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Attention Defecit Disorder
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Difficulty in concentrating and staying on a task. Used by the U.S. Department of Ed.
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Adderall
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Meds for ADD
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Difficulty in concentrating and staying on a task accompanied by hyperactivity
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Asperger's Syndrome
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Qualatative impairment in social interactions, impulse control, and self-motivation. Classifeid as high functioning autism
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Autism
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Lifelong developmental disability that is best described as a colletion of behavioral systems that affect verbal communication, nonverbal comunication, and social interaction
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Concerta
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Contains a type of Ritalin, psychostimulant medication
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Cylert
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Psychostimulant meds also known as pemoline
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Dexedrine
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Pyschocstimulant medication
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Distractability
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The tendency to attend to irrelevant external stimuli, a practice which detracts from attending to the task at hand
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Feingold Diet
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A diet that eliminates artificial flavors, artificial preservatives, and artificial colors in an attempt to control hyperactivity in children
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Hyperactivity
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A condition characterized by uncontrollable, haphazard, and poorly organized motor behvior
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Impulsivity
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A characteristic of ADD, in which the child reacts quickly without careful thought
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Inattention
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Not concentrating on a task
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Neurotransmitters
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The chemicals that transmit messages from one cell to another across the synapse
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Nonverbal learning disorders
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Poor skills in nonacademic areas of learning such as poor social skills
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Psychostimulant meds.
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Meds, including Ritalin, that are intially prescribed for a child with ADD
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Ritalin
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Medication prescribed to children with ADD
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Strattera
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Medication that is not a psychostimulant for the treatment of ADD/ADHD
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Adapted Physcial Education
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Physical education programs that have been modiefied to meet the needs of students with disabilities
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Auditory discrimination
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The ability to recognize a difference b/t phoneme sounds; also the ability to identify words that are the same and words that are different when the difference is a single phoneme element
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Center based program
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A program offered at a central facility for comprehensive services for young children and delivered by staff members with expertise in disciplines related to intervention and therapy for young children
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Child Find
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Ways of locating young children with disabilities in a community
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Developmentally appropriate practice
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Guidelines for a curriculum for young children basked on a constructivist philosophy emphasizing child-initiated learning, exploratory play, and the child’s interests.
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Developmental Delay
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a term designating that a child is slow in a specific aspect of development, such as in cognitive physical, communication, social/emotional, or adaptive development
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Head start
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a preschool program intended to provide compensatory educational experiences for children from low- income families who might other wise come to school unprepared and unmotivated to learn
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HOme Based program
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a system of delivering intervention services to very young children in their homes. Parents usually become the primary teacher. A professional child- care provider goes to the child’s home, typically one to three times per week, to train the parents to work with the child
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Individualized family service plan
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A plan for young children that includes the family as well as the child.
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kinesthetic perception
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Perception obtained through body movements and muscle feelings, such as the awareness of positions taken by different parts of the body and bodily feelings of muscular contraction, tension, and relaxation
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Part B of IDEA 2004
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Preschool children, ages 3 to 5 with disabilities are eligible to receive the same full rights under the law that older children have
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Part C of IDEA 2004
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Services for infants and toddlers with disabilities s are not mandated, but ___ authorizes financial assistance to the states through state grants.
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Perception
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The process of recognizing and interpreting information received through the senses
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Perceptual motor learning
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The integration of motor learning and visual perceptual learning
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Phonological awareness
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A child’s recognition of the sounds of language. The child must understand that speech can be segmented into syllables and phonemic units
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Occupational therapist
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A therapist who is trained in a brain physiology and function and who prescribes exercises to improve motor and sensory integration
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Screening
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a type of assessment using ways to survey many children quickly to identify those who may need special services
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Tactile pereception
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Perception obtained through the sense of touch via the fingers and skins surfaces
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Transition
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the process of moving from one type of program to another
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Visual discrimination
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the ability to note visual differences or similarities b/t objects, including letters and words
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Visual perception
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Recognition and knowledge of words. Consists of oral vocabulary and reading vocabulary
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Accomodations
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refers to adjustments and modifications within a general education program to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Required under section 504 of the Rehab. Act
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Americans with Disabilities
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A federal law passed in 1990 to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities
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Basic academic skills instruction
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instruction focusing on direct teaching, especially in reading and math. Students receive instruction at a level that approximates their achievement or instructional level.
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collaborative teaming
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Partnerships b/t the gene d teachers and sped teachers.
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competitive employment
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seeking job in competitive sector or going into military service
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content area teacher
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High school teachers whose primary orientation and expertise is the subject matter of their specialty. In contrast elementary school teachers tend to have an orientation and more expertise in child development
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functional survial skills instruction
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teaching survival skills to enable students to get along in the outside world
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Learned helplessness
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a trait of students with l.d. in which they exhibit passiveness and do not take on the responsibility for their own learning.
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Learning strategies instruction
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a series of methods to help students direct their own learning, focusing on how students learn rather than on what they learn
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Passive learners
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adolescents with l.d. who tend to wait for teacher direction instead of being actively involved in the learning situation
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Supported employment
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seeking noncompetitive employment in agencies with job coaches and with other types of support
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Transition planning
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planning for making the change from being a student to being an adult. Students with l.d. need help with this process
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Tutorial instruction
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teaching designed to help students meet requirements in their specific academic-content subjects and to achieve success in the regular curriculum. This teaching is usually accomplished through one-to-one instruction or in small groups
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Work study program
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a high school program in which students work on a job for a portion of the day and go to school for a portion of the day.
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Central nervous system
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the organic system comprising the brain and the spinal cord.
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Cerebral hemisphere
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One of the 2 halves (the right hem. And the left hem. that constitute the human brain
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Dyslexia
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a severe reading disorder in which the individual cannot learn to read or does not acquire fluent and efficient reading skills.
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
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a new MRI method for studying the live human brain at work
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Lateral preference
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a tendency to use either the right or left side of the body or to favor using the hand, foot, eye, or ear of one side of the body
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Magnetic Resonance imaging
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an advance neurology device that converts signals into a shape on a video screen, thereby permitting the study of the living brain
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Ophthalmologist
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a medical specialist concerned with the physiology of the eye, its organic aspects, diseases, and structure
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otitis media
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Middle-ear infection that may cause temporary hearing loss and may impede language development
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Positron emission tomography
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A procedure that permits one to measure metabolism within the brain
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Soft neurological signs
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minimal or subtle neurological deviations that some neurologists use as indicators of mild neurological dysfunction
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developmentally appropriate practice
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Guidelines for a curriculum for young children based on a constrcitivst philosophy emphasizing child-intiated learning, exploratory play, and the child's interest
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