Brianna’s general education teacher and the speech therapist at her school communicate
to make sure that her therapy sessions end before it is time for related arts classes. This
is an example of
A) consultation
B) teaming
C) reciprocity
D) coordination
Carlos is a student with an intellectual disability. Mrs. Busby, his teacher, just saw him
copying from Jasmine’s paper rather than attempt a writing assignment on his own.
How can she help Carlos be more independent?
A) She should punish Carlos for cheating.
B) She should give Carlos a lower grade for copying.
C) She should allow Carlos to choose a topic to write about.
D) She should assign each student a different topic so that copying would be useless.
All of the following are genetic disorders associated with ADHD except
A) fragile X syndrome
B) fetal alcohol syndrome
C) Turner syndrome
D) Williams syndrome
Which of the following statements about parental participation and shared decision
making is NOT true?
A) Input from the parent is required.
B) Input from the student is invited when appropriate.
C) Parents and students have input on services and placement decisions.
D) Parents and students prevail when there is a disagreement between the school and
the family.
An approach that helps people with disabilities live in the community as independently
as possible is known as
A) assisted living
B) embedded living
C) supported living
D) transitional living
Studies on educational placement and its effect on the self-concept of students with
learning disabilities concluded that
A) placement did not have a major influence on self-concept
B) placement in resource rooms generally enhanced self-concept.
C) placement in inclusive classrooms generally enhanced self-concept
D) placement in segregated classrooms had a negative effect on self-concept
Which of the following activities would be at the highest level of Bloom’s taxonomy?
A) designing a new chair for Baby Bear
B) acting out what happened when the bears found Goldilocks
C) discussing what happened to Goldilocks at the Bears’ house
D) evaluating Goldilocks’s decision to enter a house without permission
Which of the following is not a limitation associated with speechreading?
A) Many words look alike on the lips.
B) Many speakers use vision to decode speech
C) Many speakers are able to talk while barely moving their lips.
D) Many students experience fatigue after speech reading for a short time.
Which of the following statements regarding risk factors and emotional and behavior
problems is true?
A) Behavior problems can often be a link to a specific risk factor.
B) Societal risk factors are more likely to produce negative outcomes than family
factors.
C) Family risk factors are more likely to produce negative outcomes than school
factors.
D) Behavioral problems are generally the result of the accumulation of several risk
factors.
Mrs. Robinson is a speech-language pathologist. She asks one of her students to look
into a mirror and say the word “working.” This technique is helpful with
A) discrimination
B) fluency
C) phonology
D) production
IQ tests are useful for all of the following purposes except
A) predicting school achievement
B) measuring a hypothetical construct
C) determining objectives for an IEP
D) identifying overall deficits in cognitive functioning
All of the following are examples of related services except
A) therapeutic recreation services
B) transportation to scheduled doctor visits
C) speech and language services to prevent communicative problems
D) orientation and mobility services for students who are blind or partially sighted.
Which of the following is the least accurate translation of the Spanish word educado?
A) one who is well behaved
B) one who is respectful of adults
C) one skilled in human relations
D) one who has formal schooling
Which of the following groups are generally underrepresented in special education?
A) Asian Americans
B) European Americans
C) Hispanic Americans
D) Native Americans
Which of the following most accurately reflects beliefs about residential treatment
facilities for people with disabilities?
A) Residential treatment facilities for people with disabilities should be outlawed
B) Residential treatment facilities are the best service option for people with
disabilities.
C) Residential treatment facilities do not provide a normal lifestyle for people with
disabilities.
D) Residential treatment facilities do not provide the kind of 24-hour support needed by
people with disabilities.
Which best describes early federal attempts to define giftedness?
A) The focus was exclusively on academic aptitude.
B) Multiple forms of giftedness were included in the definition.
C) Multiple talents and creativity were included in the definition.
D) The focus was exclusively on students who scored in the top 2% on standardized
intelligence tests.
A closed needs assessment
A) consists of incomplete questions
B) asks parents to circle or check topics that are of interest
C) is time-consuming and difficult to administer and interpret
D) is extremely limited in assessing parent strengths and weaknesses
A term used to describe multiple disabilities, deaf-blindness and traumatic brain injury
is
A) autosomal disabilities
B) comorbid disabilities
C) high impact disabilities
D) low incidence disabilities
All of the following are criteria for a diagnosis of intellectual disability except
A) deficits in adaptive behavior
B) concurrent sensory disabilities
C) significantly subaverage intelligence
D) manifestation during the developmental period
What percentage of students with dual sensory impairments do not have other
disabilities?
A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 25%
D) 30%
Which of the following devices can read street signs and announce traffic signals for
people with visual impairments?
A) a Connecticut Cane
B) a Global Positioning System
C) the Mowat Sensor
D) the Sonic Guide
Mrs. Cooper prepares handouts for her students with learning disabilities to help them
understand her lecture. The handouts contain an outline of lecture content and include
spaces for writing key facts, concepts, or relationships. This is an example of
A) a graphic organizer
B) guided notes
C) prescribed notes
D) strategic note taking
Which of the following is a criterion-referenced test commonly used by special
educators?
A) Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills
B) Iowa Tests of Basic Skills
C) Peabody Individual Achievement Test
D) Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test
According to Halpern, what should the primary focus of transition services be?
A) graduation
B) adult employment
C) access to adult services
D) living successfully in the community
Which is the best example of enrichment?
A) Jewel is 14 years old, but is allowed to enroll in college courses.
B) With a teacher’s guidance, Dale researches, designs, and builds a robot.
C) Tosha is given extra reading and math problems because she always finishes early.
D) Since Lynn already knows the algebra content covered in the first 8 weeks in class,
she is allowed to begin with content usually introduced later.
Overselectivity is characterized as
A) resistance to changes in routine
B) obsessive attention to a specific object
C) focusing on a part rather than the whole
D) repeating behaviors over and over again
According to Coulter (1994), most cases of severe cognitive limitations are caused by
A) perinatal brain damage
B) postnatal brain dysgenesis
C) prenatal brain damage
D) prenatal brain dysgenesis
Which function of communication allows children to gain a sense of themselves and an
awareness of others?
A) expressing
B) informing
C) narrating
D) requesting
Which of the following statements about gender and special education is true?
A) Twice as many boys receive special education services.
B) Twice as many girls receive special education services.
C) Three times as many boys receive special education services.
D) An equal number of boys and girls receive special education services.
Which of the following is not a problem experienced by a person with a limited field of
vision?
A) Carl’s vision is restricted to an area of 20 degrees.
B) Gracie has 20/40 vision yet she is considered legally blind.
C) Kinsey can see things directly in front of her but lacks peripheral vision.
D) Marshall’s vision makes objects appear skewed and warped beyond recognition.
Mrs. Crosby has been asked to evaluate Hector for a possible communication disorder.
Hector’s family came from Miami but they speak very little English. Mrs. Crosby has
assessed Hector in both English and Spanish. What else can she do to be sure that she
has adequately measured his true communicative competence?
A) interview his parents
B) administer a second test in Spanish
C) listen when Hector is involved in authentic conversational behavior
D) interview his teachers