A chromosomal anomaly that often cause moderate to severe mental retardation, along with certain physical characteristics such as long tongue, heart problems, poor muschle tone, and a broad, flat, bridge on the nose
What is downs syndrome?
100
occurring before birth
What is Prenatal?
100
The stage of learning when a student is first learning a new skill.
What is Acquisition Stage?
100
A test constructed so that a person's socre can be compared to others of same age or grade level.
What is a Norm-Referenced Test?
100
breaking a complex skill or chain of behaviors into smaller teachable units.
What is task analysis?
200
A chromosomal abnormality associated with mild-to-severe mental retardation. Thought to be the most common known cause of inherited intellectual disabilities. Affects males more often and more severely than females. Behavioral characteristics are sometimes similar to individuals with autism. Diagnosis can be confirmed by studies of the X chromosome.
What is Fragile X Syndrome?
200
occuring after birth
What is postnatal?
200
A frequency-based measure of a student's active participation during instruction; measured by counting the number of observable responses made to an ongoing lesson or to curriculum materials.
What is ASR or Active Student Response?
200
A mathematically derived curve depicting the theoretical probability or distribution of a given variable or distribution of a given variable in the general population.
What is a Normal Curve?
200
an inherited metabolic disease that can cause severe mental ratrdation. Can now be detected at brith.
What is Phenylketonuria PKU?
300
A disability chracterized by significant limitations in both intellectual funtioning and adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills. Originates before age 18.
What is intellectual disability?
300
occurring during birth or shortly after
What is perinatal?
300
Conceptual, social, an practical skills that people have learned in order to function in their everyday lives.; without disabilities in meeting the expectations of everyday environments.
What is Adaptive Behavior?
300
A desriptive statistic that shows the average amount of variability among a set of scores.
What is Standard Deviation?
300
the extent to which previously learned knowledge or skill either occurs under conditions different from those under which it was originally learned or is performed in a different but functionally equivalent manner.
What is generalization?
400
A form of self-injurous behavior in which the person ingests nonnutritive substances. (dirt, rocks, etc) Exibited by some peope with moderate and severe mental retardation.
What is PICA?
400
The insertion of a hollow needles trhough the abdomen into the uterus of a pregnant woman. Used to obtain amniotic fluid in order to determine the presence of genetic and chromosomal abnormalities. It also confirms the gender of the fetus.
What is amniocentesis?
400
The stage of learning after a student has learned how to perform a new skill, she would work to develop fluency with the target skill. feedback during the practice stage of learning should empasize the rate of speed with which the student correctly performs the skill.
What is practice stage?
400
a discussion between a specially trained medical counselor and people who are statistically likely to have a baby with a disability.
What is Genetic Counseling?
400
The extent to which a learner continues to exhibit a previously learned behavior after a portion or all the instructional intervention originally used to teach the skill has been terminated.
What is maintenance?
500
A contagious viral infection best known by its distintive red rash. If contracted by mothers during the first 3 months of pregnancy causing severe damage in 10-40% of unborn children. Causes visual impairments, intellectual disabilites, and/or congenital impairments in the child.
What is Rubella AKA German Measles?
500
A procedure for prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities that can be conducted during the first 8 to 10 weeks of pregnancy; fetal cells are removed from the chorionic tissue, which surrounds the fetus and directly analyzed.
What is CVS or chronic villi smapling?
500
presentation of a stimulus or event immediately after a response has been emitted, which has the primary effect of increasing the occurrence of similar responses in the future.
What is positive reinforcement?
500
How many children does Professor Kenneally have?
What is 5?
500
As a philosophy and principle, the belief that individuals with disabilities should, to the maximum extent possible, be physically and socially integrated into the mainstream of society regardless of the degree or type of disability.