Glossary

Pressure vests are vests or or jackets which can be inflated in order to exert pressure on the person wearing them.

Prevalence is the measure of how commonly a disease or disorder occurs in a population.

Prevent-teach-reinforce is a model of individualised positive behavioural support.

The Princeton Child Development Institute Early Intervention Program is a form of early intensive behavioural intervention run by the Princeton Child Development Institute in the US.

Prism lenses are lenses which refract light, which has the effect of breaking it up into different colours or changing an individual's field of vision.

Probiotics are live microorganisms thought to be beneficial to the host organism.

Problem Solving Skills: 101 is a commercial programme designed to help students adopt problem-solving strategies.

Problem-solving skills training is an intervention designed to teach the skills involved in effective problem-solving, including skills that address practical problems faced by caregivers.

A prodrome is an early symptom (or set of symptoms) that might indicate the start of a condition or disorder before specific symptoms occur.

People with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities have severely limited understanding. In addition they  have multiple disabilities, which may include impairments of vision, hearing and movement as well as other problems like epilepsy and autism.

Progesterone is a hormone involved in women's menstrual cycles and in reproduction.

Prognosis is a prediction of how someone with a condition such as autism will progress and develop over time.

The Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills, better known as the The UCLA PEERS Program, is a multi-component social skills training intervention for adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum.

Progressive muscle relaxation is a technique that involves tensing specific muscle groups and then relaxing them to create awareness of tension and relaxation.

Project ImPACT (Improving Parents as Communication Teachers) is a parent training program that teaches parents to promote their child's social-communication skills during daily routines and activities.

The Project SEARCH High School program provides a school-to-work transition model for young people on the autism spectrum, with a strong emphasis on internship rotations for the entire school year.

Prolactin is a hormone released by the pituitary gland that stimulates breast development and milk production in women.

PROMPT is an acronym for Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets, a programme which is designed to help individuals with speech disorders gain voluntary control of their motor-speech systems.

Prompting is verbal, gestural, or physical assistance given to learners to assist them in acquiring or engaging in a targeted behaviour or skill.

Prompting devices are electronic devices which use a signal to prompt an individual to do something.