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| The ability of an individual to meet the standards expected for his or her age by his or her cultural group. |
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| Outward manifestation of feeling or emotion; the tone of a person's reaction or response to people or events. |
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| Anxiety of being in places or situations from which escape may be difficult or embarrassing, or in which help may not be available. |
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| Inability to experience pleasure. |
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| A technique used to reinforce desirable behaviors, helping the child to replace maladaptive behaviors with more appropriate ones. |
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| The change in thought, intelligence, and language that occurs from the mutual interaction of brain maturation with life experiences. |
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| A therapeutic approach that attempts to help the person recognize automatic thought patterns that lead to unpleasant feelings. |
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| The involuntary utterance of obscenities, profanities, and racial slurs. |
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| The involuntary use of obscene gestures. |
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| A variety of chronic conditions characterized by mental and/or physical impairments. |
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| A compulsive parroting of what is heard. |
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| Integration of the best research evidence with an individual's clinical expertise and the patient's values or preferences. |
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| Neurological conditions in which the brain cannot receive or process information in the normal manner. |
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| Successful engagement in activities and relationships and the ability to adapt to and cope with change. |
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| Significant limitation in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. |
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| pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) |
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| Conditions that begin in early childhood and are characterized by impaired social interactions and communication, with restricted interests, activities, and behaviors. |
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| A therapeutic intervention often used with preschool and school-aged children, in which the child reveals conflicts, wishes, and fears on an unconscious level while playing with dolls, toys, clay, and other objects. |
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| Repetitive, obsessive, machine-like movements, commonly seen in autistic or schizophrenic children. |
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