PMR
An involuntary/automatic response to a stimulus
Reflex
Presence of obsessions and/or compulsions
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Differentiation between objects in the foreground and in the background
Developmental disability that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges.
Refers to the sense of touch and various qualities attributed to touch: to include detecting pressure, temperature, light touch, pain, discriminative touch.
The ability to remember for immediate recall the characteristics of a given object or form.
A technique of occupational therapy, which provides playful, meaningful activities that enhance and individual’s sensory intake and lead to more adaptive functioning in daily life.
Inflammation of one or more of your joints.
Arthritis
The sensory receptors in the nose pick up information about the odors around us and pass that information along a channel of nerves where it eventually reaches the brain.
AAROM
The ability to mentally manipulate forms and visualize the resulting outcomes. Size, shape, orientation.
Type of physical therapy that helps people improve their ability to stand and walk.
Progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions. It's the most common cause of dementia
Refers to our sense of movement and the pull of gravity, related to our body.
The ability to visualize a complete whole when given incomplete information or a partial picture.
The act of swallowing
Deglutition
A generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning.
Profound intellectual disability
The unconscious awareness of sensations coming from one’s joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments; the “position sense”.
The ability to remember forms or characters in correct order. This skill is particularly important in spelling.