Special+Education+Definitions

 Sandra Rodriguez

inclusion class: classes that are iontergrated into regular ed classes with the help of special education services.

gifted and talented children: students who demonstrate a high level of attainment in intellecyual ability, academic, ability, creativity,and visual and performing arts.

Add: is a term used to describe a studnet that had difficulty focusing their attention long enough to learn well.

Suzanne L. **Oppositional defiant disorder- ** Oppositional defiant disorder is a pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures. Please write the words you are defining and then the definition. Please add a context to its relationship to teachers and education. Remember you are supporting each other in this endeavor.
 * Conduct disorder- **Any of a number of types of repetitive and persistent antisocial behavior exhibited in childhood or adolescence
 * Asperger's syndrome- ** A pervasive developmental disorder, usually of childhood, characterized by impairments in social interactions and repetitive behavior patterns .

Chris Van Kleeck-

Autism- a pervasive developmental disorder of children, characterized by impaired communication, excessive rigidity, and emotional detachment.

Related to teachers because students with such a disability have to be taught in an extremely different manner than students without.

Dyscalculia- Impairment of the ability to solve mathematical problems, usually resulting from brain dysfunction.

Will require slow, supervised, thorough teaching in the finer areas of mathematics.

Dysgraphia- inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.

Will require slow, supervised, thorough teaching in reading and writing classes.

Alisa Frankfurter

Least Restrictive Environment: An education program that meets a disabled students special needs in a manner that is identical, insofar as possible, to that provided to students in general education classrooms.

Hearing Impairment: Permanent or fluctuating mild to profound hearing loss in one or both ears.

Assistive Technology: Technological advances (usually computer based) that help exceptional students learn and communicate.

Ariel Goldstein  Developmental aphasia - A language disorder in children, caused by brain damage, that is characterized by complete or partial impairment of language comprehension, formulation, and use. Emotional disorder- any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant. Attachment disorder-Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a clinically recognized form of extreme insecure attachment. Common causes of RAD include severe child abuse and neglect.

Stephanie Wiltse __Fetal Alcohol Disorder__- A highly variable birth defects including mental retardation, deficient growth, and malformations of the skull and face that tend to occur in the offspring of women who consume large amounts of alcohol during pregnancy. __Dyslexia__- A variable often familial learning disability involving difficulties in acquiring and processing language that is typically manifested by a lack of proficiency in reading, spelling, and writing. __Individualized Education Plan (IEP)__ – A plan for meeting an exceptional learner’s educational needs specifying goals, objectives, services, and procedures for evaluating process.

Alison Clarke:  1. __Visual Processing Disorder- __ A visual processing, or perceptual, disorder refers to a hindered ability to make sense of information taken in through the eyes. This is different from problems involving sight or sharpness of vision. Difficulties with visual processing affect how visual information is interpreted or processed by the brain.   2. __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Cerebral Palsy- __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Appears in infancy or early childhood and permanently affect body movement and muscle coordination but don’t worsen over time. Even though cerebral palsy affects muscle movement, it isn’t caused by problems in the muscles or nerves. It is caused by abnormalities in parts of the brain that control muscle movements. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> 3. __<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Traumatic Brain Injury- __<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Traumatic brain injury, often referred to as TBI, is most often an acute event similar to other injuries. That is where the similarity between traumatic brain injury and other injuries ends. One moment the person is normal and the next moment life has abruptly changed. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">

__<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">MK/**ADHD-** __<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> A syndrome of disordered behavior, usually diagnosed in childhood, characterized by a persistent pattern of impulsiveness, inattentiveness, and sometimes hyperactivity that interferes with academic, occupational, or social performance. This relates to teachers cause knowing if a student has ADHD you will be able to change your lesson around to help the student learn, and how to deal with his misbehaviors. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;"> __<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;">MK/**Tourette’s-** __<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tourette syndrome (TS) is an inherited disorder of the nervous system, characterized by a variable expression of unwanted movements and noises (tics). Knowing if your students has tourettes or not you can modify the classroom to accommodadate the student, for example, provide short breaks for the student, avoid to many directions, and dont over react. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> __<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;">MK/**Stuttering-** __ Stuttering is a speech problem characterized by repetitions, pauses, or drawn out syllables, words, and phrases. Stutterers are different than people experiencing normal fluency problems because a stutterer's disfluency is more severe and consistent than that of people who do not stutter. Knowing that a kid stutters you can help him overcome that and also not call on him so much so he doesn’t get embarrassed.