THE PERSON WITH A MENTAL HANDICAP
GLOSSARY (key words relevant to mental retardation)
A
Qualification
Handicap assessment
Adaptation
Tax benefits
Benefits for the family
Support administrator
ANFFAS
Monthly cheque
B
Barriers
Balance
of competencies
C
Life cycle
Adaptive behaviour
Disruptive
behaviour
Contribution to expenses
Condition
of severity
The Italian
Constitution
Cretinism
Curator
Guardianship
D
Morosis
Mental deficiency
Deinstitutionalisation
Dementia
Social deprivation
Functional
diagnosis
DIN (Disability Italian Network)
Subjective rights
Disability
Intellectual
and/or relational disability
Mental disorders
Development disorder
DSM-IV TR
E
Ecosystems
Education
Empowerment
F
Professional
figures
Frenastenia
G
Judge Supervising a Guardianship
H
I
ICD-10
ICF
Idiocy
Imbecility
Disqualification
Companionship
benefit
Attendance
benefit
Insertion into the workplace
Mental
incompetence
Social
integration/insertion
Scholastic integration
Interdiction
Protective
interests
Relief
intervention for the family
Direct interventions
Indirect interventions
Civil invalidity
L
Law 104/92
Essential
levels of assistance (LEA)
M
Mental Illness
Mania
Melancholy
Impairment
Quality of Life models
N
Non-discrimination
Normalisation
O
P
Disability
pension
Individual
intervention plan
Overall
take charge
Framework
project
The life project
Individual
project
R
Standard
regulations for the United Nations
Rehabilitation
Health care rehabilitation
Social
rehabilitation
Rearranging emoluments
Mental retardation
S
Health
Outpatient services
Domiciliary services
Residential services
Semi-residential services
Subnormality
T
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