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v. t. e. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( IDEA) is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their individual needs. IDEA was previously known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) from 1975 to 1990.
Education in Virginia addresses the needs of students from pre-kindergarten through adult education. Virginia 's educational system consistently ranks in the top ten states on the U.S. Department of Education 's National Assessment of Educational Progress , with Virginia students outperforming the average in almost all subject areas and grade ...
Marcia Invernizzi is an American professor, author, and researcher in the field of Reading Education. At the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development (formerly the Curry School of Education), she teaches reading education. As founder of the Book Buddies program, she is known as a leader in early literacy intervention.
Pre 1997. The Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) began as an idea, a concept driven by need: the Joint Warfighting Center required short-courses and formal training of its staff and ODU determined it would take on that task. The concept became a plan, the plan became a Center; and all of this transpired over a three-year ...
Abecedarian Early Intervention Project. The Carolina Abecedarian Project was a controlled experiment that was conducted in 1972 in North Carolina, United States, by the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute to study the potential benefits of early childhood education for poor children to enhance school readiness.
Discrete trial training ( DTT) is a technique used by practitioners of applied behavior analysis (ABA) that was developed by Ivar Lovaas at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). DTT uses mass instruction and reinforcers that create clear contingencies to shape new skills. Often employed as an early intensive behavioral intervention ...
Relationship Development Intervention. Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) is a trademarked proprietary treatment program for autism spectrum disorders (ASD), based on the belief that the development of dynamic intelligence is the key to improving the quality of life for autistic people. The program's core philosophy is that autistic ...
Pretrial Intervention Program. The Pretrial Intervention Program ( PTI) is a program targeted at providing first-time offenders charged with non-violent crimes with an opportunity to avoid the crippling consequences often associated with a felony criminal conviction, and attempts to relieve some of the burden on the criminal justice system ...