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Neuromuscular development
The growth of a child’s control over fine and gross motor skills, especially in the early child-hood and preschool years; a term often used by child psychologists.
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Neglect
Maltreatment stemming largely from acts of omission, often linked with active mistreatment, as in child abuse and neglect. A legal term for failure to provide the necessary care for a dependent person. In neurology, absence of perception of — or disregard for — the nondominant part of the body in patients who have had a…
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Mumps voccine
A type of vaccine that is normally given in a combination as measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.
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Multisensory
Employing all or most of the senses, including auditory (hearing), visual (seeing), tactile (touch), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), and kinesthetic (body motion). Some approaches for teaching children with learning disabilities or others kinds of learning difficulties employ various of the senses to enhance success at learning, as in the VAKT approach to teaching reading.
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Multiple handicaps
The presence of more than one kind of handicap in a child, such as deafness and blindness, or mental retardation and orthopedic handicaps.
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Multiparent family
A type of family in which adults living in a collective household or commune share the rearing of children in the house.
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Multifactorial disorder
A pattern of genetic inheritance that involves several factors some genetic, some environmental for the disorder to be expressed.
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Mucopolysaccharidoses
A group of genetic disorders that involve defects in certain enzymes, resulting in abnormal and damaging accumulations of substances called mucopolysaccharides in the tissues, medically classed as metabolic disorders or storage disorders. Each of the various MPS disorders has an MPS number and a name, the best-known being Hurler’s syndrome (MPS 1), Hunter’s syndrome (MPS…
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Mucolipidoses
A type of storage disorder in which the body tissues accumulate abnormal and damaging amounts of certain compounds, called mucolipids, due to lack of enzymes needed to break them down. A collection of uncommon metabolic conditions where a specific enzyme deficiency leads to an unusual buildup of lipids and substances known as mucopolysaccharides within cells.…
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Motor skills
Skills relating to motion, involving both the muscles that carry out the motion and the brain and nervous system that direct the activity. The coordinated motion of groups of muscles is what enables controlled movement. Delicate motor abilities encompass activities that demand precise manipulation of small muscles, like fastening a shirt button. On the other…
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