Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals
Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals
Editors: Reynolds, Cecil R., Vannest, Kimberly J. and Fletcher-Janzen, Elaine
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-470-64216-0
Category: Social Sciences - Education
Image Count:
96
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of Special Education addresses issues of importance ranging from theory to practice and is a critical reference for researchers as well as those working in the special education field. This completely updated and comprehensive A-Z reference includes about 200 new entries, with increased attention given to those topics that have grown in importance since the publication of the third edition, such as technology, service delivery policies, international issues, neuropsychology, and RTI. The latest editions of assessment instruments frequently administered in special education settings are discussed.
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Table of Contents
- A
- AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- AAIDD (American Association on Intellectual Developmental Disabilities) Classification Systems
- Ability Training, Early Efforts in
- Abnormalities, Neurophysiological
- ABPP
- Abroms, Kippy I. (1942–1987)
- Absence Seizures
- Absenteeism/Attendance of Children with Disabilities
- Abstraction, Capacity for
- Abstract Thinking, Impairment in
- Abused Children, Psychotherapy with
- Academic Assessment
- Academic Language
- Academic Skills
- Academic Therapy
- Academic Therapy Publications
- Acalculia
- Acceleration of Gifted Children
- Access Board
- Accessibility
- Accessibility Resources in Standard Computer Systems
- Accommodation
- Accommodations Versus Academic Adjustment
- Acetylcholine
- Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist
- Achievement Need
- Achievement Tests
- Achondroplasia
- Acne Vulgaris
- Acrocallosal Syndrome
- Acrodysostosis
- Acromegaly
- Acromesomelic Dysplasia (Acromesomelic Dwarfism)
- Acromicric Dysplasia
- Acting Out
- Adapted Physical Education
- Adaptive Behavior
- Adaptive Behavior Assessment System—Second Edition
- Adaptive Technologies and Programs, Websites Related to
- Adderall
- Addison’s Disease
- Additive-Free Diets
- Adjustment of Individuals With Disabilities
- Adler, Alfred (1870–1937)
- Administration of Special Education
- Adoptees
- Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital
- Adrenocorticotropic Hormone (ACTH) Deficiency
- Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Adult Asperger Assessment
- Adult Programs for Individuals With Disabilities
- Advanced Placement Program
- Advance Organizers
- Adventitious Disabilities
- Advocacy for Children With Disabilities
- Advocacy Groups, Citizen
- Advocacy Organizations
- Affective Disorders
- Affective Education
- Afibrinogenemia, Congenital
- Africa: East and Southern Special Education
- Africa, Special Education
- Africa, Sub-Saharan, Special Education in
- Agammaglobulinemias
- Age-Appropriate Curriculum
- Age at Onset
- Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum
- Age of Majority
- Aggression
- Agoraphobia
- Agraphia
- Aicardi Syndrome (Callosal Dysgenesis)
- Aides to Psycholinguistic Teaching
- AIDS
- AIDS Dysmorphic Syndrome
- Akineton
- Al-Anon
- Alateen
- Albania, Special Education
- Albers-Shönberg Disease (Osteopetrosis, Marble Bone Disease)
- Albinism
- Albright’s Hereditary Osteodystrophy (Pseudohypoparathyroidism)
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patterns
- Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf
- Alexia
- Algozzine, Bob (1946– )
- Allergic Diseases
- Alley, Gordon R. (1934–1999)
- Alopecia Areata
- Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency
- Alphabetic Method
- Alphabetic Principle/Phonics
- Alport Syndrome
- Alström Syndrome
- Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood
- Alternative Formats of Information
- Alternative Settings, Positive Behavior Supports
- Amblyopia
- American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine
- American Annals of the Deaf
- American Art Therapy Association
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- American Board of Professional Neuropsychology
- American Board of Professional Psychology
- American Cancer Society (ACS)
- American Council on Rural Education (ACRES)
- American Counseling Association (ACA)
- American Educational Research Association
- American Foundation for the Blind
- American Guidance Service
- American Institute—The Training School at Vineland
- American Journal of Mental Retardation
- American Journal of Occupational Therapy
- American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
- American Journal of Psychiatry
- American Occupational Therapy Foundation
- American Orthopsychiatric Association
- American Physical Therapy Association
- American Printing House for the Blind
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychological Association
- American Psychologist
- American Sign Language
- American Society for Deaf Children
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Americans With Disabilities Act
- Ames Louise Bates (1908–1996)
- Amnesia
- Amniocentesis
- Amphetamine Psychosis
- AMSLAN
- Amyoplasia Congenital Disruptive Sequence (Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenital)
- Anastasi, Anne (1908–2001)
- Anastasiow, Nicholas J. (1924– )
- Anderson, Meta L. (1878–1942)
- Anemia, Aplastic
- Anemia, Diamond-Blackfan
- Anemia, Fanconi
- Anemia, Hereditary Nonspherocytic Hemolytic
- Anemia, Hereditary Spherocytic Hemolytic
- Anencephaly
- Angelman Syndrome
- Angioedema (Hereditary)
- Animals for Individuals With Disabilities
- Aniridia Cerebellar Ataxia Mental Deficiency
- Annals of Dyslexia
- Annual Directory of Educational Facilities for the Learning Disabled
- Annual Goals
- Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, Twenty-Ninth Executive Summary of the
- Anomalies, Physical
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anosmia
- Anoxia
- Antecedent
- Antecedent Teaching
- Anthroposophic Movement
- Anticonvulsants
- Antihistamines
- Antisocial Behavior
- Antisocial Personality
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Antley-Bixler Syndrome
- Anxiety
- Anxiety Disorders
- APECED Syndrome
- Apert Syndrome
- Apgar Rating Scale
- Aphasia
- Aphasia, Broca’s
- Aphasia, Jargon
- Aphasia, Transcortical
- Aphasia, Wernicke (Sensory Aphasia)
- Apnea, Infantile
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Applied Psycholinguistics
- Applied Verbal Behavior
- Apraxia, Developmental
- Apraxia, Ocular Motor Cogan Type
- Aptitude Testing
- Aptitude-Treatment Interaction
- Arachnoid Cysts
- Arc, The
- Architectural Barriers
- Architecture and Individuals With Disabilities
- Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
- Argentina, Special Education Services for Young Children In
- Arithmetic Remediation
- Armitage, Thomas Rhodes (1824–1890)
- Armstrong v. Kline (1979)
- Army Group Examinations
- Arteriovenous Malformations
- Arthritis, Juvenile
- Articulation Disorders
- Arts Integrated With Mathematics
- Art Therapy
- Asperger, Hans (February 18, 1906–October 21, 1980)
- Asperger Syndrome
- Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale
- Asphyxia
- Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills—Revised (ABLLS-R)
- Assessments, Alternate
- Assessment, Transition
- Assimilation
- Assistive Technology Act
- Assistive Technology Devices
- Assistive Technology for Hearing Impairments
- Assistive Technology in Higher Education
- Assistive Technology, Transition Planning
- Association for Childhood Education International
- Association for Positive Behavior Support (APBS)
- Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy
- Association for the Gifted, The
- Association of Black Psychologists
- Associative Learning
- Asthma
- Astigmatism
- Astrocytomas
- Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex
- Ataque de Nervios
- Atarax
- Ataxia
- Ataxia, Friedreich
- Ataxia, Hereditary
- Ataxia, Marie’s
- Ataxia-Telangiectasia (Louis-Bar-Syndrome)
- Athetosis
- Atrioventricular Septal Defect
- Attachment Disorder
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Attention Span
- Attribution Retraining
- Attributions
- Atypical Child Syndrome
- Audiogram
- Audiology
- Audiometry
- Auditory Abnormalities
- Auditory Discrimination
- Auditory Perception
- Auditory Processing
- Auditory–Visual Integration
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Australia, Special Education In
- Autism
- Autism Behavior Checklist
- Autism Diagnostic Interview—Revised
- Autism Diagnostic Observation System
- Autism Society of America
- Autism Speaks
- Autism Spectrum Rating Scales (ASRS)
- Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice (Journal)
- Autocorrelation
- Autocorrelation Effects in Single-Case Research
- Automaticity
- Automutism
- Autonomic Reactivity
- Aversive Control
- Aversive Stimulus
- Aveyron, Wild Boy of
- Ayllon, Teodoro (1929– )
- Ayres, A. Jean (1920–1988)
- B
- Babinski Reflex
- Baby Doe
- Baer, Donald M. (1931–2002)
- Baller-Gerold Syndrome (Craniosynostosis-Radial Aplasia Syndrome)
- Balo Disease
- Bandura, Albert (1925– )
- Bannatyne, Alexander D. (1925– )
- Barbiturate Abuse
- Bardet-Biedl Syndrome
- Bardon, Jack I. (1925–1993)
- Barraga, Natalie C. (1915– )
- Barrier-Free Education
- Barriers, Architectural
- Barsch, Ray H. (1917–2003)
- Basal Readers
- Baseline Data
- Base Rate
- Basic Skills Training
- Bateman, Barbara (1933– )
- Batten Disease
- Battered Child Syndrome
- Baumeister, Alfred A. (1934–2011)
- Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Third Edition
- Bechterev (Bekhtiarev), Vladimir M. (1857–1927)
- Becker, Wesley C. (1928–2000)
- Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome
- Beers, Clifford W. (1876–1943)
- Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, Sixth Edition
- Behavior
- Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale, Second Edition, BERS-2
- Behavioral Assessment
- Behavioral Consultation
- Behavioral Consultation, Conjoint
- Behavioral Deficit
- Behavioral Disorders, Journal of
- Behavioral Momentum
- Behavioral Objectives
- Behavioral Observation
- Behavior Analysis, Applied
- Behavior Analyst, Board Certified
- Behavior Analyst, Board Certified Associate
- Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Inc
- Behavior Assessment System for Children-2
- Behavior Charting
- Behavior, Destructive
- Behavior Disorders
- Behavior Intervention Plans
- Behaviorism
- Behavior Modeling
- Behavior Modification
- Behavior Problem Checklist, Revised
- Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function
- Behavior Therapy
- Belgium, Special Education in
- Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922)
- Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital
- Bell’s Palsy
- Bell, Terrel H. (1921–1996)
- Benadryl
- Bender, Lauretta (1897–1987)
- Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition
- Benign Essential Tremor
- Bennett, Virginia C. (1916–1998)
- Benzedrine
- Bereiter, Carl (1930– )
- Beta III
- Bettelheim, Bruno (1903–1990)
- Bialer, Irving (1919–2000)
- Bibliotherapy
- Bielscholwsky Syndrome
- Biennial Directory of Educational Facilities for the Learning Disabled
- Bijou, Sidney W. (1908–2009)
- Biliary Cirrhosis, Primary
- Bilingual Assessment and Special Education
- Bilingual Special Education
- Bilingual Speech Language Pathology
- Bilingual Verbal Ability Tests
- Binet, Alfred (1857–1911)
- Biochemical Irregularities
- Biofeedback
- Biogenic Models
- Biological Basis of Emotional Disorders
- Biological Basis of Learning and Memory
- Bipolar Affective Disorder
- Birch, Herbert G. (1918–1973)
- Birch, Jack W. (1915–1998)
- Birth Injuries
- Birth Order
- Birth Trauma
- Blatt, Burton (1927–1985)
- Blind Infants
- Blindisms
- Blind Learning Aptitude Test
- Blindness
- Blindness, Legal
- Blissymbols
- Bloom, Benjamin S. (1913–1999)
- Blue Diaper Syndrome
- Bobath Method
- Boder Test of Reading–Spelling Patterns
- Body Image
- Body Type
- Boehm Test of Basic Concepts, Third Edition
- Bone Anchored Hearing Device–BAHA
- Bonet, Juan P. (1579–1629)
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann Syndrome
- Bower, Eli M. (1917–1991)
- Bracken Basic Concept Scale: Expressive
- Braidwood, Thomas (1715–1806)
- Braille
- Braille, Louis (1809–1852)
- Brain Damage/Injury
- Brain Disorders (Degenerative Motor Dysfunction)
- Brain Fag
- Brain Growth Periodization
- Brain Injury Association of America
- Brain Organization
- Brain Stem Audiometry
- Brain Tumors
- Brazelton, T. Berry (1918– )
- Bridgman, Laura Dewey (1829–1899)
- Brigance Diagnostic Inventories
- Brittle Bone Disease (Osteogenesis Imperfecta)
- Broca, Pierre Paul (1824–1880)
- Broca’s Aphasia
- Bronfenbrenner, Uri (1917–2005)
- Brown, Ann L. (1943–1999)
- Brown, Lou (1939– )
- Brown, Robert T. (1940– )
- Brown Versus Board of Education
- Brucellosis
- Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (BOT-2)
- Bruner, Jerome (1915– )
- Bruxism and the Student With Disabilities
- Buckley Amendment
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Bullous Pemphigoid
- Bureau of Education for the Handicapped
- Bureau of Indian Education
- Burks’ Behavior Rating Scales, Second Edition (BBRS-2)
- Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook
- Buros, Oscar K. (1905–1978)
- Burt, Sir Cyril (1883–1971)
- C
- Café au Lait Spots
- Calculators
- Caldwell, Bettye M. (1924– )
- California Verbal Learning Test, Children’s Version
- California Verbal Learning Test, Second Edition
- Campbell, Sir Francis Joseph (1832–1914)
- Camp, Bonnie W. (1931– )
- Camphill Community Movement
- Camping for Children With Disabilities
- Canada, Special Education in
- Cancer, Childhood
- Candidiasis
- Cantrell, Robert P. (1938– )
- Carcinoid Syndrome
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell
- Cardiac Disorders
- Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome
- Career Education for Students Receiving Special Education Services
- Caribbean, Special Education in
- Carnine, Douglas W. (1947– )
- Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Deficiency, Type I
- Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Deficiency, Type II
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Carpenter Syndrome (Acrocephalopolysyndactyly, Type II)
- Carrow Elicited Language Inventory
- Cartwright, G. Phillip (1937– )
- Cascade Model of Special Education Services
- Case History
- Castleman Disease
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- Cataracts
- Catecholamines
- Categorical Education
- Cat Eye Syndrome
- Cat Scan
- Cat-Scratch Disease
- The Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory of Cognitive Abilities
- Cattell, James McKeen (1860–1944)
- Cawley’s Project Math
- Center for Applied Special Technology
- Centers for Independent Living
- Centile Scores
- Central Auditory Dysfunction
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder
- Central Core Disease
- Central Hypoventilation Syndrome (Congenital)
- Central Nervous System
- Central Processing Dysfunctions in Children
- Central Tendency
- Cerebellar Disorders
- Cerebral Dominance
- Cerebral Function, Lateralization of
- Cerebral Infarction
- Cerebral Lesion, Chronic
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebro-Hepato-Renal Syndrome
- Certification/Licensure Issues
- Chalfant, James C. (1932– )
- Chall, Jeanne S. (1921–1999)
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
- CHC Cross-Battery Approach, The
- Chemically Dependent Youths
- Chemotherapy
- Chess, Stella (1914–2007)
- Child Abuse
- Child Development
- Child Find
- Child Guidance Clinic
- Childhood Aphasia
- Childhood Autism Rating Scale, Second Edition
- Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST)
- Childhood Disintegrative Disorder
- Childhood Neurosis
- Childhood Psychosis
- Childhood Schizophrenia
- Child Maltreatment and Disabilities
- Child Psychiatry
- Child Psychology
- Children of a Lesser God
- Children’s Defense Fund
- Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale
- Children’s Rights Internationally
- Child Service Demonstration Centers
- Child Variance Project
- Child With a Disability, Definition of
- China, Special Education in
- Chlamydia Trachomatis, Adolescent Onset
- Chlamydia Trachomatis Infections
- Chlorpromazine
- Cholinesterase
- Chomsky, Noam (1928– )
- Chorea
- Chorionic Villus Sampling
- Choroideremia
- Chromosome 9, Trisomy 9p (Multiple Variants)
- Chromosome 18p Syndrome
- Chromosome 18q Syndrome
- Chromosomes, Human Anomalies, and Cytogenetic Abnormalities
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic Granulomatous Disease
- Chronic Illness in Children
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
- Citizen Advocacy Groups
- Civil Rights of Individuals With Disabilities
- Class-Action Lawsuits
- Classrooms, Positive Behavior Supports
- Clausen, Johs (1913– )
- Cleft Lip/Palate
- Cleland, Charles C. (1924– )
- Clerc, Laurent (1785–1869)
- Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, Fourth Edition
- Clinical Interview
- Clinical Psychology
- Clinical Teaching
- Closed Circuit Television
- Cloze Technique
- Clubfoot
- Cluttering
- Coaching/Facilitating, Positive Behavior Support
- Coats’ Disease
- Cocaine Abuse
- Cockayne Syndrome
- Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education
- Coffin-Lowry Syndrome
- Cogentin
- Cognitive Assessment System
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Cognitive Development
- Cognitive Impairment and Metal Pollutants
- Cognitive Mapping Software
- Cognitive Retraining
- Cognitive Strategies
- Cognitive Styles
- Cohen Syndrome
- Colitis
- Colitis, Collagenous
- Colitis, Ulcerative
- Collaborative Perinatal Project
- College Programs for Disabled College Students
- Colorado Tick Fever
- Color Blindness
- Communication Aids, Electronic Communication Boards
- Communication Disorders
- Communication Specialist
- Community-Based Instruction
- Community Residential Programs
- Compazine
- Compensatory Education
- Competing Behavior Path Analysis
- Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language
- Comprehensive Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary Test, Second Edition
- Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, Second Edition
- Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing
- Comprehensive Trail Making Test
- Compulsory Attendance (and Students With Disabilities)
- Computerized Axial Tomography
- Computers and Education, an International Journal
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Computer Use With Students With Disabilities
- Concept Formation
- Concept of Activity
- Concrete Operations
- Conditioned Reinforcer
- Conditioning
- Conduct Disorder
- Conductive Hearing Loss
- Congenital Disorders
- Congenital Word Blindness
- Conjunctivitis, Ligneous
- Conners 3rd Edition
- Conradi-Hunermann Syndrome
- Conscience, Lack of in Individuals With Disabilities
- Consent Decree
- Consent, Informed
- Consequences
- Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities
- Constitutional Law (in Special Education)
- Consultation
- Consultation, Mental Health
- Contingency Contracting
- Continuous Reinforcement
- Contract Procurement
- Control Groups
- Controversial and Non-Conventional Autism Treatments
- Convergent and Divergent Thinking
- Cooperative Grouping, Mathematics
- Coprolalia
- Copropraxia
- Core School
- Corneal Dystrophy
- Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
- Correctional Education
- Correctional Special Education
- Cortical Visual Impairment
- Cor Triatrium
- Costa Rica, Special Education in
- Costello Syndrome
- Council for Exceptional Children
- Council for Exceptional Children, Council for Children With Behavioral Disorders
- Council for Exceptional Children, Council for Educational Diagnostic Services
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division for Early Childhood
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division for Learning Disabilities
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division for Physical, Health, and Multiple Disabilities
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division for Research
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division of International Special Education and Services
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities (DADD)
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division on Career Development and Transition
- Council for Exceptional Children, Division on Visual Impairments
- Council for Exceptional Children, Pioneers Division
- Council for Exceptional Children, Teacher Education Division
- Council for Exceptional Children, Technology and Media Division
- Council for Learning Disabilities
- Council of Administrators of Special Education
- Counseling Individuals With Disabilities
- Crack, Prenatal Exposure
- Cratty, Bryant J. (1929– )
- Creative Problem Solving
- Creative Problem Solving Institute
- Creative Studies Program
- Creativity
- Creativity, Amusement Park Theory (APT Model) of
- Creativity, Consensual Assessment of
- Creativity, Fairness and
- Creativity, Theories of
- Creativity Tests
- Cretinism
- Cri du Chat Syndrome (Cat Cry Syndrome)
- Crime and Individuals With Disabilities
- Crisis Intervention
- Crisis Teacher
- Crissey, Marie Skodak (1910–2000)
- Criterion-Referenced Testing
- Crohn’s Disease
- Cronbach, Lee J. (1916–2001)
- Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory
- Cross-Modality Training
- Crouzon Syndrome
- Crouzon Syndrome (Craniofacial Dysostosis)
- Cruickshank, William M. (1915–1992)
- Cryptophasia
- Cued Speech
- Cuisenaire Rods
- Cultural Attitudes Toward Special Education
- Cultural Bias In Testing
- Giftedness, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
- Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Gifted Students
- Learning Disabilities and Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Students
- Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Students and Learning Disabilities
- Families of Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
- Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education, Families of
- Culturally/Linguistically Diverse Students, Representation of
- Cultural Perspectives on Behavioral Disorders
- Cultural Sensitivity During Transition Planning
- Culture-Fair Test
- Culture Free Self-Esteem Inventories, Third Edition
- Curriculum
- Curriculum, Age-Appropriate
- Curriculum-Based Assessment
- Curriculum-Based Measurement
- Curriculum for Students With Mild Disabilities in Special Education
- Curriculum for Students With Severe Disabilities
- Curriculum in Early Childhood Intervention
- Cushing’s Syndrome
- Custodial Care of Individuals With Disabilities, History of
- Customized Employment
- Cutis Marmorata Telangiectatica Congenita
- Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
- Cyclothymia
- Cylert
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Cystic Hygroma
- Cytomegalovirus
- Cytomegalovirus, Congenital
- D
- Daily Living Skills
- Dance Therapy
- Dandy-Walker Syndrome
- Darier Disease
- Data-Based Decision Making, Positive Behavior Support
- Day-Care Centers
- Deaf-Blind
- Deaf Culture
- Deaf Education
- Deaf Education, History of
- Deaf, Interpreters for
- Deafness, Causes and Types of
- Deaf President Now
- Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Battery
- Deborah P. Versus Turlington
- Decroly, Ovide (1871–1932)
- Deinstitutionalization
- Delacato, Carl H. (1923– )
- Delayed Language
- De L’Epée, Abbé Charles Michel (1712–1789)
- Delinquency, Disabilities and
- Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System
- De Lorenzo, Maria E.G.E. (1927– )
- Delusions
- Dementia
- Dementias of Childhood
- Dendrites
- Denmark, Special Education in the Folkeskole in
- Deno, Evelyn N. (1911–2005)
- Dentistry and the Exceptional Child
- Denys-Drash Syndrome
- Depakene
- Dependent Variable
- Depression, Childhood and Adolescent
- Deprivation, Bioneural Results of
- Deprivation, Early Auditory
- Deprivation, Early Visual
- Dermatitis, Atopic
- Dermatitis, Contact
- Dermatomyositis
- De Sanctis-Cacchione Syndrome
- Desensitization
- Des Lauriers, Austin M. (1917–1983)
- Des Lauriers–Carlson Hypothesis
- Despert, Juliette L. (1892–1982)
- Destructive Behaviors
- Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude, Fourth Edition
- Developmental Apraxia
- Developmental Assessment of Young Children
- Developmental Delay
- Developmental Disabilities
- Developmental Disabilities Assistance Act and Bill of Rights
- Developmental Dyslexia, History of
- Developmental Mathematics at the College Level
- Developmental Milestones
- Developmental Norms
- Developmental Optometry
- Developmental Psychology
- Developmental Test of Visual Perception, Second Edition
- Developmental Therapy
- Devereux Behavior Rating Scale-School Form
- Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders
- Deviation IQ
- Dexedrine
- DHAT
- Diabetes
- Diagnosis in Special Education
- Diagnostic Achievement Battery, Second Edition
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
- Diagnostic Assessments of Reading With Trial Teaching Strategies
- Diagnostic Prescriptive Teaching
- Diagnostic Teaching
- Dialysis and Special Education
- Diana Versus State Board of Education
- Diazepam
- Dichotic Listening
- Dictionary of Occupational Titles
- Differential Ability Scales–Second Edition
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging
- DiGeorge Syndrome
- Dilantin
- Diplegia
- Diplopia
- Direct Instruction
- Disability
- Disability Etiquette
- Disadvantaged Child
- Disasters and Disabilities
- Discipline
- Discourse
- Discrepancy Analysis
- Discrepancy From Grade
- Discriminant Analysis
- Discrimination Learning
- Disproportionality
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Distal Arthrogryposis Syndrome
- DISTAR
- Distractibility
- Division With Models, Best Practices for Teaching
- Divorce and Special Education
- Dix, Dorothea L. (1802–1887)
- Doctoral Training in Special Education
- Dog Guides
- Dolch Word List
- Doll, Edgar A. (1889–1968)
- Doman, Glenn (1919– )
- Dopamine
- Double-Blind Design
- Down, J. (John) Langdon (1828–1896)
- Down Syndrome
- The Draw-A-Person Intellectual Ability Test for Children, Adolescents, and Adults
- Draw-A-Person Test
- Dropout
- Drug Abuse
- Due Process
- Duhring Disease
- Dunlap, Glen
- Dunn, Lloyd M. (1917– )
- Duodenal Atresia and Duodenal Stenosis
- Duration Recording
- Dwarfism
- Dyscalculia
- Dysfluency
- Dysgraphesthesia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyskinesia
- Dyslexia
- Dyslexia
- Dyslogic Syndrome
- Dysmetria
- Dysmorphic Features
- Dysnomia
- Dyspedagogia
- Dysphagia
- Dysphonia
- Dyspraxia
- Dysthymia
- Dystonia
- E
- Ear and Hearing
- Early Childhood, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Issues In
- Early Childhood Intervention, Positive Behavior Support
- Early Experience and Critical Periods
- Early Infantile Autism
- Early Screening Profiles
- Eating Disorders
- Echolalia
- Echopraxia
- Ecological Assessment
- Ecological Education for Children With Disabilities
- Ecstasy Abuse
- Ectodermal Dysplasia
- Ectrodactaly Ectodermal Dysplasia (EEC Syndrome)
- Edgerton, Robert B. (1931– )
- Educability
- Educateur
- Educational and Psychological Measurement
- Educational Diagnostician
- Educational High School Reform
- Educationally Disadvantaged
- Educational Resources Information Center
- Educational Testing Service
- Education and Treatment of Children
- EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT OF 1975 (PL 94-142)
- Education for all Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (PL 94-142)
- EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT OF 1975 (PL 94-142)
- EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT OF 1975 (PL 94-142)
- EDUCATION FOR ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT OF 1975 (PL 94-142)
- Education for the Terminally Ill
- Education of Children With Blindness/Visual Disabilities
- Education Week
- EEG Abnormalities
- EEOC
- Effectiveness of Special Education
- Egbert, Robert L. (1923–2001)
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Eisenson, Jon (1907–2001)
- Elaborated Versus Restricted Verbal Codes
- Elavil
- Elective Mutism
- Electroencephalograph
- Electroencephalography (EEG) Biofeedback
- Electronic Travel Aids
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
- Elementary Mathematics Content Specialists
- The Elephant Man
- Ellis, Norman R. (1924– )
- Elwyn Institutes
- Embedded Figures Test
- Emotional Disorders
- Emotional Lability
- Emphysema, Congenital Lobar
- Empirically Supported Treatment
- Employment Options
- Encephalitis, Mycoplasma Pneumoniae
- Encephalitis, Postherpetic
- Encephalitis, Postinfectious Measles
- Encopresis
- Endocardial Fibroelastosis
- Endocrine Disorders
- Endorphins
- Engelmann Disease
- England, Special Education in
- Englemann, Siegfried E. (1931– )
- ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) AND SPECIAL EDUCATION
- Engrams
- Enrichment
- Enrichment Triad Model
- Enuresis
- Eosinophilic Fasciitis
- Epicanthic Fold
- Epidemiology
- Epilepsy Foundation of America
- Epinephrine
- Equal Educational Opportunity
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Equal Protection
- Equine Therapy
- Errorless Learning
- ERTL Index
- Erythrokeratodermia With Ataxia
- Esquirol, Jean E. (1722–1840)
- Estonia, Special Education in
- Ethics
- Ethics, International, and Special Education
- Etiology
- Eugenics
- Eustis, Dorothy Harrison (1886–1946)
- Evaluating the Core Curriculum in a Response to Intervention Approach
- Evaluation
- Evaluation
- Evaluation
- Event Recording
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Evidence-Based Programs
- Evidence-Based Secondary Transition Practices
- Exceptional Children
- Exhibitionism
- Expectancy Age
- Expectations, Positive Behavior Support
- Expressive Vocabulary Test, Second Edition
- Extended School Year for Children With Disabilities
- Extinction
- Eye-Hand Coordination
- Eysenck, Hans J. (1916–1997)
- F
- Fabry Disease
- Facilitated Communication
- Factor Analysis
- Failure to Thrive
- Fairbank Disease
- False Positive and False Negative
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Familial Retardation
- Familiar Dysautonomia
- Families for Early Autism Treatment
- Families, Positive Behavior Support
- Family Counseling
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Family Involvement, Transition
- Family Policy Compliance Office
- Family Response to a Child With Disabilities
- Family Service America
- Family Therapy
- Farrell, Elizabeth E. (1870–1932)
- Fears
- Febrile Convulsions
- Federal Register
- Feeble-Minded
- Feeding Disorder of Early Childhood
- Feeding Disorders of Infancy
- Feingold Diet
- Feldhusen, John F. (1926–2009)
- Femoral Hypoplasia–Unusual Facies Syndrome
- Fenichel, Carl (1905–1975)
- Feral Children
- Fernald, Grace Maxwell (1879–1950)
- Fernald Method
- Fernald, Walter E. (1859–1924)
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Fetal Aminopterin/Methotrexate Syndrome
- Fetal Hydantoin Syndrome
- Fetal Rubella Syndrome
- Fetal Trimethadione Syndrome
- Fetal Valproate Syndrome
- Fetal Varicella Syndrome
- Fetal Warfarin Syndrome
- Fewell, Rebecca R. (1936– )
- Fiber-Type Disproportion, Congenital
- Fibrosysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
- Field Dependence–Independence
- Filial Therapy, Special Education and
- Fingerspelling
- Finland, Special Education in
- Fitzgerald Key, The
- Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities (Journal)
- Fölling Disease
- Follow Through
- Food Additives
- Forness, Steven R. (1939– )
- Forrest v. Ambach
- Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
- Foundation for Children Learning Disabilities
- Fountain Syndrome
- Fourteenth Amendment Rights
- Foxx, Richard M. (1944– )
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Fraiberg, Selma Horowitz (1918–1981)
- France, Special Education in
- Free Appropriate Public Education
- Freedom From Distractibility Factor
- Freeman Sheldon Syndrome
- French, Edward Livingston (1916–1969)
- French, Joseph L. (1928– )
- Freud, Anna (1895–1982)
- Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)
- Frey’s Syndrome
- Friedreich’s Ataxia
- Frontofacionasal Dysplasia
- Frostig, Marianne (1906–1985)
- Frostig Remedial Program
- Fryns Syndrome
- Functional Analysis
- Functional Assessment
- Functional Centers Hypothesis
- Functional Communication Training
- Functional Domains
- Functional Equivalence
- Functional Instruction
- Functional MRI
- Functional Skills Trainings
- Functional Vision
- Functional Vocabulary
- Future Problem Solving Program
- G
- Gait Disturbances
- Galactosemia
- Gallagher, James J. (1926– )
- Gallaudet, Edward M. (1837–1917)
- Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins (1787–1851)
- Gallaudet College
- Galton, Francis (1822–1911)
- Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
- Gargoylism
- Garrett, Emma (1846–1893)
- Garrett, Mary Smith (1839–1925)
- Garrison, S. Olin (1853–1900)
- Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test
- Gaze Aversion
- Gearheart, Bill R. (1918–2001)
- General Aptitude Test Battery
- Generalizability Theory
- Generalization
- Generic Special Education
- Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center
- Genetic Counseling
- Genetic Factors in Behavior
- Genetic Mapping
- Genetic Testing
- Genetic Transmissions
- Genetic Variations
- Genie
- Genius
- George, William Reuben (1866–1936)
- Georgia Studies of Creative Behavior
- Germany, Special Education In
- Gerstmann Syndrome
- Gesell, Arnold Lucius (1880–1961)
- Gesell Developmental Schedules
- Gesell School Readiness Test
- Getman, Gerald N. (1913–1990)
- g Factor Theory
- Gifted and Learning Disabilities
- Gifted and Talented Children
- Gifted and Talented, Counseling the
- Gifted and Talented, Underachievement of the
- Gifted Child Quarterly
- Gifted Children
- Gifted Children and Reading
- Gifted Education Resource Institute
- Gifted International
- Gifted Rating Scales
- Gilliam Asperger’s Disorder Scale
- Gilliam Autism Rating Scale—Second Edition
- Gillingham-Stillman: Alphabetic Approach
- Glial Cells
- Glioblastoma
- Glycogen Storage Disease (Von Gierke Disease)
- Glycogen Storage Disease Type II (Pompe Disease)
- Glycogen Storage Disease Type III (Forbes Disease)
- Glycogen Storage Disease Type IV (Andersen Disease)
- Glycogen Storage Disease Type V (McArdle Disease)
- Glycogen Storage Disease Type VI
- Glycogen Storage Disease VII (Tarui Disease)
- Glycogen Storage Disease Type VIII
- Goals, Annual
- Goals, Use of
- Goddard, Henry H. (1866–1957)
- Golden, Charles J. (1949– )
- Goldenhar Syndrome
- Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation 2
- Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination
- Gold, Marc (1931–1982)
- Goldstein, Max A. (1870–1941)
- Goodenough, Florence Laura (1886–1959)
- Goodpasture Disease
- Gottlieb, Jay (1942– )
- Gowan, John C. (1912–1986)
- Grade Equivalents
- Grade Retention
- Grandin, Temple (1947– )
- Grand Mal Seizures
- Granulomatous Disease, Chronic
- Graphesthesia
- Graphic Organizers
- Gray Diagnostic Reading Tests—Second Edition
- Gray Oral Reading Tests—Fourth Edition
- Greig Cephalopolysyndactyly Syndrome
- Grieving Process
- Groht, Mildred A. (1890–1971)
- Grosenick, Judith K. (1942– )
- Grossman, Herbert (1934– )
- Grottoes of North America
- Group Homes
- Group Therapy
- Growth Delay, Constitutional
- Growth Hormone Deficiency
- Guggenbühl, Johann J. (1816–1863)
- Guide to the Assessment of Test Session Behavior
- Guilford, J. P. (1897–1987)
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome
- H
- Habilitation of Individuals With Disabilities
- Habituation
- Halderman Versus Pennhurst State School and Hospital (1977)
- Haldol
- Hallahan, Daniel P. (1944– )
- Hall, Frank H. (1843–1911)
- Hall, G. Stanley (1844–1924)
- Hallermann-Streiff Syndrome
- Hallervorden-Spatz Disease
- Hallucinations
- Hallucinogen Abuse
- Hallucinogens
- Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery
- Hammill, Donald (1934– )
- Handedness and Exceptionality
- Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease
- Handicapism
- Handicapped Children’s Early Education Assistance Act (Public Law 90-538)
- Handicapped, Definition of
- Handicapping Conditions, High Incidence
- Hand Test
- Handwriting
- Happy Puppet Syndrome
- Haring, Norris G. (1923– )
- Hartnup Disease
- Harvard Educational Review
- Haüy, Valentin (1745–1822)
- Havighurst, Robert J. (1900–1991)
- Hawthorne Effect
- Hayden, Alice Hazel (1909–1994)
- Hay-Wells Syndrome of Ectodermal Dysplasia
- Haywood, H. Carl (1931– )
- Head Injury
- Head Start
- Health Impairments
- Hearing Dogs
- Hearing Impairment
- Heart Block, Congenital
- Heber, Rick F. (1932–1992)
- Hecht Syndrome
- Heelcord Operation
- Hegge, Kirk, Kirk Approach
- Heinicke, Samuel (1727–1790)
- Helen Keller International
- Hematuria, Benign Familial (Idiopathic Hematuria)
- Hemiballismus
- Hemiparesis
- Hemiplegia
- Hemispherectomy
- Hemispheric Functions
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
- Hemophilia A, “Classic” Hemophilia
- Hemophilia B
- Hemophilia C
- Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
- Hepatitis
- Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
- Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome
- Herpes Simplex I and II
- Hess, Robert (1920–1993)
- Hewett, Frank M. (1927– )
- Higher Education, Minority Students With Disabilities
- High-Functioning Autism
- High-Functioning Autism/Asperger’s in Mathematics
- High-Incidence Disabilities
- High Interest–Low Vocabulary
- Highly Qualified Teachers
- High Risk
- High-Risk Registry
- High Schools, Positive Behavior Supports
- Hirschsprung Disease
- Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning
- History of Special Education
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Hobbs, Nicholas (1915–1983)
- Hollingworth, Leta A. S. (1886–1939)
- Holt-Oram Syndrome
- Holt, Winifred (1870–1945)
- Holtzman, Wayne H. Sr. (1923– )
- Homebound Instruction
- Hong Kong, Special Education in
- Horner, Robert H. (1949– )
- Horseback Riding for Students with Disabilities
- Horticultural Therapy
- House, Betty J. (1923– )
- House-Tree-Person
- Howe, Samuel Gridley (1801–1876)
- Human Genome Project
- Humanism and Special Education
- Human Resource Development
- Humphrey, Elliott S. (1888–1981)
- Hungerford, Richard H. (1903–1974)
- Hunter, Madeline Cheek (1916–1994)
- Hunter Syndrome
- Hunter Syndrome (Mucopoly Saccharidosis II)
- Huntington’s Chorea
- Hunt, Joseph McVicker (1906–1991)
- Hurler Syndrome
- Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydrocephalus, X-Linked
- Hydrolethalus Syndrome
- Hyperactivity
- Hypercalcemia
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Hyperglycinemia, Nonketotic
- Hyperhidrosis, Primary
- Hyperkinesis
- Hyperlexia
- Hyperopia
- Hypersomnia, Primary
- Hypertelorism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypertonia-RD
- Hypnosis
- Hypoactivity
- Hypochondroplasia
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia
- Hypophosphatasia
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Hypothyroidism
- Hypotonia
- Hypoxia
- Hysterical Personality
- I
- Ichthyosis, Chanarin Dorfman Syndrome
- Ichthyosis, CHILD Syndrome
- Ichthyosis, Congenita
- Ichthyosis, Erythrokeratodermia Progressiva Symmetrica
- Ichthyosis, Erythrokeratodermia Variabilis
- Ichthyosis, Erythrokeratolysis Hiemalis
- Ichthyosis, Harlequin Type (Harlequin Fetus)
- Ichthyosis, Hystrix, Curth-Macklin Type
- Ichthyosis, Keratosis Follicularis Spinulosa Decalvans
- Ichthyosis, Lamellar Recessive (Lamellar Ichthyosis)
- Ichthyosis, Netherton Syndrome
- Ichthyosis, Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome
- Ichthyosis, Tay Syndrome
- Ichthyosis Vulgaris
- Ichthyosis, X-Linked
- Idiot
- IEP
- IGA Nephropathy
- Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Third Edition
- Imagery
- Impersistence
- Impulse Control
- Impulsivity-Reflectivity
- Inborn Errors of Metabolism
- Incidence
- Incidental Learning and Visual Impairments
- Inclusion
- Incontinentia Pigmenti (Bloch-Sulzberger Syndrome)
- Incorrigibility
- Independence Living Centers
- Independent and Functional Living Skills
- Independent Variable
- India, Special Education in
- Individualization of Instruction
- Individualized Educational Plan
- Individualized Transition Plan
- Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, History of
- Public Law 108-446
- Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEIA)
- Infant Assessment
- Infantile Hypercalcemia
- Infant Stimulation
- Infants & Young Children
- Informal Reading Inventory
- Information Processing
- Informed Consent
- Inhalant Abuse
- Initial Teaching Alphabet
- Insatiable Child Syndrome
- In-Service Training for Special Education Teachers
- Insight (In the Gifted)
- Institutes for Research on Learning Disabilities
- Institutionalization
- Institution Nationale Des Sourds-Muets
- Instructional Technology for Individuals with Disabilities
- Integrated Therapy
- Intellectual Deficiency
- Intelligence
- Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Journal
- Intelligence, Emotional
- Intelligence, Practical
- Intelligence Quotient
- Intelligence Testing
- Intelligence Testing, History of
- Intelligence, Triarchic Theory of
- Intelligent Testing
- Interactive Language Development
- Interdisciplinary Teams
- Intermittent Reinforcement
- International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
- International Child Neurology Association
- International Classification of Diseases
- International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
- International Dyslexia Association
- International Reading Association
- International School Psychology Association
- International Test Use in Special Education
- International Year of Disabled Persons, 1981
- Internet Accessibility
- Interobserver Agreement
- Interpreters for the Deaf
- Interval Recording
- Interval Schedules
- Intervention
- Intervention in School and Clinic
- Intervention Programs, Early
- Intervention Programs for Children Who Are At Risk
- Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Investment Theory of Creativity
- IQ
- Iran, Special Education in
- Ireland, Republic of, Special Education in
- Irwin, Robert Benjamin (1883–1951)
- Isovaleric Acidemia
- Israel, Special Education in
- ITA
- Italy, Special Education in
- Itard, Jean M. G. (1775–1838)
- Itinerant Services
- Itinerant Teacher
- Ito’s Hypomelanosis
- J
- Jactatio Capitis
- Japan, Special Education In
- Jargon Aphasia
- Arthur R. Jensen (1923– )
- J.E.V.S. Human Services
- Job Accommodation Network
- Job Syndrome
- Johanson-Blizzard Syndrome
- Johnson, Doris (1932– )
- Johnson, G. Orville (1915– )
- Johnstone, Edward Ransom (1870–1946)
- Johnston Informal Reading Inventory
- Jones, Reginald L. (1931–2005)
- Joubert Syndrome
- Journal for the Education of the Gifted
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (JADD)
- Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Journal of Communication Disorders
- Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
- Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
- Journal of Fluency Disorders
- Journal of Forensic Neuropsychology
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Journal of Learning Disabilities
- Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions
- Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
- Journal of School Psychology
- Journal of Special Education
- Journal of Special Education Technology
- Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
- Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
- Juberg-Marsidi Syndrome
- The Jukes and the Kallikaks
- Juvenile Arthritis
- Juvenile Cerebromacular Degeneration
- Juvenile Court System and Individuals With Disabilities
- Juvenile Delinquency
- K
- Kaiser-Fleischer Ring
- Kaiser-Permanente Diet
- Kanner, Leo (1894–1981)
- Karnes, Merle B. (1916–2005)
- Karyotype
- Kaspar Hauser Syndrome
- Kauffman, James M. (1940– )
- Kaufman, Alan S. (1944– )
- Kaufman, Nadeen L. (1945– )
- Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test
- Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition
- Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, Second Edition
- Kaufman Functional Academic Skills Test
- Kaufman Short Neuropsychological Assessment Procedure
- Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills
- Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Second Edition
- Kawasaki Syndrome
- Kayser-Fleischer Ring
- Kearns Sayre Syndrome
- Keller, Helen A. (1880–1957)
- Kennedy Disease
- Kenny, Sister Elizabeth (1886–1952)
- Keogh, Barbara H. (1925– )
- Kephart, Newell C. (1911–1973)
- Kerlin, Isaac Newton (1834–1893)
- Kernicterus
- Ketogenic Diet
- Keymath-3 Diagnostic Assessment
- Keyword Method
- Khatena, Joe (1925– )
- Kicklighter, Richard H. (1931– )
- Kienbock Disease
- Kinetic-Family-Drawing
- Kinetic-School-Drawing
- Kirk, Samuel A. (1904–1996)
- Klinefelter Syndrome
- Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome
- Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome
- Knight, Henry M. (1827–1880)
- Koegel, Robert L. (1944– )
- Koppitz, Elizabeth M. (1919–1983)
- Koro
- Krabbe Disease
- Kraepelin, Emil (1856–1926)
- Krug Asperger’s Disorder Index
- Kufs Disease
- Kugelberg-Welander Disease
- Kuhlmann, Frederick (1876–1941)
- Kurzweil Reading Machine
- L
- Laband Syndrome
- Labeling
- Lactic Acidosis
- Lactose Intolerance
- Laminar Heterotopia
- Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
- Language, Absence of
- Language Assessment
- Language Delays
- Language Disorders
- Language Therapy
- Large Type Books
- Larry P.
- Latah
- Latency Recording
- Laterality
- Laurence-Moon Syndrome
- Lead Poisoning
- League Education and Treatment Center
- Learned Helplessness
- Learner Taxonomies
- Learning Disabilities
- Learning Disabilities and Juvenile Delinquency
- Learning Disabilities Association of America
- Learning Disabilities Marker Variables Project
- Learning Disabilities, Paradigm Shift in Determination of
- Learning Disabilities, Problems in Definition of
- Learning Disabilities, Severe Discrepancy Analysis in
- Learning Disability Quarterly
- Learning Disability Subtypes
- Learning Disabled College Students
- Learning Media Assessment
- Learning Potential
- Learning Potential Assessment Device
- Learning Strategies
- Learning Styles
- Least Restrictive Environment
- Left Brain/Right Brain
- Left-Handedness
- Left-Handedness, Pathological
- Legal Mandates for Transition
- Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease
- Lehtinen, Laura E. (1908–2005)
- Leigh Syndrome
- Leisure-Time Activities
- Leiter International Performance Scale–Revised
- Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
- LEOPARD Syndrome
- Leprechaunism (Donohue Syndrome)
- Lerner, Janet Weiss (1926– )
- Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
- Lesions
- Lethal Multiple Pterygium Syndrome
- Leukemia, Acute Lymphocytic
- Leukemic Child
- Leukodystrophy
- Leukodystrophy, Metachromatic
- Lewis, Michael (1937– )
- Lexington School for the Deaf
- Liability of Teachers in Special Education
- Liberman, Isabelle Yoffe (1918–1990)
- Libraries for the Blind and Individuals with Physical Disabilities
- Library Services for Individual With Disabilities
- Librium
- Licensing and Certification of Schools, Centers, and Facilities
- Lichen Sclerosis
- Life Space Interviewing
- Lightner Witmer Award
- Limited English Proficiency and Special Education
- Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program
- Lindsley, Ogden R. (1922–2004)
- Ling Method
- Linguistic Deviance
- Linguistic Readers
- Lipodystrophy
- Lipreading/Speech Reading
- Lissencephaly
- Literacy
- Lithane
- Lithonate
- Lithuania, Special Education in
- Lobar Emphysema, Congenital
- Locura
- Locus of Control
- Long Chain Acyl Coa Dehydrogenase Deficiency
- Louis-Bar Syndrome
- Lovaas, O. Ivar (1927–2010)
- Lovitt, Thomas C. (1930– )
- Low Birth Weight/Prematurity
- Lowe Syndrome
- Lowenfeld, Berthold (1901–1994)
- Low Vision
- Loxitane
- LSD
- Lujan-Fryns Syndrome
- Luria, Alexander R. (1902–1977)
- Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery
- Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery: Children’s Revision
- Lyme Disease
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
- M
- MA
- MacMillan, Donald L. (1940– )
- Macroglossia
- Macy, Anne Sullivan (1866–1936)
- Maffucci Syndrome
- Magical Model
- Magnesium
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Magnetoencephalography
- Magnet Schools
- Mahler, Margaret Schoenberger (1897–1985)
- Mainstreaming
- Maintenance
- Make-a-Picture Story Test
- Maker, C. June (1948– )
- Maladaptive Behavior
- Malnutrition
- Manifestation Determination
- Manipulatives for Students With Learning Disabilities in Mathematics
- Mannosidosis
- Manual Communication
- Maple Syrup Urine Disease
- Marasmus
- March of Dimes
- Marfan Syndrome
- Marijuana Abuse
- Marinesco-Sjögren Syndrome
- Marland Report
- Marshall-Smith Syndrome
- Marshall Versus Georgia
- Masa Syndrome
- Mastery Learning and Special Education
- Mastocytosis
- Masturbation, Compulsive
- Maternal Serum Alpha-Fetoprotein Screening
- Mathematical Misconception
- Mathematical Profile of Students With Comorbid Mathematics and Reading Difficulties
- Mathematics Anxiety
- Mathematics Assessment for Students With Disabilities
- Mathematics Inclusion Classrooms
- Mathematics, Learning Disabilities in
- Mathematics Learning in Virtual Worlds: Affordances and Accessibility
- Mathematics Phobia
- Mathematics Recovery
- Mathematics, Remedial
- Mathias Amendment
- The Matthew Effect and Reading
- Mattie T. Versus Holladay
- Maturational Lag
- Minimal Brain Dysfunction
- MBD Syndrome
- McCarthy, Dorothea (1906–1974)
- McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities
- McCune-Albright Syndrome
- McGinnis Method
- Measurable Annual Goals
- Measurable Postsecondary Goals
- Measurement
- Meckel-Gruber Syndrome
- Mediation
- Mediational Deficiency
- Mediation Essay
- Medical Concerns of Children With Disabilities
- Medical History
- Medically Fragile Student
- Medical Management
- Medical Model, Defense of
- Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency
- Medullary Cystic Kidney Disorder
- Medullary Sponge Kidney Disorder
- Medulloblastoma
- Megalocornea Mental Retardation Syndrome
- Megavitamin Therapy
- Meichenbaum, Donald (1940– )
- Meige Syndrome
- Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome
- Mellaril
- Memory Disorders
- Meningioma
- Meningitis
- Meningomyelocele
- Menkes Syndrome (Kinky Hair Disease)
- Mental Age
- Mental Illness
- Mental Retardation (Now Known as Intellectual Developmental Disabilities)
- Mental Retardation, Severe to Profound
- Mental Status Exams
- Mercer, Cecil D. (1943– )
- Merrf Syndrome, Myoclonus Epilepsy With Ragged Red Fibers
- Merrill, Maud Amanda (1888–1985)
- Merrill-Palmer Scale
- Metabolic Disorders
- Metacognition
- Metaphyseal Dysplasia, Jansen Type
- Metaphyseal Dysplasia, McKusick Type
- Mexico, Special Education in
- Meyers, C. Edward (1912– )
- Microcephaly
- Microcephaly, Genetic
- Microtraining
- Migrant Individuals With Disabilities
- Mikulicz Disease
- Disabilities, Test-Taking Skills and
- Milieu Teaching
- Miller Assessment for Preschoolers
- Miller-Dieker Syndrome
- Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III
- Mills Versus Board of Education of the District Of Columbia (1972)
- Milwaukee Project
- Minimum Competency Testing
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (2nd Adolescent Versions) MMPI-2
- Minor Physical Anomalies
- Miscue Analysis
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disorder
- Mnemonics
- Moban
- Mobile Education Units
- Mobility Instruction
- Model Programs for Individuals With Severe Disabilities
- Modifications
- Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT)
- Moebius Syndrome
- Momentary Time Sampling
- Monilethrix
- Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
- Montessori, Maria (1870–1952)
- Montessori Method
- Moores, Donald F. (1935– )
- Moral Reasoning
- Morse, William C. (1915– )
- Morsink, Catherine V. (1937– )
- Mosaicism
- Moss, James W. (1926– )
- Motivation
- Motor-Free Visual Perception Test, Revised
- Motor Learning
- Motor Neuron Disease
- Motor Speech Disorders
- Move International
- Movement Therapy
- Movigenics
- Moyamoya Disease
- Mucha Habermann Disease
- Mucopolysaccharide Disorders
- Mulibrey Nanism Syndrome
- Mullen Scales of Early Learning, AGS Edition, 1995
- Multicultural Special Education
- Multidisciplinary Team
- Multiple Handicapping Conditions
- Multiple Regression
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Multisensory Instruction
- Mumps
- Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
- Munson, Grace E. (1883–1980)
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne
- Muscular Dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss
- Muscular Dystrophy, Facioscapulohumeral
- Muscular Dystrophy, Fukuyama
- Muscular Dystrophy, Limb Girdle
- Muscular Imbalance
- Museums and Individuals With Disabilities
- Music Therapy
- Mutism
- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Neurasthenia)
- Myelitis
- Myelofibrosis, Idiopathic
- Myhre Syndrome
- Myklebust, Helmer R. (1910– )
- Myoclonus
- Myopathy, Congenital, Batten Turner Type
- Myopathy, Desmin Storage
- Myopathy, Myotubular
- Myopathy, Nemaline
- Myopathy, Scapuloperoneal
- Myositis
- Myositis, Inclusion Body
- Myotonia Congenita
- Myotonic Dystrophy (Steinert’s Disease)
- N
- Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test, Second Edition (NNAT2)
- Nail-Patella Syndrome (Hereditary Osteo-Onychodysplasia)
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Narcolepsy
- Nash, Charles E. (1875–1953)
- Nash, William R. (1943– )
- National Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children and Youth
- National Agenda for the Education of Children and Youths With Visual Impairments, Including Those With Multiple Disabilities
- National Association for Gifted Children
- National Association for Retarded Citizens
- National Association for the Deaf
- National Association of School Nurses (NASN)
- National Association of School Psychologists
- National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
- National Association of State Boards of Education
- National Association of State Directors of Special Education
- National Autism Society of America
- National Center, Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped
- National Center on Educational Outcomes
- National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
- National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS), the Study Overview, Context, and Purpose
- National Easter Seal Society
- National Education Association
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Federation of the Blind
- National Information Center for Children and Youth With Disabilities
- National Institute of Education
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- National Institutes of Mental Health
- National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS)
- National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities
- National Learning Disabilities Assistance Program
- National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- National Longitudinal Transition Study (NLTS), The
- National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, The
- National Merit Scholarship Corporation
- National Organization for Rare Disorders
- National Rehabilitation Association
- National Society for Autistic Children
- National Society for Crippled Children and Adults
- National Society for the Prevention of Blindness
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Natural Supports
- Nature Versus Nurture
- Navane
- NCTM Standards and Special Education
- Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- Negative Punishment
- Negative Reinforcement
- Neisworth, John T. (1937– )
- Nemeth Code for Braille Mathematics
- Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
- NEPSY, Second Edition: A Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment: (NEPSY-II edited by Marit Korkman, Ursula Kirk, and Sally L. Kemp)
- Netherlands, Special Education in the
- Neu-Laxova Syndrome
- Neural Efficiency Analyzer
- Neuroacanthocytosis
- Neurocutaneous Melanosis
- Neurodevelopmental Treatment
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neurofibromatosis, Type 2
- Neurolinguistic Programming
- Neurological Impress Method
- Neurological Organization
- Neuronal Migration Disorders
- Neuropathy, Giant Axonal
- Neuropathy, Hereditary Motor and Sensory, Type I
- Neuropathy, Hereditary Motor, and Sensory, Type II
- Neuropathy, Peripheral
- Neuropsychology
- Newland, T. Ernest (1903–1992)
- New York State Association for Retarded Children versus Carey
- New Zealand, Special Education In
- Nezelof Syndrome
- Niemann-Pick Disease
- Nigeria, Special Education in
- NIMH
- NIND
- No Child Left Behind Act (2001)
- Nonclassroom, Positive Behavior Support
- Noncompliant Children
- Nondiscriminatory Assessment
- Nonliteral Language
- Nonparametric Analysis Considerations in Single Case Research
- Nonsheltered Employment
- Nonverbal Language
- Nonverbal Learning Disability Syndrome
- Noonan’s Syndrome (Male Turner Syndrome)
- Normal Curve Equivalent
- Normalization
- Norm-Referenced Testing
- Norrie Disease
- Northwestern Syntax Screening Test
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance or Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Nutritional Disorders
- Nutritional Disorders
- Nutritional Disorders
- O
- Obesity
- Observational Learning
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
- Occupational Therapy
- Oculocerebral Syndrome with Hypopigmentation
- Office of Rare Diseases
- Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
- Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy
- Ollier Disease (Osteochondromatosis Syndrome)
- Olympics, Special
- Online Special Education
- Operant Conditioning
- Ophthalmologist
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Optacon
- Optic Nerve Hypoplasia
- Optometrist
- Oral Facial Digital Syndrome
- Oral Language and Individuals With Disabilities
- Oral-Motor Development in Infants
- Oral Reading
- Oral Versus Manual Communication
- Oral Written Language Scales
- Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development
- Organizational Change
- Orientation and Mobility
- Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency
- Orthogenic School
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Orthopsychiatry
- Orthopsychiatry Movement
- Orton, Samuel T. (1879–1948)
- Orton Dyslexia Society
- Orton-Gillingham Method
- Osborn, Alexander Faickney (1888–1966)
- Osgood, Charles E. (1916–1991)
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- Osteonecrosis
- Osteoporosis
- Other Health Impaired
- Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, Sixth Edition
- Otitis Media
- Otolaryngologist
- Otology
- Otosclerosis
- Overachievement and Special Education
- Overcorrection
- P
- Pachydermoperiostosis
- Pakistan, Special Education in
- Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip, Special Education and
- Pallister-Hall Syndrome
- Palmar Crease
- Panic Disorder
- Papillitis
- Paraplegia
- Paraprofessionals
- Parental Alienation Syndrome
- Parental Counseling
- Parenting Skills
- Parent Involvement
- Parkhurst, Helen (1887–1973)
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Parry Romberg Syndrome
- Partially Sighted
- Partial Participation
- Pasamanick, Benjamin (1914–1996)
- PASE v. Hannon
- Path Analysis
- Path-Referenced Assessment
- Patterning
- Peabody Developmental Motor Scales–2
- Peabody Individual Achievement Test–Revised/Normative Update
- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition
- Peabody Rebus Reading Program
- Peace Corps, Special Education in
- Pediatric Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- PANDAS
- Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated With Streptococcus Infections
- Pediatrician
- Pediatric Psychologist
- Peeling Skin Syndrome
- Peer-Mediated Instruction and Intervention (PMII)
- Peer Relationships
- Peer Tutoring
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
- Pemphigoid, Benign Mucosal
- Pena-Shokeir Phenotype
- Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens v. Pennsylvania (1972)
- People First
- PEPCK Deficiency
- Percentile Scores
- Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Perceptual Constancy
- Perceptual Deficit Hypothesis
- Perceptual Development, Lag in
- Perceptual Distortions
- Perceptual-Motor Difficulties
- Perceptual Span
- Perceptual Training
- Pereire, Jacob R. (1715–1780)
- Performance-Based Standards
- Performance Instability
- Perinatal Factors in Handicapping Conditions
- Perkins Act, The
- Perkins-Binet Tests of Intelligence for the Blind
- Perkins School for the Blind
- Permanent Product Recording
- Perseveration
- Personality Assessment
- Personality Inventory for Children–Second Edition
- Person Centered Planning
- Person-First Language
- Personnel Preparation for Working with Diverse Individuals
- Personnel Training in Special Education
- Peru, Special Education in
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (1746–1827)
- Pets in Special Education
- Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome
- Pevzner, Maria Semenovna (1901–1986)
- Pfeiffer Syndrome
- Phencyclidine (PCP) Abuse
- Phenobarbital
- Phenothiazines
- Phenylketonuria
- Phillips, Beeman N. (1927– )
- Philosophy of Education for Individuals With Disabilities
- Phobias and Fears
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonological Awareness Test
- Phonology
- Photo Articulation Test–Third Edition
- Physical Anomalies
- Physical Disabilities
- Physical Education for Students With Disabilities
- Physical Restraint Use With Children in Schools
- Physical Therapy
- Physicians’ Desk Reference
- Physiotherapy
- Piagetian Approach to Special Education
- Piaget, Jean (1896–1980)
- Pica
- Pictorial Test of Intelligence–Second Edition
- Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), The
- Pierre-Robin Syndrome
- Piers-Harris Children’s Self-Concept Scale–Second Edition
- Pinel, Philippe (1745–1826)
- Pituitary Gland
- Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris
- Pivotal Response Treatment
- Placebos
- Placenta
- Plantar Reflex
- Plasticity
- Plato and the Gifted
- Play
- PLAYTEST
- Play Therapy
- Pluralism, Cultural
- Poland, Special Education in
- Politics and Special Education
- Polycystic Kidney Diseases
- Polycystic Liver Disease
- Polydipsia
- Polymyositis
- Ponce de Leon (1520–1584)
- Popliteal Pterigium Syndrome (Facio-Genito-Popliteal Syndrome)
- Porch Index of Communicative Abilities
- Porphyria, Congenital Erythropoietic
- Porphyrias
- Portage Project
- Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports, Legal Implications
- Positive Behavior Support, Overview
- Positive Behavior Support, Primary Tier
- Positive Behavior Support, Progress Monitoring
- Positive Behavior Support, Quality of Life
- Positive Behavior Supports
- Positive Behavior Support, Scaling-Up
- Positive Behavior Support, School-Wide
- Positive Behavior Support, Sustainability and Continuous Regeneration
- Positive Behavior Support, System of Care
- Positive Behavior Support, Tertiary Tier
- Positive Behavior Support, Urban Settings
- Positive Practice
- Positive Reinforcements
- Positron Emission Tomography
- Postconcussion Syndrome
- Postinstitutionalized Child Project
- Postinstitutionalized Children
- Postlingual Deafness
- Postschool Outcomes
- Postsecondary Education Programs
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Poverty, Relationship to Special Education
- Power and Research in Special Education
- Practical Intelligence
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Pragmatics and Pragmatic Communication Disorders
- Precision Teaching
- The Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study
- Prehm, Herbert J. (1937–1986)
- Prelingual Deafness
- Premack Principle
- Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
- Prereferral Interventions
- Preschool-Age Gifted Children
- Preschool Screening
- Preschool Special Education
- President’s Committee for People With Intellectual Disabilities
- Prevent Blindness America
- Prevention, Primary
- Prevocational Skills
- Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders
- Primary Mental Abilities Test
- Private Schools and Special Education
- Privileged Communication
- Problem Solving and Problem Posing for Learners With Special Education Needs
- Procedural Safeguards
- Process Assessment of the Learner–Second Edition: Diagnostic Assessment for Math (PAL-II Math)
- Process Assessment of the Learner–Second Edition: Diagnostic Assessment for Reading and Writing (PAL-II RW)
- Production Deficiency
- PRO-ED, Incorporated
- Professional Competencies for Working With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
- Professional School Psychology
- Professional Standards for Special Educators
- Profile Variability
- Progeroid Syndromes (Progeria)
- Program Evaluation
- Program Evaluation, Elementary and Secondary School
- Programmed Instruction
- Progressive Osseous Heteroplasia
- Progress Monitoring
- Projective Techniques
- Project on Classification of Exceptional Children
- Project Re-ED
- Project Success
- Project Talent
- Prosopagnosia
- Protection and Advocacy System for the Developmentally Disabled (PADD)
- Proteus Syndrome
- Pseudo-Hurler Polydystrophy
- Pseudohypoparathyroidism
- Pseudoseizures
- Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum
- Psychoanalysis and Special Education
- Psychodrama
- Psychoeducational Profile–Third Edition (PEP-3)
- Psychogenic Models
- Psycholinguistics
- Psychological Abstracts
- Psychological Clinics
- Psychological Corporation
- Psychological Reports
- Psychology in the Schools
- Psychometrics
- Psychomotor Seizures
- Psychomotricity
- Psychoneurotic Disorders
- Psychosis, Amphetamine
- Psychosis, Steroid
- Psychosocial Adjustment
- Psychosomatic Disorders
- Psychosurgery
- Psychotherapy With Individuals With Disabilities
- Psychotherapy With Individuals With Disabilities, Parent Education
- Psychotropic Drugs
- Psyc SCAN
- Puberty, Precocious
- Public Law 95-561
- Puerto Rico, Special Education in
- Punishment
- Punishment, Positive
- Purdue Perceptual-Motor Survey
- Purpura, Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia
- Putamen
- Pyoderma Gangrenosum
- Pyruvate Carboxylase Deficiency
- Q
- Q-Sort
- Quadriplegia
- Quantitative Neuroimaging
- Quay, Herbert C. (1927– )
- Questionnaires in Special Education
- Quigley, Stephen P. (1927– )
- R
- Racial Bias in Testing
- Racial Discrimination in Special Education
- Rapp-Hodgkin Syndrome
- RASE
- Rasmussen Encephalitis
- Ratio IQ
- Ratio Schedules
- Raven’s Matrices
- Ray Adaptation of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Revised
- Reaction Time
- Reactive Attachment Disorder
- Readability Formulas
- Reading
- Reading and Eye Movements
- Reading Comprehension
- Reading Disorders
- Reading in the Content Areas
- Reading Milestones–Third Edition
- Reading Remediation
- Reality Therapy
- Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test–Second Edition
- Receptive Language Disorders
- Reciprocal Determinism
- Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems
- Recreation, Therapeutic
- Recreational Reading for Individuals With Disabilities
- Recreational Therapy
- Recreation for Individuals With Disabilities
- Redl, Fritz (1902–1988)
- Referral Process
- Reflex
- Regional Media Centers for the Deaf
- Regional Resource Centers
- Regression (Statistical)
- Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504
- Rehabilitation Literature
- Reifenstein Syndrome
- Reinforcement, Differential
- Reinforcement, Negative
- Reisman, Fredricka Kauffman (1930– )
- Reitan-Indiana Neuropsychological Test Battery for Children
- Related Services
- Reliability
- Reliability in Direct Observation Assessment
- Remedial and Special Education
- Remedial Instruction
- Remedial Reading
- Remediation, Deficit-Centered Models of
- Renzulli, Joseph S. (1936– )
- Repeated Reading
- Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Research in Special Education
- Residential Facilities
- Resistant Behavior, Management of
- Resource Room
- Resource Teacher
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Infant
- Respite Care
- Response Generalization
- Response to Intervention
- Restrictive Dermopathy
- Retention in Grade
- Reticular Activating System
- Retinitis Pigmentosa
- Retinoblastoma
- Retinopathy of Prematurity
- Retrolental Fibroplasia
- Rett Syndrome
- Reversals in Reading and Writing
- Reverse Mainstreaming
- Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale
- Revisualization
- Reye Syndrome
- Reynolds, Cecil R. (1952– )
- Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales
- Reynolds, Maynard C. (1922– )
- Rh Factor Incompatibility
- Rhythmic Movement Disorder
- Rickets, Hypophosphatemic
- Rickets, Vitamin D Deficiency
- Rieger Syndrome
- Right-Handedness
- Right Hemisphere Syndrome (Linguistic, Extralinguistic, and Nonlinguistic)
- Right to Education
- Right to Treatment
- Riley-Day Syndrome
- Rimland, Bernard (1928–2006)
- Risk Management in Special Education
- Ritalin
- Roberts Apperception Test for Children
- Robinow Syndrome
- Robinson, Halbert B. (1925–1981) and Robinson, Nancy M. (1930– )
- Robotics
- Robotics in Special Education
- Rochester Method
- Roeper Review
- Roger, Harriet B. (1834–1919)
- Roos, Philip (1930– )
- Rorschach
- Rorschach Inkblot Test
- Ross Information Processing Assessment
- Roswell-Chall Diagnostic Reading Test of Word Analysis
- Rothmund-Thompson Syndrome
- Rousseau, Jean J. (1712–1778)
- Roussy-Levy Syndrome
- Rubella
- Rubenstein-Taybi Syndrome
- Rumination Disorder
- Rural Special Education
- Rush, Benjamin (1745–1813)
- Russell-Silver Syndrome
- Russia, Special Education in
- Rutter, Michael (1933– )
- S
- Sabatino, David A. (1938– )
- Saethre-Chotzen Syndrome
- Safety Issues in Special Education
- Salvia, John (1941– )
- Sapir, Selma Gustin (1916– )
- Sarason, Seymour B. (1919–2010)
- Sattler, Jerome M. (1931– )
- Savant Syndrome
- Save the Children Fund and Children With Disabilities
- Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance
- Scales of Independent Behavior–Revised
- Scales of Ordinal Dominance
- Scandinavia, Special Education in
- Scapegoating
- Scatter Plot Assessment
- Schaefer, Earl S. (1926– )
- Schiefelbusch, Richard L. (1918– )
- Schilder Disease (Adrenoleukodystrophy)
- Schizencephaly
- Schizophrenia
- Schmidt Syndrome
- School Attendance of Children With Disabilities
- School Effectiveness
- School Failure
- School Phobia
- School Psychology
- School Psychology Digest
- School Psychology Review
- School Refusal
- School Stress
- School Violence
- Schopler, Eric (1927–2007)
- Schwachman Syndrome (Schwachman-Diamond Syndrome)
- Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome
- Scleroderma
- Scoliosis
- Scope and Sequence
- Scotland, Special Education in
- Scott Craniodigital Syndrome With Mental Retardation
- Scouting and Individuals With Disabilities
- Seckel Syndrome
- Secondary Special Education
- Second Language Learners in Special Education
- Seeing Eye Dogs
- Seguin, Edouard (1812–1880)
- Seitelberger Disease (Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy)
- Seizure Disorders
- Seizures, Absence
- Seizures, Atonic
- Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic
- Seizures, Myoclonic
- Seizures, Partial
- Selective Mutism
- Self-Care Skills
- Self-Concept
- Self-Contained Class
- Self-Control Curriculum
- Self-Determination
- Self-Determination Practices
- Self-Help Training
- Self-Injurious Behavior
- Self-Management
- Self-Monitoring
- Self-Reinforcement
- Self-Selection of Reinforcement
- Self-Stimulation
- Semmel, Melvyn I. (1931– )
- Senf, Gerald (1942– )
- Sensorineural Hearing Loss
- Sensory Extinction
- Sensory Integration Inventory–Revised
- Sensory Integrative Therapy
- Separation Anxiety Disorder
- Septo-Optic Dysplasia
- Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development, Revised
- Sequential and Simultaneous Cognitive Processing
- Sequential Assessment of Mathematics Inventories: Standardized Inventory
- Seriously Emotionally Disturbed
- Service Delivery Models
- Setting Event
- Sex Differences in Learning Abilities
- Sex Education of Individuals With Disabilities
- Sex Information and Education Council of the United States
- Sex Ratios in Special Education
- Sexual Allegations in Divorce (SAID) Syndrome
- Sexual Disturbances in Children With Disabilities
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Sheltered Workshops
- Shenjing Shuairuo
- Short-Chain Acyl Coa Dehydrogenase (SCAD)
- Siblings of Individuals With Disabilities
- Sicard, Abbé Roche Ambroise Cucurron (1742–1822)
- Sickle-Cell Disease
- Sidis, William James (1898–1944)
- Sight-Saving Classes
- Sign Language
- Simultaneous Cognitive Processing
- Single-Subject Research Design
- Singleton-Merton Syndrome
- Six-Hour Retarded Child
- Skeels, Harold M. (1901–1970)
- Skill Training
- Skinner, Burrhus Frederick (1904–1990)
- Skinner’s Functional Learning Model
- Slate and Stylus
- Sleep Apnea
- Sleep Terror
- Sleepwalking
- Slingerland Screening Tests
- Slosson Intelligence Test Revised–Third Edition for Children and Adults
- Slow Learners
- Sly Syndrome
- Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome
- Smith-Magenis Syndrome
- Smith-Optiz Syndrome
- Snellen Chart
- Social Behavior of Individuals With Disabilities
- Social Communication Questionnaire
- Social Darwinism
- Social Integration of Children with Disabilities in Schools
- Social Integration of Children with Disabilities in Schools
- Social Isolation
- Social Learning Theory
- Social Maladjustment
- Social Phobia
- Social Security
- Social Skills Instruction
- Social Skills Interventions for High School Students With Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
- Social Skills Rating System
- Social Validation
- Social Work
- Sociodrama
- Socioeconomic Impact of Disabilities
- Socioeconomic Status
- Sociogram
- Sociometric Techniques With Individuals With Disabilities
- Soft (Neurological) Signs
- SOMPA
- Sonicguide
- Sotos Syndrome (Cerebral Gigantism)
- South Africa, Special Education in
- South America
- South America
- Soviet Education
- Span of Apprehension
- Spasticity
- Spearman, C. E. (1863–1945)
- Spearman’s Hypothesis
- Special Class
- Special Education, Effectiveness of
- Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS)
- Special Education, Federal Impact on
- Special Education, Generic
- Special Education, History of
- Special Education, Philosophers’ Opinions About
- Special Education, Professional Standards for
- Special Education, Racial Discrimination in
- Special Education, Supervision in
- Special Education, Teacher Training in
- Special Education Instructional Materials
- Special Education Program
- Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Office of
- SpecialNet
- Special Services in the Schools
- Specific Learning Disabilities
- SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography)
- Speech
- Speech, Absence of
- Speech and Language Disabilities
- Speech-Language Pathologist
- Speech-Language Services
- Speech Synthesizers
- Speech Therapy
- Spelling Disabilities
- Spelling: Foundation of Reading and the Greatest Ornament of Writing
- Sperry, Roger W. (1913–1994)
- Spielmeyer-Vogt Disease
- Spina Bifida
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinocerebellar Degeneration
- Spitz, Herman (1925– )
- Spitz, Rene Arpad (1887–1974)
- Splinter Skill
- Split-Brain Research
- Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia
- Sports for Individuals With Disabilities
- Stability of Baseline Data in Single Case Research
- Staff Development
- Standard Deviation
- Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
- Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fifth Edition
- Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test, Fourth Edition (SDMT4)
- Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test, Fourth Edition
- Stanley, Julian C. (1918–2005)
- Steinart’s Disease (Myotonic Dystrophy)
- Stereotypism
- Stern, William (1871–1938)
- Steroid Abuse
- Stickler (Hereditary Arthro-Ophthalmopathy)
- Stigmatization
- Stimulant Abuse
- Stimulant Drugs
- Stimulus Control
- Stimulus Deprivation
- Stimulus Generalization
- Stimulus Satiation
- Strabismus, Effect on Learning of
- Strauss, Alfred A. (1897–1957)
- Strauss Syndrome
- Strength Models of Remediation
- Strephosymbolia
- Stress and Individuals With Disabilities
- Strong Interest Inventory
- Structure of Intellect
- Student Styles Questionnaire
- Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth
- Sturge-Weber Syndrome
- Stuttering
- St. Vitus Dance
- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
- Substance Abuse
- Substantia Nigra
- Subtest Scatter
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Sugai, George M. (1951– )
- Suicidal Ideation
- Suicide
- Sullivan Programmed Reading
- Summary of Performance
- Summer School for Individuals With Disabilities
- Supervision in Special Education
- Supported Employment
- Supported Living
- Surrogate Parents
- Survival Skills
- Susto
- Sweden, Special Education in
- Switzerland, Special Education in
- Sydenham’s Chorea
- Synapses
- Syntactic Deficiencies
- Syntactic Deficiencies
- Syphilis, Congenital
- Syringobulbia
- System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment
- Systems-Level Change, School-Wide Positive Behavior Support
- Systems of Classification
- T
- Tachistoscope
- Taijin Kyofusho
- Taiwan, Special Education in
- Talking Books
- Tangier Disease
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps
- TASH
- Task Analysis
- TAT
- Taxonomies
- Tay-Sachs Disease
- TEACCH
- Teacher Burnout
- Teacher Centers
- Teacher Education and Special Education
- Teacher Effectiveness
- Teacher Expectancies
- Teaching and Consultation
- Teaching Exceptional Children
- Teaching: Inclusion and Co-Teaching
- Teaching Strategies
- Techniques: A Journal for Remedial Education and Counseling
- Technology for Individuals With Disabilities
- TECSE
- Tegretol
- Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf
- Telecommunications Systems in Special Education
- Temperament
- Teratogen
- Terman, Lewis M. (1877–1956)
- Terman’s Studies of the Gifted
- Test Anxiety
- Test Equating
- Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language, Third Edition
- Test of Adolescent and Adult Language, Fourth Edition
- Test of Early Mathematical Ability, Third Edition
- Test of Early Reading Ability, Third Edition
- Test of Early Written Language, Second Edition
- Test of Language Development—Intermediate, Fourth Edition
- Test of Language Development—Primary, Fourth Edition
- Test of Memory and Learning
- Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, Fourth Edition
- Test of Orthographic Competence (TOC)
- Test of Phonological Awareness, Second Edition: PLUS (TOPA-2+)
- Test of Reading Comprehension, Fourth Edition (TORC-4)
- Test of Silent Contextual Reading Fluency (TOSCRF)
- Test of Silent Word Reading Fluency
- Test of Variables of Attention
- Test of Word Finding, Second Edition
- Test of Word Reading Efficiency
- Test of Written Language, Fourth Edition
- Tests in Print
- Test-Taking Behavior
- Test-Teach-Test Paradigm
- Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome
- Tetrahydrobiopterin Deficiency (BH4)
- Text-to-Speech
- Thalassemia Major
- Thalidomide
- Their World
- Thematic Apperception Test
- Theory of Activity
- Therapeutic Community
- Therapeutic Recreation
- Think Aloud
- Thinking Centers
- Thorazine
- Thorndike, Edward L. (1847–1949)
- Thought Disorders
- Three-Tier Model
- Tics
- Time on Task
- Time-Out
- Time Sampling
- Tofranil
- Token Economy
- Tongue, Geographic
- Tonic Neck Reflex, Asymmetrical
- Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
- Topics in Language Disorders
- TORCH Complex
- Torrance Center for Creative Studies
- Torrance, Ellis Paul (1914–2003)
- Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
- Torsional Dystonia
- Total Communication
- Tourette Syndrome
- Tourette Syndrome Association
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Toxocariasis (Visceral Larva Migrans)
- Toxoplasmosis
- Toy Lending Libraries
- Trace Minerals
- Training for Employment in Traditional Settings
- Training in the Home
- Training Schools
- Tranquilizers
- Transdisciplinary Model
- Transfer of Training
- Transformational Generative Grammar
- Transition
- Transition Assessment
- Transition Planning (Relationship to the IEP and the Process)
- Transportation of Students With Disabilities
- Trauma, Psychological
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Traumatic Brain Injury and School Reentry
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Special Education Services
- Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
- Traumatic Brain Injury, Mild
- Travel Aids, Electronic
- Travel Aids for Individuals With Disabilities
- Treatment Acceptability
- Trends in Rehabilitation and Disability
- Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
- Trichorhinophalangeal Syndrome
- Trichotillomania
- Trisomy 13: 13+ Syndrome (Patau Syndrome)
- Trisomy 18
- Trisomy 21
- Truncus Arteriosus, Persistent
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Turkey, Special Education in
- Turnbull, Ann P. (1937– )
- Turnbull, H. Rutherford (1937– )
- Turner Syndrome
- Tutoring
- Twins
- U
- Ulcers
- Ulcers and Children With Disabilities
- Ultimate Instruction for the Severe and Profoundly Retarded
- United Cerebral Palsy
- United Kingdom, Special Education in the
- United States Department of Education
- United States Department of Education’s Longitudinal Studies Program
- Universal Design
- Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test
- Urticaria Pigmentosa
- Usher Syndrome
- V
- VAKT
- Valett Developmental Survey of Basic Learning Abilities
- Validity, Test
- Valium
- Valproic Acid
- Values Clarification
- Van Dijk, Jan (1937– )
- Van Riper, Charles (1905–1991)
- Varicella Syndrome, Congenital
- Varicella Zoster
- Vasculitis
- Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome (Shprintzen Syndrome)
- Velopharyngeal Inadequacy
- Venezuela, Special Education In
- Ventricular Septal Defects
- Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program VB–MAPP
- Verbal Deficiency
- Verbalisms
- Verbal Scale IQ
- Verbo-Tonal Method
- Versabraille
- Videofluoroscopy
- Videotaping in Special Education
- Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Second Edition
- Vineland Social-Emotional Early Childhood Scales
- Vineland Training School
- Vision Training
- Visual Acuity
- Visual Analysis
- Visual Efficiency
- Visual Impairment
- Visual-Motor and Visual-Perceptual Problems
- Visual-Motor Integration
- Visual Perception and Discrimination
- Visuomotor Complex
- Vitamin E Deficiency
- Vocabulary Development
- Vocational Education
- Vocational Evaluation
- Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling
- Vocational Village
- Voice Disorders (Dysphonia)
- Volta Review, The
- Voluntary Agencies
- Von Recklinghausen, Friedrich (1833–1910)
- Von Willerbrands Disease
- Vygotsky, Lev S. (1896–1934)
- W
- Waardenburg Syndrome
- WAGR Syndrome
- Walker Warburg Syndrome
- Wallin, John Edward (J. E.) Wallace (1876–1969)
- Wandering Spleen (Congenital)
- Watson, John B. (1878–1958)
- Web Accessibility
- Wechsler, David (1896–1981)
- Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Fourth Edition
- Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Third Edition
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fourth Edition
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fourth Edition Integrated
- Wechsler Memory Scale–Fourth Edition
- Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability
- Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scales of Intelligence–Third Edition
- Weismann Netter Stuhl Syndrome
- Welsh Figure Preference Test
- Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease
- Werner, Heinz (1890–1964)
- Werner Syndrome
- Wernicke’s Aphasia
- Western Europe, Special Education In
- Whelan, Richard J. (1931– )
- Whole-Word Teaching
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
- Wide Range Achievement Test–Fourth Edition
- Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning, Second Edition
- Wide Range Assessment of Visual Motor Abilities
- Wieacker Syndrome
- Wiedemann Rautenstrauch Syndrome
- Wilbur, Hervey Backus (1820–1883)
- Wild Boy of Aveyron
- Wildervanck Syndrome
- Williams Syndrome
- Will, Madeleine C. (1945– )
- Willowbrook Case
- Wilms Tumor
- Wilson Disease
- Winchester Syndrome
- Witmer, Lightner (1867–1956)
- Wolfensberger, Wolf P. J. (1934–2011)
- Wolf-Hirschhorne Syndrome
- Wolfram Syndrome
- Wood, Frank (1929– )
- Wood, M. Margaret (1931– )
- Woodcock Diagnostic Reading Battery
- Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement
- Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities
- Woodcock Language Proficiency Battery–Revised
- Woodcock-Muñoz Foundation
- Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests–Revised
- Woods Schools
- Word Blindness
- Words in Color
- Workfare
- World Federation of the Deaf
- World Health Organization
- World Rehabilitation Fund
- Wraparound, Positive Behavior Support
- WRAT-4
- Writing as Expressive Language
- Writing Assessment
- Writing Disorders
- Writing Remediation
- Wyatt v. Stickney
- Wyburn-Mason Syndrome
- X
- Xeroderma Pigmentosum
- X-Linked Dominant Inheritance
- X-Linked Hydrocephalus Syndrome
- X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (Duncan Disease, Purtilo Syndrome)
- X-Linked Recessive Inheritance
- X-Rays and Disabilities
- X-Ray Scanning Techniques
- XXX Syndrome
- XXXX Syndrome
- XYY Syndrome
- Y
- Yale, Caroline A. (1848–1933)
- Yaws
- Year-Round Schools
- Young Children’s Achievement Test (YCAT)
- Ysseldyke, James Edward (1944– )
- Yunis-Varon Syndrome
- Z
- Zar
- Zeaman, David (1921–1984)
- Zeaman-House Research
- Zellweger Syndrome
- Zero Inference
- Zero-Reject
- Zigler, Edward (1930– )
- Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Z Scores, in Determination of Discrepancies
- Zygosity
- AAIDD (American Association on Intellectual Developmental Disabilities) Classification Systems