Every field has its lingo and jargon. Special education has more than its share and sometimes the language contains coded or veiled meanings that are hard for parents to discern or decipher. The following link is a useful and sometime humorous decoder ring for the phrases, jargon and lingo used everyday in schools and at IEP meetings. It might be good to bone up on this table of buzz words just in time for the new school year in the Fall.
Thanks to a friend and dedicated advocate Jean Kulcyck for bringing this link to my attention.
I can definately relate to the special education lingo. I am currently a senior in special education and when I first started my curriculm classes I had no idea what was going on. We even had tests in Intro to Special Education to learn the lingo. Now that I know it I love using the lingo.
Posted by: claire | October 08, 2008 at 05:25 PM
I think you have done a great job by offering people with this list.Would be of great help to many parents.I have already reffred it to some people i knew who actually needed help with this.Thanks!
Posted by: Internship | October 24, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Its a nice posting.
Thanks..
Posted by: International English language | December 03, 2008 at 04:43 AM