en MA Chapter 16 Vocabulary 22 Twice Exceptional: Students with dual exceptionalities Learning Disability: A condition which causes a child to have difficulty learning and using certain skills Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): A federal act providing a free and appropriate public education to youth between ages 3 and 21 with disabilities. Early Intervention: A process of providing services and opportunities for children and families. Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE): A free education suited to children’s age, maturity, condition of disability, past achievements, and parental expectations. Least Restrictive Environment (LRE): Placement that meets the needs of students who are disabled in as regular a setting as possible. Individualized Education Plan (IEP): A plan for meeting an exceptional learner’s educational need, specifying goals, objectives, services, and procedures for evaluating progress. Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP): A plan designed to help families reach their goals for themselves and their children, with varied support services. Adaptive Education: Modifications in any classroom, program, environment or curriculum that helps students achieve desired educational goals. Full Inclusion: An approach whereby students with disabilities receive instruction and support services in a general classroom. Partial Inclusion: An approach whereby students with disabilities receive some instruction in a general classroom and some in a specialized setting. Resource Room: A room where students work individually or in small groups with special education teachers. Itinerant Teachers: Professionals who travel from school to school, providing assistance and teaching students. Resource Teachers: Professionals who provide assistance with materials and planning for teachers of exceptional students. Embedded Instruction: Instruction that is included as an integral part of normal classroom routines. Naturalistic Teaching Strategies: Incorporating instruction into opportunities that occur naturally or routinely in the classroom. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA): ABA is based on the learning theory of behaviorism, which states that all behavior is motivated by a purpose and is learned through systematic reinforcement. Play Therapy: The developmentally appropriate practice and model to incorporate social experiences and enjoyable interactions to enhance a child’s pretend skills, joint attention, communication skills and appropriate behavior. Universal Design (UD): A broad-spectrum solution that helps assure that environment, curriculum, and instructional strategies are accessible to all students. Response to Intervention/Response to Instruction (RIT): A multitiered approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs. Receptive Language: An individual whose skills appear to by typical but who has difficulty expressing themselves; interactions with peers are often contentious or stilted because of the difficulty of diverting his or her own plans or adapting to peers’ perspective. Social Story: A personalized, detailed, and simple script that breaks down behavior and provides rules and directions.

Chapter 16 Vocabulary

1.	Universal Design (UD)	A.	An individual whose skills appear to by typical but who has difficulty expressing themselves; interactions with peers are often contentious or stilted because of the difficulty of diverting his or her own plans or adapting to peers’ perspective.
2.	Learning Disability	B.	A federal act providing a free and appropriate public education to youth between ages 3 and 21 with disabilities.
3.	Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)	C.	Professionals who provide assistance with materials and planning for teachers of exceptional students.
4.	Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)	D.	An approach whereby students with disabilities receive instruction and support services in a general classroom.
5.	Response to Intervention/Response to Instruction (RIT)	E.	A plan for meeting an exceptional learner’s educational need, specifying goals, objectives, services, and procedures for evaluating progress.
6.	Social Story	F.	A personalized, detailed, and simple script that breaks down behavior and provides rules and directions.
7.	Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)	G.	The developmentally appropriate practice and model to incorporate social experiences and enjoyable interactions to enhance a child’s pretend skills, joint attention, communication skills and appropriate behavior.
8.	Individualized Education Plan (IEP)	H.	Incorporating instruction into opportunities that occur naturally or routinely in the classroom.
9.	Early Intervention	I.	A plan designed to help families reach their goals for themselves and their children, with varied support services.
10.	Resource Room	J.	A free education suited to children’s age, maturity, condition of disability, past achievements, and parental expectations.
11.	Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)	K.	Modifications in any classroom, program, environment or curriculum that helps students achieve desired educational goals.
12.	Full Inclusion	L.	ABA is based on the learning theory of behaviorism, which states that all behavior is motivated by a purpose and is learned through systematic reinforcement.
13.	Partial Inclusion	M.	A room where students work individually or in small groups with special education teachers.
14.	Receptive Language	N.	A process of providing services and opportunities for children and families.
15.	Naturalistic Teaching Strategies	O.	Students with dual exceptionalities
16.	Embedded Instruction	P.	A broad-spectrum solution that helps assure that environment, curriculum, and instructional strategies are accessible to all students.
17.	Adaptive Education	Q.	Instruction that is included as an integral part of normal classroom routines.
18.	Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)	R.	Professionals who travel from school to school, providing assistance and teaching students.
19.	Resource Teachers	S.	A condition which causes a child to have difficulty learning and using certain skills
20.	Itinerant Teachers	T.	Placement that meets the needs of students who are disabled in as regular a setting as possible.
21.	Twice Exceptional	U.	An approach whereby students with disabilities receive some instruction in a general classroom and some in a specialized setting.
22.	Play Therapy	V.	A multitiered approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs.

Chapter 16 Vocabulary

P	1.	Universal Design (UD)	A.	An individual whose skills appear to by typical but who has difficulty expressing themselves; interactions with peers are often contentious or stilted because of the difficulty of diverting his or her own plans or adapting to peers’ perspective.
S	2.	Learning Disability	B.	A federal act providing a free and appropriate public education to youth between ages 3 and 21 with disabilities.
B	3.	Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)	C.	Professionals who provide assistance with materials and planning for teachers of exceptional students.
J	4.	Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)	D.	An approach whereby students with disabilities receive instruction and support services in a general classroom.
V	5.	Response to Intervention/Response to Instruction (RIT)	E.	A plan for meeting an exceptional learner’s educational need, specifying goals, objectives, services, and procedures for evaluating progress.
F	6.	Social Story	F.	A personalized, detailed, and simple script that breaks down behavior and provides rules and directions.
I	7.	Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)	G.	The developmentally appropriate practice and model to incorporate social experiences and enjoyable interactions to enhance a child’s pretend skills, joint attention, communication skills and appropriate behavior.
E	8.	Individualized Education Plan (IEP)	H.	Incorporating instruction into opportunities that occur naturally or routinely in the classroom.
N	9.	Early Intervention	I.	A plan designed to help families reach their goals for themselves and their children, with varied support services.
M	10.	Resource Room	J.	A free education suited to children’s age, maturity, condition of disability, past achievements, and parental expectations.
L	11.	Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)	K.	Modifications in any classroom, program, environment or curriculum that helps students achieve desired educational goals.
D	12.	Full Inclusion	L.	ABA is based on the learning theory of behaviorism, which states that all behavior is motivated by a purpose and is learned through systematic reinforcement.
U	13.	Partial Inclusion	M.	A room where students work individually or in small groups with special education teachers.
A	14.	Receptive Language	N.	A process of providing services and opportunities for children and families.
H	15.	Naturalistic Teaching Strategies	O.	Students with dual exceptionalities
Q	16.	Embedded Instruction	P.	A broad-spectrum solution that helps assure that environment, curriculum, and instructional strategies are accessible to all students.
K	17.	Adaptive Education	Q.	Instruction that is included as an integral part of normal classroom routines.
T	18.	Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)	R.	Professionals who travel from school to school, providing assistance and teaching students.
C	19.	Resource Teachers	S.	A condition which causes a child to have difficulty learning and using certain skills
R	20.	Itinerant Teachers	T.	Placement that meets the needs of students who are disabled in as regular a setting as possible.
O	21.	Twice Exceptional	U.	An approach whereby students with disabilities receive some instruction in a general classroom and some in a specialized setting.
G	22.	Play Therapy	V.	A multitiered approach to the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs.