LDA-FL, Inc

                331 E. Henry Street

                    Punta Gorda, Florida   33950

                  941-637-8957  Office     941-637-0617  Fax

                Email:  LDAF00@sunline.net

Glossary of Terms

AGNOSIA:  Inability to recognize the meaning of sensory stimuli.

APHASIA:  Inability to understand or express language whether written or spoken.

AUDITORY ASSOCIATION:  Ability to relate spoken words in a meaningful way.

AUDITORY CLOSURE:   Ability to accurately conceptualize in complete & meaningful form words or sounds which are perceived in incomplete form.

AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION:  Ability to discriminate between sounds of different characteristic frequencies.

AUDITORY PERCEPTION:  Ability to understand a stimulus that is received by the auditory system resulting in recognition.

AUDITORY RECEPTION:  Ability to understand the spoken word.

COGNITIVE STYLE:  An individual's characteristic approach to problem solving & cognitive tasks.

DIRECTIONALITY:  Projecting of all directions from the body into space.

DISTRACTIBILITY:  Ready & rapid shifting of attention through a series of unimportant stimuli.

DYSARTHRIA:  Defective articulation.

DYSCALCULIA:  Calculation disability.

DYSGRAPHIA:  Inability to express ideas in writing.

DYSLEXIA:  Partial, or complete, inability to read or to understand what one reads either silently or aloud.

DYSNOMIA:  Word-finding disability.

EXECUTIVE FUNCTION SKILLS:  The ability to understand & apply concepts, strategies, & techniques of higher order thinking.  Executive Function Skills such as time management, organization, prioritizing, nonverbal communication, reading social cues & timing of oral communication are some components of this cognitive area.

EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE:    Ability to recall relevant works & sentences to develop those ideas into a meaningful sequence for the motoric act of speech.

GRAMMAR CLOSURE:    Ability which permits one to predict future linguistic events from past experiences.

HYPERACTIVITY:      Excessive motor function or motility.

HYPOACTIVITY:    Pronounced absence of motor activity.

IMPERCEPTION:    Inability to interpret sensory information correctly.

KINESTHETIC:    Sense that yields knowledge from the movements of the muscles of the body.

LATERALITY:    Complete motor awareness of both sides of the body.

PERCEPTION:    Process by which the Central Nervous System organizes data.

PERSEVERATION:    Persistence of previous responses in spite of their lack of application to the present situation.

SELECTIVE ATTENTION:    Allows one to focus purposefully & for an appropriate length of time on incoming data that will lead to productive learning.

SOFT SIGNS:    Refers to minimal behavioral deviations in a person, reported by a neurologist, where the traditional neurological examination shows no clear signs of brain damage or dysfunction.

SPATIAL-TEMPORAL:    Ability to translate a simultaneous relationship in space into a serial relationship in time or vice-versa.

TEMPORAL-SEQUENTIAL ORGANIZATION:    Development of time & sequencing.  (Visual & auditory sequences affect short & intermediate memory.)

VISUAL ASSOCIATION:    Ability to relate visual symbols in a meaningful way.

VISUAL CLOSURE:    Measures the perceptual interpretation of any visual object or thing when only a part of it is shown.

VISUAL DISCRIMINATION:     The ability to see likenesses & differences between visual patterns.

VISUAL PERCEPTION:    Phenomenon of understanding a stimulus that is received by the visual system resulting in cognition.

VISUAL-SPATIAL ORIENTATION:    Learning of spatial relationships by moving bodies & obtaining feedback from visual, kinesthetic, tactile pathways.