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Alzheimer's Disease - Answer A progressive, degenerative disease with insidious
onset, characterized by multiple cognitive deficits and significant decline in
functioning.
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) - Answer A disorder characterized by maladaptive
inattention, hyperactivity, or impulsiveness which results in pervasive and clinically
significant impairment. Some symptoms should have presented before seven years
of age, although it may be diagnosed in adulthood.
Auditory Discrimination - Answer Ability to hear similarities and differences between
sounds.
Auditory Memory - Answer Ability to retain and recall that which is heard.
Auditory-motor Match - Answer The process whereby awareness of sound results in
a movement or response.
Autistic - Answer an individual with autistic disorder, beginning in infancy, which is
characterized by self-absorption, preoccupation with inanimate objects, and/or
dysfunctional, destructive, or ritualistic behaviors. Autism is a type of pervasive
developmental disorder.
Behavioral Disorder - Answer A problem in social behavior which is sufficiently
extreme as to interfere with the learning process.
Cerebral Palsy - Answer A series of disorders characterized by problems in
movement, posture, and loss of voluntary muscle control, which are caused by brain
injury early in life.
Communication Disorder - Answer A disability which is characterized by the inability
to transfer thought through speech, written word or bodily gestures.
Conduct Disorder - Answer A persistent pattern of behavior characterized by the
breaking of social norms, including serious violations, aggression, destruction or
deceitfulness.
Dementia - Answer A set of symptoms characterized by deterioration in cognitive
functioning, particularly memory, abstract thinking, judgment, and problem solving.
Developmental Disability - Answer A disorder originating before the age of 18 which
constitutes a substantial handicap and continues indefinitely. The disabilities include
mental retardation, autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy and severe learning disabilities if
the origins are related to mental retardation.
Disruptive Behavior Disorder - Answer A type of conduct disorder characterized by
oppositional and defiant behavior which does not meet criteria for other conduct
disorders.
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Down's Syndrome - Answer A congenital abnormality of the trisomy 21 gene (an
extra chromosome), resulting in mental retardation and physical abnormalities.
Fine Motor Dexterity (coordination) - Answer The use of small muscles for reaching,
grasping and manipulating objects.
Forensic Psychiatry - Answer The branch of psychiatry devoted to legal problems
and infractions of law, primarily criminal.
Gerontology - Answer The study of aging, characteristic behaviors of older adults,
and disorders associated with the late life.
Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) - Answer A technique which involves listening to
music in a relaxed state, to elicit imagery, symbols and/or feelings for the purpose of
creativity, therapeutic intervention, self understanding and spiritual experience.
Hearing Impairment - Answer A global term for any degree or type of hearing loss,
including deafness and hard of hearing.
Huntington's Disease (chorea) - Answer An inherited disorder, affecting the central
nervous system and causing involuntary movements and contortions; may also
cause cognitive decline and behavioral symptoms.
Hyperactivity - Answer Behavior which is characterized by increased or excessive
muscular activity.
Inclusion - Answer The concept referring to placing children with special needs in the
classroom that they would normally attend, and importing support and prescribed
related services to that classroom.
Individualized Education Plan (IEP) - Answer A written plan of instruction for each
child with special needs, which includes statements of present functioning, long- and
short-term goals and objectives, required services and related information. Every
handicapped child must have an IEP specifying special education and related
services where appropriate, according to Public Law 94-142, the Education for the
Handicapped Act.
Juvenile offenders - Answer Children who have committed offenses, according to
law.
Learning Disorder - Answer A deficit in a specific area related to the processing of
input, i.e., learning, resulting in decreased achievement when compared to the norm;
often associated with perceptual-motor deficiencies or brain damage.
Mental Retardation (Re-named Intellectual Disorder in 2013) - Answer Sub average
intellectual functioning and impaired adaptive functioning whose onset is during the
developmental period; presently, a person with an IQ of 70 or below (Hanser, 1999).