Terms

Severe mental retardation or intellectual disabilities

• a disability in intelligence and adaptive behavior.

• A term used to refer to children who exhibit inattention, impulsivity, and/or hyperactivity; popular in the 1960s and 1970s.

Self-Regulation

• Refers generally to a person’s ability to regulate his or her own behavior (e.g., to employ strategies to help in a problem-solving situation); an area of difficulty for persons who have intellectual disabilities.

• A type of cognitive training technique that requires individuals to keep track of their own behavior.

Sheltered-English Approach

• A method in which language-minority students are taught all their subjects in English at a level that is modified constantly according to individuals’ needs.

• A method of protecting children with a disability

Self-Stimulation

• Any repetitive, stereotyped activity that seems only to provide no sensory feedback.

• Any repetitive, stereotyped activity that seems only to provide sensory feedback.

Screening Instruments

• Quick measures administered to determine who may need further assessment.

• Objects used to measure data on a screen.

Scaffolded Instruction

• Teachers provide assistance to students when they are first learning tasks and then gradually reduce it so that eventually students do the tasks independently.

• Teacher pride students no assistance to students when they are first learning and the gradually add assistance that eventually lead students do tasks dependently.

Self-Monitoring

• Refers generally to a person’s ability to regulate his or her own behavior (e.g., to employ strategies to help in a problem-solving situation); an area of difficulty for persons who have intellectual disabilities.

• A type of cognitive training technique that requires individuals to keep track of their own behavior.

PBIS

• Positive behavioral intervention and support; Systematic use of the science of behavior to find ways of punishing desirable behavior rather than supporting the undesirable behavior; positive reinforcement (rewarding) procedures that are intended to support a student’s appropriate or desirable behavior.

• Positive behavioral intervention and support; Systematic use of the science of behavior to find ways of supporting desirable behavior rather than punishing the undesirable behavior; positive reinforcement (rewarding) procedures that are intended to support a student’s appropriate or desirable behavior.

RTI

• Responce to Intervention; A way of determining whether a student has a learning disability; increasingly intensive levels of instructional intervention are delivered, and if the student does not achieve, at some point, he or she is determined to have a learning disability or is referred for special education evaluation

• Response to Intervention; A way of determining whether a student has a learning disability; increasingly weaker levels of instructional intervention are delivered, and if the student does not achieve, at some point, he or she is determined to have a learning disability or is referred for special education evaluation

PBS

• Public Broadcasting Service; The home of Sesame Street.

• Positive behavioral support; Positive reinforcement (rewarding) procedures intended to support a student’s appropriate or desirable behavior.