Chapter 16
Multiple Choice Questions
16. 1 According to the U.S. Dept. of Education’s latest data on prevalence of students in special
education, more than _________ million U.S. children between 6 and 21 years of age receive special
education services.
a. six
b. eight
c. ten
d. fifteen
16.2 Today, the number of children served under IDEIA represent approximately what percentage of all
children in school?
a. 8
b. 13
c. 20
d. 25
16.3 Which of the following has the highest prevalence of students receiving special education?
a. Autism
b. Learning Disabilities
c. Speech & Language Impairments
d. Other Health Impairments
16.4 In interpreting evaluation data for the purpose of determining if a child is a child with a disability,
and the educational needs of the child, each public agency must:
a. Draw upon information from a variety of sources, including aptitude and achievement tests, parent
input, and teacher recommendations, as well as information about the child’s physical condition, social
or cultural background, and adaptive behavior.
b. Ensure that information obtained from all of these sources is documented and carefully considered.
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a or b
16.5 Which of the following is NOT an eligibility criteria for autism?
a. The student exhibits impairments in communication
b. The student exhibits an abnormal range of activities
c. The student exhibits difficulties in forming appropriate relationships
d. The student exhibits unusual responses to sensory information
16.6 One of the eligibility criteria for deaf-blindness is that the student’s disability has an adverse
impact on the student’s educational performance when the student is at the age of eligibility for
kindergarten through age 21, or has an adverse impact on the student’s developmental progress when the
student is age three through kindergarten.
a. True
b. False
16.7 Developmental Delay covers age ranges:
a. 3 through 7 years of age
b. 3 through 9 years of age
c. 3 through 12 years of age
d. 3 through 21 years of age
16.8 Which of the following is NOT one of the eligibility criteria for an emotional disturbance?
a. An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors
b. An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers
c. Appropriate types of behaviors or feelings under normal circumstances
d. A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression
16.9 A social maladjustment is a persistent pattern of violating societal norms, such as multiple acts of
truancy, or substance or sex abuse, and is marked by struggle with authority, low frustration threshold,
impulsivity, or manipulative behaviors
a. True
b. False
16.10 Deafness is a hearing impairment so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic
information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child’s educational
performance.
a. True
b. False
16.11 Significantly impaired intellectual functioning is normally indicated by IQ scores that are two or
more standard deviations below the mean. Given that most IQ tests have a mean of 100 and a standard
deviation of 15, an IQ score of less than what score would be considered “significantly impaired
intellectual functioning”?
a. 90
b. 80
c. 75
d. 70
16.12 Which disability includes conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain
dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia?
a. Traumatic Brain Injury
b. Other Health Impairment
c. Learning Disabilities
d. Speech and Language Impairments
16.13 Which disability is defined as “concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability–
orthopedic impairment), the combination of which causes such severe educational problems that the
problems cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments”.
a. Traumatic Brain Injury
b. Other Health Impairment
c. Multiple Disabilities
d. Speech and Language Impairments
16.14 An individual can be considered eligible for services under Multiple Disabilities if the adverse
effects are from environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage as a result of such factors as: Second
language, limited English proficiency, other cultural values and experiences and experiential differences.
a. True
b. False
16.15 Which disability includes impairments caused by congenital anomaly (e.g., clubfoot, absence of
some member), impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments
from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures)?
a. Traumatic Brain Injury
b. Other Health Impairment
c. Orthopedic Impairments
d. Speech and Language Impairments
16.16 In order to identify and be determined as eligible for special education services as a student with
an Other Health Impairment, the Eligibility Committee must a medical statement or a health assessment
statement indicating a classification of health impairment or a description of the impairment, and that the
student’s condition is permanent or is expected to last for more than how many days?
a. 30
b. 40
c. 50
d. 60
16.17 Which disability requires having limited strength, vitality, or alertness due to chronic or acute
health problems, such as a heart condition, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, nephritis, asthma, sickle cell
anemia, hemophilia, epilepsy, lead poisoning, leukemia, or diabetes, that adversely affects a child’s
educational performance?
a. Traumatic Brain Injury
b. Other Health Impairment
c. Orthopedic Impairments
d. Speech and Language Impairments
16.18 Which type of speech and language impairment means the intrusion or repetition of sounds,
syllables, and words; prolongation’s of sounds; avoidance of words; silent blocks; or inappropriate
inhalation, exhalation, or phonation patterns?
a. Fluency disorder
b. Voice disorder
c. Articulation disorder
d. Language disorder
16.19 Which type of speech and language impairment means the absence of voice or presence of
abnormal quality, pitch, resonance, loudness, or duration?
a. Fluency disorder
b. Voice disorder
c. Articulation disorder
d. Language disorder
16.20 Which type of speech and language impairment means the absence of or incorrect production of
speech sounds or phonological processes that are developmentally appropriate (e.g. lisp, difficulty
articulating certain sounds, such as l or r)?
a. Fluency disorder
b. Voice disorder
c. Articulation disorder
d. Language disorder
16.21 Which type of speech and language impairment means a breakdown in communication as
characterized by problems in expressing needs, ideas, or information that may be accompanied by
problems in understanding?
a. Fluency disorder
b. Voice disorder
c. Articulation disorder
d. Language disorder
16.22 Auditory processing or comprehension includes which of the following?
a. Semantics
b. Syntax
c. Phonology
d. All of the above
16.23 Auditory processing or comprehension includes which of the following?
a. Recalling information
b. Following directions
c. Pragmatics
d. All of the above
16.24 Traumatic Brain Injury applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or
more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment;
problem solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions;
information processing; and speech.
a. True
b. False
16.25 Traumatic Brain Injury applies to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative or to brain
injuries induced by birth trauma.
a. True
b. False
16.26 Visual Impairments includes both partial and total sight blindness.
a. True
b. False
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