Term

Meaning

Brief Profiles

Each brief profile is fictional and is not based on any individual child or student.

Child/Children

Term for young children at home or in early childhood settings before they start school.

Conductor

A person trained in the delivery of Conductive Education programmes to students with physical needs.

Echolalia

The immediate or delayed, involuntary repetition of words or phrases spoken by others. The echolalia is generally said without complete understanding.

EIT

Early Intervention Teacher employed to work with children in the early childhood education sector who have special education needs.

Education Outside The Classroom

Education outside the classroom trips, such as camps and visits in the community.

Essential Learning Areas

A term used in the New Zealand Curriculum to describe the core areas of knowledge and understanding.

Essential Skills

A term used in the New Zealand Curriculum to describe the core groupings of skills and attributes for students.

ESW

Education Support Worker - the term for a paraprofessional (teacher aide) working in an early childhood education setting.

Habilitationist

a professional person who is specially trained to regularly work with a child to train them to use the sound signal given by a cochlear implant

IEP

Individual Education Plan - a document that identifies a student's individual needs for specialists, teachers, strategies and additional resources to access the curriculum and/or adapt its content.

Level One Objectives

The first set of achievement goals described in the Essential Learning Areas in the New Zealand Curriculum.

Manager Eligibility

The manager at the National Office of the Ministry of Education responsible for ORRS.

New Zealand Curriculum

The official policy for teaching, learning and assessment in New Zealand schools.

Operations Grant

Funding for schools' day to day operations.

Orientation and Mobility Instructor

A specialist who teaches people who are blind to navigate around their environments.

Parent/s

Term for the various names of adults in families/whānau i.e. parent/s, caregiver/s, or step-parent/s.

Spasticity

A state of increase in muscle tension characterised by spasms and resistance to stretching

Students

Term for children and young people at school.

Te Whāriki

The early childhood education curriculum.

The Criteria

Term to cover the phrase `one criterion or more'.

Transition

When children move from early childhood education to school, or students move between schools, or leave school.