GLOSSARY

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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

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Aspbergers Syndrome (AS)

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Auditory Processing

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Auditory figure-ground discrimination

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Bilateral Coordination

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Contralateral

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Deep touch pressure

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Directionality

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Dyscalculia

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Echolalia

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Expressive Language

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Fidget toys

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Fine motor control

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Fluency Disorders (stuttering)

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Grading movement

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Gross motor coordination

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Hyperacusis

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Hypersensitivity

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In hand manipulation

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Inner ear

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Ipsilateral

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Lateralization

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Low muscle tone or hypotonia

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Motor control

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NDT (Neurodevelopmental Therapy)

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Occupational Therapy - Sensory Integration (OT - SI)

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Oral-Motor Weakness

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Postural background movements

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Proprioception

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Sensorimotor skills

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Sensory Diet

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Sensory Integration Dysfunction

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Sensory Over-Responsivity (SOR)

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Sensory Under-Responsive (SUR)

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Sensory integration (SI)

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Sensory processing disorder (SPD)

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Sequencing

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Simple Rotation

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Somatosensory

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Suspension equipment

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Tactile system

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Therapeutic Listening

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VIsual-motor coordination

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Vision Therapy (aka Visual Training)

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Visual Perception

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Visual training (aka vision therapy)

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Working Memory

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Activities of Daily Living (ADL)

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Apraxia of Speech

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Assessment

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Auditory Processing

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Body awareness

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Cognitive Impairments

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Coordination

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Defensive reaction

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Discriminative system

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Dyspraxia

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Evaluation

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Eye-Hand Coordination

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Fight-or-flight response

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Fine motor coordination

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Form Constancy

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Gravitational insecurity

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Hand Preference

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Hyperlexia

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Hyposensitivity

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Individualized Education Plan (IEP)

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Interactive Metronome (IM)

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Kinesthesia

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Light Touch

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Manual Therapy

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Motor planning

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Neural Plasticity

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Occupational Therapy Evaluation

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Passive touch

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Playful obstruction

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Postural control

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Processing Speed

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Receptive Language

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Self regulation

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Sensory Craving

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Sensory Discrimination Disorder (SDD)

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Sensory Modulation

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Sensory Overload

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Sensory hyporeactivity

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Sensory integration (SI) treatment

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Sensory reactivity

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Shaping Behavior

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Social Pragmatics

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Splinter skill

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Tactile defensiveness

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Task Analysis

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Translation

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Vestibular System

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Visual Closure

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Visual discrimination

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Visual-spatial processing

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Adaptive response

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Articulation

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Auditory Defensiveness

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Auditory discrimination

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Backward Chaining

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Body position in space

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Complex Rotation

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Crossing the Midline

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Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

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Distractibility

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Early Intervention (EI)

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Executive Function

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Figure-ground discrimination

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Floortime

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Forward Chaining

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Gross motor control

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Heavy Work

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Hyperreactivity

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Ideational praxis

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Inner Drive

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Interoception

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Laterality

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Linear movement

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Muscle tone

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Occupational Therapy (OT)