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Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Disability | An inability to do something, a diminished capacity to perform in a specific way |
| Handicap | A disadvantage imposed on an individual |
| Traumatic brain injury | Low incident categories showing a substantial increase in numbers |
| Special education | Main 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 and emotional or behavioral disorders | Early in the 19th century, the first systematic attempts were made to educate children who then were termed idiotic and insane |
| Deinstitutionalization | Breaking down barriers to participation of people with disabilities and activities with non-handicap individuals |
| Inclusion | Has been a long issue with all exceptional students, including those with special gifts or talents. |
| Individual with disabilities education act | We still referred to the law simply as IDEA, as the basic requirements of the law have not changed. Ensures that all children in use with disabilities have the right to a free and public education |
| Americans With Disabilities Act | Give civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities that are like those provide provided to individuals on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and religion |
| Hydrocephalus | And accumulation of fluid around the brain that can cause mental or physical disabilities if not corrected |