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✔✔Stanines Scores - ✔✔range between 1-9, 4-6 is average
✔✔Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) - ✔✔An IQ test designed for
school-age children. The test assesses potential in many areas, including vocabulary,
general knowledge, memory, and spatial comprehension. For ages 6-16 years old.
✔✔ASL-PA - ✔✔determines level of ASL skill
✔✔WPPSI - ✔✔(age4-6) - Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence;
accurately measure intellectual abilities in young children
✔✔Comprehensive test of nonverbal intelligence - ✔✔pictoral-based with familiar
objects and geometric designs
✔✔SCRIPT - ✔✔discovers which strategies help repair communication and guide
students
✔✔FM - ✔✔transmitters; amplification devices
✔✔LEEDS - ✔✔socialization situations
✔✔IDEA - ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
✔✔Part A of IDEA - ✔✔lays out the basic foundation for the rest of the Act. This section
defines the terms used within the Act as well as providing for the creation of the Office
of Special Education Programs, which is responsible for administering and carrying out
the terms of IDEA (IDEA, 1997).
✔✔Part B of IDEA - ✔✔is the section which lays out the educational guidelines for
school children 3-21 years of age. By law, states are required to educate students with
disabilities (Martin, Martin, & Terman, 1996). IDEA provides financial support for state
and local school districts. However to receive funding, school districts must comply with
six main principles set out by IDEA:
✔✔Part C of IDEA - ✔✔Applies to students under the age of 3. For students that have
one of these developmental delays: cognitive, physical, communication, social or
emotional, development, or adaptive development. Also receive services if they have a
diagnosed mental or physical condition with a high probability of developmental delay.
✔✔Part D of IDEA - ✔✔The final section of IDEA, part D, describes national activities to
be undertaken to improve the education of children with disabilities. These activities
include grants to improve the education and transitional services provided to students
with disabilities. In addition this section provides resources to support programs,
, projects and activities which contribute positive results for children with disabilities
(IDEA, 1997).
In 2010 the U.S. Department of Education published a report acknowledging the 35th
anniversary of IDEA. The report highlighted many of the achievements gained as a
result of this legislation including the increase in college enrollment and decrease in
high school dropouts.
✔✔IFSP (individualized family service plan) - ✔✔A written account of the personal and
social services needed to promote and support the child and family for the first three
years of an exceptional child's life.
✔✔simultaneous communication - ✔✔A method combining sign language and speech
✔✔Chaining - ✔✔finger spelling, pointing to the word in print, then finger spelling again.
✔✔Friedrich's ataxia - ✔✔- Autosomal recessive inheritance
- Onset in childhood, early adolescence
- Symptoms: gait unsteadiness, UE ataxia, dysarthria, tremor (may be minor), areflexia
and loss of large fiber sensory modalities, scoliosis and cardiomyopathy (as disease
progresses)
✔✔Waardenburg Syndrome - ✔✔genetic condition can cause congenital hearing loss,
changes in pigmentation of the skin, hair, and eyes, but no cognitive delays.
✔✔Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome - ✔✔delayed growth and development with presence of
intellectual disabilities.
✔✔CHARGE syndrome - ✔✔associated with a distinctive facial asymmetry, and a wide
range of cognitive function.
✔✔auricle - ✔✔external portion of the ear
✔✔external meatus - ✔✔The ear canal leading to the eardrum.
✔✔malleus - ✔✔a small bone in the middle ear that transmits vibrations of the eardrum
to the incus.
✔✔incus - ✔✔a small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear, transmitting vibrations
between the malleus and stapes.
✔✔cochlea - ✔✔a coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound
waves trigger nerve impulses
✔✔Stanines Scores - ✔✔range between 1-9, 4-6 is average
✔✔Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) - ✔✔An IQ test designed for
school-age children. The test assesses potential in many areas, including vocabulary,
general knowledge, memory, and spatial comprehension. For ages 6-16 years old.
✔✔ASL-PA - ✔✔determines level of ASL skill
✔✔WPPSI - ✔✔(age4-6) - Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence;
accurately measure intellectual abilities in young children
✔✔Comprehensive test of nonverbal intelligence - ✔✔pictoral-based with familiar
objects and geometric designs
✔✔SCRIPT - ✔✔discovers which strategies help repair communication and guide
students
✔✔FM - ✔✔transmitters; amplification devices
✔✔LEEDS - ✔✔socialization situations
✔✔IDEA - ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
✔✔Part A of IDEA - ✔✔lays out the basic foundation for the rest of the Act. This section
defines the terms used within the Act as well as providing for the creation of the Office
of Special Education Programs, which is responsible for administering and carrying out
the terms of IDEA (IDEA, 1997).
✔✔Part B of IDEA - ✔✔is the section which lays out the educational guidelines for
school children 3-21 years of age. By law, states are required to educate students with
disabilities (Martin, Martin, & Terman, 1996). IDEA provides financial support for state
and local school districts. However to receive funding, school districts must comply with
six main principles set out by IDEA:
✔✔Part C of IDEA - ✔✔Applies to students under the age of 3. For students that have
one of these developmental delays: cognitive, physical, communication, social or
emotional, development, or adaptive development. Also receive services if they have a
diagnosed mental or physical condition with a high probability of developmental delay.
✔✔Part D of IDEA - ✔✔The final section of IDEA, part D, describes national activities to
be undertaken to improve the education of children with disabilities. These activities
include grants to improve the education and transitional services provided to students
with disabilities. In addition this section provides resources to support programs,
, projects and activities which contribute positive results for children with disabilities
(IDEA, 1997).
In 2010 the U.S. Department of Education published a report acknowledging the 35th
anniversary of IDEA. The report highlighted many of the achievements gained as a
result of this legislation including the increase in college enrollment and decrease in
high school dropouts.
✔✔IFSP (individualized family service plan) - ✔✔A written account of the personal and
social services needed to promote and support the child and family for the first three
years of an exceptional child's life.
✔✔simultaneous communication - ✔✔A method combining sign language and speech
✔✔Chaining - ✔✔finger spelling, pointing to the word in print, then finger spelling again.
✔✔Friedrich's ataxia - ✔✔- Autosomal recessive inheritance
- Onset in childhood, early adolescence
- Symptoms: gait unsteadiness, UE ataxia, dysarthria, tremor (may be minor), areflexia
and loss of large fiber sensory modalities, scoliosis and cardiomyopathy (as disease
progresses)
✔✔Waardenburg Syndrome - ✔✔genetic condition can cause congenital hearing loss,
changes in pigmentation of the skin, hair, and eyes, but no cognitive delays.
✔✔Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome - ✔✔delayed growth and development with presence of
intellectual disabilities.
✔✔CHARGE syndrome - ✔✔associated with a distinctive facial asymmetry, and a wide
range of cognitive function.
✔✔auricle - ✔✔external portion of the ear
✔✔external meatus - ✔✔The ear canal leading to the eardrum.
✔✔malleus - ✔✔a small bone in the middle ear that transmits vibrations of the eardrum
to the incus.
✔✔incus - ✔✔a small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear, transmitting vibrations
between the malleus and stapes.
✔✔cochlea - ✔✔a coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear through which sound
waves trigger nerve impulses
