Two groups that have limited access to technology are:
A. Children who live in rural areas and children who live in poverty
B. Children who live in poverty and urban areas
C. Children who are from minority populations and urban areas
D. Children who are from minority populations and rural areas
The recommended caseload for teachers providing services to students with visual
impairments is an 8:1 student-teacher ratio; however, the average caseload is actually:
A. 22
B. 12
C. 32
D. 42
For academic work, what can make the amount of practice available almost limitless?
A. A computer with drill-and-practice software
B. A personal paraprofessional assistant
C. Task analysis for each concept introduced
D. Carefully structured homework
What percent of students who are deaf or hard of hearing have hearing parents?
A. 95
B. 75
C. 50
D. 20
Which approach to providing speech-language services has the benefit of eliminating
distractions for the young children?
A. In class
B. In home
C. Pullout
D. Indirect services
Which of the following are NOT categorized as related service professionals?
A. Adapted physical educator
B. Rehabilitation counselor
C. Art therapist
D. Audiologist
Compared to parents of children with more apparent disabilities, parents of children
with learning disabilities:
A. Have an increased understanding of the curriculum
B. Have better communication with teachers
C. Are more willing to work with their children
D. Are less satisfied with services their children receive
The identification of intellectual disability is made only if the condition is present by
the time the student is:
A. 3 years old
B. 8 years old
C. 18 years old
D. 6 years old
Who argued that intelligence cannot be reduced to a single dimension reported by a test
score?
A. Javits
B. Marland
C. Tomlinson
D. Gardner
How you interact with others, not what you do, refers to
A. Consultation.
B. Collaboration.
C. Communication.
D. Co-teaching.
Compulsive eating is a characteristic associated with:
A. Prader-Willi Syndrome
B. Fragile-X
C. Fetal alcohol syndrome
D. Brain injury
Students with intellectual disabilities have immature behaviors and often misinterpret
others’ actions, resulting in rejection by their peers. These characteristics fall under
which category?
A. Social
B. Adaptive
C. Academic
D. Cognitive
Code switching occurs when:
A. Bilingual students switch back and forth from English to their native language when
talking to parents
B. The student is taught that Standard English is the only acceptable way to
communicate
C. Students use Standard English when it’s appropriate and dialect with family and
community
D. Students use Standard English with their peers, even in the community
The first step in the process for identifying a student with ADHD is:
A. Initial referral
B. Assessment
C. Eligibility
D. RTI
The National Society for Crippled Children (now Easter Seals) was established by:
A. 1971
B. 1921
C. 1891
D. 1951
Students who are using real money to practice making change are demonstrating:
A. Community-based instruction
B. Math skills
C. Applied academic skills
D. Task analysis
Standardized assessments are problematic for students with severe and multiple
disabilities for each of the following reasons EXCEPT:
A. They can lead to instruction in age-inappropriate and nonfunctional skills
B. The results fail to help teachers decide what to teach
C. Students with significant disabilities are not capable of learning higher-order skills
D. The results fail to help teachers decide how to teach
Important equity issues for urban education include qualifications of school personnel,
the physical condition of the school, and
A. Overcrowding
B. Transportation
C. Extracurricular activities
D. Number of teaching assistants
Which of the following is specialized intervention that students with speech and
language disorders may need?
A. Articulation therapy
B. Study buddy
C. Fewer math problems
D. A scribe
In the case of culturally diverse learners, a number of authors have suggested that
during the traditional prereferral process or response to intervention (RTI) procedures,
the team should carefully examine factors in the student’s environment that:
A. Contribute to dilenquency
B. May influence learning
C. Are different from the dominant culture
D. Suggest poverty
The purpose of assessing students with severe and multiple disabilities is to:
A. Identify the type and severity of their disabilities
B. Develop a quality educational program.
C. To inform parents of their child’s strengths and weaknesses
D. Determine eligibility for services
Dominique is a second grader who has Down syndrome. His parents insist that the least
restrictive environment for him is the general education classroom. However, because
he has frequent violent outbursts due to frustration, the professionals involved feel that
a resource setting would be more appropriate until his outbursts are under control. Since
an agreement cannot be reached, all parties involved have agreed that an impartial
professional must be brought in to resolve this dispute. This is referred to as:
A. Administrative intervention
B. Mediation process
C. Due process
D. Dispute settlement process
Raymond diligently works on learning how to successfully complete an application in
Mrs. Martin’s fifth period class. This type of task is an example of:
A. Community-based instruction
B. Life skills curriculum
C. A modified general curriculum
D. Adaptive behavior task
When students have language disorders that cannot be explained by physical
disabilities, intellectual disabilities, hearing loss, or other disabilities, they are referred
to as having:
A. CAPD
B. Learning disabilities
C. Specific language impairments (SLIs)
D. Language disabilities
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision resulted in which of
the following:
A. Separate can be equal.
B. Separate cannot be equal.
C. Separate classes are needed in extreme situations.
D. None of the above
Whatoccurs when a parent, paraprofessional, teacher, or trusted peer previews with a
student the actual materials that will be used in a lesson or activity the day, the evening,
or the morning before that lesson or activity occurs?
A. Priming
B. Video-based intervention
C. Discrete trials
D. Prompting
How a student’s progress in meeting goals and objectives will be measured:
A. Must be determined by the family
B. Must be provided at the family’s request
C. Must be included on the student’s IEP
D. Must be included on each report card
Less than .5 percent of students with disabilities receive services in which setting?
A. Home or hospital
B. Residential
C. Separate school
D. Separate classroom
The category of other health impairments includes each of the following EXCEPT:
A. Leukemia
B. Attention deficit disorder
C. Diplegia
D. Asthma
Each of the following is a new option that specialized schools are offering for students
with visual impairments in order to best meet those students’ needs EXCEPT:
A. Short-term placements
B. Summer programs
C. Technology skills programs
D. Residual sight training
_________________________________ is a place students can go when they are
beginning to feel anxious or upset and need to calm themselves.
Approximately ________ percent of students with this disability are educated in general
education classrooms more than 80 percent of the school day
An ____________________________________ is a set of steps that are followed
using effective communication in order to accomplish the mutual goal of collaboration.
What is a two-stage assessment process?
What are self-stimulatory behaviors?
A _________________ _____________________ __________________ involves
deciding whether the student could benefit from optical devices,nonoptical devices, or
other adaptations.
What are three roles of special educators?
What are some of the limitations of labeling students?
What are five barriers to family and professional collaboration? How can professionals
overcome these barriers and increase parental participation?
What were three factors that made it challenging to study children with emotional and
behavior disorders in the nineteenth century?
In the past decade, a variety of residential schools and charter schools have adopted a
_________________________________ _____________________ approach to
educating students who are deaf or hard of hearing; meaning that ASL is the primary
language of instruction and that English is taught as a second language through reading
and writing print.
What are three types of articulation disorders (give an example of each)?
________________________ is a computer-aided, speech-to-print transcription system
developed as a classroom support service for students who are deaf or hard of hearing
in general education classrooms.
About ____________ the students with visual impairments who do not have additional
disabilities develop reading and other academic skills commensurate with their peers
with typical vision.
What is central auditory processing and what makes it a rather controversial topic
among professionals?
ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed childhood
____________________________.
No generalizations can be made concerning the _________________________
characteristics of students with speech and language disorders.
What is a common misconception about differentiated instruction for gifted students?
In general, what is the relationship between a student with ASD and their siblings?
The most common form of inherited intellectual disability is
__________________________.