Advocacy involves each of the following EXCEPT:
A. Seeking win-win solutions
B. Preventing problems
C. Keeping your conscience primed
D. Affirming strengths
The design of instructional materials and activities that make content information
accessible to all children refers to:
A. Accommodations
B. Universal design for learning
C. Goals and objectives
D. Content standards
Identifying relevant alternative options, identifying consequences of the alternative,
identifying the probability of each consequence, determining the value placed on each
option or alternative, and integrating values and consequences to select a preferred
option are steps of which of the following?
A. Collaborative teaming
B. Problem solving
C. Cooperative learning
D. Decision making
One early consequence of the efforts at school racial desegregation was that, as
enrollments of culturally and linguistically diverse children in previously all-white
schools increased, their enrollment in self-contained programs increased for which of
the following?
A. Students with learning disabilities
B. Students with autism
C. Gifted students
D. Students with mild intellectual disabilities
Color blindness and poor contrast sensitivity result from damage to the:
A. Cones
B. Optic nerve
C. Retina
D. Lens
The most common form of progress monitoring of students with hearing loss is:
A. Language assessment
B. Literacy assessment
C. Academic skills assessment
D. Functional skills assessment
Families experience better emotional well-being when they have friends or others who
provide support, the support they need to relieve stress, outside help available to take
care of the special needs of all family members, and:
A. Good relationships with schools
B. Time to pursue their own interests
C. Good income level
D. Good communication skills
The IDEA principle that seeks to establish accountability for carrying out the student’s
rights under IDEA is:
A. Appropriate education
B. Procedural due process
C. Least restrictive environment
D. Zero reject
Nondiscriminatory evaluation plans seek to answer each of the following EXCEPT:
A. Does the student have ADHD and can other disabilities be ruled out?
B. Do other disabilities exist simultaneously with ADHD?
C. What should the student’s IEP contain?
D. Can the student be served by an existing program, like EBD, even if he has ADHD?
Each of the following is a cause of cerebral palsy except:
A. Gestational infection
B. Lack of oxygen to the brain
C. Meningitis after birth
D. Maternal diabetes and obesity
A persistent pattern of antisocial behavior that significantly interferes with others’ rights
or with schools’ and communities’ behavioral expectations is:
A. Anxiety disorder
B. Conduct disorder
C. Oppositional defiant disorder
D. Mood disorder
What is the hallmark of special education?
A. Inclusion
B. Individualization
C. Specialized placements
D. Accommodations
What is a primary way to prevent legal action on behalf of parents?
A. Write the IEP before the meeting.
B. Keep sporadic data and reporting.
C. Include parents as much as possible
D. Provide services only near the IEP meeting time.
Each of the following must be part of supported employment except which one?
A. The supported worker must be paid above minimum wage.
B. The supported worker must work at least 20 hours a week.
C. The supported worker must, after 18 months, be able to do the job without support.
D. The supported worker must work in a typical work setting.
Screening assessments for emotional or behavioral disorders include each of the
following except which one?
A. Classroom work products
B. Individualized intelligence tests
C. Group achievement tests
D. Vision and hearing tests
Positive interdependence and individual accountability are characteristics of:
A. Cooperative learning
B. Collaborative teaming
C. Wraparound
D. Problem-solving
Which of the following emphasizes that communication skills are learned through
social interactions?
A. Inborn language acquisition device theory
B. Imitation and practice theory
C. Social interaction theory
D. Imitation and inborn acquisition theory
Providing instruction only on content that a student has not yet mastered is:
A. Acceleration
B. Curriculum extension
C. Compacting the curriculum
D. Differentiated instruction
The definition of traumatic brain injury includes all of the following aspects except:
A. TBI must be a acquired after a child is born
B. TBI must be caused by an external force
C. TBI applies to both closed and open head injuries
D. TBI is acquired during the birth process
Transition programs are effective when students with intellectual disabilities achieve
each of the following except:
A. Are integrated into and participate in their community
B. Learn work-related skills
C. Live in a group home or institution
D. Engage in a full array of leisure activities
There is almost universal agreement that students with disabilities gain benefits in
which areas from their involvement in inclusive settings?
A. Social and communication
B. Social and academic
C. Communication and achievement
D. Communication and mathematics
Teachers of older visually impaired students should emphasize career-awareness skills,
social skills, knowledge of human sexuality, self-help skills, and:
A. Reading skills
B. Writing skills
C. Math skills
D. Advocacy skills
Which of the following exists when teachers modify their teaching in ways that will
facilitate the academic achievement of students from diverse racial, cultural, and
social-class groups?
A. Content integration
B. Knowledge construction process
C. Equity pedagogy
D. Prejudice reduction
Using more than one methodology, providing a variety of formats of materials,
expanding assessment options, and varying the complexity and nature of the content are
elements of:
A. Response to intervention
B. Embedded learning approach
C. Differentiated instruction
D. Universal design for learning
Each is a school- or classroom-level action to promote student progress in the general
education curriculum EXCEPT:
A. Create effective learning environments
B. Design effective units and lessons
C. Create separate classrooms for those with disabilities
D. Implement schoolwide instructional strategies
In the majority of cases of epilepsy (about 75%), the precise cause of the brain insult
that triggered the epilepsy is:
A. Genetic
B. Birth trauma
C. Environmental
D. Unknown
Using cultural reciprocity, capitalizing upon instructional consultation teams, and
implementing response to intervention are strategies for:
A. Increasing self-awareness
B. Implementing culturally responsive instruction
C. Increasing knowledge and experiences of other cultures
D. Advocating for systems change
Each of the following is a network that guides families to helpful resources except
which one?
A. Parent training and information centers
B. Community parent resource centers
C. Parent-to-family programs
D. Family-to-family health information centers
Which of the following holds that white people are genetically superior to nonwhite
people?
A. Cultural deficit theory
B. Eugenics
C. Cultural difference
D. Genetic deficit theory
A popular person-centered approach that customizes students’ IEPs to their specific
visions, strengths, and needs is:
A. MAP
B. SETT
C. AAC
D. Wraparound
Which of the following primarily involves written tests?
A. Portfolios
B. Process evaluation
C. Product evaluation
D. Curriculum-based assessment
When speech partners activate a student’s communication device in naturally occurring
communication interactions at home, school, and in the community and encourage the
student to use the device, they are using:
A. Community based instruction
B. Universal design for learning
C. System for augmenting language
D. Facilitative language strategies
Compare and contrast externalizing and internalizing behaviors.
Describe the four types of articulation disorders and give an example of each.
Describe the self-determined learning model of instruction and explain how it benefits
students with intellectual disabilities.
Summarize the possible causes of ADHD.
Identify and explain the five principle components of collaborative teaming.
What four risk factors are associated with causes of intellectual disabilities (provide an
example of each)?
Describe the SETT framework for making evaluation decisions.
Briefly describe how sound is heard, using the terms outer ear, middle ear, inner ear,
cochlea, auditory nerve, and temporal lobe.
Summarize the causes of emotional or behavioral disorders.
Compare and contrast enrichment and acceleration.
Define graphic organizers and give two examples.
How are assistive technology (AT) and augmentative and alternative communication
(AAC) systems related?
Describe characteristics of social development exhibited by children with autism.
Why is adaptive behavior a critical part of the definition of intellectual disabilities?
Describe how you can enhance family participation in IEP conferences.
Define cerebral palsy and briefly describe the types of cerebral palsy.
Describe the MAPs process and the eight key questions that are part of the process.
List (and briefly describe) the five instructional areas for promoting friendships.
What is the cognitive processing model for identifying students with disabilities?