Glossary
Preschool Special Education Teacher Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential preschool special education teacher terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key preschool special education teacher vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in preschool special education teacher training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- AAC
- Augmentative and alternative communication.
- Accommodation
- Change in how a student learns or is tested.
- Developmental delay
- Slower development than peers.
- Early intervention
- Services from birth to age 3.
- IDEA
- Federal special education law.
- IEP
- Individualized Education Program.
- Inclusion
- Learning alongside peers without disabilities.
- LRE
- Least restrictive environment.
- Modification
- Change in what a student learns.
- Part B 619
- Preschool special education.
- Part C
- IDEA infant and toddler services.
- Present levels
- Current performance in the IEP.
- Progress monitoring
- Tracking growth on goals.
- Transition
- Moving to kindergarten.
- Visual schedule
- Picture-based routine.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Preschool Special Education Teacher practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Preschool Special Education Teacher training.
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