Resource Links. The 13 categories of exceptionality as defined by IDEA (listed in alphabetical order) 1) Autism - a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3 that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Definition of Functionalism. Functionalism (or structural functionalism) is the perspective in sociology according to which society consists of different but related parts, each of which serves a particular purpose.
Contextualism describes a collection of views in philosophy which emphasize the context in which an action, utterance, or expression occurs, and argues that, in some important respect, the action, utterance, or expression can only be understood relative to that context.n epistemology, contextualism is the treatment of the word 'knows' as context-sensitive. Context-sensitive expressions are ones that express different propositions relative to different contexts of use.