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| Occurs when amnion tears/ruptures and fibrous bands become entangled around a body part. |
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| Genetic disorder characterized by developmental, intellectual, and speech delays with ataxia. Happy demeanor with hand flapping and hyperactivity. |
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| Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita |
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| Caused by decreased movement of fetus in utero characterized by multiple joint contractures. |
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| On the Autism Spectrum and characterized by decreased social skills, impaired subtle communication skills and restrictive interests. |
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| Injury to neck at birth when baby is breech or due to prolonged labor. Erb's Palsy and Klumpke's Palsy. |
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| Congenital Cytomegalovirus |
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| Herpes virus that lies dormant in most people is activated when baby is infected in utero. Symptoms include hearing loss, vision loss, intellectual disabilities and seizures. |
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| Deletion of portion of 5th chromosome characterized by a high-pitched cry. Symptoms include intellectual disability, hypotonia, and microcephaly. |
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| Recessive genetic condition where lungs become clogged with thick, sticky mucus and digestive track may be affected as well. |
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| Trisomy 21 characterized by intellectual disability, heart defects, intestinal problems, and hypotonia. |
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| Trisomy 18 characterized by small head size, prominent occiput, underdeveloped limbs, club foot, joint contractures, and cleft lip. Multiple severe impairments with many cases being fatal. |
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| Caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol. Features include small stature, facial abnormalities, poor coordination, hyperactivity, and intellectual and learning disabilities. |
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| Most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and developmental delay. May cause autistic-like tendencies. Features include large head, long face, and prominent ears, chin and forehead. |
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| Excessive accumulation of CSF on the brain that impacts motor, congnition, and sensory function. |
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| Juvenile Rheumatiod Arthritis |
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| Persistent joint pain, swelling and stiffness. |
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| Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease |
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| Inadequate blood supply to the femoral head characterized by limping, pain, stiffness, limited ROM, and possibly a shortened leg. |
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| Umbrella term used to classify all disorders where the brain surface appears to be smooth. Caused by halted brain development at around 3-4 months gestation. Features include intellectual disability, seizures and feeding problems. |
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| Gentic disorder affecting the body's connective tissue. Features include extreme height, disproportionately long arms, legs, fingers, and toes, loose, flexible joints, long, thin face, deep-set eyes, small bottom jaw, crowded teeth, and possibly cardiac and visual problems. |
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| Meconium Aspiration Syndrome |
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| When a newborn breathes in a mixture of feces and amniotic fluid into the lungs during labor/delivery. Characterized by breathing problems and possibly brain damage. |
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| Weakness and wasting away of muscle tissue with our without breakdown of nerve tissue. Characterized by Gower's Sign. |
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| Genetic disorder affecting growth of nerve cell tissues that causes tumors to grown on nerves. Characterized by skin changes (discoloration and/or tumors) and bone deformities. |
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| Genetic disorder characterized by fragile bones that break easily. Features include brittle bones, short stature, joint deformities, weak tissues, fragile skin, muscle weakenss, breathing issues, hearing loss and spine curvature. |
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| Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD-NOS) |
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| Group of disorders characterized by delays in development of socialization and communication skills. Autistic like tendencies. |
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| Eating disorder characterized by ingestion of non-nutritive substances for at least one month. |
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| Too many small folds on the surfaces of the brain. Characterized by seizures, developmental delays, and intellectual disabilities. |
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| Genetic disorder involving low muscle tone, short stature, cognitive disability, behavior problems, and chronic hunger leading to obesity. |
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| Mutation of a gene on the X chromosome (almost always in girls) that causes problems in brain function responsible for cognitive, sensory, emotional, motor, and autonomic function. Regression of skills after 6-18 months. |
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| Sensory Processing Disorder |
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| Difficulty taking in or interpreting sensory input. |
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| Form of child abuse caused by violently shaking a baby. Features may include seizures, decreased alertness, irritability, lethargy, loss of consciousness, loss of vision, pale or bluish skin, poor feeding, and vomiting. |
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| Neural tube defect involving incomplete development of brain spinal cord, and protective coverings. |
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| Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) |
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| Genetic condition resulting in absence/defect in a gene that causes motor neurons to shrink and die resulting in wasting away of muscles. |
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| Defective gene on chromosome 15 that causes a lipid storage disorder where fatty substances build up in tissues and nerve cells in the brain. |
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| Neurological disorder characterized by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements and vocalizations called "tics." Also causes problems with reading, writing, and math and ADHD and OCD. |
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Caused by missing genes with symptoms such as delayed speech, developmental delays, ADD, learning disorders, intellectual disability, friendly personality, flattened nasal bridge, prominent lips, open mouth, teeth abnormalities, and blood vessel narrowing. |
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| Age at which the raw score is 50th percentile. |
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| Consistency or stability of scores obtained by one individual when tested under variable testing conditions. |
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| A measure of the stability of a test over time |
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| The ability of 2 independent raters to obtain the same scores when scoring the same child simultaneously. |
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| Standard Error of Measurement |
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| A statistic used to calculate the expected range of error for the test score of an individual |
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| The extent to which a test measures what it says it measures. |
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| Construct-Related Validity |
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| The extent to which a test measures a particular theoretic construct (ex: fine-motor skills, visual-perceptual skills) |
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| Extent to which the items on a test accurately sample a particular behavior domain |
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| Criterio-Related Validity |
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| Ability of a test to predict how an individual performs on other measurements or activities. |
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| Irritability, loss of interest in activities, change in activity level, sadness, decreased energy, inability to concentrate, and sleep or appetite disturbances. |
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| Characterized by alternating between periods of extreme overactivity, agitation, irritability, rapid speech, and reduced sleep to periods of typical or depressed mood. |
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| Worrying about what others think, past of future behavior or uneasy, fearful, and dreadful thoughts. |
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| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
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| Intruisive thoughts and repetitive behaviors |
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| Attention Deficit Disorder |
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| Significant difficulty with selective or sustained attention to tasks. |
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| Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) |
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Pattern of disobedience and hostility toward authority figures after age 6 months. Temper, refusal, and vidictive. |
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| More intrusive and severe forms of chronic misbehavior than ODD. Physical agression towards property, people, or animals, theft and lying. |
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| Characterized by abnormal ways of relating to people, objects, and events. Delayed or missing speech, language, and nonverbal communication skills. Restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and acivities. |
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| An expressive act that can have different forms and meanings. |
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1) Obtain a desired object or event
2) Avoiding a situation
3) Escaping from an undesired object, event, or demand |
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| Purposes of Challenging Behavior |
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| Any physical, sexual, or emotional injury inflicted on a child other than by accidental means by those responsible for the child's care, custody, or control. |
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| Failure to provide, by those responsible for the care, custody, and control of the child, the proper or necessary support, education as required by law, nutrition or medical, surgical, or any other care necessary for the child's well-being. |
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| Free Appropriate Public Education |
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| Least Restrictive Environment |
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| Individuals with Disabilities Education Act |
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Individualized Family Service Plan
*For Early Intervention (First Steps) |
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| Early Childhood Special Education |
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| Any place you would find typically developing children on a regular basis. |
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Individualized Educaton Plan
*For ECSE |
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| Based on norms of a sample that represent the population to be tested. |
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| Consist of a series of skills on functional or developmental tasks, usually grouped by age level or performance area |
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| Helps to obtain data relevant to a child's performance context. |
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| Gestational age at which you stop adjusting age |
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| Age at which you stop correcting the age of a child who's age was origionally corrected. |
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| 2 yrs 6 months- 7 yrs 11 months |
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phonology, morphology, syntax
*rules about language |
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| Meaning of language (vocabulary) |
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| Social context of language |
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| Rules in your brain about sounds |
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| Forms of words (tenses and plural) |
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| Order words are in (yoda) |
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| Child's productions of speech are the result of membership in a particular group/region/ethnicity (accents) |
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| Child's development of speech skills follows the typical pattern but at a slower pace |
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| Child's speech skills develop differently than expected; does not follow the typical developmental path (can also be extreme delay) |
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| Difficulty producing a particular sound(s) |
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| Predictable patterns of error; phonological processes) |
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| Difficulties with speech due to muscle weakenss and incoordination |
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