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WorksheetsGlossary of Special Education Terms
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 25mins
What are the necessary skills for daily life, such as communication, socialization, and autonomy?
Adaptive Behavior
Alternative Communication
Auditory Processing Disorder
What is the initial performance level of a student before educational intervention?
Baseline
Behavior Modification
Braille Literacy
What is the strategy where regular and special education teachers work together in the classroom?
Collaborative Teaching
Cognitive Skills
Compensatory Strategies
What refers to the adaptation of teaching to meet diverse student needs?
Differentiation
Disability Rights
Down Syndrome
What are the cognitive skills involved in planning, impulse control, and organization?
Executive Functioning
Explicit Instruction
Functional Skills
What is the ability to apply learned skills in different contexts or situations?
Generalization
Hyperactivity
Hypersensitivity
What is the model of education that integrates students with and without disabilities?
What is Inclusive Education?
An educational model that integrates students with and without disabilities in the same school environment.
A program to prepare students with disabilities for adult life.
A process of including students with disabilities in regular education classrooms with additional supports.
A strategy where one student helps another in learning.
What does Individualized Transition Plan (ITP) refer to?
An educational model that integrates students with and without disabilities in the same school environment.
A program to prepare students with disabilities for adult life.
A process of including students with disabilities in regular education classrooms with additional supports.
A strategy where one student helps another in learning.
What is Language Delay?
Development of language slower than expected in children.
Preferences in the way of acquiring knowledge.
Difficulties in remembering learned information.
Intervention to improve motor skills.
What are Learning Styles?
Development of language slower than expected in children.
Preferences in the way of acquiring knowledge.
Difficulties in remembering learned information.
Intervention to improve motor skills.
What is Mainstreaming?
A process of including students with disabilities in regular education classrooms with additional supports.
Difficulties in remembering learned information.
Intervention to improve motor skills.
Capabilities related to mouth movement for speaking and eating.
What does Memory Deficit refer to?
A process of including students with disabilities in regular education classrooms with additional supports.
Difficulties in remembering learned information.
Intervention to improve motor skills.
Capabilities related to mouth movement for speaking and eating.
What is Occupational Therapy?
Intervention to improve motor skills, coordination, and autonomy in daily life.
Capabilities related to mouth movement for speaking and eating.
A strategy where one student helps another in learning.
A strategy that rewards appropriate behaviors.
What are Oral Motor Skills?
Intervention to improve motor skills, coordination, and autonomy in daily life.
Capabilities related to mouth movement for speaking and eating.
A strategy where one student helps another in learning.
A strategy that rewards appropriate behaviors.
What is Peer Tutoring?
A strategy where one student helps another in learning.
A strategy that rewards appropriate behaviors.
Hearing loss that occurs before language acquisition.
A model of support that identifies and helps students with learning difficulties.
What does Positive Reinforcement mean?
A strategy where one student helps another in learning.
A strategy that rewards appropriate behaviors.
Hearing loss that occurs before language acquisition.
A model of support that identifies and helps students with learning difficulties.
What is Prelingual Deafness?
Hearing loss that occurs before language acquisition.
A model of support that identifies and helps students with learning difficulties.
A skill of individuals with disabilities to express their needs and rights.
Teaching appropriate interactions in different environments.
What does Response to Intervention (RTI) refer to?
A model of support that identifies and helps students with learning difficulties.
A skill of individuals with disabilities to express their needs and rights.
Teaching appropriate interactions in different environments.
Breaking down a complex activity into smaller, manageable steps.
What is Self-Advocacy?
A skill of individuals with disabilities to express their needs and rights.
Teaching appropriate interactions in different environments.
Breaking down a complex activity into smaller, manageable steps.
Damage to the brain due to a blow or accident affecting learning and behavior.
What does Social Skills Training involve?
Teaching appropriate interactions in different environments.
Breaking down a complex activity into smaller, manageable steps.
Damage to the brain due to a blow or accident affecting learning and behavior.
Loss of partial or total vision affecting learning.
What is Task Analysis?
Breaking down a complex activity into smaller, manageable steps.
Damage to the brain due to a blow or accident affecting learning and behavior.
Loss of partial or total vision affecting learning.
Use of images or pictograms to structure daily activities.
What does Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) refer to?
Damage to the brain due to a blow or accident affecting learning and behavior.
Loss of partial or total vision affecting learning.
Use of images or pictograms to structure daily activities.
A strategy that rewards appropriate behaviors.
What is Visual Impairment?
Loss of partial or total vision affecting learning.
Use of images or pictograms to structure daily activities.
A strategy that rewards appropriate behaviors.
A skill of individuals with disabilities to express their needs and rights.
What are Visual Schedules?
Use of images or pictograms to structure daily activities.
A strategy that rewards appropriate behaviors.
A skill of individuals with disabilities to express their needs and rights.
Teaching appropriate interactions in different environments.
