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Glossary

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A
Academic English
Academic Intervention Services (AIS)
Accommodation
Accuracy
Adaptive Physical Education (APE)
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
Affective Filter
Affix
Age Equivalent Score (AE)
Alphabetic Principle
Alternative Education Placement (AEP)
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Aphasia
Assistive Technology (AT)
Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
Auditory Discrimination
Auditory Figure-ground
Auditory Memory
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
Automaticity

B
Base Words
Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)
Bilingual Education
Blend

C
Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
Cloze Passage
Cognates
Cognitive Testing
Committee on Preschool Education (CPSE)
Committee on Special Education (CSE)
Comprehension Strategies
Comprehension Strategy Instruction
Connected Instruction
Context Clues
Continuous Assessment
Cooperative Learning
Curriculum-based Assessment

D
Decoding
Developmental Aphasia
Developmental Disability
Developmental Spelling
Direct Instruction
Direct Vocabulary Learning
Dyscalculia
Dysgraphia
Dyslexia
Dysnomia
Dyspraxia

E
Early Intervention Program Services (EIPS)
Emergent Literacy
English As A Second Language (ESL)
English Language Learner (ELL)
Executive Dysfunction
Experimental Writing
Expressive Language
Extended School Year Services (ESY)

F
Family Educational Right To Privacy Act (FERPA)
Fluency
Formal Assessment
Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)

G
Grade Equivalent Scores (GE)
Grapheme
Graphic Organizers

I
Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE)
Independent School District (ISD)
Indirect Vocabulary Learning
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
Individualized Transition Plan (ITP)
Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Of 2004 (IDEA)
Informal Assessment
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Interim Alternative Educational Setting (IAES)

L
Language Learning Disability (LLD)
Learning Disability (LD)
Learning Styles
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Limited English Proficient (LEP)
Listening Comprehension
Literacy
Local Education Agency (LEA)

M
Modification
Morpheme
Morphology
Morphophonology
Multiple Intelligences
Multisensory Structured Language Education

N
Naming Speed
Neurological Impairment
No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Nonverbal Learning Disability
Norm-referenced Assessment

O
Occupational Therapy (OT)
Office Of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Onset
Orthographic Knowledge
Orton-Gillingham
Other Health Impairments (OHI)

P
Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)
Phoneme
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
Phonological Awareness
Physical Therapy (PT)
Present Level of Educational Performance (PLEP)
Print Awareness

R
Reading Disability
Receptive Language
Resource Program
Response To Intervention (RTI)
Responsive Instruction
Rime
Root Word

S
Scaffolding
Section 504 (504)
Self-Advocacy
Self-monitoring
Semantic Organizers
Sensory Integration (SI)
Sight Words
Social English
Special Education (SPED)
Specific Learning Disability (SLD)
Speech Impaired (SI)
Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
Supplemental Educational Services (SES)
Syllabication
Syllable

T
Text Comprehension
Transition

V
Vocabulary
Vocational Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilitie

W
Word Attack