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PRAXIS 053/Causes
Causation of Exceptionalitites
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Autism | Not a specific known cause, but may be related to neurobiological conditions, abnormal brain development, genetics, multiple biological causes, and environmental factors. |
| Visual Impairment | Damages or changes in the optical, muscular, or nerve system, which may be related to diseases, trauma, malnutrition, or genetics. |
| Emotional Disturbance/Behavioral Disorder | Two major areas may contribute to these disorders: biological factors (brain disorders, genetics, temperament) and environmental factors (home, community, school). |
| Traumatic Brain Injury | Primarily related to illness, disease, trauma, accident, or injury. |
| Hearing Impairment | Many causes, but the more common are genetic factors, illness, prematurity, disease, noise-induced. |
| Gifted/Talented | Genetics and environment. |
| Mental Retardation | Causes classified as either biomedical, environmental, or unknown and that result from factors that occur in one of three stages: prenatal, perinatal, or postnatal. |
| Speech/Language Impairment | Many possible causes, most likely attributed to damage or dysfunction of a specific part of the body, environmental factors, cognitive impairments, hearing loss, brain injury, or disease. |
| Orthopedic Impairment | Primarily related to illness, disease, trauma, accident, or injury. |
| Other Health Impairment | Primarily related to illness, disease, trauma, accident, or injury. |
| Specific Learning Disability | Cause is often unknown; however, the four most prevalent known causes are brain damage, heredity, biochemical imbalance, and environmental. |