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Assessment/
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The testing and diagnostic process used to develop an appropriate individualized program, appropriate placement and services for a student with a disability. |
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| Augmentative Alternative Communication |
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An integrated group of components, including the symbols, aids, strategies, and techniques used by individuals to enhance communication |
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| Assisstive Technology |
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Technology that enables a student with a disability to more effectively participate and benefit for his/her education.
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| Audiology |
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Includes not only testing to determine the nature of the loss and usable range of hearing, but also considerations for language habilitation, speech, reading, counseling and guidance of students, parents and teachers about the specific needs of a child with a hearing impairment. |
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| Behavior Modification |
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The use of basic learning techniques, such as conditioning, feedback, reinforcement, or aversion therapy, to alter human behavior. |
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| Developmentally Delayed |
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Having development that is slower than normal. |
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| Expressive Language |
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The skills used to communicate with others by speaking, gesturing, signing, communicating through pictures and objects. |
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Facilitated Communication |
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A communication technique that assumes that the user has communicative competence rather than impairment and that the user will be able to produce meaningful, even complex messages with the proper support. The individual's forearm, wrist, and if necessary the index finger is physically supported by the facilitator. |
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Functional skills of Communication
Occupational Therapy
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Are communication skills which are required to initiate and maintain daily interactions within the natural environment.
Treatment program that specializes in improving the development of fine motor, gross motor and adaptive skills. |
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Pragmatics |
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Language development skills in the context and environment that include such factors as strategies for topic setting, strategies for clarification and repair, and strategies for decision making about when to use which communication modality. Pragmatic consideration enables more effective communication interactions.
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Physical Therapy
P.T. |
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The treatment of physical dysfunction or injury by the use of therapeutic exercise and the application of modalities, intended to restore or facilitate normal function or development. Also called physiotherapy. |
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Sensory Integration |
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The neurological profess that organizes sensation (what we feel, see, hear, touch and smell) from our own bodies and from the environment, and makes it possible to use the body effectively. |
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Specific Language Impairment (SLI) |
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A primary language disorder also known as developmental aphasia, dysphasia, childhood aphasia, and language disability. It is thought to be a disorder of language expression, comprehension, or both and demonstrated by uneven language development, poor auditory processing skills, short auditory memory, disordered temporal sequencing, and repetition of auditory patterns. |
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