Special Education Acronyms

The acronym for Intelligence Quotient

True or False?

ADA is the Acronym for Free Appropriate Public Education?

• True

• False

"a written legal document that lays out the supports and services kids with developmental delays need to start catching up. IFSPs are covered by special education law, or the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). They’re created for eligible kids from birth to age 3 who need extra help with physical, communication, self-help, cognitive, or social-emotional skills”

• Individualized Family Service Plan

• Free Appropriate Public Education

• Americans with Disabilities Act

• Extended School Year

ESY is the acronym for what term?

"something a child can be born with if they were exposed to alcohol while in the womb. FAS can present as physical defects, intellectual disabilities, or nervous system problems."

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrom

• American Sign Language

• Cognitive Delay

“a term often used to describe the educational experience of typically developing children – children who are mentally, physically, emotionally, or socially emotionally less challenged. Compared to the special education system."

True or False?

FBA is the Acronym for Functional Behavioral Assessment

• True

• False

Full word for the acronym FM

• Focused Monitoring

• Present Level of Performance

• Special Education

• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

"are persons between the ages of four and twenty-one whose abilities, talents, and potential for accomplishment are so exceptional or developmentally advanced that they require special provisions to meet their educational programming needs.”

"federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children’s education records. the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the education records. When a student turns 18 years old, or enters a postsecondary institution at any age."