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The IEP Acronym Decoder

Every initialism you'll hear at an IEP meeting, IDEA, FAPE, LRE, PLAAFP, IEE, BIP, defined in plain English and Spanish. Free. No signup. Printable.

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If you've ever sat in an IEP meeting and felt like everyone was speaking in code, "We need an FBA before we update the BIP, and LEA flagged a possible IEE…", you're not alone. Special-education has dozens of acronyms, and schools rarely stop to translate them.

This is the decoder we wished we'd had on day one. Every IEP initialism a parent will hear, defined in plain language. Use the search above to jump to a specific acronym, browse by section below, or download the printable PDF to bring to your next meeting.

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