Policies & Litigation
This act that states all youth with disabilities between the ages of 3 and 21 have the right to free education that is appropriate for them.
What is Individuals with Disabilities Act?
These are the two criteria needed by a student to be considered as having an intellectual disabilities?
What is low intellectual functioning and low adaptive skills?
This was once of the first instances in which ADHD was alluded to.
What is “Fidgety Phil, the character in the poem”?
This term emphasizes that the disabilities associated with ASD fall on a continuum from relatively mild to severe.
What is spectrum?
This is the inability to receive ideas, facts, feelings which might include language or speech.
What is communication disorder?
This act is intended to so students with intellectual disabilities can receive nondiscriminatory treatment and protection of their civil rights.
What is The Americans with Disabilities Act?
This is a prenatal cause of intellectual disability due to an extra chromosome. Characteristics of this disability may include large head and flat ears, long narrow face, broad nose, and large hands with non tapering fingers.
What is Down Syndrome?
This is usually used by professionals to determine of a student meets ADHD criteria.
What is the DSM-5?
These are the two domains for ASD under the DSM-5.
What are “social communication impairment” and “repetitive/restricted behaviors”?
These are the three elements of communication.
What are context which communication occurs ,reason why one communicates, and execution of communication comprehension and expression?
This act made it so that people with disabilities had to test at a level similar to people who did not have any disabilities and teachers had to be “highly qualified”. Many claimed it could not be done in regards to special education.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
This environmental cause occurs when pregnant mothers drink. Children with this condition can have altered facial features, growth retardation, and intellectual disabilities
What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
These are the three subtypes of ADHD under the DSM-5.
What are predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive, and combined type?
The gold standard for diagnosing autism include these.
What are autism diagnostic observation schedule (ADOS) and the autism diagnostic interview-revised (ADI-R)?
These children seem to not have the ability to differentiate and produce phonemes or sounds to make understandable words.
What are children with phonological disorders?
In this case the court ruled in favor of a mother's school. The mother believed her child needed a sign language interpreted to accommodate for her disabilities ,but her school claimed she did not because they had an individualized program for her and she was preforming at level or above the level of their other peers.
What is Board of Education Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley?
This perinatal cause can cause different kinds of behavioral, medical, and intellectual problems. It is common in babies who are born premature. Mothers who are in property are most likely to give premature birth.
What is low birth weight?
Under this category people with ADHD can receive accommodations " in instances where the ADD is chronic or acute health problem that results in limited alertness which adversely affects educational performance”.
What is "other health impairment"?
These are warning signs of autism in young children.
What are regressions in babbling, speech, and/or social skills.
These are things an individual with an articulation disorders may do.
What are omitting, substituting, distorting, or adding speech sounds.
In this case a school district tried to use language from Board of Education Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley to argue that this child was receiving some form of help and it was enough, but the court ruled that the form of education he was receiving was not sufficient.
What is Endrew F. v. The Douglas County School?
This post natal cause is a toxin that poisons a child and has been linked to intellectual disabilities. It can be found in paint, although now it is mostly prohibited, it still exists in houses of low SES.
What is lead?
These are the four components used to assess ADHD.
What are a medical examination, clinical interview, teacher and parent rating skills, and behavioral observation done by clinician.
A combination of these two have been shown to help reduce or eliminate inappropriate behaviors displayed by students with autism.
What are Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and Positive Behavioral Intervention and Support (PBIS)?
These are the three categories of causes of voice disorders.
What are functional disorders caused by damage to the larynx, organic disorders caused by growths in the larynx or other physical conditions that affect the structure or function of the larynx, and organic disorders caused by nervous system dysfunctions.