Glossary : E-G
A-B C-D I - M N - S T - Z
E
Early Childhood Connections (ECC)
The name of the Part C Program in Colorado.
Early Intervention Services (EI)
As part of Early Childhood Connections in Jefferson, Clear Creek, Gilpin and Summit Counties, DDRC offers educational and therapeutic supports to children birth to three with developmental concerns. Early intervention services are designed to enhance the capacity of families to support their children’s well being, development, learning, and full participation in their communities. Services address desired functional outcomes and are provided in a family’s everyday routines, activities and places.
Easter Seals Employment Services
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
E.B.D.
Emotional Behavioral Disorder; also Elderly Blind or Disabled.
E.B.D. Waiver
Elderly Blind or Disabled. Medicaid funded supports for eligible participants as alternative to nursing homes.
ECC - Early Childhood Connections
The name of the Part C Program of Colorado.
Echolalia
Repetitive, parrot-like speech using words spoken by others.
E.H.A. (P.L. 94142) - Education of the Handicapped Act
Adopted 10 years after ECIA. It is designed to allow more children to benefit from public education in the least restrictive environment. This is the primary piece of legislation guaranteeing educational opportunities to disabled children. Now known as I.D.E.A. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).
E.I.
Early Intervention services. Educational supports to children birth to three with developmental concerns.
Emergency Control Procedure
An unanticipated use of a restrictive procedure in order to keep the person receiving services and others safe. CDHS/DDD Regs. 1.2.11
Empathy
Ability to understand or feel what another is feeling.
Employment Consultant
An individual with job development and training skills having primary responsibility for planning and/or providing job training and on-going support services.
Employment Link
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
Enrollment
The completion of the application process and actual entry into or receipt of support services.
Enuresis
Bed-wetting.
Epilepsy
Brief, temporary changes in the normal functioning of the brain's electrical system. Also known as seizures.
EPSDT - Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment
A Medicaid service for prenatal care and for children birth through age twenty-one.
Equilibrium Reactions
Response to regain or maintain balance.
Escape Learning
A form of learning which allows an individual to avoid an unpleasant event.
Esotropia
One or both eyes turning inward abnormally (cross-eyed).
Estate Planning
Process of creating and preserving property during a person's own lifetime and arranging for the transfer of property upon death. In reference to disabilities, the term means advantageous planning of investments, taxes, and trusts that will not sacrifice family security nor federal benefits.
Ethernet (computer term)
A local-area network (LAN) protocol that allows connected computers to communicate with each other. Ethernet uses bus or star topology and supports data transfer rates of 10 megabytes per second.
Evergreen Service Providers, Inc.
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
Exceptional Children's Educational Act
State rules and regulations regarding services to school age students with disabilities.
Expansion
Interpreting a child's verbalization and expanding or increasing it in more detail. Example: Child, "Boy Candy" - Therapist, "Yes, the boy is eating candy."
Expressive Language
Language which people use to make their thoughts and ideas known to others. It may include written, verbal, gestures, sign language, use of a communication board and other forms of expression. .
Extended Family
Relatives of the immediate family.
Extension
Movement of a joint, generally to straighten the arm, leg or trunk.
Extinction
Gradual disappearance of a behavior when it is no longer reinforced.
Extroversion
Personality type that primarily derives pleasure from interaction with the outside physical and social environment rather than a person's own internal environment. Opposite of introversion.
Eye-Hand Coordination
Movement of the hand in harmony with the eyes.
F
FA - Functional Assessment
A comprehensive analysis of factors which may influence current behavior. CDHS/DDD Regs. 1.2.16
Facilitate
To help bring about.
Facilitated Communication
A technique to enable people with communication impairments to communicate. An example might be where a person without a disability places his or her hands on the hands of the person with a disability and enables that person to move about a keyboard and type responses to a set of questions.
Family Support Council
The local group of volunteers within
Family Support Plan (F.S.P.)
A plan written for the delivery of family support services. CDHS/DDS Regs. 1.2.15
Family Support Services Program (F.S.S. or F.S.S.P.)
Program designed to offer supportive services for families who have children with special needs living at home.
Family Therapy
Therapy with the family to work out family problems.
the Community Centered Board’s service area charged with providing guidance and direction to the CCB for the implementation of the Family Support Services Program. CDHS/DDD Regs. 1.2.14
F.A.P.E. - Free Appropriate Public Education
F.A.P.E. is guaranteed by Public Law 94-142, at no expense to parents and family.
Fee-for-Service
Funding to a provider on a service-by-service basis.
Fiduciary
Person in a special relationship of trust, confidence or responsibility in which one party occupies a superior relationship and assumes a duty to act in the dependent's best interest. This includes a trustee, guardian, counselor or institution, but it could also be a volunteer acting in this special relationship.
Figure-Ground Discrimination
An auditory or visual process by which an individual picks a sound or object from its background.
Fine Motor
The use of small muscles, especially in the fingers or the eyes.
Flexion
Movement of a joint, generally to bend the arm, leg or trunk.
Fluency
The smoothness with which sounds, syllables, words and phrases are spoken; lack of hesitations, repetitions or stuttering.
Form Constancy
Recognition of a form as the same, even though size, color, position or plane has changed.
Form Perception
The ability to recognize a form in all its parts, as a whole unit, then again broken down into its parts.
FPL
Federal Poverty Level.
Fragile-X Syndrome
A genetic cause of mental retardation.
Frog Sitting, Inverted-W
Sitting in reverse tailor style.
FSC
Family Support Consultant.
FSC - Family Support Council
The local group of volunteers within the Community Centered Board’s service area charged with providing guidance and direction to the CCB for the implementation of the Family Support Services Program. CDHS/DDD Regs. 1.2.14
FSSP - Family Support Services Program
Program designed to offer supportive services for families who have children with special needs living at home.
FTE - Full-Time Employee
A personnel, staffing and budgeting term.
Functional Assessment (FA)
A comprehensive analysis of factors which may influence current behavior. CDHS/DDD Regs. 1.2.16
Functioning Level
Level of achievement.
G
Gait
Walking.
G.A.P.
Graduate Activities Program. Services for adults with disabilities emphasizing maintenance of skills, recreation, leisure, and socialization.
Gastrostomy
Surgical opening to the stomach; a feeding tube is used to feed the person.
Gastrostomy Tube (G-tube)
A tube which has been surgically inserted into the stomach through the abdominal wall, or a tube which has been inserted through the nasal passage into the stomach, or both.
G.E.D.
Graduate Equivalent Diploma.
Generalization
Responding in a similar fashion across different situations.
Giberson Medical Assistance Homes
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
Glucose
Sugar.
Goals
Broad, general target areas of development written by the IFSP, IEP or IP team.
Good Shepherd Communities
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
Gray Street Center
DDRC facility located at 5685 Gray Street, Arvada, Colorado.
Gross Motor
Movement that involves balance, coordination and large muscle activity as required in holding your head up, walking, running, climbing, jumping and other physical activities.
Group Therapy
Therapy involving several individuals as a group at the same time.
G.R.S.S. - Group Residential Services and Supports
Twenty-four hour services and supports to individuals in residential settings ranging from four to eight beds.
Guardian
A person appointed by the court to be a substitute decision maker for persons receiving services deemed to be incompetent of making informed decisions for themselves. The powers of a guardian are determined by a judge and may be limited to certain aspects of the person's life.
H
Habilitation
The process by which a person with developmental disabilities is assisted in acquiring and maintaining life skills to 1) cope more effectively with personal and developmental demands, and 2) to increase the level of physical, mental, vocational and social ability through services.
Half-Kneel
Kneel with one leg up.
Handedness
Preference for use of one hand over the other.
Handicap
A mental or physical impairment which prevents or interferes with normal mental or physical activities and achievement. The preferred term is "disability."
Hard Drive (computer term)
The mechanism that reads and writes data on a magnetic hard disk. Hard disk drives for personal computers generally have storage capacities in the 500 megabyte to 2 gigabyte range.
Harmony Homes, Inc.
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
Harp Service Agency
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
HCA
Home Care Allowance.
H.C.B.D.D. - Home Community Based Programs for the Developmentally Disabled
Residential day programs that are funded through a combination of state and federal dollars. Daily reimbursement rates are higher than state funding to provide a more intensive rehabilitation program.
H.C.B.S. - Home and Community Based Services
This is a waiver program to provide Medicaid benefits in the home or community to disabled children who would otherwise be ineligible for Medicaid due to excess parental income and/or resources. Children must be at risk of nursing facility or hospital placement. Serves age birth through 17
H.C.F.A.
Health Care Financing Administration (federal entity).
H.C.P.
Handicapped Children's Program (Department of Health).
H.C.P.F.
Health Care Policy and Financing. A state department effective July 1, 1994.
Hepatitis B
An inflammation of the liver caused by the Hepatitis B virus. Hepatitis B is Contagious.
HERO Alliance - Home Ownership Education and Resource Opportunities
A statewide collaborative effort of funders, service agencies, and governmental entities focused on providing opportunities for people with disabilities to purchase homes of their own in Colorado.
Herpes Simplex
Fever blister.
HHP - Host Home Provider
An individual or individuals who provide supports in his or her home to one or two persons receiving services who are not related to the provider. CDHS/DDD Regs. 1.2.41
HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act of 1996 (August 21), Public Law 104-191, which amended the Internal Revenue Service Code of 1986. Also known as the Kennedy-Kassebaum Act, the Act includes a section, Title II, entitled Administrative Simplification, requiring:
- Improved efficiency in healthcare delivery by standardizing electronic data interchange, and
- Protection of confidentiality and security of health data through setting and enforcing standards.
H.I.V.
Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus.
Host Home
Non-licensed private residential setting that provides residential supports to no more than two persons in the HCB-DD waiver. The host home must be the primary residence of the provider.
Host Home Provider (HHP)
An individual or individuals who provide supports in his or her home to one or two persons receiving services who are not related to the provider. CDHS/DDD Regs. 1.2.41
H.R.C. - Human Rights Committee
A third-party mechanism to safeguard the legal rights of persons receiving services by participating in the granting of informed consent, monitoring the suspension of rights of persons receiving services, monitoring behavior development programs in which persons with developmental disabilities are involved, monitoring the use of psychotropic medication by persons with developmental disabilities, and at the committee’s option, either providing or ensuring the investigation of allegations of abuse or neglect of persons with developmental disabilities who are receiving services or supports under this article. CRS 27-10.5-102
H.U.D. - Housing and Urban Development
Section 8 provides rental assistance. A federal agency.
Human Rights Committee (HRC)
A third-party mechanism to safeguard the legal rights of persons receiving services by participating in the granting of informed consent, monitoring the suspension of rights of persons receiving services, monitoring behavior development programs in which persons with developmental disabilities are involved, monitoring the use of psychotropic medication by persons with developmental disabilities, and at the committee’s option, either providing or ensuring the investigation of allegations of abuse or neglect of persons with developmental disabilities who are receiving services or supports under this article. CRS 27-10.5-102
Hydrocephalus
This condition results from widened cerebral spaces in the brain that inhibit the flow of cerebral spinal fluid. The cerebrospinal fluid collects and puts pressure on the brain. This can cause an enlarged head in infants and may be treated with a fluid shunt.
Hyperactivity
Excessive or abnormally high level of motor activity. May be associated with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Hyperkinesis
Excessive muscular activity.
Hypertension
High blood pressure.
Hypertonic
Increased tension in muscles; spastic.
Hypotension
Low blood pressure.
Hypotonic
Reduced tension in muscles; floppy.
