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Deafness: the inability to usefully perceive sounds in the environment with or without the use of a hearing aid; the inability to use hearing as a means of processing information.
Deficit: accounts for students’ academic and social struggles at school by pointing out those “desirable” attributes a student lacks.
Deprivation: the absence, loss, or withholding of something needed or considered valuable.
Developmental assessment: the process of mapping a child’s performance compared with children of similar age. Concepts measured consists of physical (both health and nutritional status) and motor development (gross and fine motor skills), psycho-social and emotional development (in terms of social relationships, culturally appropriate behavior, values, and self-esteem), and cognitive and language development.
Developmental delay: term used to encompass a variety of disabilities in infants and young children indicating that they are significantly behind the norm of development in one or more areas, including motor development, socialization, independent functioning, cognitive development, or communication.
Diagnosis: the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
Diagnostic assessment: a test used to diagnose, analyze or identify specific areas of weakness and strength; to determine the nature of weaknesses or deficiencies; diagnostic achievement tests are used to measure skills.
Differentiated instruction: the use of flexible teaching approaches in order to accommodate the individual learning needs of all students; targets to ensure content mastery, in-depth and independent learning.
Disability: any of a wide variety of conditions characterized by limitations in typical function (e.g., seeing, hearing, speaking, or learning) or development resulting from a physical or sensory impairment.
Diverse: showing a great deal of variety; different.
Dyslexia screener: is an assessment that identifies dyslexic tendencies in pupils aged 5–16+ years and recommends intervention strategies to help them achieve their potential. The 30 minute test is an ideal tool for screening an entire year group, or for screening those pupils showing some signs of difficulty.
Deafness: the inability to usefully perceive sounds in the environment with or without the use of a hearing aid; the inability to use hearing as a means of processing information.
Deficit: accounts for students’ academic and social struggles at school by pointing out those “desirable” attributes a student lacks.
Deprivation: the absence, loss, or withholding of something needed or considered valuable.
Developmental assessment: the process of mapping a child’s performance compared with children of similar age. Concepts measured consists of physical (both health and nutritional status) and motor development (gross and fine motor skills), psycho-social and emotional development (in terms of social relationships, culturally appropriate behavior, values, and self-esteem), and cognitive and language development.
Developmental delay: term used to encompass a variety of disabilities in infants and young children indicating that they are significantly behind the norm of development in one or more areas, including motor development, socialization, independent functioning, cognitive development, or communication.
Diagnosis: the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
Diagnostic assessment: a test used to diagnose, analyze or identify specific areas of weakness and strength; to determine the nature of weaknesses or deficiencies; diagnostic achievement tests are used to measure skills.
Differentiated instruction: the use of flexible teaching approaches in order to accommodate the individual learning needs of all students; targets to ensure content mastery, in-depth and independent learning.
Disability: any of a wide variety of conditions characterized by limitations in typical function (e.g., seeing, hearing, speaking, or learning) or development resulting from a physical or sensory impairment.
Diverse: showing a great deal of variety; different.
Dyslexia screener: is an assessment that identifies dyslexic tendencies in pupils aged 5–16+ years and recommends intervention strategies to help them achieve their potential. The 30 minute test is an ideal tool for screening an entire year group, or for screening those pupils showing some signs of difficulty.