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School-based teams (SBT): an on-going collaborative problem- solving unit of school personnel. The School Based Team (SBT) meets regularly to assist classroom and/or subject teachers to develop and implement instructional strategies that support student learning.
Screening tests: procedure in which groups of children are examined or tested in an effort to identify those most likely to have a disability; the first step in the assessment process that helps identify the need for further testing.
Segregated: the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things.
Self-help skills: enable your child to meet his own needs and involve activities and behaviors that eventually lead to independence. Skills such as dressing on his own, learning how to set a table or pouring his own juice express growing maturity. However, self-help skills also involve emotional and cognitive growth, such as learning to express anger with words rather than throwing a toy, respecting property of others and someday learning to read a book without your help.
Shadow teacher: an educational assistant who works directly with a single special needs child during his preschool and elementary school years. These assistants understand a variety of learning disabilities and how to handle them accordingly. Providing a shadow teacher allows the child to attend a mainstream class while receiving the extra attention that he needs. Shadow teachers are extensively trained to help the student interact with others and to assist with the child's schoolwork.
Special education: individualized education for children and youth with exceptional learning needs.
Specific learning disabilities: a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, and spell or to do mathematical calculations. Specific learning disabilities include conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia and developmental aphasia. The term 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.
Speech pathologist: a professional who diagnoses and treats problems in the area of speech and language development.
Speech therapy: training to help people with speech and language problems to speak more clearly.
Speech/language impairment: a communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Standardized testing: any form of test that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students. The term is primarily associated with large-scale tests administered to sizeable populations of students, such as a multiple-choice test given to all the eighth-grade public-school students in a particular state, for example.
Statistics: the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.
Summative assessment: an evaluation administered to measure student learning outcomes, typically at the end of a unit or chapter. Often used to evaluate whether a student has mastered the content or skill.
Supplementary aid: a very broad category of aids, services, and other supports that are provided in regular education classes, other education-related settings, and in extracurricular and nonacademic settings, to enable children with disabilities to be educated with non-disabled children.
School-based teams (SBT): an on-going collaborative problem- solving unit of school personnel. The School Based Team (SBT) meets regularly to assist classroom and/or subject teachers to develop and implement instructional strategies that support student learning.
Screening tests: procedure in which groups of children are examined or tested in an effort to identify those most likely to have a disability; the first step in the assessment process that helps identify the need for further testing.
Segregated: the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things.
Self-help skills: enable your child to meet his own needs and involve activities and behaviors that eventually lead to independence. Skills such as dressing on his own, learning how to set a table or pouring his own juice express growing maturity. However, self-help skills also involve emotional and cognitive growth, such as learning to express anger with words rather than throwing a toy, respecting property of others and someday learning to read a book without your help.
Shadow teacher: an educational assistant who works directly with a single special needs child during his preschool and elementary school years. These assistants understand a variety of learning disabilities and how to handle them accordingly. Providing a shadow teacher allows the child to attend a mainstream class while receiving the extra attention that he needs. Shadow teachers are extensively trained to help the student interact with others and to assist with the child's schoolwork.
Special education: individualized education for children and youth with exceptional learning needs.
Specific learning disabilities: a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, and spell or to do mathematical calculations. Specific learning disabilities include conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia and developmental aphasia. The term 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.
Speech pathologist: a professional who diagnoses and treats problems in the area of speech and language development.
Speech therapy: training to help people with speech and language problems to speak more clearly.
Speech/language impairment: a communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Standardized testing: any form of test that requires all test takers to answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students. The term is primarily associated with large-scale tests administered to sizeable populations of students, such as a multiple-choice test given to all the eighth-grade public-school students in a particular state, for example.
Statistics: the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.
Summative assessment: an evaluation administered to measure student learning outcomes, typically at the end of a unit or chapter. Often used to evaluate whether a student has mastered the content or skill.
Supplementary aid: a very broad category of aids, services, and other supports that are provided in regular education classes, other education-related settings, and in extracurricular and nonacademic settings, to enable children with disabilities to be educated with non-disabled children.