1. Functional Assessment Theory and practice

2. Piaget - cognitive constructivism Adaptation: adapting through assimilation and accommodation Assimilation: the process of assimilating experience from the environment Accommodation: the changes to thinking/concepts through the process of assimilation

3. Piaget Classification: grouping objects together by common features Class inclusion: sub-sets within a larger class Conservation: objects stay the same even when changed or look different Decentration: ability to move from one classification to another

4. Piaget Operation: abstract thought rather than concrete operations Schema: representations in mind of ideas/ perceptions which go together

5. Social Constructivism Bruner, Vygotsky - importance of language/ social interaction (modelling of world through activity (socio-cultural activity theory)

6. Learning Habituation: regularly presented stimulus fails to gain response - small change will trigger response Associative learning:learners anticipate through an earlier significant cue Operant conditioning: link between stimulus and response

7. Skill Development Acquisition Fluency Maintenance Generalization Application or Adaptation

8. Sensory Access Distance:Visual, Auditory Near: Touch, Taste,Smell Vestibular - whole body

9. Response Awareness Attending Localising Recognising Understanding