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Visual Impairment - correct answer ✔✔Difficulty seeing that can include blindness or partial
sightedness
Auditory impairment - correct answer ✔✔A special need that involves the loss of hearing or
some aspect of hearing
Speech impairment - correct answer ✔✔Speech that deviates so much from the speech of
others that it calls attention to itself, interferes with communication, or produces
maladjustment in the speaker
Stuttering - correct answer ✔✔substantial disruption in the rhythm and fluency of speech; the
most common speech impairment
learning disabilities - correct answer ✔✔difficulties in the acquisition and use of listening,
speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical abilities
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - correct answer ✔✔a learning disability marked
by inattention, impulsiveness, a low tolerance for frustration, and generally a great deal of
inappropriate activity
concrete operational stage - correct answer ✔✔the period of cognitive development between 7
and 12 years of age, which is characterized by the active, and appropriate, use of logic
decentring - correct answer ✔✔the ability to take multiple aspects of a situation into account
, memory - correct answer ✔✔The process by which information is initially recorded, stored and
retrieved
meta memory - correct answer ✔✔an understanding about the processes that underlie
memory, which emerges and improves during middle childhood
metalinguistic awareness - correct answer ✔✔an understanding of ones own use of language
bilingualism - correct answer ✔✔the use of two languages
cultural assimilation model - correct answer ✔✔the model that fostered the view of American
society as the proverbial melting pot
pluralistic society model - correct answer ✔✔the concept that Canadian society is made up of
diverse, coequal cultural groups that should preserve their individual cultural features
bicultural identity - correct answer ✔✔maintaining one's original cultural identity while
integrating oneself into the dominant culture
multicultural education - correct answer ✔✔a form of education in which the goal is to help
minority students develop confidence in the culture of the majority group while maintaining
positive group identities that build on their original cultures
intelligence - correct answer ✔✔the capacity to understand the world, think with rationality,
and use resources effectively when faced with challenges
mental age - correct answer ✔✔the typical intelligence level found for people at a given
chronological age