Exceptional Child Exam 3

43 cards   |   Total Attempts: 189
  

Cards In This Set

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Communication
- 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
Self Determination
- 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
Braille
- 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
Mental Retardation (MR)
- 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
Visual Acuity
- Clarity or shapness of vision
Glaucoma
- Disease in which damage to the optic nerve occurs when the aqueous humor does not flow properly
Cataract
- Condition in which the lens of the eye is cloudy and cannot transmit light rays properly to the retina
Strabismus
- Condition in which an individual cannot align both eyes simultaneously: cross eyed
Generalization
- Ability to learn task or idea and then apply it in other situations
Task Analysis
- 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
Metacognition
- Thinking about thinking, organize before acting, relate information just learned to other information already stored
Otitis Media
- Common earach can cause serve reactions
Ophthalmologist
- Physician specializing in the care of the eyes and visual system and in the prevention of eye disease and injury
Optometrist
- Professional trained to identify eye problems and to prescribe corrective lenses
Language Delay
- Condition in which children acquire language at shower than typical rate