Glossary of terms: I

Imitation

Thesaurus of psychological index terms

Mimicking to learn a model's behaviour or responses.

Immunoglobulin therapy

Black's medical dictionary, G Macpherson ed; 38th ed

Use of immunoglobulins, which are a group of naturally occurring proteins that act as antibodies, to build active or passive immunity of people against infectious diseases such as rabies and viral infections.

Immunology

Black's medical dictionary, G Macpherson ed; 38th ed

The study of immune responses to the environment.

Incidence

Black's medical dictionary, G Macpherson ed; 38th ed

One of the main ways to measure the frequency of a disease in a particular population - it is the number of new cases that occur during a particular time.

Inclusion

Encyclopedia of special education; 2nd ed

Placement and education of students with disabilities in general education classrooms with students of the same age who do not have disabilities.

Individual education plans

Fulton special education digest, Ann Worthington ed

A plan which describes targets set for an individual child and the plans made by the school to ensure that these targets are achieved.

Infants

Black's medical dictionary, G Macpherson ed; 38th ed

Babies under one year old.

Inflammatory bowel diseases

Black's medical dictionary, G Macpherson ed; 38th ed

These are chronic inflammatory diseases that may occur in any part of the gut.

Interpersonal interactions

NAS

Social relationships between individuals.

Interventions

Encyclopedia of special education; 2nd ed

All planned attempts to promote the welfare of exceptional individuals. There are 3 types: preventive (efforts to thwart the appearance of disabilities); remedial (the process of overcoming a deficit); compensatory (providing a means to circumvent, substitute or offset and irremediable deficit).

Related resources

• Education jargon (England and Wales)
  
• Education jargon (Scotland)
  

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