Acronyms
Disorders
Disability
Gardener
Grab-bag
100

Falls under IDEA; requires that all children are educated in settings that are as close as possible to general education classrooms

What is LRE?

100

Includea distorting a sounds like a lisp (thumtimes instead of sometimes), substituting one sound for another (shairp for chair), adding a sound (chuch air for chair), or omitting sounds (chai for chair).

What is Articulation disorders?

100

Involves both sides of the brain. Most are accompanied by uncontrolled jerking movements that ordinarily last 2 to 5 minutes, possibly loss of bowel or bladder control, and irregular breathing, followed by a deep sleep or coma.

What are Generalized tonic-clonic seziures?

100

Skills: sensitivity to, and capacity to discern, logical or numerical patters. Ability to handle long chains of reasoning

What is logical-mathmatical intelligence?

100

the inability to do something specific such as walk or hear

what is a disability ?

200

Federal legislation that prohibits discrimination toward people with disabilities in all scopes of society

What is ADA?

200

Can be among the most difficult to teach in a general education class, and they are a source of concern for many prospective teachers.

What are emotional and behavioral disorders?

200

Disability involving a range of motor or coordination difficulties due to brain damage

What is Cerebral Palsy?

200

Skills: ability to control body movements and know where your body is in space. ability to handle objects skillfully. 

What is bodily-kinesthetic intelligence?

200

A disadvantage in a particular situation, sometimes  caused by a  disability

What is a handicap?

300

An annually revised outline of the different services that an exceptional student will receive at school in order to help them best succeed based on their needs

What is an IEP?

300

Developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3 and ranging from mild to major

What is autism/autism spectrum disorders?

300

A seizure originating in just one area of the brain lasting only a minute or two. The person may experience a sudden feeling of joy, sadness, anger, or nausea or sensations such as taste, smell or movement in one part of the body

What is a focal seizure?
300

Skills: ability to perceive the visual and spacial world accurately. ability to perform transformation on those perceptions. 

What is spacial intelligence?
300

Mental efficiency, nonverbal abilities grounded in brain development

What is fluid intelligence?

400

Law that requires public funding for the creation and sustainment of appropriate educational programs for all students, regardless of their varying needs

What is FAPE?

400

Current term for disruptive behavior disorders marked by overactivity, excessive difficulty sustaining attention, or impulsiveness

what is ADHD?

400

Seeing at 2- feet what a person with normal vision would see at 200 ft and/or having severely restricted peripheral vision. 

What is legally blind?

400

Skills: ability to read the moods and motivations of others. Ability to understand desires and needs of others and respond appropriately 

What is interpersonal intelligence?

400

The ability to perform thoroughly learned tasks without much mental effort. The result of learning  to perform a behavior or thinking process so thoroughly that the performance is  automatic  and does not require effort.

What is automaticity?

500

A series of laws in the United States that ensures all children, whether they have a disability or do not, have access to free public education.

What is IDEA?
500
Disorder marked by seizures and caused by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain

What is Epilepsy?

500

Significantly below average intellectual and adaptive social behavior, evident before age 18

What is intellectual disability?

500
skills: knowledge of your own strengths, weaknesses, capabilities. Needs and ability to use these to guide your behavior. Access to your own feelings

what is intrapersonal intelligence?

500

A cognitive processing approach to understanding intelligence that focuses on the skills needed to be successful.

What is Triarchic theory of successful intelligence?

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