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Mental Retardation
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Disaility characterized by significantly below average intellectual functioning and deficits in adaptive functioning that occur during the developmental period (prior to age 18) that has an adverse effect on education
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Adaptive Behavior
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Day to day knowledge and skills necesary for independace, including communication, self-care, social skills, home living, leisure and self direction. Deficits in adaptive behavior comprise one component of identifying students with mental retardation.
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Cultural Familial Retardation
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Dated view of mental retardation, usually mild, for which a specific cause could not be identified, and so it was assumed to be a resultof the family's characteristics and living conditions
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Down Syndrome
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Genetic cause of mental retardation in which an extra chromosome is present in the twenty-first chromosome paid. Indivuduals with Down Syndrome are usually short in stature, have straight hair and slating eyelids, and may have hearing problems or heart condition
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Fragile X Syndrome
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Most common form of inherited mental retardation, transmitted from mother to child and causing a mutation in one of the genes in the X chromosome. Also known as Martin-Bell Syndrome
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
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Prenatal, preventable cause of mild to moderate mental retardation resulting from maternal alcohol consumption. Leading cause of mental retardation.
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Phenylketonuria (PKU)
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Inherited metabolic disorder that occurs when the body is unable to produce the chemicals needed to convert other, toxic chemicals into harmless products. Treatment includes lifelong regulation of diet.
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Encephalitis
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Inflammation of brain, caused by viral infection
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Lead Poisoning
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Preventable cause of mental retardation; caused brains to have too much lead in them
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Brain Injury
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any event that produces damage to brain can cause mental retardation
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Mild Mental Retardation IQ
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55-69
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Moderate Mental Retardation IQ
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40-54
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Severe Mental Retardation IQ
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25-39
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Profound Mental Retardation IQ
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Below 25
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Metacognition
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thinking about thinking
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Generalization
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the ability to learn a task and apply it in other situations
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Four Levels of Support
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Intermittent
Limited Extensive Pervasive |
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One Level of Support: Intermittent
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As Needed
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One Level of Support: Limited
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time needed
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One level of Support: Extensive
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usually ongoing; 24/7
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One level of Support: Pervasive
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Lifelong
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Sociograms
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teacher made suvey designed to provide information regarding students and how they interact with peers
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Stanford-Binet Test
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Test used to assess intellectual functioning in students, measuring students overall abilities, whic hare used to predict school achievement
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Life Skills Curriculum
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stresses skills students with mental retardation many need throughout life
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Applied Academic Skill
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Skill taught to students that has immediate applicability to deny to day life; includes making change for a dollar
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Community Based Instruction
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experience in applying skills learned in classrooms within the larger context of the community of which they live in
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Seft-Determination
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students rights to make plans that reflect their wishes, not only rhe ideas of parents and professionals in determining what they do in life as they enter adulthood
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Task Analysis
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Systematic learning by clearly outlining steps and instructions for assignments to learn what the instructions are without doubt
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