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Somali Glossary
of
Special Education Terminology
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Ability:
Above (average):
Above the norm:
Abstract reasoning:
Academic ability:
Accommodation:
Achievement domain:
Acting out:
Acute (adjective):
Adaptation (noun),
adapt (verb):
Adaptive behavior:
Adaptive physical
education:
Advocate:
Affect:
Affective disorder:
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Age equivalent:
Aide:
Amplification (noun),
amplify (verb):
American Sign
Language (ASL):
Anger management:
Antecedent:
Anxiety disorder:
Area of weakness:
Area of strength:
Articulation:
Asperger's Syndrome:
Assessment:
Assessment
instrument:
Assessment
procedures:
Assessment summary
report:
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Attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder
ADHD):
Attorney:
Audiologist:
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Auditory
discrimination:
Auditory memory:
Auditory processing:
Auditory sequencing:
Augmentative
communication:
Authorized district
employees, authorized
personnel:
Autism (noun), Autism
Spectrum Disorders,
autistic (adjective):
Average:
Background noise:
Baseline:
Behavior:
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Behavior domain,
behavior ability:
Behavior intervention:
Behavior modification:
Behavior plan:
Below average:
Below the norm:
Behind:
Birth defect:
Blind:
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Heshiis dhaqameed/akhlaaqeed/dabeecadeed:
Heshiis lala galo ardeyga oo ku saabsan waxyaabaha
uu dabeecad ahaan falo, si loo hubiyo in uu
dabeecaddiisii hore wax kabadelo. Tusaale, waxaa
laga yaabaa in heshiisku uu dhigayo "Caasho waxay
heli doontaa 10 dhibcood haddii ay kursigeeda ku
xasisho oo ay dhameyso dhammaan shaqadeeda
waxbarasho, taas oo ay ku hanan doonto in ay ka
qeyb gasho raxlada soo socota. Hadiise ay
macalimiintu caawiso ama ay ka kacdo kursigeeda
waxaa ay heli doontaa 5 dhibcood, qorshaha nooca oo
kale ah waxaa la yidhaahdaa "heshiis" badana
ardeyga ayaa saxeexa si uu u fuliyo iyada oo
waalidkuna lasaxiixayo marmaka qaarkood.
Hannaan dabeecad/karti dabeeco: Dabeecadda
wanaagsani waxaa ay ku xidhantahey sida ay xaaladu
tahey, si loo maareeyo qofka dabeecadiisa.
Wax ka qabasho dabeecadeed: Waa wax la
sameeyo si looga hortago in dabeecad xumo yari ay
sababto wax weyn. Ama in laga hortago dabeecada
xumi inta aaney bilaban.
Dabeecad doorin: waa hab hanaansan oo lagu
dooriyo sida uu ardey u dhaqmo.
Qorshe dabeecadda ku saabsan: Waa qorshe loogu
talagaley in wax lagagabadalo dabeecada ardeyga;
waa qeyb ka mid ah IEP-ga.
Ka hooseeya isku celceliska: Aan sidaas u fiicneyn
sida ay ardeydu u badantahey.
Sida caadiga ah ka hooseeya marka la isku
celceliyo.
Dib u dhicid: Ardeyda kale ka dambeeya.
Xanuun/jirro ku dhashey: Waa jirro xaga
caafimaadka ah ama xaga koritaanka ah oo uu qofku
ku dhasho ama ku dhacdey qofka markii uu
dhalanayey.
Indhoole: Waa qof aan waxba arki Karin (waa
Indhoole)
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Brace:
Braille:
Capacity, capability
(noun):
Capable (adjective):
Case manager:
Cerebral palsy:
Classify (verb),
classification (noun):
Cleft palate:
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Cognitive impairment:
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Communication ability:
Communication board:
Competence (noun),
competent (adj),
competency (noun):
Compensate (v):
Compensatory skill:
Complaint:
Complainant:
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Complex directions:
Complaint behavior:
Concern, area of
concern:
Conciliation,
conciliation
conference:
Conduct disorder:
Confidential
information,
confidential data,
confidentiality:
Conflict resolution:
Congenital:
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hooyadii ku jiro.
Consent, written
consent:
Consequence:
Consultant:
Counselor:
Criteria:
Criterion-referenced
test:
Curriculum-based
asessment (CBA),
curriculum-based
measurements (CBM):
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Deaf:
Deaf-blind:
Decibel:
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Decoding:
Decrease:
Deficient, deficiency,
deficit:
Depressed (adjective),
depression (noun):
Development:
Developmental age:
Developmental
Cognitive Disorder
(DCD):
Developmental delay:
Developmental
milestone:
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Developmental/adaptive
physical education
(DAPE):
Deviation, Standard
deviation:
Diagnose:
Diagnostic teaching:
Diagnostic test:
Dialect:
Disability (noun),
disabled (adj):
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Disciplinary action:
Distractable:
Discrepancy:
Discriminate (verb),
discrimination (noun):
Dispute:
District representative:
Domain assessment:
Dominant language:
Down's syndrome:
Due process:
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Early intervention
service:
ECSU (Educational
Cooperative Service
Unit):
Educational assistant
(EA):
Educational setting:
Eligibility criteria:
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English Language
Learner (ELL):
Environmental print:
Epilepsy:
Error:
Evaluation:
Evaluation Summary
Report:
Examiner:
Expressive language:
Expressive vocabulary:
Eye-hand coordination:
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Flat affect:
Flexible, flexibility:
Fluency:
FM Unit:
Foster parent:
Functional academic
skills:
Functional behavior
assessment (FBA);
Functional reading
skills:
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General Education:
Goal:
Grade equivalent:
Grasp:
Hand-eye coordination:
Handicap (noun),
handicapping condition
(noun), handicapped
(adj):
Hard of hearing (HoH):
Hearing aid:
Hearing domain:
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Identification:
Imitative test:
Impairment (noun),
impaired (adj):
Improve:
Incidence:
Inclusion (noun),
inclusive (adj):
Increase:
Independent education
evaluation:
Independent living
skills:
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IEP Manager:
Individual Family
Service Plan (IFSP):
Individual Interagency
Intervention Plan
("Triple I P"):
Informed consent:
Instruction:
Instrument:
Integrated:
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Intellectual ability,
cognitive ability,
intelligence, intellectual
capacity:
Intelligence:
Interagency:
Intermittent:
Interpreter (noun),
interpreter (verb),
interpretation (adj):
Intervention (noun),
intervene (verb):
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Interview:
Inventory:
Itinerant:
Job coach:
Kinetic:
Language delay:
Language disorder:
Language proficiency:
Language sample:
Lead teacher:
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Learning style:
Least restrictive
environment (LRE):
Limited English
Proficiency (LEP):
Listening
comprehension:
Low vision:
Mainstream (noun):
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Maintain:
Management aid:
Manifestation
determination:
Manipulatives:
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Math facts:
Math operation:
Mean:
Mean length on
utterance (MLU):
Mechanical restraint:
Mediation:
Medically fragile:
Memory:
Mental health:
Mental impairment,
mentally impaired (MI):
Mentally retarded:
Mild:
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Norming sample:
Norm-referenced test:
Note-taker:
Notetaking:
Number concepts
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Lacaadeeyay/ladhaqameeyay/isku-celceliska
(magac), isku-celcelis ahaan (ficil), sameynta iskucelceliska: Marka magac ahaan loo isticmaalayo waa
isku-celceliska, marka ficil ahaan loo isticmaalayana
waa qeyb kamid ah habka sameynta imtixaanka
qiyaasan. Barayaashu waxay imtixaan ka qaadaan
dhammaan ardeyda o dhan da'kasta iyo dhamaan
qeybkasta oo waddanka ka mid ah, si ay u ogaadaan
isku-celceliska oo ah marka la isku celceliyo guud
ahaan dadka oo dhan. Habkan ayaa loo yaqaannaa
"isku-celceliska".
Tusaalaha/tusmada isku-celceliska: Waa koox
ardey ah oo laga soo qaadey dad kala duwan oo tiro
isleeg laga soo qaadey jinsiyad kasta si loo ogaado
waxa uu isku-celceliska ardeydu noqonkaro taas oo
qiyaas ahaan loo qaadan doono mustaqbalka si looga
dhigto bar tilmaameed.
Imtixaanka loo qaadanayo isku-celceliska: Waa
imtixaan lagu barbardhigayo ilmo, ilmo kale oo da'diisa
ah (lagana dhiganayo heer beeg celcelis);
darajooyinka uu helaa waxay tusayaan hadii ilmo uu
ka fiican yahey kuwa da'diisa ah iyo in uu ka liito.
Badanaa imtixaanada waxbarashada gaarka ahi waa
kuwa celcelika qiyaasan ama cayiman oo la tixraaco.
Cashir qore/nuxur qore: Waa qofka dhageysta
sharraxa fasalka u qorana nuxurkeeda qof aan wax
qorankarin laakiin wax akhriyi kara.
Qaadashada nuxurka: Dhageystaha sharraxaada
barahu uu aad ugu dhawaaqayo iyo qoritaanka
waxyaabaha muhiimka ah.
Ogeysiin, ogeysiin qoraal ah, ogeysiintii hore ee
qoraalka aheyd: Tallaabada ugu horeysa e habka
warbixintu waa ogeysiinta waalidiinta waxa uu dugsigu
damacsanyahey in uu sameeyo. Tani waxaa loo
yaqaannaa " ogeysiin". Ogeysiintu waa in ay noqotaa
qoraal. Waxbarashada gaarka ah, qaanuunka iyo
sharciga ayaa waxay khasbayaan dugsigu inuu siiyo
ogeysiin ka hor inta aaney sameyn wax (ogeysiin
qoraal ah horta). Sidoo kalena waxuu sharciga
gobolku dhigayaa in la ogeysiiyo walidiinta ardeyga
kadib marka lagu qoro ama lagu meeleeyo
barnaamijka barashada Ingriisiga.
Aqoonta u jeedada lambarrada: Waa aqoon u
lahaanshaha lambarrada macnahooda ama awoodda
aqoonta 5 tufaax iyo 5 dhaqax.
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Observation (noun),
observe (v):
Obsessive/compulsive
disorder:
Occupational therapist:
Off-task:
Omission:
One-on-one:
On-task behavior:
Open-ended task:
Oral comprehension:
Oral expression:
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Otitis media:
Paragraph:
Paragraph production:
Paraprofessional, para:
Parent:
Percentile:
Performance ability:
Perinatal (adj):
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Phoneme:
Phonics (noun),
phonetic (adjective):
Physical impairment
(noun), physically
impaired (adj):
Physical therapist:
Placement:
Positioning:
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dhaqdhaqaaqi karin.
Post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD):
Pre-employment skills:
Preferential seating:
Premature:
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Program aid:
Prompt:
Protocol:
Psychological report
(psych report):
Psychologist, School
psychologist:
Range of motion:
Rate:
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Receptive Language:
Receptive vocabulary:
Reduce:
Rating scale:
Raw score:
Reading
comprehension:
Reading rate:
Reasoning:
Re-evaluation:
Regular education:
Reinforcement:
Related services:
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Respite care:
Response:
Rights:
Rules:
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Scale:
Scoot:
Screening, screening
test, screener:
Seclusion:
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Self-advocacy skills:
Self-care skills:
Self-help skills:
Sentence:
Sentence production:
Service:
Service coordinator:
Setting:
Severe:
Severe emotional
disorder (SED)::
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Simple directions:
Skill:
Social adjustment:
Social /emotional
ability:
Social interaction:
Spastic (adjective),
spasticity (noun):
Special education
coordinator:
Special education
director:
Specific learning
disability (SLD):
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Specialist:
Speech/language
clinician,
speech/language
pathologist:
Speech/language
disorder:
Splint:
Stamina:
Standard deviation:
Standard error of
measurement (SEM):
Standard score:
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Standardized test:
Stimulus (singular),
stimuli (plural):
Strength:
Subtests:
Superintendent:
Surrogate parent:
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Syndrome:
Tactile sign language:
Target behavior:
Test:
Testing of limits:
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Therapy:
Tic:
Time-out:
Time-out room:
Toileting:
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Verbal reasoning:
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Vision:
Visual acuity:
Visual discrimination:
Visual memory:
Visual processing:
Visually impaired (VI):
Vocal mechanism:
Vocational training,
vocational skills:
Voice disorder:
Voice-activated:
Volume:
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Walker:
Weakness:
Wheelchair:
Withdrawn:
Word identification:
Word production:
Word recognition:
Written expression:
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