- IEP
- Individualized Education Program: the document listing a child's special education services.
- FAPE
- Free appropriate public education, the legal entitlement under IDEA.
- IDEA
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the federal special education law.
- CSE
- Committee on Special Education, the team that develops IEPs in New York.
- Compensatory services
- Extra services to make up for ones a child was owed and didn't get.
- Due process complaint
- The formal filing that starts a hearing case.
- IHO
- Impartial hearing officer, who decides a hearing case.
- SRO
- State Review Officer, who hears appeals of IHO decisions in New York.
- RSA
- Related Services Authorization, letting a family use an independent provider for a related service.
- SETSS
- Special Education Teacher Support Services.
- Related services
- Support services such as speech, OT, PT and counseling.
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