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Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Handicap | A disadvantage imposed on an individual |
| Prevalence | Referring to the percentage of a population or number of individuals having a particular exceptionality |
| Special Education | Specially designed instruction that meets the unusual needs of an exceptional student and that requires special materials, teaching techniques, equipment and/or facilities |
| Normalization | Means which are as culturally normative as possible, in order to establish and/or maintain personal behaviors and characteristics which are as culturally normative as possible |
| Deinstitutionalization | A social movement starting in the 1960s where large groups of people with intellectual disabilities and or mental illness are moved from large mental institutions into smaller community homes or into the homes of their families |
| Inclusion | Mainstreaming: the idea of placing students with disabilities in general education classes and other school activities |
| Hydrocephalus | An accumulation of fluid around the brain that can cause mental or physical disabilities if not corrected |
| Education for All Handicapped Children Act | law requiring states to include special needs in public education system |
| IDEA (Individuals with disabilities education act) | Individuals with Disabilities Act |
| IDEIA (individuals with disabilities education improvement act) | Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) |
| ADA ( Americans with disabilities act) | Americans with Disabilities Act (gives civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities) |
| Disability | is an inability to do something as a result of specific impairment |
| TBI(traumatic brain injury) | injury to the brain resulting in total or partial disability or psychosocial maladjustment that affects educational performance. |
| Intellectual disabilities | "mental retardation" a disability in intelligence and adaptive behavior. |
| Emotional or Behavior disorders (emotional disturbance) | the term used in federal special education laws and regulations for problematic behavior that interferes with education, the federal term used to indicate the problems of emotional disturbed students. |