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Question | Answer |
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What is an "I.E.P."? | Individual Education Program. |
What is "Asperger’s Syndrome"? | A milder form of autism, presenting with milder stereotypies and social delays than Autism itself. |
What is "Autism"? | A spectrum of social, developmental, and mental delays that have no known cause or cure. Presents with stereotypies such as rocking back and forth to self-comfort. |
What is "Down Syndrome"? | A genetic disorder of the 21st chromosome, characterized by developmental and intellectual delays. Can be identified by the unusual facial features. |
What does it mean to be "Mentally Challenged"? | Also known as intellectual disability, it is characterized by below average intelligence and set of life skills present before the age of 18. |
What does it mean to be "Typically developing"? | Not receiving special education services. |
What does it mean to have "Behavioral Problems"? | When someone does not behave the way want them to. |
What's an "Accommodation"? | A convenient arrangement, settlement or compromise. |
What's a "Cochlear Implant"? | An implant that goes behind the ear that can grant or restore hearing. |
What's a "Modification"? | The action of modifying something. |
What's a "Developmental Delay"? | The condition of a child being less developed mentally or physically than is normal for it’s age. |
What's the "Executive Function"? | The complicated things the brain gets up to. |
What does it mean to be "Haptic"? | Involving the sense of touch. |
What does "Gustatory" refer to or is know as? | Involving the sense of taste. |
What's "Memory"? | The process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. |
What does Kinesthetic "Learning" refer to or is know as? | Learning by doing. |
What are "Prefrontal Lobes" and what do they do? | The parts of the brain that carry out executive function. |
What does it mean to be "Hearing"? | To perceive sound. |
What does it mean to be "Seeing"? | Perceiving things with the eyeballs. |
What does it mean to be "Observing"? | Understanding what you’re seeing. |
What does it mean to have a "Learning Disability"? | A condition giving rise to difficulties in acquiring knowledge and skills to the level expected of those of the same age, especially when not associated with a physical handicap. |
What does it mean to have "Speech and Language"? | Producing words properly. |