Understanding the Different Levels of Learning/Behavioral Disabilities & Disorders in Educational Therapy: A Nosographical Classification Scheme
- Author Guo-Hui Xie
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- Country : Macao
- Subject : Education
Keywords : Complex; Disability; Disorder; Multiplex; Syndrome
Abstract
In educational therapy, the term nosography comes from two ancient Greek words, i.e., nosos, meaning 'disease', and -graphē, meaning ' description '). It is borrowed from the medical field to provide educational therapists and diagnosticians a structured scheme to describe and classify learning and behavioral disabilities/disorders for the purpose of diagnostic identification, differentiation and intervention planning. While the medical practitioners have their diagnostic scheme of classification known as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and psychologists have their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) system, the special education professionals also need a scheme of their own, resulting in the publication of the Educator’s Diagnostic Manual (Pierangelo & Giuliani, 2007) based heavily on the IDEA 2004 categories of disability. The aim of this paper is to provide special education professionals a pre-nosographical classification scheme to describe the different levels of disabilities/disorders in order to help them distinguish the intricate network of related or associated symptoms.
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