Glossary of Terms

IDEA- The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (the legislation covering the most advances for people with disabilities)

IEP- Individualized Educational Program (a written document detailing what approaches to education and socialization are most efficient for the given person

FAPE- free appropriate public education (a mandate from IDEA, what all children are entitled to now, but not in the past)

LRE- least restrictive environment (where all children have the right to be educated, an advancement from the past)

RTI- response to intervention 

Transition services- typically refers to the transition between high school to adulthood and acquiring appropriate skills for the person's placement after schooling