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Peds unit 8
Behavioral and Emotional conditions
Term | Definition |
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Dysgraphia | disorder involving writing problems |
Dyslexia | disorder involving reading problems |
Milieu therapy | physical and social environment provided for the child |
Psychosomatic | body dysfunction that seem to have emotional and organic basis |
Bibliotherapy | reading or telling stories in a situation similar to the child's |
Acquired Immunity | immunity acquired from having a disease or vaccination |
Incubation period | time b/w exposure and the onset of symptoms of the disease |
Natural Immunity | inborn resistance to disease |
Standard Immunity | test or measure intelligence |
Autism | bio-neurological development disability that generally appears before the age of 3. |
Behavior Modification | focuses on modifying specific behaviors by means of stimulus response conditioning |