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English-French legislative terms. 2015.
English-French legislative terms. 2015.
Adaptive technology — is the name for products which help people who cannot use regular versions of products, primarily people with physical disabilities such as limitations to vision, hearing, and mobility.Adaptive technology promotes greater effectiveness for… … Wikipedia
Adaptive behavior — This article is about human behaviors. For animal behaviors, see Adaptive behavior (ecology). For computational behavior, see Adaptive algorithm. For the journal, see Adaptive Behavior (journal). Adaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is… … Wikipedia
borderline intellectual functioning — [DSM IV] a classification of mental ability covering persons with I.Q. scores in the range of 71 to 84, with only slight impairments in adaptive behavior. Called also borderline mental retardation … Medical dictionary
Mental retardation — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F70 F … Wikipedia
Mental retardation — A term used when a person has certain limitations in mental functioning and in skills such as communicating, taking care of him or herself, and social skills. These limitations will cause a child to learn and develop more slowly than a typical… … Medical dictionary
Nadine Lambert — (21 October 1926 – 26 April 2006) was an American psychology and education professor. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from University of Southern California, with a specialty in psychometrics. She taught at University of California, Berkeley … Wikipedia
Impulsivity — (or impulsiveness) is a type of human behaviour characterised by the inclination of an individual to act on impulse rather than thought. [Corsini, Raymond Joseph, 1999, The Dictionary of Psychology , Psychology Press, ISBN 158391028X, p. 476.]… … Wikipedia
classification — A systematic arrangement into classes or groups based on perceived common characteristics; a means of giving order to a group of disconnected facts. adansonian c. the c. of organisms based on giving equal weight to every character of the… … Medical dictionary
DSM — : Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders American Psychiatric Association (from 1952). (See also St. Louis School of Psychiatry ; Spitzer, Robert L..) This series of diagnostic handbooks, coming from a country that was not… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… … Universalium
Autism therapies — A three year old with autism points to fish in an aquarium, as part of an experiment on the effect of intensive shared attention training on language development.[1] Autism therapies attempt to lessen the deficits and … Wikipedia