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A broad term referring to tailoring teaching environments, curricula, and instructional practices to create appropriately different learning experiences for students with different needs, interests, readiness, and learning profiles
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The extent to which previously learned knowledge or skill either occurs under conditions different from those under which it was originally learned or is performed in a different but functionally equivalent manner.
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A social service program designed to teach a newly disabled person basic skills needed for independence
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The process of integrating children with disabilities into regular schools and classes
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Any effort made on behalf of children and adults with disabilities; may be preventive (keeping possible problems from becoming a serious disability), remedial (overcoming disability through training or education), or compensatory (giving the individual new ways to deal with the disability)
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A type of intervention designed to teach a person to overcome a disability through training and education
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A type of fluency disorder in which speech is very rapid; with extra sounds or mispronounced sounds; speech may be garbled to the point of unintelligibility; compare with stuttering
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Refers to the loss or reduced function of a particular body part or organ (e.g. a missing limb); compare with disability and handicap
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Fluency disorder of speaking marked by rapid-fire repetitions of consonant or vowel sounds, especially at the beginning of words; prolongations; hesitations; interjections; and complete verbal blocks; compare with cluttering
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An educational approach that provides a child with extra learning experiences that the standard curriculum would not normally include. Most often used with gifted and talented students
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A procedure in which groups of children are examined or tested in an effort to identify children who are most likely to have a disability; identified children are then referred for more intensive examination and assessment
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Educating students with disabilities in general education classrooms
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A measure of the level or amount of a specific target behavior before implementation of an intervention designed to change the behavior.
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Refers to the problems a person with a disability or impairment encounters in interacting with the environment
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Someone who pleads the cause of a person with disabilities or group of people with disabilities, especially in legal or administrative proceedings
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A performance measure that includes both the accuracy and the rate with which a skill is performed. In communication, the term refers to the rate and smoothness of speech.
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The loss of speech functions; often refers to the inability to speak because of brain lesions
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A poor sense of balance and body position and lack of coordination of the voluntary muscles; characteristic of one type of cerebral palsy
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Nearsightedness; results when light is focused on a point in front of the retina, resulting in a blurred image for distant objects
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Having either no vision or only light perception; learning occurs through other senses
