Involving Families in Their Children's Education: - ANSWERS--Flexibility and
Variety are two main components
-Include families in designing children's Individual Family Service Plan (IFSPs)
-Communicate regularly
-Work around their work schedule
Developmental Screenings: - ANSWERS--Doctor's office may give guardian a
questionnare
-Health or educational professional may administer a screening test to the child
-Extremely generalized
Child Find: - ANSWERS--Locating, identifying and referring young children with
disabilities and their families as early as possible for service programs
-IDEA LAW: Guarantees disabled children special education services and early
intervention programs
-Network members typically include parents, doctors, birth-3 programs, child care
programs, public health agents, social service agencies and other community
members
,Post-Evaluation and the Individualized Education Program (IEP): - ANSWERS--
Every child who will receive special education services must have an IEP
-Main purposes of IEPs are to:
-Establish reasonable educational goals for the individual child
-Indicate what services the school district will provide the child
Screening vs Assessment Instruments: - ANSWERS--Screening: Used to identify
those children showing signs of possible problems who need assessments, not
diagnose problems
-Assessments: Used to develop/and or confirm diagnoses of developmental
disorders or delays
Features of Paper-and-Pencil Reports: - ANSWERS--Most common form is
questionnaires
Features of Screening and Assessment Tools Using Structured Tasks: - ANSWERS--
Screening and assessment instruments that use structured tasks involve a list of
behaviors and/or skills that a child is expected to attain by a certain age range or
developmental level
Test-retest Reliability: - ANSWERS--Consistency/stability of an instruments results
across administrations
, Norm-Referenced Tests: - ANSWERS--Compare a child's test results to those of a
comparison group of other children in the same age group, grade or
developmental level.
-Show how an individual child's performance compares to that of the general
population of children
-Good for measuring if the child is similar to the "average" child
Criterion-Referenced Tests: - ANSWERS--Compare a child's test results to a
predetermined standard of performance for the child's age group, grade, level.
-Show how a child's performance compares to standards established by
educational experts
-Good for measuring what areas the child has mastered
Communication Development Normally Occurring Within a Child's First Five Years
of Life: - ANSWERS--Three developmental periods are observed
-At birth: Infant crying and gazing
-Between 6-8 months old: Become able to coordinate their attention visually with
other people relative to things and events, enabling purposeful communication
with adults
-18 months old-on: Use language as their main way of communication and
learning
Milestones of Normal Language Development by the 2 Years Old: - ANSWERS--
Most of the time, by two years old children acquire a vocabulary of 150-300
words
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