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Social, Functional and Transitional Programming
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05/14/2012

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Horizontal Change
Definition
Change within an age group. 
Term
Vertical Change
Definition
Dictated by development as child gets older.
Term
How many disability groups are recognized by special education legislation?
Definition
13
Term
Students with high incidence disabilities make up what percentage of those served in special education?
Definition
90
Term
A student has a disability, but is served in a regular classroom and is expected to meet the state standards of learning. What kind of disability does that student have?
Definition
High incidence disability.
Term
A student needs ongoing support and services throughout their life. They participate in alternative state assesments. This student stays in the public school system until 21 or 26. What type of disability does this student have?
Definition
Low incidence disability
Term

Which two factors caused the Victorian era to bring the social climate towards those with disabilities in a negative direction?

 

Definition
New concerns about morality and the discovery of heritability.
Term
What is the principle of opportunity?
Definition
Any child should be allowed to enroll in any class open to other children, with no prior restrictions placed on participation. 
Term
What is the principle of proof?
Definition
continuance in a class or other educational activity was based on the ability to meet the standards
Term
Accroding to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, what is a unit?
Definition
The satisfactory completion of a class that met 5 days a week for a minumum of 40 minutes/ 120 hours a year.
Term
When did IQ tests become popular?
Definition
Around WWI
Term
What did the widespread use of IQ tests reveal?
Definition
The number of persons who scored what was thought to be below normal was much larger than expected. 
Term
Post WWII, what was the structure of the educational classes special ed students received?
Definition
Exclusive, with self contained classes and schools. These were often called "opportunity" classes and programs."
Term
What journals provided teachers with step-by-step instructions for teaching skilles in trades, service occupations, and various unskilled and semiskilled labor jobs?
Definition
Hungerford's Occupational Education
Term
When was vocational education first developed?
Definition
Early 1900s
Term
What did vocational education initially focus on?
Definition
skill training for a trade
Term
What is the normalization principle?
Definition
people with disabilities have the right to as normal an existance as possible
Term
Wolfensburg emphasized that normalization included what?
Definition
the need for vocational preparation and occupations for individuals with mental retardation to live in the community
Term
What act paved the way for individuals with disabilites to participate in society?
Definition
1964 Civil Rights Act
Term
What approached used task analysis to break down the skill being performed and provide multiple methods for teaching a task?
Definition
the "Try Another Way" method
Term
___________ is the choice, opportunity, and ability to participate actively in the community through home and family life, work, and civic and recreational involvement.
Definition
independent living
Term
What was the first legislation that clearly made a comitment to the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to persons with more significant disabilities?
Definition
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Term
Describe the "bridges" model.
Definition
High school was the foundation to three pathways to employment: no services, time limited services and ongoing services
Term
What was the first legislation that mandated that transition services be addressed in a student's IEP?
Definition
Individuals With Disabilites Act
Term
The Division on Career Development and Transition wanted transition to be what 5 things?
Definition

1: involved coordination of school programs and adult agencies

2: started in elementary and middle school

3: guided by the concept of career development

4: begin no later than 14

5: have the student involved with the process

Term
According to the IDEA amendments, when MUST a student's IEP include transition plans?
Definition
16, though in some states, 14
Term
When should self determination be taught?
Definition
While students with disabilities are still in school. 
Term
How are the practices of the Taxonomy for Transition Practices categorized?
Definition

1: Student focused planning

2: Student development

3: integracy and interdisciplinary collaboration

4: family involvement

5: program structure and attributes

Term
_______ refers to expressive skills and listening skills.
Definition
Communication skills
Term
_________ refers to reading skills, written language, math comprehension, math computation.
Definition
Academic skills
Term
Academic performance should also focus on getting students to use what?
Definition
accomodations
Term
_________ begins with awareness of and value for one's self. 
Definition
Self determination skills
Term
Once a person has some self awareness skills, they should have the basic information to do what?
Definition
make goals, plan an action to meet those goals, and anticipate some specific result
Term
What is another name for socialization skills?
Definition
Interpersonal relationship skills
Term
When are interpersonal relationship skills used?
Definition
in famile, school and community relationships
Term
What does knowledge of interpersonal relationship skills include?
Definition
Knowing socially appropriate behavior and understanding how cultural, moral, ethical, legal and religious influences guide one's individual social behavior. 
Term
__________ is knowledge about how to access community interest settings and knowledge of skills in participating in these settings.
Definition
Integrated Community Participation Skills
Term
__________ covers health concerns as well as physical fitness skills. 
Definition
Health and fitness skills
Term
When do students with disabilities need to use technology?
Definition
at home, in school and in the community
Term
__________ can include low and high tech devices and services that assist students in becomeing more independent at home, school, in the community and at work.
Definition
Assistive technology
Term
Why must students with disabilities be taught about leisure and recreational skills?
Definition
Leisure, recreation and play are part of the human experience and essential to health and well being.
Term
What are mobility skills?
Definition
Skills that allow a person to get around their community and arrange for transportation as necessary.
Term
__________ can include adaptive behaviors, such as basic food preparation, dressing, use of transportation, personal hygeine, etc.
Definition
Independent/interdependent living skills.
Term
__________ refers to general emplyability skills, occupational skills and vocational skills.
Definition
Work readiness skills
Term
_________ refers to readiness for any formal education or training experience after leaving the public school setting.
Definition
College readiness skills
Term
When is a student entitiled to receive services?
Definition
Once they are evaluated for and have met the criteria for specail education, they are entitled to a free and appropriate education until graduating.
Term
What does it mean to be eligible for services?
Definition
To be eligible for services, you must apply for them and be determined to be so. Eligibility differs by agency.
Term
In 1970, how many children with disabilites were educated?
Definition
1 in 5
Term
How many children in the US are provided services under special education law?
Definition
6.5 million
Term
_____________ is the federal agency that is responsibe for providing leadership and funding to assist states and local districts in improving services for students with disabilities from birth to age 21.
Definition
Office of Special Education, US Depatment of Education
Term
What is the EHA?
Definition
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Term
What is OSEP?
Definition
Office of Special Education
Term
What is the USDOE?
Definition
United States Department of Education
Term
What was the landmark legislation that provided all children with disabilites the right ot a free and appropriate public education? 
Definition
Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Term
According to EHA, what are the requirements for the evaluation process to determine if the student needs special education?
Definition

Evaluation must be nondiscriminatory

Must be conducted by a multidisciplinary team

parents must be notified

Term
What six principles are the foundation of special education services today in Part B of IDEA 2004?
Definition
  1. Free and appropriate education
  2. least restrictive enviornment
  3. IEP
  4. nondiscriminatory evaluation
  5. due process for parents
  6. parental participation
Term
__________ authorized $6.6 million to develop and support school to work transitions for youths with disabilities.
Definition
Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1983
Term
What three things did the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1986 do?
Definition
  1. funded research projects to investigate postsecondary outcomes for students with disabilites who had dropped out of school
  2. mandated provision of services for infants and toddlers with disabilities
  3. increased spectrum of services from birth to age 21

 

Term
What does OSERS stand for?
Definition
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Term
_______ spotlighted school-to-work transition as a national priority and provided a model for secondary special educators to bridge the gap between school and work
Definition
OSERS
Term
What does REI stand for?
Definition
Regular Education Initiative
Term
___________ emphasized the need to move individual with disabilities out of sheltered workshops and into community jobs with ongoing support.
Definition
Supported Employment Initiative
Term
___________ spotlighted the need to merge regular and special education to address the needs of all students in the classroom.
Definition
REI
Term
In 1990 the EHA was amended and renamed what?
Definition
IDEA
Term
What does IDEA stand for?
Definition
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Term
What was the first legislation that mandated a statement od needed transitional services to be included in the student's IEP by age 16?
Definition
IDEA
Term
What did IDEA 1997 do?
Definition
Changed the age requirement for addressing transition services from 16 to 14
Term
What gave states the option to transfer age of majority rights at least one year before the student reached the age of the majority? 
Definition
IDEA 1997
Term
What does NCLB stand for?
Definition
No Child Left Behind
Term
_____ refers to English, reading, language arts, math, science, foreign languages, civics, government, economics, arts, history and geography. 
Definition
Core Academic Subjects
Term
The final regulations for IDEA 2004 clarify that "core academic content" must what?
Definition
Be the same for all students
Term
What is a Highly Qualified Special Educator?
Definition
a teacher who has state certification as a special ed teacher and is not teaching a core academic subject
Term
What does Universal Design for Learning call for?
Definition
  1. multiple ways for students to acquire information and knowledge
  2. alternatives to demonstrate what they know
  3. students to become engaged in learning and increased motivation
Term
_________ must summarize the student's academic acheivement and functional performance along with reccomendations for how the student will meet his or her postsecondary goals. 
Definition
Summary of Performance
Term
What does SOP stand for?
Definition
Summary of Performance
Term
What does UDL stand for?
Definition
Universal Design for Learning
Term
What are indicatiors 13 and 14 focused on?
Definition
accountability
Term
What does indicatior 13 focus on?
Definition
IEP and transition services
Term
What does Indicator 14 focus on?
Definition
students actual postsecondary outcomes
Term
What does RSA stand for?
Definition
Rehabilitative Services Administration
Term
__________ administers formula and discretionary grant programs that serve individuals with disabilities. 
Definition
RSA
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