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Disabilities & Behaviors
Educational Terms
Educational Terms
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A national professional association for speech and language therapists and audiologists
What is the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association?
100
A a disability in which a child’s intel- lectual and adaptive behavior is below average, which impacts upon the child’s education.
What is a Cognitive Delay?
100
A neurologically-based, often familial, disorder that interferes with the acquisition and processing of language .
What is Dyslexia?
100
The state academic standards which are benchmark measures that define what students should know and be able to do at specified grade levels beginning in grade three.
What are Standards?
100
Is a score derived from a standardized intelligence test that estimates a child’s capacity to learn .
What is an Intelligence Quotient?
200
Conducts programs to prevent brain injury and to improve the quality of life for people who have experienced brain injury . BrainSTEPS, which is a school reentry program, provides teams of professionals to assist those who pro- vide educational support to students with brain injury .
What is the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania?
200
A communication disorder characterized by difficulty understanding and/or producing language .
What is Aphasia?
200
A recurrent pattern of negative, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior toward authority figures, which persists for at least six months .
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
200
Refers to a child’s ability to recover, in a reasonable time, critical skills that are lost following an extended break in the school year and is a critical factor in determining the need for extended school year services .
What is Recoupment?
200
Refers to the loss of critical skills within an extended break in the school year and is a critical factor in determining the need for extended school year services .
What is Regression?
300
A federal requirement that mandates that states must actively locate children, from birth to age 21, who have disabilities or who are at risk for developing disabilities .
What is Child Find?
300
Combines hearing and visual impairments, which cause such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that the child cannot be accommodated in special edu- cation programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness .
What is Deafblindness?
300
Are basic behaviors (e .g ., mealtime skills) a child has mastered or needs to master to get along as independently as possible in society.
What are Functional Behaviors?
300
Statements written into an IEP that describe a child’s current functioning including strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles .
What are Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance
300
Refers to children whose primary language is not English .
What is Limited English Proficiency?
400
The largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or individuals who are gifted .
What is the Council for Exceptional Children?
400
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or perform mathematical calculations .
What is a Learning Disability?
400
An impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
What is a Visual Impairment?
400
A federal mandate that all children with disabilities must receive appropriate educational programs, tailored to their unique needs, from which they receive educational benefit at no cost to families .
What is Free Appropriate Public Education?
400
A program is one designed to meet the unique developmental needs of an indi- vidual child with a disability who is three, four, or five years of age .
What is a Preschool Early Intervention?
500
A statewide, nonprofit corporation designated as the federally-mandated organization to advance and protect the civil rights of adults and children with disabilities . DRN works with people with disabilities and their fami- lies, their organizations, and their advocates to ensure their rights .
What is the Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania?
500
A developmental disability generally evident before age three that signifi- cantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction, and educational performance .
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
500
An impairment of the ability to perform coordinated physical movements.
What is Dyspraxia?
500
The degree of progress expected of children in academic areas and is annually established by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
What is Adequate Yearly Progress?
500
A place, including the home and community settings, where a child would be if the child did not have a disability .
What is a Natural Environment