Teaching communication skills with students with autism is essential. One strategy that
often is used is to say to the student “What is this?” or you may point to the item and the
student repeats. What strategy would you be using?
a. naturalistic instruction
b. communication board
c. mass trials
d. milieu
Which system is used most by special education teachers to promote appropriate
behavior in students with behavioral and emotional problems?
a. Level system
b. Assertive discipline
c. Positive/Negative Reinforcement System (PNRS)
d. Token economy system
Which of the following statements is true about students with communication
disorders?
a. A greater percentage of school-age children than preschool-age children are identified
with communication disorders as their primary disability.
b. Over 85 percent of students with communication disorders spend most of the school
day in general education classes.
c. Communication disorders occur five times more often in boys than in girls.
d. Communication disorders are initially diagnosed by a pediatrician.
As a teacher you will be required to provide an effective reading program to all your
students. In order to provide an effective reading program you would need to include
four features mentioned in your text. Name two of those features:
a. _____________________________________
b. _____________________________________
Repeating words without necessarily understanding the meaning is called:
a. echolalia
b. stereotypic behavior
c. chromosomal disorder
d. biased responding
Bethany is a student who has difficulty staying in her seat. She cannot relax during the
school day. Other students complain when they have to work with Bethany because she
talks so much. Bethany may possibly be exhibiting behaviors typical of:
a. conduct disorder
b. hyperactivity
c. pervasive developmental disorder
d. socialized-aggression
Following is a brief interaction by Ray and his teacher. Which strategy is Ray’s teacher
using?
T: Read the first sentence.
R: The boy cut off the branches from a beautiful oak tree.
T: Which word in the sentence is the verb?
R: cut
T: What question did you ask yourself to figure out which word was the verb?
R: What did the boy do?
a. modeling
b. drill and practice
c. instructional conversation
d. advanced organizer
There have been a variety of definitions for intellectual disabilities. The IDEIA
2004 definition identifies three criteria to aid in identification of students with
intellectual disabilities. Which of the following is NOT one of those criteria?
a. significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning
b. exist concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior manifested during the
developmental period
c. adversely affects a child’s educational performance
d. occurs during the prenatal period
Which of the following is true about student/teacher writing conferences?
a. Conferencing only occurs during the editing phase.
b. Writing conferences should be teacher-led.
c. During writing conferences, teachers should try to focus on only one or two specific
areas.
d. Constructive writing conferences usually last a minimum of 20 minutes.
Jerry Wood, Sylvia Arango, and Lou Brown are middle school teachers who
share several students with learning disabilities. As a team, they are taking time to
establish patterns of behavior, acknowledging their own feelings about problems, and
identifying aspects of classroom and school environments that they can modify. Which
step of peer collaboration are Jerry, Sylvia, and Lou working on?
a. Summarization
b. Clarifying the questions
c. Evaluation
d. Intervention and predictions
Those responses, which within a given situation, prove effective and maximize the
probability of producing or enhancing positive effects for the interactor are referred to
as
a. Interpersonal problem solving skills
b. Social competence
c. Self-concept skills
d. Social perception
Explain the terms dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia. Give an example of the
classroom implications resulting from these disabilities and two classroom
modifications you might use for each type of learning disability.
This term is used by the American Psychiatric Association to describe the terms autism,
Rett Syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, Aspergers Syndrome, and pervasive
developmental disorder”not otherwise specified.
a. Autism Spectrum Disorder
b. Perseverative Disorder
c. Autism
d. Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Managing the classroom effectively is something all teachers are continually working to
improve. In the culturally diverse classroom, which of the following is a caution you
should consider when managing a diverse classroom environment?
a. Behaviors allowed in the home are also acceptable at school.
b. If one student is demonstrating the behavior so are the other members of the class.
c. The inappropriate behavior demonstrated is never related to the student’s culture.
d. Behaviors that are indicative of problems in one group of students might not be so in
another.
That no child with disabilities can be excluded from receiving a free appropriate public
education, is one of IDEIA’s primary characteristics, and is referred to as
a. Least restrictive environment
b. Child find
c. Nondiscriminatory inclusion
d. Zero reject/free appropriate education
Approximately how many students who are deaf or hard of hearing are there in
the United States?
a. 250,000
b. 55,000
c. 2,000,000
d. 48,000
Autumn becomes very agitated and stops working whenever her teacher, classmates, or
parents give her negative feedback. Which strategy may help Autumn learn to respond
appropriately to negative feedback?
a. SLAM
b. Social Competence Skills
c. Negative reinforcement
d. THINK
Phonemic pairs is a strategy that helps students learn how to read and spell words. It
involves:
a. pairs of students analyzing words for alliteration, rhyme, segmentation, and blending
b. repeated readings to develop fluency
c. the structural analysis of root words, prefixes, and suffixes
d. developing reading fluency
A student in your kindergarten classroom is having difficulty with pronouncing certain
words with the “t” sound. You feel he needs evaluated. Which is the best choice of
professional for your student?
a. Pediatrician
b. Audiologist
c. Speech-Language Pathologist
d. Otolaryngologist
More males are identified as having emotional and behavioral disorders than females.
In specialized programs for students with emotional and behavioral disorders, males
outnumber females:
a. 1,5 to 1
b. 2 to 1
c. 8 to 1
d. 20 to 1
Which are the four common problem-solving steps Mainstream Assistance Teams
follow?
a. Goal identification, intervention, recommendations, and implementation
b. Problem identification, intervention, implementation, and recommendations
c. Goal identification, implementation, evaluation, and redesigning
d. Problem identification, analysis, implementation, and evaluation
For children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury (TBI), over 50 percent
are caused by:
a. motor vehicle accidents
b. falls
c. child abuse
d. substance abuse by the mother during pregnancy
Which key feature of IDEA that were developed to shape how the provisions and
guidelines are implemented “allows schools to remove students with disabilities for
serious bodily injury and adds new authority on a case by case basis?”
a. Evidence based practice
b. Response to intervention
c. Discipline
d. Early intervention services
Which of the following did Salend and Dubansky (2002) find to be true
regarding cooperative teaching?
a. Generally, teachers working in co-teaching situations earn higher wages than their
counterparts.
b. Teachers expressed concerns about the effectiveness of their teaching.
c. Cooperative teaching works best in the elementary grades.
d. Cooperative teaching works best when at least 25% of the class is composed of
students with disabilities.
The most frequent characteristic of students with learning disabilities is
a. spelling difficulties
b. math difficulties
c. reading difficulties
d. hyperactivity
The purpose of homework assignments is to
a. cover material teachers didn’t get to in class
b. teach students responsibility
c. increase self-determination
d. provide opportunities to reinforce learning
Children’s speech should be at least 90 percent intelligible by
a. the age of three
b. the time they finish first grade
c. the age of eight
d. the time they enter kindergarten
A transition plan does NOT include:
a. A statement of interagency responsibilities and linkages
b. Students’ needs, preferences and input
c. Possible supported employment during high school
d. Manifestation determination
The three initiatives that set the stage for changes in how we think about students with
disabilities and setting the stage for RTI are:
a. ______________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________
James Walker, a third-grade teacher, visits students’ homes and talks with parents to
learn more about his students and their culture. James is learning about his students’
a. Funds of knowledge
b. Source of pride
c. Funds of communities
d. Inner sources
Which strategy can you use to teach students to identify goals and implement
alternative solutions?
a. Mutual Interest Discovery
b. Interpersonal problem solving
c. Scaffolding
d. Social competence
What role does the general education teacher play in modifying instruction for students
with autism spectrum disorders or pervasive developmental disorders? Provide
examples of strategies general education teachers can implement on a daily basis.
It is a few months into the school year and Emily will be entering your general
education classroom at the beginning of next week. She is student with a developmental
disability. The other students in your class have now had a few months to get to know
each other and develop friendships. Describe the steps you would take to promote an
environment in which Emily can be accepted and liked.
What can general education teachers do to facilitate speech development in the
classroom?
As a teacher of students with emotional and behavioral disorders you spend a
great deal of time addressing inappropriate and undesirable behaviors. One of your
goals is to teach behaviors that will enhance instruction as well improve relationships
and provide students with success. These types of behavior are called
___________________.
There are two main areas where speech-language pathologists can help children with
language problems in the school. One is through ______________________ and the
second is through_________________________.
This year Ana, a student with neuromuscular disease, has joined your class. Explain
why it is particularly important for you to facilitate literacy development for Ana and
other students with physical disabilities. List and describe three adaptations you would
use to facilitate Ana’s literacy development.
As a teacher of reading or any teacher where reading is needed for students to be
successful there are several concepts teachers can use to support students reading. List
and describe the concepts a teacher should use to support reading in his or her
classroom.
As a teacher you will need to be a good communicator with not only your students but
also parents, other teachers, and the administration. In order to communicate well with
these individuals there are four critical communication skills you must master. These
skills are:
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
Basic prenumbering skills are necessary for initial success in mathematics. Define
one-to-one correspondence, classification, and seriation. Give examples of the
difficulties students with learning problems have with these concepts and describe the
strategies teachers can use to assist students to master them.
You have a student in your classroom that has been referred to the intervention
assistance team in your school to look at what possible interventions are available to
him. The parents of this child are new to this process and need some information
explained to them. The parents have asked you, as his teacher, to describe the
differences and similarities between the multidisciplinary team, the prereferral
assistance team, and the teacher assistance team. How would you explain each of these
to your student’s parents?
You are the teacher of a class of third graders and have decided to create a classroom
newsletter. All students will have an opportunity to serve as writers, editors, and
publishers. In order to do this the students need to understand the writing process which
includes: ____________________, ____________________, and
____________________
A student in your classroom seems to daydream often and usually forgets his homework
and is easily distracted by almost anything. This student may have ADHD
____________________ type.
Define multicultural education and describe its different dimensions. Provide an
example of how you would build each dimension into the curriculum and school
culture.
As a teacher of students with disabilities you will often have to help students become
_______________ so they can negotiate their interests, desires, needs, and rights.
Discuss the steps that parents follow when they suspect their child may have ADHD.
Who is responsible for making the diagnosis? What factors must be considered before a
diagnosis is given?
What are the five “Stages of Strategy Learning”? List all of the five components of this
study strategy and a brief description of each in your own words.
________________________ is provided for those students who are not making
adequate progress in Tier 1.
____________________ is identified as one of the three top known causes of birth
defects. This preventable form of mental retardation occurs in approximately 1 in 100
live births.