Chapter 11 Flashcards
Type 2 diabetes
The most common type of diabetes, in which the body is able to produce insulin, but it may be insufficient or the body cels may be unable to use it.
Type 1 diabetes
An autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system destroys insulin producing cells
Asthma
A chronic lung disease that involves episodic of airflow obstruction.
Learning disability
Disability in which a child had difficulty learning that involves understanding or using spoken or written language, and the difficulty can appear in listening, thinking, reading, writing, or spelling. A learning disability also may involve difficulty in doing mathematics. To be classified as a learning disability, the learning problem is not primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, mental retardation, emotional disorders, or environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
Dyslexia
A category of learning disabilities involving a severe impairment in to ability to read and spell.
Dysgraphia
A learning disability that involves difficulty in handwriting.
Dyscalculia
Also known as a developmental arithmetic disorder, a learning disability that involves difficulty in math computation.
ADHD
A disability in which children consistently show one or more of the following characteristics inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
Articulation disorders
Problems in pronouncing sounds correctly.
Voice disorders
Disorders reflected in speech that is hoarse, harsh, too loud, too high pitched, or too low pitched.
Fluency disorders
Various disorders that involve what is commonly called “stuttering”
Low vision
Visual acuity between 20/70 and 20/2000.
Educationally blind
Unable to use ones vision in learning and needing to use hearing and touch to learn.
Oral approaches
Educational approaches to help hearing- impaired children. Including lip reading, speech reading, and use of whatever hearin the child has.
Manual approaches
Educational approaches to help- hearing- impaired children, including sign language and finger spelling.
Orthopedic impairments
Restrictions on movement abilities due to muscle, bone, or joint problems.
Cerebral play
A disorder that involves a lack of muscular coordination, shaking, and unclear speech.
Emotional and behavioral disorders
Serious persistent problems that involve relationships, aggression, depression, fears associated with personal or school matters, as well as other inappropriate socioemotional characteristics.
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)
Also called pervasive developmental disorders, this category ranges from severe disorder labeled autistic disorder to milder disorder called Asperger syndrome. Children with these disorders are characterized by problems with social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behavior.
Autistic disorder
A severe autism spectrum disorder that has its onset in the first three years of life and includes deficiencies in social relationships, abnormalities in communication and restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior
Asperger syndrome
A relatively mild autism spectrum disorder in which the child has relatively good verbal language skills, milder nonverbal language problems, and restocked range of interests and relationships.
Public law 94-142
The education for all handicapped children act, created in 1975, which requires that all children with disabilities be given a free appropriate public education and which provides the funding to help with the costs of implementing this education.
Individuals with disabilities education act (IDEA)
The IDEA spells out broad mandates for providing service to all children with disabilities. These include evaluation and eligibility determination, appropriate education and an individualized education plan, and education in the least restrictive environment.
Individualized education plan (IEP)
A written statement that spells out a program tailored to a child with a disability. The plan should be related to the child’s learning capacity, spect constructed to meet the child’s individual needs and not merely a copy of what is offered to other children and designed to provide educational benefits.
Least restrictive environment (LRE)
The concept that a child with a disability must be educated In a setting that is similar as possible to the one in which children who do not have a disability are educated.
Inclusion
Educating a child with special educational needs full-time in the regular classroom.