Glossary

Integrated movement therapy is an individual and group therapy approach that combines speech-language pathology, behavioural and mental health counselling, and yoga.

The Integrated Play Groups model is a comprehensive intervention designed to address the unique challenges children on the autism spectrum experience in symbolic play and social engagement with peers.

Integrative medicine is the use of conventional and complementary medicine alongside one another.

Intellectual disability is another term for learning disability, a permanent condition, arising during childhood or adolescence.

Intelligence is sometimes described as the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge (although there are numerous other definitions).

An intelligence quotient or IQ is a score derived from one of several different standardized tests attempting to measure intelligence.

Intensive behavioural intervention is a highly structured and intense intervention in which a child is taught a range of skills by a team of therapists.

The interactive metronome is an intervention in which the individual synchronizes a range of hand and foot exercises to a computer-generated tone heard through headphones.

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems is a manual which provides codes to classify diseases and disorders.

Internet communities is another name for online communities (such as listservs, chatrooms, forums and websites) used by people on the autism spectrum and others to talk to one another.

The internship model of employment is a form of employment in which an intern, usually a student or a recent graduate, undertakes supervised practical training.

The Interpersonal Problem-Solving for Workplace Adaptation Programme is a vocational intervention, designed to help employees solve practical workplace problems.

Interpersonal therapy looks at the way a condition can be triggered by events involving relationships with others, such as bereavements, disputes or relocation.

The Intervention in BASIS programme (iBASIS) is a combined, multi-component programme designed by the BASIS team at Manchester University.

Intervention study is another term for clinical trial, which is an experiment to compare the effects of two or more healthcare interventions.

Intraverbal is a term used within the verbal behaviour approach meaning to reply to a question or to provide some other kind of response to what someone else is saying.

Intuitive overlay is another term for coloured overlay, a piece of coloured, transparent plastic which is placed over a piece of text in order to make it easier to read.

Intuniv is a brand name for guanfacine is a type of drug called an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist used to treat high blood pressure.

Invega is a brand name for paliperidone, an atypical antipsychotic drug used to treat delusional psychosis.

The iPad is a tablet computer designed, manufactured and marketed by Apple Inc.