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

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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.