Across
- 3. a way of augmenting speechreading.
- 6. Person whose hearing disability precludes successful processing of linguistic information through audition, with or without a hearing aid.
- 8. Decoding or understanding messages in communication.
- 11. One’s understanding of the strategies available for learning a task and the regulatory mechanisms needed to complete the task.
- 12. A milder form of autism without significant impairments in language and cognition; characterized by primary problems in social interaction.
- 14. A specially designed instruction that meets the unusual needs of an exceptional student and that might require special materials, teaching techniques, or equipment and/or facilities.
- 16. A way of determining whether a student has a learning disability
- 17. A term for reading disabilities; used more often by those in the medical profession than those who are educators.
- 19. Teaching that involves instructional prompts, consequences for performance, and transfer of stimulus control; often used with students with intellectual disabilities.
- 20. The parroting repetition of words or phrases either immediately after they are heard or later; often observed in individuals with autistic spectrum disorders.
- 21. A surgically inserting electronic elements under the skin behind the ear and in the inner ear.
- 22. A federal law requires that to receive funds under the act, every school system in the nation must provide a free, appropriate public education for every child between the ages of three and twenty-one, regardless of how or how seriously he or she may be disabled.
- 25. A method used by most sign language interpreters in which the signs maintain the same word order as that of spoken English
- 26. A teaching approach in which the teacher places students with heterogeneous abilities (for example, some might have disabilities) together to work on assignments.
- 32. An inability to do something, a diminished capacity to perform in a specific way (an impairment)
- 33. Evaluation that consists of finding out the consequences (what purpose the behavior serves), antecedents (what triggers the behavior), and setting events (contextual factors) that maintain inappropriate behaviors.
- 34. An inherited syndrome resulting in hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa, a progressive condition characterized by problems in seeing in low light and tunnel vision
- 35. A manual language used by people who are deaf to communicate; a true language with its own grammar.
- 36. Hesitations, repetitions, and other disruptions of normal speech flow.
- 38. Inflammation of the middle ear.
- 42. Mainstreaming; the idea of placing students with disabilities in general education classes and other school activities.
- 43. A technique whereby a friend or therapist offers encouragement and support for a person with ADHD.
Down
- 1. A condition resulting from an abnormality with the 21st pair of chromosomes; the most common abnormality is a triplet rather than a pair (the condition sometimes referred to as trisomy 21); characterized by intellectual disability and such physical signs as slanted-appearing eyes, hypotonia, a single palmar crease, shortness, and a tendency toward obesity.
- 2. A disorder that occurs in children who are younger than 9 years old. The disorder results in the impaired ability to produce sounds in his or her own language.
- 4. Occurs when the stimulation of one sensory or cognitive system results in the stimulation of another sensory or cognitive system.
- 5. A condition characterized by problems in peripheral vision, or a narrowing of the field of vision.
- 7. A disorder characterized by overt, aggressive, disruptive behavior or covert antisocial acts such as stealing, lying, and fire setting; may include both overt and covert acts.
- 9. A program aims to be drawn up the educational team for each exceptional child; it must include a statement of present educational performance, instructional goals, educational services to be provided, and criteria and procedures for determining that the instructional objectives are being met.
- 10. A term used by educators to refer to individuals whose visual impairment is not so severe that they are unable to read print of any kind; they may read large or regular print, and they may need some kind of magnification.
- 13. A system in which raised dots allow people who are blind to read with their fingertips; each quadrangular cell contains from one to six dots, the arrangement of which denotes different letters and symbols.
- 15. A type of cognitive training technique that requires individuals to talk aloud and then to themselves as they solve problems.
- 18. A condition characterized by severe problems of inattention, hyperactivity, and/or impulsivity; often found in people with learning disabilities.
- 23. A condition characterized by problems in seeing at low levels of illumination; often caused by retinitis pigmentosa.
- 24. The ability to see fine details; usually measured with the Snellen chart.
- 27. Acting-out behavior; aggressive or disruptive behavior that is observable as behavior directed toward others.
- 28. Acting-in behavior; anxiety, fearfulness, withdrawal, and other indications of an individual’s mood or internal state.
- 29. Farsightedness; vision for near objects is affected; usually results when the eyeball is too short.
- 30. A range of disorders in children whose mothers consumed large quantities of alcohol during pregnancy.
- 31. Behavior causing injury or mutilation of oneself, such as self-biting or head-banging; usually seen in individuals with severe and multiple disabilities.
- 37. A disadvantage imposed on an individual.
- 39. Injury to the brain (not including conditions present at birth, birth trauma, or degenerative diseases or conditions) resulting in total or partial disability or psychosocial maladjustment that affects educational performance; may affect various aspects of brain development.
- 40. The use of memory-enhancing cues to help one remember something
- 41. Civil rights legislation for persons with disabilities ensuring nondiscrimination in a broad range of activities.