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| Nondiscriminatory Evaluation |
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| an evaluation in which the materials and procedures used are not racially or culturally biased. |
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| Individualized Education Program |
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| it defines the individualized objectives of a child who has been found with a disability; it is intended to help the children reach educational goals more easily |
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| Individualized Family Service Plan |
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| is a written plan for providing services to infants and toddlers, ages zero to three, and their families |
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| Least Restrictive Environment |
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| an IDEA principle that requires that students with disabilities be educated to the maximum extent appropriate with students who do not have a disability and that they be removed from regular education settings only when the nature or severity of their disability cannot be addressed with the use of supplementary aids and services |
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| is the principle of IDEA that seeks to make the schools and parents accountable to each other through a system of checks and balances |
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| General education curriculum |
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| refers to the curriculum used by nondisabled students |
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| Academic content standards |
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| define the knowledge, skills, and understanding that students should attain in academic subjects |
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| Student achievement standards |
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| define the levels of achievement that students must meet to demonstrate their proficiency in the subjects |
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| typically support the notion that nonwhite people are genetically deficient when compared to white people |
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| blames the failure of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds on the disadvantages that they experienced within their own cultures |
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| Cultural reproduction theory |
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| holds that "racial and class inequity are reproduced over time through instructional and individual actions and decisions that maintain the status quo at the expense of less privileged groups" |
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| means two or more people who regard themselves to be a family and who carry out the functions that families typically perform |
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| refers to the ectent to which the family's needs are met, family members enjoy their life together, and family members have the chance to do the things that are important to them |
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| Domains of family quality of life |
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| include emotional well-being, parenting, family interaction, physical/material well-being and disability-related support |
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| Specific learning disability |
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| means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language |
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| refers to the condition of having severe difficulty in learning to read |
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| involves storing information permanently for later recall |
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| is a regional variation of a language, as when someone speaks English using terms or pronunciations common only in that region |
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| is the smallest meaningful unit of speech |
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| are individual speech sounds and how they are produced, depending on their placement in a syllable or word |
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| involves an extreme deviation in either a dperessed or an elevated direction or sometimes in both directions at different times |
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| is characterized by psychotic periods resulting in hallucinations, delusions, inability to experience pleasure, and loss of contact with reality |
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| is behavior that lacks typical movement, activity, and/or expression |
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| is a process that enables teachers to compare goals and to quantify student goal attainment |
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| involves multiple interventions or treatments across modes or types of therapies |
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| are charts that are laid out in the form of a capital letter "T"; they allow teachers to track two aspects of a behavior together |
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| are the services, resources, and personal assistance that enable a person to develop, learn, and live effectively |
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| is the mental ability to recall information that has been stored for a few seconds to a few hours |
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| refers to how students process information in order to remember it |
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| Self-instruction strategies |
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| involve teaching students to use their own verbal or other communication skills to direct their own learning |
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| Student-directed learning strategies |
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| teach students with and without disabilities to modify and regulate their own learning |
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| is a collection fo two or more features that result from a single cause |
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| is a device such as a rhyme, formula, or acroynym that is used to aid memory |
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| helps students remember numbered or ordered information by linking words that rhyme with numbers |
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| involves obsessions, tics, and perseveration |
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| a large group of malformations associated with the spinal cord, brain, and vertebrae |
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| are temporary neurological abnormalities that result from unregulated electrical discharges in the brain, much like an electrical storm |
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| Topoghraphical classification system |
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| correlates that specific body location of a movement impairment with the location of the brain damage |
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| means that the injury occurred after a child was born |
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| refers to lost or reduced muscle strength |
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| refers to inflammation of the brain |
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| is a hearing loss that occurs in both ears |
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| is a group of individuals who are deaf; share a culture, attitudes, and a set of beliefs; and use American Sign Language to communicate |
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| is a hearing loss in one ear only |
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| describes the cause or origin of a medical condition |
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| is a term that regers to individuals whose central visual acuity, when measured in both eyes and when they are wearing corrective lenses, is 20/200 or whose visual field isno more than 20 degrees |
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| is an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness. |
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| refers to efforts to expand the breadth and depth of the coverage of a given topic |
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| Multidimensional model of intelligence |
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| considers multiple domains of intelligence as contrasted to only intellectual ability or academic achievement |
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| is a person who is gifted to the point of being unmistakably extraordinary |
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