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______________ includes interventions designed for individual student behavior.
A) Primary prevention
B) Tertiary prevention
C) Secondary prevention
D) Student behavior prevention
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
Which of the following is not one of the common components of the definition of
learning disabilities.
A) Significant gap or discrepancy between a student's assumed potential and actual
achievement
B) Difficulty in learning in one or more academic areas
C) Below-average intellectual functioning
D) Lifelong condition
Articulation disorders include all of the following except
A) Substitutions
B) Repetitions
C) Omissions
D) Additions
Psychostimulants operate by increasing the production of what naturally occurring
hormone?
A) Norepinephrine
B) Pseudoephedrine
C) Dopamine
D) Estrogen
All of the following are characteristics of children who have receptive language
problems except problems
A) With vocabulary
B) Following directions
C) Understanding figurative language
D) Responding to questions appropriately
Who, as an early teacher of students with hearing impairments, advocated for the use of
residual hearing?
A) Alexander Graham Bell
B) Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
C) Francis Galton
D) Lewis Terman
The functional vision evaluation is a collaborative effort of the educational team for
purposes of program planning.
A) True
B) False
The stages of parental reaction to having a child with a disability should be viewed as
A) The same for all families
B) Fixed and linear
C) Fluid and variable
D) The same for both parents
What key feature is often overlooked when considering service delivery options?
A) Instructor personality
B) Temporary nature of placement
C) Financial cost of delivery options
D) Age of student
The belief that consequences and outcomes of behaviors are the result of circumstances
and events beyond personal control is an example of
A) External locus of control
B) Learned helplessness
C) Outer directedness
D) Acknowledging one's own limitations
In _______________________ a teacher and a special educator plan and deliver
instruction together to a heterogeneous group of students.
A) Cooperative teaching
B) Tandem teaching
C) Multidisciplinary teaching
D) Universal design instruction
The prevalence of hearing loss increases with age.
A) True
B) False
The HIV virus can be transmitted between persons through
A) The air
B) Saliva
C) Breast milk
D) None of the above
Which of the following competency areas, in which there is discrepancy in
achievement, could possibly indicate a learning disability?
A) Musical comprehension
B) Athletic intelligence
C) Geographical deficiencies
D) Written expression
Research has identified a cure for autism.
A) True
B) False
A student's field loss is related to the
A) Ability to perceive details
B) Ability to see materials presented closely
C) Amount of vision in quadrant regions
D) Ability to discriminate color
All of the following disorders except _____ can be associated with hearing loss in
children.
A) Usher syndrome
B) Waardenburg syndrome
C) Ototoxicity
D) Autism
In which year was the first residential school for the blind opened in the United States?
A) 1784
B) 1831
C) 1829
D) 1832
When working with families who have a child with a disability, it is important to
recognize that
A) These are actually dysfunctional families and should be treated as such
B) No family will ever run smoothly if they are dealing with an exceptional child
C) These families will have strengths and weaknesses but can learn to run smoothly
D) The emotional and financial burden will likely be so great that the parents will not
likely be able to care for the child
What percentage of individuals with autism spectrum disorders is considered to be
"autistic savants"?
A) 1%
B) 5%
C) 10%
D) 25%
Curriculum compacting is a differentiation strategy that is often used in the general
education classroom.
A) True
B) False
Pupils with deaf-blindness were reported as making up only .02% of all individuals
receiving special education.
A) True
B) False
Academic competitions provide ___________________ for gifted students.
A) Mentoring and teamwork
B) Independence and autonomy
C) Motivation and challenge
D) Advanced placement and honors credit
Many individuals with spina bifida and hydrocephalus are at risk for deficits in
executive function, which affects their learning.
A) True
B) False
The majority of students identified with deaf-blindness are completely unable to see
and hear.
A) True
B) False
A secondary school with a particular focus such as science, math, or performing arts
can be identified as which of the following?
A) Magnet high school
B) Charter high school
C) Preparatory high school
D) Advanced placement high school
The most recent strategy used for classifying individuals with intellectual disabilities by
the AAIDD was to classify on the basis of
A) Intellectual functioning
B) Severity of intellectual disabilities
C) Cause of the disability
D) Levels of support
Exceptionality is a(n) __________________ term generally referring to individuals
who differ from societal or community standards of normalcy.
A) Inclusive
B) Exclusive
C) Proprietary
D) Rude
All of the following are common components of the definition of learning disabilities
except
A) Presence of intellectual disabilities
B) Discrepancy between assumed ability and actual achievement
C) Difficulty in learning in one or more subject areas
D) Presumption of central nervous system dysfunction
