireable social behaviors) 

Term
reinforcer
Definition
an event that rewards and thus strengthens the behavior it follows
Term
contingency contracting
Definition
teacher develops contracts with students to state what behaviors students are to complete and what consequences will be provided
Term
dependent contingencies
Definition
all group members share reinforcement if one individual acheives a goal
Term
interdependent contingencies
Definition
all group members are reinforced if all acheive the stated goal
Term
independent contingencies
Definition
individuals within a group are reinforced for individual acheivement toward a goal
Term
natural consequences
Definition
situation itself provides the contingencies for a certain behavior
Term
logical consequences
Definition
logical connection between inappropriate behavior and the consequence that follows
Term
differential reinforcement
Definition
uses posative reinforcement strategies as a behavior reduction
Term
extinction procedures
Definition
withholding reinforcement for a negative behavior and reinforcing a posative one so the behavior disappears over time
Term
benign tactics
Definition

border on punishment, but are unobtrusive

 

Term
reprimand
Definition
type of punishment in which an unpleasant condition is presented to the student
Term
response cost
Definition
loss of something the student values
Term
self monitoring
Definition
students observe and record their own behavior
Term
Asylums coincided with what? 
Definition
French Revolution
Term
What are the pros of labeling? 
Definition

o   insurance, gives a general overview of what you’re facing, recognize differences, proactive response, helps with professional communication, research is based on labels, disability specific advocacy, visibility with policy makers

Term
How often must eligibility be reviewed? 
Definition
Every 3 years
Term
Maria Montessori based much of her thinking on who? 
Definition
Sigmund Freud
Term
What are the cons of labeling?
Definition

focus on disability, stigmatizing, negatively affects self esteem, lowered expectations, labels explain away behaviors, assumption that everyone with the same label is alike, focus on what is wrong, disproportionate, permenance, expense

Term

What was Thomas Hopkins Gallaudett associated with? 

Definition
deaf culture
Term
How was Alexanger Graham Bell involved with SPED? 
Definition
Wife was deaf, he wanted to find a cure, part of eugenics movement
Term
Leo Kanner
Definition

·      article about first child ever diagnosed with autism, what he was diagnosed with would now be considered Aspergers; Kanner’s is actually now a term used to refer to people who are severly inhibited by autism

Term
Elizabeth Farrell
Definition

·      one of first people to teach in the special education classroom; founded council for exceptional children

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