Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 751 - DEFINITION OF TERMS › Section 751.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Assistant Director" - means the Assistant Director of the
				Illinois Department of Human Services-Division of Rehabilitation Services
				(DHS-DRS).
"Behavioral Intervention" - an intervention based on the
				methods and empirical findings of behavioral science designed to influence a
				child's actions or behaviors positively.
"Consent" - means permission of the parents or guardians after
				being informed of all necessary information.
"Days" - unless otherwise specified, means days when school is
				officially conducted during the regularly established school year.
"DHS" - means the Illinois Department of Human Services and
				does not include any contractor, grantee, nominee agency or service
				provider.
"Director" - means the Director of the Illinois Department
				of
Human Services-Division of Rehabilitation Services
				(DHS-DRS).
"Domain" - means an aspect of a child's functioning or
				performance that must be considered in the course of designing an evaluation.
				The domains are health, vision, hearing, social and emotional status, general
				intelligence, academic performance, communication status and motor
				abilities.
"Education Liaison" - means an employee of the Department of
				Human
Services-Division of Rehabilitation Services who serves as a
				program liaison with the DHS-DRS residential Schools and ISBE.
"Eligibility Review" or "ER" - means a deliberation among
				appropriate persons, considering the least restrictive environment, for the
				purpose of determining eligibility for special education, developing
				recommendations for special education programming, reviewing educational
				progress, or considering the modification, continuation or termination of
				enrollment in the School for an individual student.
"Functional Behavioral Assessment" - means an assessment
				process for gathering information regarding the target behavior, its
				antecedents and consequences, controlling variables, the student's strengths,
				and the communicative and functional intent of the behavior, for use in
				developing behavioral interventions.
"Individualized Education Plan" or "IEP" - a written statement
				for a student that provides at a minimum a statement of: the student's present
				levels of educational performance; annual goals and short-term instructional
				objectives; specific special education and related services; the extent of
				participation in the basic special education program; the projected dates for
				initiation of services; anticipated duration of services; appropriate objective
				criteria and evaluation procedures; and a schedule for annual determination of
				short-term objectives.
"Least Restrictive Environment" or "LRE" - means, to the
				maximum extent appropriate, children with disabilities are educated with
				children without disabilities. Special classes, separate schooling or other
				removal of children with disabilities from the regular educational environment
				occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability requires that
				education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services
				cannot be achieved satisfactorily.
"Local Education Agency" or "LEA" - means the education entity
				that geographically serves the student and/or parent or guardian.
"Local School District" - means the district in which a student
				and/or parent or guardian resides.
"Non-academic Activities" - means activities relating to the
				students' social and recreational needs (e.g., sports, clubs, and student
				council).
"Parent or Guardian" - means the natural, surrogate or adoptive
				parent or legal guardian of the person or student.
"Parent or Guardian Counseling and Training" - means assisting
				parents or guardians in understanding the special needs of their child and
				providing parents or guardians with information about child development.
"Personal Representative" - means an individual who has been
				designated by the student or parent or guardian to serve as a representative
				during an appeal procedure.
"Psychological Evaluation" - means an evaluation of the
				student's functioning in the cognitive, psychomotor, social, emotional, and
				academic achievement or aptitude areas using appropriately validated formal and
				informal tests and evaluation material.
"Reevaluation" - means a series of diagnostic procedures that
				are performed in accordance with 89 Ill. Adm. Code 795 for the purpose of
				determining a student's continued eligibility for enrollment at the
				School.
"Related Services" - means the developmental, corrective, and
				other supportive services that are required to assist a student to benefit from
				special education. Such services include: speech pathology and audiology,
				psychological services, physical and occupational therapy, recreation, early
				identification and assessment of disabilities in children, counseling services,
				and medical services for diagnostic or evaluation purposes. The term also
				includes transportation, school health services, social work services, and
				parent or guardian counseling and training.
"School" - means one of the three residential schools operated
				by DHS-DRS: the Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education-Roosevelt
				(ICRE-R), the Illinois School for the Deaf (ISD), or the Illinois School for
				the Visually Impaired (ISVI).
"Secretary" - means the Secretary of the Illinois Department of
				Human Services.
"Special Education" - means those instructional and related
				services, unique materials, physical plant adjustments, and other special
				facilities, provided by the School to meet the unique needs of students, that
				may modify, supplement, support, or are in the place of the standard
				educational program of the public schools. The term includes speech pathology
				and vocational education.
"State Board" - means the Illinois State Board of Education
				(ISBE)
"Student" - means a person attending, or making application for
				admission to, one of the Schools. All references to "student" include the
				parent or guardian unless the student is 18 years of age or over, in which case
				it refers to the student only.
"Student Records" - means both temporary and permanent student
				records as defined by 23 Ill. Adm. Code 375 (Student Records), the Illinois
				School Student Records Act [105 ILCS 10 ], and the Family Educational Rights
				and Privacy Act of 1974 (
				20
				USC 1232 g ).
"Superintendent" - means the superintendent of a School or an
				individual designated by the superintendent to serve on his or her
				behalf.
"Transition Services" - means the teaching of skills needed by
				students to transition to successful adult life. These services include, but
				are not limited to, independent living and daily living skills training,
				medical management, work related skills training and college preparatory
				coursework.