Multiple Choice
1. The term low-incidence disabilities refers to
A) Paraplegia
B) Students who have more than one disability
C) Disabilities that occur infrequently in the population
D) Disabilities that have declining incidence rates
2. For a student with physical or health disabilities to qualify for special education services,
the student’s disability must
A) Be diagnosed by a physician who provides written documentation to the school
system
B) Adversely affect the student’s motor functioning
C) Be evident prior to the age of 3 years
D) Interfere with his or her educational performance
3. Under the federal definition, when would a student be identified as having multiple
disabilities?
A) When a student has an intellectual disability plus one or more other disabilities
B) When a student has a severe physical impairment plus one or more other
disabilities
C) When a student has deafness and blindness
D) When a student has two or more disabilities whose combined effects cannot be
accommodated in a program for one of the disabilities
4. An example of a teratogenic cause of physical or health disabilities is
A) Low birth weight
B) Parental neglect of the child
C) Maternal drug abuse during pregnancy
D) Brain trauma after birth
5. About how many genetic causes of deaf-blindness have been identified?
A) 60
B) 25
C) 2
D) 12
6. Seunghun was born with normal hearing and vision, but at the age of 7 years, he
contracted meningitis. As a result, he became legally blind and developed a moderate
hearing loss. Seunghun can be said to have
A) Adventitious deaf-blindness
B) Congenital deaf-blindness
C) Teratogenic deaf-blindness
D) None of the above
7. The acronym TORCH serves as a memory aid for what list?
A) Categories used in classifying persons with multiple disabilities
B) Prenatal infections that, if acquired by the mother, may adversely affect the fetus
C) The most common syndromes found in persons with low-incidence disabilities
D) Common characteristics found in persons with health impairments
8. During the perinatal period, the most common cause of brain injury is
A) Maternal age
B) Toxoplasmosis
C) Asphyxia
D) Premature birth
9. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is categorized as a(n)
A) Infectious disease
B) Neuromotor impairment
C) Degenerative disease
D) Musculoskeletal disorder
10. Students with spastic cerebral palsy have
A) Floppy muscle tone
B) Poor balance and equilibrium
C) Contorted and purposeless movements
D) Tight muscles and stiff movements
11. What limbs are adversely affected with diplegia?
A) All four limbs but the arms are more affected than the legs
B) The limbs on the same side of the body
C) All four limbs but the legs are more affected than the arms
D) Only the legs are affected
12. Students with cerebral palsy have an increased incidence of
A) Stuttering
B) Herpes simplex
C) Intellectual disability
D) Spina bifida
13. The most severe form of spina bifida, in which a baby is born with the spinal cord
protruding into a sack on his or her back, is
A) Meningitis
B) Meningocele
C) Myelomeningocele
D) Mononucleosis
14. A child who receives an operation to insert a shunt to drain the excess spinal fluid from
the brain to the abdominal area is being treated for
A) Muscular dystrophy
B) Microcephalus
C) Epilepsy
D) Hydrocephalus
15. What goal should the teacher set for a student with Duchenne muscular dystrophy?
A) Maintain the student’s motor function for as long as possible
B) Assist the family in obtaining surgery to cure the disease
C) Increase the student’s motor function as much as possible
D) Decrease assistive technologies to move toward greater independence
16. A prosthetic device is used for students with
A) Hydrocephalus
B) A limb deficiency
C) Muscular dystrophy
D) None of the above
17. Which of the following is not true of all students with multiple disabilities?
A) They cannot receive adequate services in a program designed for just one of their
disabilities.
B) They have concomitant disabilities.
C) The disabilities interact and the combined effects multiply.
D) They function cognitively in the range of intellectual disability.
18. A student with a severe case of traumatic brain injury will typically
A) Have the most dramatic improvement in skills during the first 2 years following the
trauma
B) Remain in a coma for the first year following the trauma
C) Continue to improve for 10 years following the trauma
D) Have the most dramatic improvement in skills during the first year following the
trauma
19. A 16-year-old student with traumatic brain injury is asked to count 20 pennies and tell the
number of pennies on the table. After numerous attempts, she is unable to accurately
count the pennies. This same student is asked to recall multiplication facts and is able to
do so with no errors. Which of the following is the most accurate statement about this
student?
A) She has splinter skills.
B) She has a severe cognitive disability.
C) She has a math learning disability.
D) She needs cues to improve her attention to the relevant information.
20. Mrs. Jung has Marquis, a student with traumatic brain injury, in her classroom. Marquis
is demonstrating impulsive responding in the class. What is the most appropriate strategy
for Mrs. Jung to use with Marquis to help decrease his impulsivity?
A) Reduce the number of questions Marquis must answer on a quiz.
B) Tell Marquis to sit and think before he answers.
C) Tell Marquis the schedule of events that will happen that day.
D) Give Marquis rest breaks each hour.
21. A student with epilepsy has been seen walking in circles and picking at his clothes on
several occasions. What kind of seizure is this student experiencing?
A) Tonic-clonic seizure
B) Petit mal seizure
C) Complex-partial seizure
D) Absence seizure
22. What should you not do when a student in your class has a tonic-clonic seizure?
A) Withhold liquids immediately following the seizure
B) Turn the student on his or her stomach
C) Time the duration of the seizure
D) Allow the student to sleep following the seizure
23. What is the most common pulmonary childhood disease?
A) Pneumonia
B) Tuberculosis
C) Asthma
D) Cystic fibrosis
24. The HIV virus can be transmitted between persons through
A) The air
B) Saliva
C) Breast milk
D) None of the above
25. Most students with orthopedic impairments are educated in a
A) Separate school
B) Separate classroom
C) Resource room
D) General education classroom
26. Most students with multiple disabilities are educated in a
A) Separate school
B) Separate classroom
C) Resource room
D) General education classroom
27. The appropriate educational placement for a student is determined based on the
A) Professional judgment of the student’s case manager or special education teacher
B) Diagnostic label that the student receives
C) Judgment of the student’s parent or legal guardian
D) Results of the student’s assessments and planned educational goals
28. A communication breakdown occurs when
A) The communication between partners is misinterpreted or misunderstood
B) One or more communication partners has communication impairment
C) The augmentative and alternative communication device of a communication
partner is broken
D) One communication partner wants to convey an idea to another person but does not
have a communication system to do so
29. The specialized expanded curriculum for a student requiring tube feeding for nutrition
may include
A) Orientation and mobility skills
B) Learning to tube feed himself or herself
C) A functional curriculum
D) An advanced course in an academic area
30. For students with deaf/blindness, the priority subject area is typically
A) Self-help skills
B) Communication
C) Orientation and mobility
D) Learning Braille
31. Which of the following is one of the reasons why these categories of exceptionality are so
diverse?
A) Because of the wide range of diseases and disorders
B) Because there are 12 other categories of exceptionality
C) Because of ineffectual assessment measures
D) All of the above
32. Which category would not fall under physical disabilities, health disabilities, and related
low-incidence disabilities?
A) Traumatic brain injury
B) Orthopedic impairments
C) Intellectual disability
D) Other health impairments
33. A child diagnosed with a serious heart, circulatory, and lung condition severely affecting
his education would fall under which category for special education considerations?
A) Multiple disabilities
B) Orthopedic impairment
C) Developmental delay
D) Other health impairment
34. Which disease was originally known as “little disease”?
A) Muscular dystrophy
B) Spina bifida
C) Cerebral palsy
D) Asthma
35. The first schools for “crippled children” were established in the early 1900s in all of the
following cities except
A) Chicago
B) Los Angeles
C) Cleveland
D) Philadelphia
36. All of the following are cited in the text as types of cerebral palsy except
A) Spastic
B) Mixed
C) Athetoid
D) Multiple
37. When is spinal bifida most likely to occur?
A) First trimester of pregnancy
B) Second trimester of pregnancy
C) Third trimester of pregnancy
D) During birth
38. Most traumatic brain injuries occur in which age group?
A) 15- to 24-year-olds
B) 5- to 14-year-olds
C) 25- to 34-year-olds
D) During birth
39. The first step in determining if a person qualifies for special education under one of the
IDEA categories for physical disabilities and health disabilities is
A) Standardized testing
B) Assistive technology assessment
C) Medical evaluation
D) Psychological evaluation
40. All of the following are examples of functional effects of a disability except
A) Motivation
B) Sensory loss
C) Fatigue and lack of endurance
D) Processing issues
41. All of the following are examples of representative nonlinguistic communication systems
for the deaf-blind except
A) Touch cues
B) Communication shelves
C) Sign language
D) Speech recognition software
42. A ____________ identifies goals and objectives specific to meeting a student’s needs
after high school.
A) Postsecondary plan
B) Health plan
C) Individualized education plan
D) Transition plan
43. An individual who works in a regular work setting but receives training and continued
support is involved in ____________.
A) Sheltered employment
B) Supported employment
C) Competitive employment
D) On-the-job training
44. Paralysis that affects all four limbs is called
A) Hemiplegia
B) Paraplegia
C) Quadriplegia
D) Diplegia
45. Students with Duchenne muscular dystrophy are often unable to walk beginning at the
age of _____.
A) 5–6 years
B) 8–9 years
C) 10–12 years
D) 14–16 years
46. Children with cerebral palsy ___________.
A) Have no higher incidence of intellectual disability than students without cerebral
palsy
B) Have a higher incidence of intellectual disability than students without cerebral
palsy
C) Are more often boys than girls
D) Are more often girls than boys
47. What percentage of school-age children with orthopedic impairments has educational
placements in regular education?
A) 20%
B) 50.1%
C) 59.2%
D) 70.2%
48. Students with ____________ will have problems with accessing materials.
A) Orthopedic impairments
B) Health impairments
C) Low-incidence disabilities
D) Asthma
49. A computer with alternative input (switch or voice recognition) is a high-tech solution for
A) Reading
B) Writing
C) Math
D) Leisure
50. Cerebral palsy was originally named after which researcher for his pioneering efforts?
A) Little
B) Macmillan
C) Hendrick
D) Beattie
51. An inherited disorder that is one of the leading causes of deaf-blindness after childhood is
A) CHARGE syndrome
B) Usher syndrome
C) TORCH syndrome
D) Cockayne syndrome
52. Of the following, which is not an example of a health disability?
A) Seizure disorder
B) Asthma
C) AIDS
D) Spina bifida
53. A type of cerebral palsy that is characterized by poor balance and equilibrium in addition
to uncoordinated voluntary movement.
A) Mixed cerebral palsy
B) Ataxic cerebral palsy
C) Spastic cerebral palsy
D) Athetoid cerebral palsy
54. Several types of environmental modifications may be needed to accommodate a student
with a physical or health impairment. In fact, fatigue or endurance issues may
necessitate
A) Modified day
B) Rest breaks
C) Classrooms in close proximity
D) All of the above