Dictionary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Abused
- Hurt
- Academic
- Learning
- Adolescents
- Teenagers
- AGM
- Short for Annual General Meeting - a meeting of an organisation held once a year
- Anaesthesia (Anaesthetic)
- Drugs to make you sleep during an operation
- Antenatal
- Before a baby is born
- Antibiotics
- Medicines
- Arthritis
- Problem with joints
- Audience
- People who are there
- Autism
- A disability that can affect the way a person communicates
B
- Bereavement
- When someone dies
- Blood screening
- Checking blood
- Body mass index
- A chart to work out if you are overweight
C
- Cataract
- Lens of eye goes cloudy making it hard to see
- Chromosome
- Most people have 46 chromosomes. They hold the plan of the body. Babies with Down's syndrome have an extra chromosome.
- Chronic respiratory condition
- Serious chest problem
- Citizenship
- Being part of your community
- Compressed
- Squashed
- Congenital
- Something you are born with.
- Contribute
- Give
- Cord
- Nerves inside the backbone
D
- Dementia
- Illness in the brain which affects the way people remember and do things
- Depression
- Feeling sad for so long that it is a problem
- Designing
- Making
- Diabetes
- Illness caused by too much sugar in the blood
- Diagnose
- Identify or see
- Diagnosis
- Finding out what is wrong with a person
- Diagnostic test
- Medical check
- Differentiated curriculum
- Makes it easier to learn at school
- Donation
- Gift of money
- Down's syndrome
- A condition someone is born with which causes learning disabilities. Caused by an extra chromosome.
- Down's Syndrome Awareness Week
- Week of events which takes place once a year to tell people about Down's syndrome
E
- Ear passage
- Inside the ear
- Efficient
- How well it works
- Environmental adaptations
- Making changes to a building
- Epilepsy
- Fits
- Established
- Started
- Expertise
- Lots of information
- Exploited
- Used in a bad way
- Extensive
- Lots of
F
- Facial features
- What face looks like, for example shape of eyes
- Foetus
- Unborn baby
- Funeral
- Event when dead person is buried or cremated
G
- Gift Aid
- A way of giving money to a charity
- Glue ear
- Kind of ear problem
- Grieve
- Feel sad after someone dies
- Grommets
- Tubes
- Gum disease
- Unhealthy gums
H
- Handouts
- Information given to people who are learning
- Health implications
- How being overweight can make you ill
- Hygiene
- Keeping clean
I
- Inland Revenue
- An office of the government which deals with tax
- Immunisation
- Jags to stop people getting serious illnesses
- Instrumental
- Involved in
L
- Learning disability
- Slower to learn basic skills, from childhood
- Learning profile
- How a person learns new things
- Legislation
- Law
- Lending library
- Books for you to read and then give back
- Lethargy
- No energy, tiredness.
- Leukaemia
- Illness of the blood
- Life expectancy
- How long a person lives
- Literacy
- Reading and writing
M
- Mainstream school
- School for all children
- Medical surveillance
- Health checks
- Menopause
- When a womans periods stop for ever. For a few years she may have symptoms such as hot flushes, dry skin and tiredness.
- Milk teeth
- Child's first teeth
- Miscarriage
- Losing the unborn baby
- Misconceptions
- Wrong ideas
- Motor function
- Ability to move
- Motor skills
- Being able to move the body
- Mythbuster
- A training session to teach people about Down's syndrome
N
- Nasal passage
- Inside the nose
- National Summer Olympic Games
- Sporting competition held every 4 years for people with learning disabilities in Great Britain.
- Numeracy
- Counting
O
- Occupational therapy
- Giving people things to do and interests
- Online Community
- A place on this website to talk about issues with other people
P
- Participants
- People who are there
- Peer
- People of the same age
- Periods
- Womb lining of blood which comes out of a woman's vagina every four weeks
- PhD
- A research degree
- Physiotherapy
- Help with exercise and with moving the body
- Press release
- Information that Down's Syndrome Scotland has sent to the newspapers, radio and TV
- Profound impact
- Change how people think
- Proportion
- Amount
- Protein
- A compound in the body, contains carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen
- Puberty
- Teenage years, changes that happen to the body as a child becomes an adult
- Publications
- Leaflets and booklets
Q
- Quarterly
- Comes out once every three months
R
- Research
- Find out
- Respiratory
- Illness in the chest, for example cold or cough.
S
- Self-esteem
- Feeling happy about who you are
- Sexuality
- The feelings you have about being a man or a woman
- Sibling
- Brother or sister
- Help given by a council, for example to manage at home
- Special educational
- School for children who need more help to learn
- Special Olympics
- Sporting event for people with learning disabilities
- Specialise
- Know a lot about
- Speech and language therapy
- Help with talking
- Squint
- Eye looks to one side
- Statutory organisations
- Services that are funded by the Government
- Strategies
- Plan how to do something
- Stress
- Worry
- Surgical intervention
- Hospital operation
T
- Thyroid
- Gland in the neck
- Training
- Helping people to learn
- Transition
- Moving
V
- Vulnerable
- Not always able to stand up for yourself
W
- Whooping cough
- Kind of cough that is very rare