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- 3. Includes a child's relationship with herself and others, self-concept, self-esteem, and the ability to express feelings
- 5. Difficulties with language use and acquisition, spoken and written language affected, perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, developmental aphasia
- 9. Decriptions of children that depict, in words, norms of development
- 13. Autism Spectrum Disorder, a neurological and social condition, characterized by lack of social skills, poor concentration, self-absorption, and limited interests; Affects children at different levels of severity. Previously separated into Autism, Aspergers, and Sensory Processing Disorder
- 16. Development Includes gross motor, fine motor, and perceptual motor activity
- 18. Self-destructive behavior, severe withdrawal, dangerous aggression, non-communicativeness, ADHD, severe anxiety, depression, phobias, psychosis, autism
- 20. Education for All Handicapped Children Act, guaranteeing free education to those with disabilities from 3 to 21 years of age in "the least restrictive" environment, renamed IDEA when re-authorized by Congress
- 22. Children whose development and/or behavior require help or intervention beyond the scope of the ordinary classroom or adult interactions
- 23. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, a medical condition making children prone to restlessness, anxiety, short attention spans, and impulsiveness
- 24. A child's preferred method of integrating knowledge and experiences
- 25. Cognitive delays brain injury, brain dysfunction, dyslexia, learning disabilities
Down
- 1. classifications of development that broadly define the three major growth areas of body, mind, and spirit that roughly correspond to biology, psychology, and sociology
- 2. Education of the Handicapped Amendments Act, providing funding for children who were not included by included in the previous law: infants, toddlers, and 3- to 5- years
- 4. Includes curiosity, the ability to perceive and think, memory, attention span, analytical thinking, and the ability to express oneself
- 6. Visual impairment, blindness, perceptual motor deficits, orthopedic disabilities such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, loss of limbs, muscular dystrophy
- 7. Each child's unique combination of genes that determine physical characteristics or the presence of certain diseases that affect development or health
- 8. When a child with a disability is a full-time member of a regular classroom with children who are developing normally as well as with children with special needs
- 10. Hearing impairment, stuttering, articulation problems, cleft palate, chronic voice disorders, other related learning disabilities
- 11. Severe asthma, epilepsy, hemophilia, congenital heart defects, severe anemia, malnutrition, diabetes, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, sickle cell anemia, Tay-Sachs disease, AIDS
- 12. Having parents of two different races
- 14. An impaired ability to read and understand written language
- 15. Persistent adversity in young children that activates the body's stress management system, creating prolonged physical responses that can interfere with development
- 17. Relating to, involving, or representing different races
- 19. Based on the accepted principle that all areas of human growth and development are interrelated
- 21. Children who have unusually high intelligence, as characterized by: learning to read spontaneously; being able to solve problems, and communicate at a level far advanced from their age; excellent memory and vocabulary; and unusual approaches to ideas, tasks, people