Fancy Words
Relates to the special skills or training needed for a particular job or occupation.
What is vocational?
2001 federal law enacted to provide financial incentives in states to improve their special education services and services for all students.
What is shrapnel?
A headache that has no specific cause.
What is a primary headache?
Behavior to be changed
What is target behavior?
Competitive employment with ongoing support services.
A legal, written plan or program, developed by the school's special education team with input from the parents, specifying the student's academic goals based upon assessment and the method to obtain these goals via specially designed instruction and related services.
What is Individualized Education Plan? (IEP)
Medical discharge resulting from injury or illness, granted by the Medical Evaluation Board.
What is MEB discharge?
Initial cause of damage to the brain, from which injury severity ratings are obtained.
What is primary injury?
Mobile wireless computer that is more compact than a laptop.
What is tablet device?
A therapeutic training modality in which a person with a functional deficit learns the use of an adaptive technology with the help of a skilled professional (ex. OT)
What is technology training?
A federal mandate for public schools to provide a free appropriate public education at no cost to parents, for students ages birth to 21 with disabilities through special education supports and related services.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
A service member's job within the military.
What is Military occupational specialty (MOS)?
The initial injury incurred as a result of blast waves that cause overpressure resulting in organ and tissue damage.
What is primary blast injury?
Top; from above
A holistic approach to VR where VR is one part of an individualized rehabilitation program.
What is vocational case coordination? VCC
A coordinated set of activities for special education that promotes successful movement from school to post-school activities as mandated under the IDEA by age 6 and is part of the IEP document.
What is Individual Transition Plan? (ITP)
Complex primary and secondary damage to the brain caused by shock waves emanating from the blast of an explosion, rocking the brain within the skull, i.e., injury resulting directly or indirectly from an explosion.
What is blast injury (or bast-induced neurotrauma)?
Fatigue that results directly from injury or disease.
Imitrex
What is Sumatriptan? (migraine medicine)
A concept in OT, in which a person with an injury works with an OT on the patient's identified neuromuscular deficits in simulated work conditions in a PT gym. The emphasis is often on restoring musculoskeletal function while safely performing work demands. Often a part of a return-to-work program.
What is Private School Service Plan (PSSP)?
Screening tool used immediately following injury to assess potential deficits. It records the history of the traumatic event, occurrence of symptoms, and cognitive evaluation that is based on the Standardized Assessment of Concussion used in sports injury evaluation.
What is MACE (Military Acute Concussion Evaluation)?