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Communication
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- The exchange of information and knowledge amound participants that is a basic human need. It requires a message, a sender, a receiver and a channel
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Self Determination
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- Rights of students with disabilities to make plans for their lives that reflect their wishes and those of their families, not just those of professionals
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Braille
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- System of tactile reading and writing that uses various combinations of six embossed dots, arranged in a pattern with two dots across and three dots down, to denote letters, numbers, contractions, punctuation marks and special symbols
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Mental Retardation (MR)
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- Disability characterized by significantly below average intellectual functioning and defecits in adaptive functioning that occur during the developmental period (before 18) that has an adverse effect on education
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Visual Acuity
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- Clarity or shapness of vision
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Glaucoma
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- Disease in which damage to the optic nerve occurs when the aqueous humor does not flow properly
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Cataract
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- Condition in which the lens of the eye is cloudy and cannot transmit light rays properly to the retina
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Strabismus
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- Condition in which an individual cannot align both eyes simultaneously: cross eyed
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Generalization
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- Ability to learn task or idea and then apply it in other situations
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Task Analysis
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- Instuctional process for ensuring systematic learning by breaking lengthy or complex task into distinct small steps and teaching those steps to students, separately at first and gradually in combination
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Metacognition
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- Thinking about thinking, organize before acting, relate information just learned to other information already stored
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Otitis Media
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- Common earach can cause serve reactions
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Ophthalmologist
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- Physician specializing in the care of the eyes and visual system and in the prevention of eye disease and injury
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Optometrist
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- Professional trained to identify eye problems and to prescribe corrective lenses
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Language Delay
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- Condition in which children acquire language at shower than typical rate
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