TRUE/FALSE
Students with severe or profound hearing loss have more social problems than those
with mild hearing loss.
TRUE/FALSE
Instructional materials and activities for secondary students should teach academic and
transition skills.
TRUE/FALSE
Many students who are blind have additional disabilities.
TRUE/FALSE
Poverty rates are highest among adults with severe disabilities.
TRUE/FALSE
There are approximately 3 million students who are gifted and talented in the United
States today.
TRUE/FALSE
Before the passage of P. L. 99-457, most preschoolers with disabilities did not receive
services.
TRUE/FALSE
An intellectual disability is a permanent condition.
TRUE/FALSE
In most cases, the cause of a learning disability is unknown.
TRUE/FALSE
The number of students identified as learning disabled has decreased in recent years.
TRUE/FALSE
Most visual impairments of school-age children are congenital.
TRUE/FALSE
Communicative development includes nonverbal behaviors.
TRUE/FALSE
The six major principles of IDEA have remained virtually the same since 1975.
TRUE/FALSE
Teachers’ ratings of young children’s behaviors are good predictors of behavior at an
older age.
TRUE/FALSE
Most students with multiple disabilities also have deaf-blindness.
TRUE/FALSE
Regular exposure to noise above 110 dB for more than one minute can cause permanent
hearing loss.
TRUE/FALSE
A cultural interpreter must speak the native language of the family he/she is serving.
TRUE/FALSE
According to the NAGC a domain can be any area with its own set of sensorimotor
skills.
TRUE/FALSE
IDEA regulations contain a specific formula for determining a severe discrepancy.
TRUE/FALSE
Internalizing behaviors are more often displayed by girls with emotional and behavioral
disabilities.
Effective home’school partnerships are characterized by
A) empirical support
B) pursuit of individual goals
C) a climate of mutual respect and trust
D) recognition of professional expertise
Living in a foster home may be advantageous for a person with a disability because
A) he may have fewer financial obligations
B) he may be more accepted in the community at large
C) he may reside in a more affluent neighborhood
D) he may have more time for recreation and leisure
The ability to fuse the single images from each eye into a single three-dimensional
shape is called
A) accommodation
B) binocular vision
C) ocular motility
D) depth perception
Which of the following words is a child with a hearing loss likely to learn easily?
A) the
B) walk
C) jealous
D) ashamed
Which of the following statements about dialects is most accurate?
A) Dialects are more common in English than in other languages.
B) Dialects are linguistically correct within the rules that govern them.
C) Dialects should usually be considered to be inferior to Standard English.
D) Dialects are severe forms of communication disorders that require intensive
intervention.
A child with a communication disorder is eligible for special education services when
the disorder
A) has an adverse effect on learning
B) has persisted for at least three years
C) is evident when the child enters school
D) has become worse despite the use of research-based interventions
Students who are legally blind are entitled to all of the following except
A) college tuition
B) talking books
C) free U. S. mail service
D) an income tax exemption
A long cane serves as all of the following except
A) a tool for independent travel
B) a probe for detecting changes in travel surfaces
C) a bumper for protection from obstacles such as doors
D) a bumper for protection from low hanging tree branches
What is a drawback to using a discrepancy approach to identifying children with
learning disabilities?
A) It is a subjective approach.
B) It is a wait and fail approach.
C) Test scores don”t represent actual performance.
D) Too few students are being identified as learning disabled.
All of the following are procedural safeguards granted by IDEA except
A) parental consent for evaluation and placement decisions
B) attorney fees for all parents in due process hearings
C) an independent evaluation at public expense when parents disagree with results of an
evaluation conducted by a school district
D) award of reasonable attorney fees to school districts who prevail in frivolous
lawsuits by parents
The most likely sequence of activities related to sound for children involved in auditory
training is
A) awareness, discrimination, identification, localization
B) awareness, identification, discrimination, localization
C) awareness, identification, localization, discrimination
D) awareness, localization, discrimination, identification
Which of the following statements about least restrictive environment is true?
A) The LRE may change over time.
B) The LRE is the setting that is the most diverse.
C) The LRE is the resource room for most students.
D) The LRE is determined by the disability category.
In IDEIA, early intervention is intended to enhance the development of children ages
A) birth”2
B) birth”3
C) 3″5
D) 3″9
When developing an IEP for a student with severe or multiple disabilities, one of the
greatest responsibilities of a special educator is
A) providing appropriate assistive technology
B) providing appropriate positive behavior supports
C) selecting and prioritizing instructional objectives
D) ensuring that the student is included with nondisabled peers
Domains included on the Quality of Life Questionnaire include all of the following
except
A) competence/productivity
B) empowerment/independence
C) overall satisfaction
D) recreation/leisure
Which term best applies to looking and planning for ways to include brief, systematic
instructional interactions in the content of typical classroom activities?
A) direct teaching
B) discovery learning
C) embedded learning
D) optimal learning
No Child Left Behind places special emphasis on determining what educational
programs and practices
A) are preferred by parents.
B) are preferred by teachers.
C) meet the needs of most children most of the time.
D) have clearly demonstrated effectiveness through research.
Appropriate curricular approaches for educating students who are gifted and talented
include all of the following except
A) acceleration
B) problem based learning
C) differentiation
D) enrichment
Which of the following strategies would be least effective in increasing the involvement
of families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds?
A) conducting meetings in family-friendly settings
B) scheduling meetings during the teacher’s planning time
C) asking native-speaking staff members to contact the family
D) identifying key decision makers in the family and deferring to them
Kyle will celebrate his third birthday next month. His parents report that he has a
vocabulary of approximately 30 words and speaks mainly in one-word utterances.
According to current research, which of the following terms most accurately describes
Kyle?
A) communication disordered
B) developmentally delayed
C) language impaired
D) late talker
What is emphasized in the definition of visual impairments in IDEA?
A) the degree of limitations in visual field
B) the degree of limitations in visual acuity
C) the relationship between vision and learning
D) the cause of the impairment and the age of onset
Which of the following interventions is supported by scientifically validated research?
A) applied behavior analysis
B) facilitated communication
C) gluten free diets
D) secretin therapy
Mrs. Chen has a five-year-old son who must use a wheelchair for mobility. He asks her
if he will be able to walk when he grows up. She explains that he probably won”t be
able to but assures him that he will be able to do many of the things other people do.
She encourages him to try new tasks. What role has Mrs. Chen assumed in this
scenario?
A) advocate
B) behavior support specialist
C) caregiver
D) counselor
The number of students receiving special education services for emotional disabilities
A) has decreased sharply over the past decade
B) has increased sharply over the past decade
C) is lower than the federal government estimate
D) is higher than the federal government estimate
Mark is a student with autism. Mrs. Tozzi, a fifth grade teacher, is having a conference
with his parents. She begins by welcoming them. She asks his parents if he is
experiencing problems with his homework and invites them to explain how autism is
likely to affect his academic and social skills. Finally she asks them if Mark is having
any other challenges that she may not be aware of. Was Mrs. Tozzi engaging in
effective questioning?
A) Yes; she asked open-ended questions.
B) Yes; she valued the input of his parents.
C) No; she focused mainly on problems and deficits.
D) No; she did not allow them to keep family information private.
Which is not a suggested way to create a supportive physical environment for young
children with disabilities?
A) Provide an open area for large group activities.
B) Locate quiet areas together away from the flow of traffic.
C) Arrange equipment so students can move between areas easily.
D) Designate an adult to locate and retrieve materials to maintain order.
Which is not an example of an “established risk condition”?
A) Down syndrome
B) fetal alcohol syndrome
C) fragile X syndrome
D) premature birth
Which best exemplifies acceleration?
A) Rose, a six-year-old, goes to a third grade math class because she has mastered first
and second grade math.
B) Carter is given more difficult reading material than her classmates in fourth grade
because she has mastered reading.
C) Coralee, who has mastered the third grade science curriculum, teaches it to others in
her class who have not.
D) Desmond studies subject areas not offered at his school, such as comparative
religion and quantum physics.
According to the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2 (NLTS2), which adults with
disabilities were least likely to participate in social activities outside of work?
A) adults with attention deficit disorder
B) adults with emotional and behavioral disabilities
C) adults with hearing impairments
D) adults with intellectual disabilities
Maker characterizes a person who is gifted as
A) highly talented
B) a problem solver
C) extremely creative
D) an individual with an IQ score two standard deviations above the mean
Which of the following is the most accurate regarding teachers’ use of praise?
A) Teachers tend to praise students too frequently.
B) Teacher praise statements decline each year after second grade.
C) Teachers generally use more praise statements than statements of disapproval.
D) Special education teachers use praise statements more frequently than general
education teachers.
Which of the following students is most likely to have problems with reading?
A) Abe, a child with a phonological disorder
B) Charlene, a child with a fluency disorder
C) Demetrius, a child with a voice disorder
D) Francine, a child with an articulation disorder
Explain the concept of supportive living
What is the role of transition teams?.
Explain the difference between prelingual and postlingual hearing loss and why age of
onset is relevant to the educational needs of a child with a hearing impairment.
What is the least restrictive environment for a child with ASD?
Imagine you are a teacher and the IAT (Intervention Assistance Team) has asked you to
complete a before and after “verbal picture” of one of your students who has come to
school reporting he has been in a bicycle accident. The description should make it
apparent that the child has suffered a traumatic brain injury that is adversely affecting
his educational performance. Be sure to include descriptions from all three domains:
physical and sensory, cognitive/academic, and social, emotional, and behavioral.
Explain the pros and cons of drug therapy for treatment of ADHD.
What are the four functions of communication?
What are three types of written communication systems that could be used to convey
information between home and school?
What is the position on educational placements of all professional and parent
organizations involved with educating students who are deaf?
Compare and contrast open and closed head injuries.
The majority of classroom behavior problems can be prevented by the use of what kind
of behavior management?
What is the difference between Deaf (with a capital “d”) and deaf (with a lowercase
“d”)?
Explain how you could teach a totally blind student without braille skills to cook a
simple dish. Include at least two benefits to the student.
What term identifies that a hearing loss occurred before the development of spoken
language? How is speech and language affected?
Explain why using only IQ scores as a factor in diagnosing ID is not appropriate.