How Do You Predict the Common Core Standards Will Change

question 25

Essay

How do you predict the Common Core Standards will change education for students with disabilities?

Understand historical context and psychological phenomena like la belle indifference related to conversion disorder.

Recognize various somatic symptom disorders and their dramatic manifestations.

Understand the role of mindfulness, acceptance skills, and various therapies in treating somatic symptom disorder.

Identify and distinguish between different types of dissociative disorders and their key features.

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Definitions:

Control Expression

The regulation of gene expression, ensuring that the correct genes are expressed at the right time and place, and in the appropriate amount.

Genes

Segments of DNA located on chromosomes that contain the instructions for the production of proteins.

α-Helix

A common helical structure found in proteins, characterized by a right-handed coil where each amino acid residue correlates with a 100-degree turn in the helix.

Beta-Pleated Sheet

A common motif of secondary structure in proteins characterized by beta strands connected laterally by at least two or three backbone hydrogen bonds, forming a generally twisted, pleated sheet.