GLOSSARY ABOUT SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION
Accessibility: Refers
to the design of products, devices, services or environments for
people with disabilities.
Accessible: Easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
Accountability: A policy of holding schools and teachers accountable for students' academic progress by linking such progress with funding for salaries, maintenance,
etc.
Adaptations: Changes
that increase the fitness of those who use them. Used by all
learners
Alternative
text: Word or phrase that can be inserted as an attribute in an
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) document to tell Web site viewers
the nature or contents of an image. The alt text appears in a blank
box that would normally contain the image.
Awareness:
knowledge or perception of a situation or fact. Concern about and
well-informed interest in a particular situation or development.
Cognitive
disabilities: Impairments in intellectual functioning and
adaptive behavior.
Commitment:
The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc./
An engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action.
Disabilities:
A physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements,
senses, or activities.
Ensure:
Make
certain that (something) will occur or be the case./ Make
certain of obtaining or providing (something)
Hearing
disabilities:
Hearing impairment as a disability category is similar to the
category of deafness, but it is not the same. The official
definition of
a hearing impairment by the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA) is “an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or
fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational
performance but is not included under the definition of ‘deafness.'”
Impairment:
Any
loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological or anatomical
structure or function.
Motivations:
The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a
particular way./ The general desire or willingness of someone to do
something.
Motor
disabilities:
Physical impairments that can impede movement, coordination, or
sensation. They can include weakness and lack of muscle control.
Obstacles:
A thing that blocks one's way or prevents or hinders progress.
Operable:
Able to be used.
Opportunities:
A set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something.
Perceivable:
Capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing
Population:
A particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in
an area or country.
Resources:
An action or strategy that may be adopted in adverse
circumstances.
Robust:
Capable of performing without failure under a wide range of
conditions.
Support:
to agree with or approve of (someone or something) / to show that you
approve of (someone or something) by doing something./ to give help
or assistance to (someone or something)
Understandable:
Able to be understood.
Visual
disabilities:
a decreased ability to
see
to
a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as
glasses.
