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BRAINS & NERVES
STUFF HAPPENS
TALKING THE TALK
STAGES
RULES & REGS
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The brain lets neurons die off in this process of typical development
What is Pruning?
100
Specific facial features, cardiac issues, cognitive delays and speech-language challenges are all common in this genetic disorder.
What is Down Syndrome?
100
Some examples could include a Big Mac switch, a picture exchange binder, a 3 choice voice output device or a diaper.
What is a non-verbal/augmentative communication device?
100
This is the stage of pregnancy when the fetus is most vulnerable to exposure to toxins/teratogens.
What is the Embryonic stage?
100
This is the Part of federal special education law that deals specifically with children who are 3 to 5 years old, but not yet eligible for school enrollment.
What is Part B?
200
Primitive reflexes
What are the repeated movements seen in newborn infants that soon fade away?
200
The Alphabet People say IEP, LRE, SLP, and DD
What are...
200
This is when a young child begins to produce speech sounds in combinations, but without accurate meaning.
What is jargon OR babbling?
200
This is considered the most efficient time for a child to develop a particular skill or ability.
What is the Sensitive Period or Critical Period?
200
This would be an example of a Legislative rationale for creating and implementing a special education service.
What is (ANY legislation that has led to a special education mandate)?
300
This is the direction in which an infant gradually gains neurological control over their motor system.
What is Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal OR What is up to down and in to out?
300
Developmental characteristics of this disorder include distinctive facial characteristics, pre- and post-natal growth retardation and cognitive disabilities
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
300
This is the "Use" area of Language, often challenging for those with High Functioning Autism.
What is Pragmatics?
300
In this battle, one refers to a child's genetic makeup and innate characteristics, and the other to the impact that the child's environment (including the other people in it) has on their development and outcomes. 
What is Nature versus Nurture?
300
They don't mean the same thing.  One is the gathering of specific data to determine a level of function.  The other is the interpretation and application of varied data sets to make a decision.
What are Assessment and Evaluation?
400
This condition is characterized by difficulties in communication, socialization and organization, and often includes intellectual disability.

What is Autism (Spectrum Disorder)?


400
These can include lack of adequate nutrition, lack of medical care, exposure to toxins, excessive stress and/or infections.
What are maternal risk factors during pregnancy?
400
The first is the act of producing the sounds necessary to communicate with others.  The second is the set of rules and definitions that allow our communications with others to make sense.
What is 1- Speech and 2- Language?
400
This stage can be complicated due to continuing development of the child's independent respiratory, circulatory and digestive systems.
What is the Neonatal period?
400
This must include the preschool child's primary service provider, parent and a representative of the local educational agency/district.  
What is the IEP team?
500

These involve an infant and its own body, an infant and an object in random interaction, and an infant and an object with purposeful manipulation.

What is a Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Circular Reaction?

500
This genetic disorder is characterized by distinct facial features, emotional and behavioral difficulties and intellectual disabilities.
What is Fragile X?
500
This area of language is associated with Content, and the message being conveyed.
What is Semantics?
500
This theory regarding children with special needs considers two stages of impairments, one based in organic impairment and the other in social implications.
What is Vygotsky's theory of disontogenesis?
500

What is Positive Social-Emotional Skills, Acquisition and Use of Knowledge and Skills, and Use of Behaviors to Meet Own Needs?

What are the three Outcomes areas addressed in IDEA law?