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This is the year that the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed
What is 1990
This is disorder that includes difficulty staying focused and paying attention, controlling behavior and hyperactivity.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
This is the age where most children start to show signs of Autism Spectrum Disoder
What is age 2
This is also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease
What is Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
This disorder is a common mental illness defined by feelings of uneasiness, worry and fear.
What is Anxiety
This is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children.
What is the Individual's with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
This is a specific learning disability that affects reading and related language-based processing skills.
What is Dyslexia.
This is the term used to describe a person as having an IQ of less than 50 or being nonverbal or minimally verbal.
What is profound Autism
This is a spectrum disorder in which disruptions to normal nerve activity in the brain trigger seizures, and is no longer considered a single disease.
What is Epilepsy
This disorder is characterized by periods of highly elevated or irritated mood and energy, known as manic or hypomanic moods depending on their severity.
What is Bipolar Disorder
The camp was meant to provide a nurturing community environment for people with a range of disabilities, such as polio and cerebral palsy.
What is Crimp Camp
This is a disorder which causes problems with movement and coordination, language and speech.
What is Dyspraxia
Out of the genders (biological male vs biological female) who has the higher prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disoder
What is biological males
This disease is a complex movement disorder that occurs when nerve cells in the brain start to die or no longer function. It is chronic and progressive and it mainly affects people older than 60 but can begin much earlier in life
What is Parkinson's Disease
There are a group of serious illnesses that affect the mind. They make it hard for someone to think clearly, make good judgments, respond emotionally, communicate effectively, understand reality, and behave appropriately.
What are Psychotic Disorders
This is a national law that protects people with disabilities from discrimination in programs and activities that receive federal funding and is s a way for schools to provide support for students with a disability so that they can learn in a regular classroom
What is Section 504
This is a specific learning disability that affects a person’s handwriting ability and fine motor skills.
What is Dysgraphia
This type of therapy is controversial with some parents believing it to be the most helpful intervention for their child while others, especially adults on the spectrum, call it abusive
What is ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) therapy
This is is the most common type of dementia. It is a progressive disease beginning with mild memory loss and possibly leading to loss of the ability to carry on a conversation and respond to the environment.
What is Alzheimer's Disease
This disorder is a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures. To fit this diagnosis, the pattern must persist for at least 6 months and must go beyond the bounds of normal childhood misbehavior. This disorder is more prevalent in boys than girls.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
This President signed the ADA into law
Who is George H.W. Bush
This is a specific learning disability where individuals have trouble interpreting nonverbal cues like facial expressions or body language and may have poor coordination.
What are Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities (NVLD)
Autism Parenting Magazine’s exclusive data reveals close to X % of autistic children have some form of gender dysphoria. What number is X?
What is 6%
•is an inherited disorder that causes nerve cells (neurons) in parts of the brain to gradually break down and die.
This disease attacks areas of the brain that help to control voluntary (intentional) movement, as well as other areas. These individuals develop uncontrollable dance-like movements (chorea) and abnormal body postures, as well as problems with behavior, emotion, thinking, and personality.
What is Huntington’s Disease
Children with this disorder are selfish, do not relate well to others, and lack an appropriate sense of guilt. They tend to misperceive the behavior of others as threatening and react aggressively.They may engage in bullying, threatening, and frequent fights and may be cruel to animals. They may damage property, especially by setting fires. Seriously violating rules is common and includes running away from home and frequent truancy from school.
What is Conduct Disorder