{"id":22800,"date":"2018-03-22T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=22800"},"modified":"2018-06-01T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:43:34","slug":"the-terminology-game-from-school-kids-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/the-terminology-game-from-school-kids-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Terminology Game &#8211; from School Kids Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"The%20Terminology%20Game%20-%20from%20School%20Kids%20Lawyer\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22822\" style=\"border: 0px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/compliance.rotated2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, if you have a child with an IEP under IDEA, you and the school team have already played\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Terminology Game<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my pet peeves in special education is when states or schools change terminology to suit their own purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Special ed involves enough Alphabet Soup that we don&#8217;t need variations to further confuse parents.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0In NJ, the group that participates in the IEP meeting is the &#8216;Child Study Team&#8217; or &#8216;CST.&#8217;\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #333333;\">This is <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">wrong.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 The proper term is &#8216;IEP Team.&#8217;\u00a0 20 U.S.C.1414(d)(1)(B).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In TX, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/evaluations-v-iep-meetings\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">IEP Team and meetings<\/span><\/a> are replaced with &#8216;ARD committee&#8217; and meetings.\u00a0 &#8216;ARD&#8217; stands for Admission, Review and Dismissal.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Again,<\/span><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">wrong<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 20 U.S.C.1414(d).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; In OH, there is an &#8216;ETR&#8217; or &#8216;Evaluation Team Report.&#8217;\u00a0 I have no idea what this is or to what it is referring.\u00a0 An evaluation? An IEP? In any case, it&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>wrong<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>There are more examples from other states &#8211; too many to list here.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">wrong<\/span><\/strong>?\u00a0 What is the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">danger<\/span><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>It is <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">wrong<\/span><\/strong> because the proper terms are described and defined in IDEA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The proper terms should be used so everyone knows what is being discussed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">danger<\/span> <\/strong>is that parents will be confused and unable to look up the law on the term.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, schools may feel they don&#8217;t have to comply with the law.<\/p>\n<p>If you are confused by the terminology used in your state, <strong>ask in writing<\/strong> what it means.<\/p>\n<p>Schools are required by law to explain it to you!\u00a0 34 C.F.R. 300.322(e).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*********************************************************<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolkidslawyer.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/inhouse\/skl.blog.2things.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>School Kids Lawyer, Robert C. Thurston, Esq., says, \u201cWe know you don\u2019t have a ton of spare time, so we designed our newsletter to have <em>2 (brief) Things<\/em> about special education law. Feel free to share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate him allowing us to share one <em>Thing<\/em> with you.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in the March 2018 issue of the <em>Special Ed Law Newsletter <\/em>from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/schoolkidslawyer.com\/\">School Kids Lawyer<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolkidslawyer.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/schoolkidslawyer.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt, if you have a child with an IEP under IDEA, you and the school team have already played\u2026 The Terminology Game \u201cOne of my pet peeves in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/the-terminology-game-from-school-kids-lawyer\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[132,1496,1497],"class_list":["post-22800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idea-2004","category-ieps","tag-iep-meetings","tag-robert-c-thurston","tag-school-kids-lawyer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22800"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23033,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22800\/revisions\/23033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}