Movement beginning in the 1960s where persons with intellectual disabilities and/or mental illness are moved from large mental institutions into smaller community homes or into their families homes.
What is deinstitutionalization?
100
The teaching of academics, such as reading and math, in the context of daily living skills.
What is functional academics?
100
The three categories of causes for intellectual disabilities.
What is a prenatal cause, perinatal cause, and postnatal cause?
100
Ability to regulate one's own behavior
What is self-regulation?
100
The name of the woman and special olympian in the TED talk.
What is Loretta Claiborne?
200
Court case which determined that students with disabilities must be given a public education even if they were unable to pay for the cost.
What is Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia
200
This type of instruction involves the educator consistently implementing instruction with sequencing and prompting/cueing
What is systematic instruction?
200
Disability which is a result of an abnormality in the 21st chromosome.
What is down syndrome?
200
A person's awareness of their own thought processes. Thinking about thinking.
What is metacognition?
200
Employment model where people with disabilities work with other people with disabilities on jobs requiring relatively low skills.
What is sheltered workshops?
300
Court case that determined that the state of Pennsylvania was responsible for providing free and public education to students with disabilities.
What is PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?
300
The process of encouraging or establishing a belief or pattern of behavior, especially by encouragement or reward.
What is reinforcement?
300
Hereditary cause of disability which affects the 23rd chromosome.
What is fragile x syndrome?
300
A tendency to believe something, usually a questionable statement, despite little evidence.
What is gullibility?
300
Employment model where a person with intellectual disabilities has competitive employment while receiving assistance. This is often through a job coach.
What is supportive competitive employment?
400
Law which replaces the use of "mental retardation" in law with "intellectual disability"
What is Rosa's Law?
400
The most commonly used IQ test for children.
What is the Wechsler Intelligence Intelligence Scale for Children?
400
Genetic disorder commonly inherited from the father. Infants begin lethargic and have difficulty with eating but become obsessed with food
What is Prader-Willi Syndrome
400
The ability to keep information in mind while performing another cognitive task.
What is working memory?
400
The ability to act autonomously, be self-regulated, act in a psychologically empowered manner, and act in a self realized manner.
What is self-determination?
500
Supreme Court decision which ruled that sterilization of people with intellectual disabilities did not violate the Due Process clause of the 14th amendment.
What is Buck v. Bell?
500
Test that assesses communication, living skills, motor skills, maladaptive behavior, and socialization.
What is the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale
500
Syndrome caused by an absence of material on the seventh chromosomes
What is Williams Syndrome?
500
The social and practical intelligence used in one's everyday life.
What is adaptive behavior?
500
Project with the goal of understanding and mapping human genes.