The Special Education Handbook

Access

Accreditation/examinations

Adaptive behaviour

Adaptive equipment

Administration/administrator

Advocacy/advocate

Age

Aids to hearing

Anger management training

Anxiety disorders

Applied behaviour analysis

Art therapy/art therapist

Asperger's syndrome

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Audiology/audiologist

Augmentative and alternative communication

Autism

Autonomy and independence

Barriers

Behaviour chain interruption strategy

Behaviour therapy/behaviour therapist

Biofeedback

Bio-psycho-social model

Birth difficulties

Boarding special school

Braille and Moon

Brain basics

Breaks and lesson structure

Buildings and design

Bullying

Care

Causal factors

Cerebral hemispheres and lobes

Cerebral palsy

Challenging behaviour

Child and adolescent mental health

Child development

Child and adolescent psychiatry/child and adolescent psychiatrist

Classification of disabilities/disorders

Classroom organisation and layout

Cognitive-behavioural therapy/cognitive-behavioural therapist

Communication difficulties – comprehension

Communication difficulties – grammar

Communication difficulties – pragmatics

Communication difficulties – semantics

Community-based vocational instruction

Computer technology

Concrete learning and mild cognitive impairment

Conduct disorder

Conductive education/conductor

Co-occurrence of conditions

Counselling/counsellor

Criteria for disabilities/disorders

Curriculum

Dance movement therapy/dance movement therapist

Deafblindness

Dentistry/dentist

Depressive disorders

Developmental coordination disorder

Developmental delay

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

Diet/dietician

Difficulty

Disability

Discrete trial teaching

Disorder

Disorder of written expression

Down syndrome

Drama therapy/drama therapist

Early education

Early intervention

Education/educator

Elective mutism

Epilepsy

Equality of opportunity

Evidence-based practice

Fragile X syndrome

Funding

Genetic disorders

Graduated response

Group communication

Handwriting

Health impairment

Health services

Hearing impairment

History of special education

Home schooling

Hospital schooling

Impairment

Inclusion

Incontinence

Individual education programme/plan

Intelligence

Intensive interaction

International classification of functioning, disability and health for children and youth

Internet: world wide web sites

Journals and other publications

Learning difficulty

Learning disability

Legal framework

Low vision devices and lighting

Mainstream school/classroom

Mathematics disorder

Medication

Medicine

Mentor for pupils

Mild cognitive impairment

Moderate to severe cognitive impairment

Multi-professional working

Multisensory environments

Multiple disabilities

Muscular dystrophy

Music therapy/music therapist

Needs

Neural tube defects

Neurology/neurologist

Neuropsychology/neuropsychologist

Objects of reference

Observational learning and modelling

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Occupational therapy/occupational therapist

Ophthalmology/ophthalmologist

Oppositional defiant disorder

Optimal education

Oral/aural approaches

Orthopaedic impairment and motor disorders

Orthoptics/orthoptist

Paediatrics/paediatrician

Parents

Pedagogy

Philosophy

Phobias

Physical therapy/physical therapist

Pivotal response training

Play and play areas

Play therapy/play therapist

Politics

Portage

Postmodernism

Postural and positional supports

Prader–Willi syndrome

Prevalence and incidence

Problem-solving skills training

Profound cognitive impairment/profound and multiple learning difficulties

Progress

Prosthetics and orthotics

Protective appliances and clothing

Psychodynamic therapy

Psycholinguistics

Psychology/psychologist

Psychometric tests and testing

Psychotherapy/psychotherapist

Pupil ‘voice'

Qualifications, standards and training for teachers

Reading disorder

Referral and evaluation

Regional and local organisation

Research

Resource room

Rett syndrome

Rights

Semantic pragmatic disorder

Sign bilingualism

Sign language/signing

Skills

Social skills training

Social work/social worker

Sociology

Special children

Special classes

Special education

Special educational need

Special educational needs coordinator

Special school

Speech and language impairments

Speech-language pathology/speech-language pathologist

Statement of special educational needs

Stuttering/stammering

Symbols

Syndromes

Systems approach

Teaching aide

Technology/technician

Total communication

Tourette syndrome

Transition

Traumatic brain injury

Underpinning processes in disabilities/disorders

Visual impairment