The study of aging.
What is gerontology?
Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities have limitations in intellectual functioning and this.
What are adaptive behaviors?
This advocate is an inventor with autism.
Who is Dr. Temple Grandin?
This population of music therapy is consistently growing each year.
What are older adults?
The fourth leading cause of death among the elderly in the US and considered to be the primary cause of dementia.
What is Alzheimer’s?
Behaviors that interfere with learning and interacting appropriately.
What are maladaptive behaviors?
They are 3 to 4 times more likely to have autism.
Who are boys?
This neurological disorder affects nearly 1 million Americans a year. It causes significant limitations to fine, gross, and oral motor abilities.
What is Parkinson’s?
Individuals with an IQ in the range of 20 to 35 are classified as this.
What is severe?
The percentage of those with autism who have average to above average intellectual abilities.
What is 44%?
This type of therapy is an approach to accept the person as he or she is by being an empathetic listener and trying to understand the client’s point of view.
What is validation?
The three major causes (diagnoses) of ID are these.
What are Down syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome and Fragile X syndrome?
Research has shown that individuals with autism often have abnormal levels of this.
What are neurotransmitters?
NAMT and AAMT merged in 1998 to form this current national music therapy organization.
What is the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA)?
The universal and inevitable decline in the efficiency of body systems.
What is senescence?
These are the three major areas of limitations in adaptive behavior.
What are conceptual, social and practical skills?