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Chapter 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Disability | an inability to do something, a diminished capacity to perform in a specific way (an impairment) |
| Handicap | is a disadvantage imposed on an individual |
| Prevalence | the percentage of a popluation or number of individuals having a particular exceptionally |
| Traumatic Brian Injury (TBI) | Injury in the brain resulting in total or partical disability or psychological maladjustment that affect educational performance |
| 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 |
| Intellectual Disabilities | the newer term for "mental retardation"; a disaility intellgence and adapative behavior |
| Emotional/ Behavioral Disorder | the terminology propsoed by the National Mental Health and Special Education Coalition to replace the federal terminology "emotional disturbance" |
| Deinstitutionalization | advocates crusade for closing of large residential institutions for people with intellectual and mental disabilties, begun in 1950s and up through the 1970s |
| Education for All Handicapped Children Act | (1975) known as PL 94-142, better knwon as Indivdiuals with Disabilities Education Act retitled in 1990 and reauthorized in 1997 and 2004 |
| Individuals with Disabilites Education Act (IDEA) | first federal law mandating free appropriate public education for all children with disabilities |
| Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvment Act (IDEIA) | The Individuals with Disabilites Education Act is a federal law that guarantees services to indivdiuals with disabilites. The law reauthorized in 2004 |
| Americans with Disabilites Act (ADA) | it gives civil rights protection to individuals with disabilites that are like those provided to individuals on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and religion |
| Hydrocephalus | an accumulation of fluid around the brian that can cause mental or physical disabilites if not corrected |
| Inclusion | mainstreaming; the idea of placing students with disabilities in general education classes and other schoool activities |
| 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 emotionally disturbed student |