Across
- 5. Plaintiffs in the legal case who fought for equality and multicultural competency in New Mexico’s education system, and won!
- 7. Hands-on materials that help students to understand abstract concepts (e.g., fractions)
- 11. Plaintiff arguing “separate is not equal” in a case that set an important precedent in education
- 12. A neurodevelopmental disorder that has the same characteristics of specific learning disabilities (SLD), but isn’t an SLD
- 14. A strategy for developing differentiated instruction, starting from the desired results
- 15. Specific learning disability relating to difficulties in math, specifically understanding number-related concepts and using symbols or functions
- 19. A type of low-incidence intellectual disability, in which a person is born with an extra chromosome impacting their body and brain development
- 20. The most common specific learning disability, relating to difficulties in reading
Down
- 1. Example of what a person would want to be called if they prefer ASD identity-first language
- 2. American educator, author, and speaker known for her work around differentiated instruction
- 3. In the classroom, a student considered “at risk” may benefit from this role, along with students with disabilities
- 4. Part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 mandating that a person who has a condition that affects major life functioning is entitled to reasonable accommodations
- 6. A common accommodation is ______ time
- 8. A racist and ableist scientific movement designed to “improve" the human race by manipulated breeding, including forced sterilization, institutionalization, and genocide
- 9. Process of creating products that are accessible to people with a wide range of abilities, disabilities, and other characteristics (i.e. can be a guiding principle when building playgrounds)
- 10. Students with 504 plans do not receive these, they only receive reasonable accommodations
- 13. Acronym for the federal law that guides Special Education
- 16. Specific learning disability relating to difficulties in writing, specifically hand-eye associations
- 17. Acronym for the principle that children with disabilities should be educated with children who are not disabled to the maximum extent possible
- 18. Acronym for what all children receive if they are eligible for Special Ed services