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| Factors in a child's environment, such as poverty, child abuse, family beliefs, and inaccessibility of medical care, the puts the child at risk for development disabilities. |
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| Points at which specific skills are acquired in a fairly predictable order. |
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| Using a spontaneous teaching opportunity, which is always initiated by the child when he or she asks for help, materials , or information. |
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| Making children with special needs "ready" for integration into the mainstream. |
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| the risk for developmental disabilities that infants and children who have systems undergone a biological insult, such as accident, injury, or serve stress, are subjected to. |
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| a teaching and learning process which the teacher provides decreasing levels of support while placing higher demands as the child progresses towards the goal of independent problem solving. |
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| Language that focuses on the person instead of the disability. |
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| one of a range of conditions that interfere with any aspect of the normal development of a child. |
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| speaking and acting in support of or on the behalf of people or ideas. |
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| refers to undersized infants whose bodies for various reasons either do not receive or cannot use the utterance necessary for proper growth or development. |
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| specific points when a child's level of readiness and interest comes together to create the best milieu for new teaching. |
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| young children with special needs observing and imitating more advanced skills modeled by peers. |
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| An approach to understanding disabilities that identifies the barriers that prevent social inclusion of people with disabilities and then focuses on educators roles and responsibilities in changing and removing those barriers. |
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| planning and carrying out intervention activities in ways that pass much control and decision making as possible on to the family. |
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| development of a skill progressing at a slower rate which means that a child demonstrates the skill as a younger child would. |
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| interactions between individuals in which each person gives and receives in response to the giving and receiving of the other. |
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| when children with disabilities participate in meaningful ways in ongoing social and educational activities and experience a sense of belonging. |
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| The principles that no child is ever excluded for reasons of level or type of special need from full participation in a program or service. |
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| the ability to "come back" after a damaging or traumatic experience. |
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| programs in which children without special needs participate in programs originally established for children with special needs. |
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