Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

An idiosyncratic sign language spontaneously invented by deaf children who have not had the opportunity to learn a conventional sign language.  

An educational model in which children are educated at home rather than attending school. Often, the parents are required to provide the children with minimum content established by the school district or the state, but the children may concentrate on subjects that are of interest to them. education of children at home, under parental supervision,…

Warm blooded animals. Provided with a mechanism that maintains the body at a particular and constant temperature, usually higher than that of the environment.  

The ability of an organ, an organ system, or a person to maintain normal body functions lowered by illness as well as the course of normal aging; illness causes far greater loss in reserve, homeostasis.  

A complex biological mechanism that attempts to moderate processes within the body so that a balance or equilibrium is maintained.  

The presence of physiological equilibrium in which body functions and conditions are within an acceptable and safe range, homeostasis.  

Home health aide.  

Health services provided in the home of the elderly, disabled, sick, or convalescent. The types of services provided include nursing care, social services, home health aide and homemaker services, and various rehabilitation services. Health services rendered to an individual as needed in the home. Such services are provided to aged, disabled, or sick or convalescent…

A process of assessment of the home environment in which family members and the actual setting are directly observed by the examiner.  

In psychology, a projective test containing two sets of 45 inkblots, similar to the Rorschach, but featuring better standardized administration, scoring, and interpretation.