Glossary
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8 results found in Developmental Disabilities.
- Developmental Delay (Developmental Disability, Global Developmental Delay)
- A condition in which a child does not reach developmental milestones — such as motor skills, speech, social skills, or cognitive abilities — at the expected ages. Developmental delay may affect one or…
- Phonological Development (Speech Sound Development, Phonological Acquisition)
- The process by which children learn to produce and organise the speech sounds of their language, progressing from early cooing and vowel-like sounds through canonical babbling (consonant-vowel syllabl…
- Prelinguistic Development (Pre-Speech Development, Prelinguistic Communication)
- Prelinguistic development refers to the stages of vocal and communicative development that occur before an infant produces meaningful words, typically spanning from birth to approximately 12-18 months…
- Preverbal Communication (Prelinguistic Communication)
- The stage of communication development before the consistent use of recognizable words, typically occurring in neurotypical children between birth and approximately 12 months of age. Preverbal communi…
- Severe and Multiple Disabilities (Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities, PMLD, Severe Multiple Disabilities)
- A condition where an individual has two or more significant disabilities occurring simultaneously, typically involving profound physical impairments combined with intellectual disability and often sen…
- Social Skills (Social Competence, Interpersonal Skills)
- The abilities required for effective social interaction, including communication, cooperation, turn-taking, perspective-taking, reading social cues, and responding appropriately in social contexts. So…
- Speech Sound Disorder (SSD, Speech Disorder, Articulation Disorder, Phonological Disorder)
- A communication disorder affecting the development of accurate speech sound and prosody production in childhood. Children with SSDs struggle with phonological representation, phonological awareness, a…
- Visual-Motor Integration (Visuomotor Integration, VMI, Eye-Hand Integration)
- The coordination of visual perception with motor output, enabling activities like writing, drawing, catching a ball, or manipulating objects based on visual information. Visual-motor integration is co…