Glossary
Special education
Hi,my name is Summer Medelean. I am 18 years old and I have been studying at Cegep de Sherbrooke for two years. I am now studying Special Education. I have create this glossary to help students or people interested in Special Education. The glossary will help understand the meaning of 20 words related to Special Education.
- Adaptation
- Noun
- the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
- Example: Alex adapt his attitude with the person in front of him
- en: Adaptation
- Animal-assisted therapy
- Noun
- a goal-oriented, structured therapeutic intervention that incorporates trained animals (such as dogs, horses, or cats) into a treatment plan to improve a patient's physical, emotional, social, or cognitive functioning.
- Example: The animal-assisted therapy help Aleck to calm him when he is exciting
- en: Zoothérapie

- caring
- Verb
- displaying kindness and concern for others.
- Example: This sentence represents the use of a symbolic code; a children's hospital worker depicts a CARING, selfless person who works in order to meet the needs of others.
- en: Bienveillance
- Creativity
- Noun
- the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.
- Example: She is very creative for her activity she can create
- en: Créativité
- Difficulty
- Noun
- a situation that is difficult or dangerous.
- Example: The questionnaire is designed for evaluating the amount of DIFFICULTY experienced in a variety of situations (e.g., making friends, getting used to local food).
- en: Difficulté
- Empathy
- Noun
- the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
- Example: Blake believed that the way in which 'abstract' labelled people conceptually was the direct opposite to humanity, which showed compassion and EMPATHY for the individual.
- en: Empathie
- Energy
- Noun
- the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.
- Example: Noémie arrive with energy every morning
- en: Énergie
- Evolving note
- Noun
- a continuously updated, chronological record that tracks changes in a subject’s status over time
- Example: She writing a evolving note for her patient
- en: Note évolutive
- Human
- Noun
- a man, woman, or child of the species Homo sapiens or other
- Example: Elsa works and help humans.
- en: Humain

- Intellectual deficiency
- Noun
- a term used when a person has certain limitations in cognitive functioning and skills, including conceptual, social and practical skills, such as language, social and self-care skills
- Example: This kid have a intellectual deficiency
- en: Déficience intellectuelle
- Intervention
- Noun
- the action or process of intervening.
- Example: Rose make an intervention with two boy fighting
- en: Intervention
- Intervention plan
- Noun
- a structured, written document (a "blueprint") designed to address specific academic, behavioral, or health needs by identifying goals, targeted strategies, and timelines for improvement
- Example: Nation have a intervention plan for the computer for his exam
- en: Plan d’intervention
- Listen
- Verb
- give one's attention to a sound.
- Example: The direct address and imperative verb; 'LISTEN,'(l.1) demands both attention and compliance; focus on sound quality is essential to our understanding here, as meaning is highly dependent on our interpretation of certain sound effects.
- en: Écoute
- Mutual aid
- Noun
- support or aid provided by collective effort within a community, especially in an emergency or to help those in need.
- Example: This is all evident in Goffman's work on mental institutions, where the lack of 'props' and MUTUAL AID in supporting a viable image of 'self' leads to its 'mortification'.
- en: Entraide
- Observation
- Noun
- a remark, statement, or comment based on something one has seen, heard, or noticed.
- Example: She put her observation in her book.
- en: Observation

- Open-mindeness
- Noun
- the readiness to consider something without prejudice.
- Example: Mary is open-mindness and listen others even if she not right with this.
- en: Ouverture d’esprit
- Patience
- Adjective
- the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
- Example: Paul have a big patience when the elderly person don’t understand what he say
- en: Patience

- Pictogram
- Noun
- a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase.
- Example: Veronique gave a pictogram to Natan for understand what they was doing today
- en: Pictogramme
- Rehabilitation
- Noun
- the action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness.
- Example: Max is in rehabilitation because he had before a big addiction.
- en: Réadaptation
- Sensory object
- Noun
- a tool, toy, or material specifically designed to stimulate one or more of the five senses
- Example: Lisa gave an sensory object to Luka to calm him
- en: Objet sensoriel

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