• Least Restrictive Environment (LRE): Students eligible for special education will be educated to the maximum extent appropriate with students who are not disabled.

 

• Notice of Recommended Educational Placement (NOREP)/Prior Written Notice (PWN): The notice given to parents that summarizes the recommendations of the school for the child’s educational program, as well as other actions.

 

• Parent: A birth parent, adoptive parent, surrogate parent, or foster parent who has been assigned educational decision-making rights. The term may also apply to an individual acting in the place of a birth or adoptive parent (including grandparent or other relative) with whom the child lives and who has educational decision-making rights, or an individual who is legally responsible for the child.
   

• Parent Participation & Procedural Safeguards: Parents have rights to be involved, to receive notices, to consent, to see evaluation results, to dispute decisions, to request mediation/hearings. 

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• Private / Non-public School Students: If the child is enrolled in a private school by the parent, there are different provisions (public school must evaluate if requested, but may not provide full services as with public placement).

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• Related Services: Services necessary to provide specially designed instruction to ensure the child benefits from the special education programs. Examples are special transportation, counseling, school health services, and physical therapy.

 

• Secondary Transition Services: Specific planning in school that helps to prepare students with disabilities to participate more effectively in higher education or job training, community participation, independent living, continuing and adult education, and employment when they leave school.

 

• Special Education: An educational program individually designed to meet the unique education needs for a child with a disability. A special education professional is directly involved as either a consultant or a provider of services.

 

• Specially-Designed Instruction: Adapting the content, methods, or delivery of the instruction as is appropriate based on the unique needs of the child with a disability.

 

• Supplementary Aids and Services (SaS): Aids, services, and other supports provided in general education classes or other education-related settings to enable children with disabilities to be educated with nondisabled children to the maximum extent appropriate.

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