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chapter 1 terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| disability | inability to do something as a result of a specific impairment |
| handicap | disadvantage imposed on an idividual |
| prevelance | refers to the percentage of a population or number of individuals that have a particular exceptionality |
| traumatic brain injury | injury to the brain resulting in total or partial disability or psychosocial maladjustment that effects educational performance |
| special education | special individualized instruction provided according to federal state and local laws |
| intellectual disabilities | newer term for "mental retardation" a disability in intelligence and adaptive behaviors |
| emotional or behavior disorder | terminology proposed by the national mental health and special education coalition to replace federal terminolgy "emotional disturbance" |
| emotional disturbance | term used in federal special education laws regulations for problematic behavior that interferes with education; term used to indicate the problems of emotionally disturbed students |
| deinstitutionalization | social movement in the 60s where large numbers with intellectual disabilities are moved from large mental institutions into smaller communities |
| EACA | was amended to become IDEA |
| IDEA | first federal law mandating free public education for all children with disabilites |
| ADA | gives civil right protection to individuals on the basis of race, sex, national orgin, and religion |