Definitions of Disabilities
A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Speech and Language Disorder
A person trained to determine hearing loss.
Audiologist
The oral expression of language
Speech
One of the most common childhood emotional disorders that is characterized by excessive fear, worry or uneasiness.
Anxiety Disorder
A birth defect in which a developing baby's spinal cord fails to develop properly.
Spina Bifida
Developmental disability that significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, is generally evident before the age of 3, and adversely affects a student’s educational performance.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Brain injury NOT present at birth, injury caused by trauma to the head AFTER birth.
Acquired brain injury
Spastic, dyskinetic, athetoid, ataxic, and mixed are all types of _____________.
Cerebral Palsy
A disease or disorder that could be characterized as an Other Health Impairment
Diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, ADHD
The major cause of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Falls
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or to do mathematical calculations.
Learning Disabilities
Making things happen in one's own life is called
Self Determination
Name a type of an emotional behavior disorder.
The legal definition of blindness is based on the clinical measurement of visual _________
acuity
Kind of head injury where bones are exposed and/or skull is NOT left in tact.
Open head injury
Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior, and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects as child’s educational performance.
Intellectual Disabilities
A process to determine how a student uses his remaining vision in a variety of environments.
Functional Vision Assessment
A speech disorder is an impairment of
The eligibility criteria include a medical exam as part of the NDE process.
Physical Disabilities, Other Health Impairments, Traumatic Brain Injury
Hearing loss that is present at birth
Congenital hearing loss
The presence of concomitant impairments, the combination of which causes such intense educational needs that they cannot be accommodated by solely addressing one of the impairments
Multiple Disabilities
The conceptual, social, and practical skills that people perform to function in everyday life
Adaptive Behaviors
DD!!!! Students with dyslexia (reading disorder) experience challenges with reading tasks. Name one possible reading challenge.
Word identification, phonemic awareness, reading fluency, reading comprehension
DD!!!! Persistent behaviors that are directed outwardly, or aggressive, acting out, and non-compliant behaviors. Example: hitting, persistent bullying, destroying property, etc.
Externalizing behavior.
Occurring simultaneously (at the same time)
Concomitant