Who are Children with Special Needs?
Children who do not follow typical patterns of development are known as...
Children with special needs
What is 1 reason that a child with physical disabilities may differ from children with typical physical development?
Genetic disorders, congenital conditions, serious illnesses OR Spinal cord, brain, or other bodily injuries.
For a child to be considered to have an intellectual disability, the child's intellectual abilities must be delayed ________________ compared to other children the same age.
a year or more
True or False?
Anxiety disorders, depression, childhood schizophrenia, and oppositional defiant disorder are examples of social-emotional special needs.
True.
What are thev2 "other types of special needs"?
Attention disorders and autism spectrum disorders.
Special needs may occur in what areas of development?
Physical, intellectual, and/or social-emotional.
What are the 3 types of physical disabilities discussed in the text?
Gross-motor conditions, vision conditions, and hearing conditions.
Children with intellectual disabilities tend to score below _____ on IQ tests.
70
List 2 general symptoms of anxiety disorders.
Excessive or prolonged worry, trouble sleeping and fatigue during the day, inability to focus on school work and other goals, irritability, withdrawn behaviors after difficult social interactions, resistance to change, and poor self-concept due to other's perceived judgments.
True or False?
Attention disorders and autism spectrum disorder are some of the most difficult special needs to identify and treat.
True.
How do professionals determine a child's type of special need?
Make observations and perform tests.
At what age is a child not being able to walk considered a physical developmental delay?
18 months.
While children with gifts excel largely in language and mathematical intelligence, children with talents excel in other _____________ areas.
intellectual
What percentage of children show improvement in their depression symptoms through medications and therapy?
80.
The exact cause of autism spectrum disorder is not known, Research suggests that autism spectrum disorder may be caused by _____________ factors as well as several _____________ factors.
genetic; environmental
True or False?
All special needs are apparent at birth.
False.
Some special needs are apparent at birth, but many special needs are not evident for several years to come.
What chronic vision condition occur when a person's better eye has a corrected visual acuity of 20/200 and/or in which the vision field is 20 degrees or less?
Legal blindness.
The most serious language disorder of childhood is acquired childhood aphasia, which is the partial or total loss of the ability to understand _______ and use ____________.
words; language
Name 3 of the environmental factors are associated with ODD?
Abuse and neglect, harsh or inconsistent discipline, lack of positive parental involvement, family instability, and depression and ADHD.
What percentage of children with autism spectrum disorder have an additional diagnosis?
70.
Define the term correctable and give an example of a correctable special need.
The term correctable indicates that a special need may be overcome or may subside with appropriate support and time.
Example, speech disorders.
Define articulation. What are the 2 other areas children with speech disorders typically face challenges in?
Articulation is the ability to pronounce words understandably.
Voice and Rhythm.
Studies show that ___________ disorders result from neural misfires in the brain.
Define misfires.
learning
Misfires are electrical signals that either fail to cross neuron synapses or cross these synapses incorrectly.
Childhood schizophrenia is rare in children under ____ years of age.
Is childhood schizophrenia more mild or severe than adult-onset schizophrenia?
7; Severe.
How many attention disorders have experts identified?
What are the 3 types attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder?
1; Inattentive type, hyperactive/impulsive type, and combined hyperactive/impulsive and inattentive type.