Archives: Terms to Know

A multi-disciplinary assessment of a child’s skills, strengths and needs to determine current level of functioning and how best to plan for the child. Includes testing in all areas of development: motor, cognition, speech/language, adaptive, social/emotional and physical general health. Includes a psychological, social history, observation of the child in a natural setting and a medical. Supplementary evaluations including speech/language, education, occupational therapy, or physical therapy may be added

A NYS program designed to assist developmentally delayed children ages birth-3 years of age with a confirmed disability or an established developmental delay in one or more of the following areas of development: physical, cognitive, communication, social-emotional, and/or adaptive.

Municipal staff member who serves as the designee of the EIO.

An appropriate municipal official designated by the Chief Executive Officer of a municipality.

A physical, sensory, cognitive or affective impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities.

A delay in some aspect of physical or cognitive development.

A severe language disorder that is presumed to be due to brain injury rather than because of a developmental delay in the normal acquisition of language.

The process of getting meaning from written or spoken symbols.

The process in which a child is no longer in need of special education and/or related services.

Responsible for children 5-21 with disabilities. A multidisciplinary team convening to evaluate the needs of a student and to determine eligibility for special education programs and/or services.