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| This term describes children with specialized instructional needs, including those who are gifted. |
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A limitation, such as difficulty learning
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inability to hear, walk or see. |
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| This results from limitations imposed by the environment and by attitudes towards a person with a disability. |
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| A principal that emphasizes conventional behavior and attitudes in all aspects of education, socialization, and other life experiences for people with disabilities. |
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| The provision of special education services to students with disabilities within the general education classroom. |
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| This person developed special teaching techniques for the ‘Wild boy of Aveyron’ and influenced other pioneers in special education. |
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| This person’s teaching methods are now used all over the world and involve the development of the child’s natural curiosity and training of the senses through materials that are manipulable, three-dimensional and concrete. |
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| The President’s Commission on Intellectual Disabilities was established by this president, who had a sister with mental retardation. |
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| He studied under Itard in France and brought specialized methods for working with children with cognitive impairments to the U.S. |
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| Helen Keller’s tutor and dubbed ‘The Miracle Worker’ by Mark Twain. |
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| This was the first federal civil rights statute in the U.S. addressing specific rights of individuals with disabilities. |
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| Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 |
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| This federal law governs special education services for school-aged students with disabilities. |
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| Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) |
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| Passed in 1990, this federal law established a clear and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability. |
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| Americans w/ Disabilities Act (ADA) |
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| This provision of IDEA mandates that schools must provide students with disabilities maximum exposure to to non-disabled peers. |
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| Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)? |
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| This provision of IDEA ensures that all school-aged students with disabilities, no matter how severe, are provided with a free and appropriate education. |
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| This civil rights lawsuit challenged racial segregation in schools, and opened the doors to future lawsuits addressing students with disabilities. |
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| BROWN V. THE TOPEKA BOARD OF EDUCATION? |
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| This was the first “right to education” case for children with developmental disabilities. |
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PARC V. THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA?
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| In this lawsuit preceding IDEA, federal courts ruled that financial problems cannot be allowed to exclude children with disabilities from schools. |
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MILLS VS. THE
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| In this case, the court ruled that students cannot be placed in special education on the basis of tests given in other than the child’s native |
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DIANA V. THE
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| The ruling in this CA lawsuit prohibits the use of IQ tests for the placement of African American children into special education classes. |
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| …a 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 an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations… |
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| Specific Learning Disability |
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| Students with this disability have significantly sub-average intelligence and limitations in two or more areas of adaptive behavior. |
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| This is the IQ score cut off point that typically indicates significantly sub-average intellectual functioning. |
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| This disability does not include, "…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." |
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| Specific Learning Disabilities |
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| Limitations in adaptive behavior include these three skill types…. |
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| Conceptual, Social, and Practical Skills |
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