Collaboration in Special Education Practice Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the essential principles and practices of collaboration among educators, families, and related service professionals in the field of special education. Emphasizing teamwork, effective communication, and problem-solving skills, students will learn strategies to support inclusive educational environments and to develop individualized education programs (IEPs). The course covers models of co-teaching, conflict resolution, and culturally responsive collaboration, ensuring participants can effectively advocate for and support students with diverse abilities and needs.
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Exceptional Learners An Introduction to Special Education 12th Edition by Daniel P. Hallahan
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Chapter 1: Exceptionality and Special Education
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Q1) Describe two reasons for why it is so difficult to determine an exact figure for the prevalence of exceptional children.
Answer: The definitions that are used to classify exceptionalities are rather vague and there have been frequent changes in those definitions over time. The skills and knowledge of teachers and others involved in determining exceptionalities vary. The attitudes and beliefs of schools and society change over time, affecting prevalence figures for a number of exceptionalities (e.g., it may be more socially acceptable to have a "learning disability" than "mental retardation").
Q2) The majority of students who receive special education services fall within which age range?
A)3-12
B)6-17
C)9-18
D)12-21
Answer: B
Q3) A disability is always a handicap.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Current Practices for Meeting the Needs of
Exceptional Learners
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Q1) Schools must provide an individualized program for each student who requires special education services. This means that
A)each student must receive instruction on a one-to-one basis.
B)an educational plan must be written for each student.
C)one individual must be responsible for each student's education.
D)the portion of the program that is individualized must be delivered by a teacher who is certified in special education.
Answer: B
Q2) Each of the following components must be included on an individualized education program (IEP)EXCEPT
A)annual goals.
B)related services to be provided.
C)student's IQ score.
D)instructional objectives.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Multicultural and Bilingual Aspects of Special Education
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Q1) Cultural diversity presents challenges for special educators in which three areas?
A)instruction, assessment, and law
B)law, socialization, and curriculum
C)assessment, instruction, and socialization
D)curriculum, instruction, and socialization
Answer: C
Q2) In the personal perspective "Desegregation and Degeneration," the author states the new euphemism for "white flight" is
A)vouchers.
B)No Child Left Behind.
C)choice.
D)charters.
Answer: C
Q3) Of all the academic skills, which is described as "critically" important?
A)math
B)listening
C)writing
D)reading
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Parent and Families
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Q1) Positive behavior and intervention supports should be applied during routines that families normally engage in. These routines are
A)family activity settings.
B)family intervention opportunities.
C)family routine supports.
D)family intervention settings.
Q2) According to Gerlach, it makes sense for her clothes dryer to have a "normal" setting. However, when it comes to describing people, she suggests that a more appropriate word than "normal" might be
A)standard.
B)balanced.
C)average.
D)typical.
Q3) Family stress is typically most influenced by the severity of the child's disability.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe three strategies that teachers can use to make homework assignments more effective.
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Chapter 5: Learners With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Q1) In supported competitive employment, a worker with intellectual disabilities has a competitive employment position and receives
A)incentive money.
B)ongoing assistance from a job coach.
C)sub-minimum wage.
D)pay from a social agency rather than from the employer.
Q2) In recent years, the percentage of cases in which the cause of intellectual disabilities is known has dramatically increased due to
A)better assessment practices by teachers.
B)the mapping of the human genetic code.
C)better assessment practices by medical doctors.
D)advances in microscopic technology.
Q3) A common way to categorize causes of intellectual disabilities is to consider the A)part of the brain affected.
B)location at which the cause occurs.
C)severity of the condition.
D)time at which the cause occurs.
Q4) Identify and describe three environmental causes of intellectual disabilities.
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Chapter 6: Learners With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) The ability to understand the rules of how sounds combine to make up words is A)phonological awareness.
B)phonemic awareness.
C)decoding.
D)reading fluency.
Q2) As many as 25% of students with learning disabilities also have problems with attention.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Repeated readings is a technique specifically used to improve A)phonemic awareness.
B)reading fluency.
C)phonics.
D)reading comprehension.
Q4) Describe four psychological or behavioral characteristics of students with learning disabilities.
Q5) Identify the main features of cognitive training and describe two techniques that fall under this heading.
Q6) Describe two reasons why defining learning disabilities has been so problematic.
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Chapter 7: Learners With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder
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Q1) Explain why ADHD is not included as a separate category of special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)and why many professionals are disappointed with this situation.
Q2) What is meant by the statement: "It may not be that they do not know how to behave appropriately so much as that they are unable to do so"?
Q3) Recent research shows that there is evidence of a neurological basis for ADHD.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe four ways that special and general education teachers can collaborate to serve students with ADHD.
Q5) Determining the antecedents, consequences, and setting events that maintain inappropriate behaviors is called
A)functional assessment.
B)functional analysis.
C)behavior management.
D)behavioral contracting.
Q6) Explain the difficulty students with ADHD have managing task switches and suggest three cognitive supports for transitioning from one activity to another.
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Chapter 8: Learners With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
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Q1) Each of the following is true regarding school practices and development of E/BD EXCEPT
A)Children may become better or worse, depending on how they are managed in the classroom.
B)A child's temperament and social competence interact with behaviors of peers and teachers.
C)We know which specific school experiences contribute to E/BD.
D)Teachers need to be aware of how their academic instruction and behavior management approaches may contribute to student's misconduct.
Q2) Many social learning theorists and behavioral psychologists believe that aggression is
A)caused by an overwhelming sense of frustration.
B)a result of subconscious motives.
C)a defense mechanism used in distressing situations.
D)a learned behavior.
Q3) Write a brief case description of a student with E/BD and explain why this student's problems need to be addressed with a balance of behavioral control strategies and academic and social learning techniques.
Q4) What procedures are used to identify students with E/BD?
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Chapter 9: Learners With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) Asperger identified children who had
A)average intelligence but channeled their intellectual pursuits into obsessive preoccupation in narrow areas.
B)above average intelligence but channeled their intellectual pursuits into obsessive preoccupation in narrow areas.
C)below average intelligence but remarkable ability in a particular area.
D)below average intelligence and a tendency toward violent, psychotic behavior.
Q2) Describe three strategies to help a student with autism be more included in a general education classroom.
Q3) Neurological research that involves the brain and head size of people with autism strongly suggests that for many
A)their brains are larger than average at birth.
B)their brains increase in size after about age five years.
C)their brains grow suddenly and excessively in the first two years of life.
D)their brains reach maximum size around age two or three years.
Q4) Why has autism been "fertile ground for faddish and unproven treatment methods?"
Q5) What is the early intensive behavioral interventions (EIBI)program, and why are professionals cautious about recommending it?
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Chapter 10: Learners With Communication Disorders
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Q1) List at least three of the six theories of language development that have dominated the study of human communication at various times. Which theory is widely viewed as having the most direct implications for speech-language pathologists and teachers? Why?
Q2) Requesting objects, rejecting interactions, sharing ideas, and seeking social interaction are examples of A)communicative function.
B)communication.
C)language.
D)expressive language.
Q3) Loss of voice is apraxia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Janice has a speech disorder which causes her to speak extremely slowly. This is a disorder of A)articulation.
B)language.
C)voice.
D)fluency.
Q5) Explain why communication does not require speech.
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Chapter 11: Learners Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
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Q1) In recent years, many parents and professionals have questioned the trend toward inclusion of children with hearing impairment because
A)it creates too much work for the regular teacher.
B)they do not get along with the other students.
C)it reduces their opportunity to participate in the signing community.
D)they do not have the cognitive or academic skills to succeed in the mainstream.
Q2) From the physiological perspective, the distinction between "deaf" and "hard of hearing" is based on
A)decibels levels detected.
B)frequency of sounds detected.
C)location of hearing loss.
D)language ability.
Q3) Why are pure-tone audiometry and speech audiometry typically not used with very young children or children with some disabilities?
Q4) Describe the process of hearing within the context of the anatomy and physiology of the ear.
Q5) Describe four factors that demarcate the Deaf community as a true culture.
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Chapter 12: Learners With Blindness or Low Vision
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Q1) Explain why there is a common misconception that people who are blind develop an "extra sense."
Q2) Children spontaneously compensate for poor vision by developing superior listening skills.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Use of compressed speech enables students with blindness to
A)listen to recorded texts at a faster rate.
B)tape record reports rather than type them.
C)develop better listening skills.
D)participate more fully in class discussions.
Q4) Historically, residential institutions were the preferred means of service delivery because they
A)offered a number of specialized services in one place.
B)provided more opportunities for social development.
C)maximized the academic achievement of students with visual impairment.
D)reduced the burden on families of caring for a child with blindness.
Q5) Which skills should be the focus of assessment for students with visual impairments, and how should those skills be assessed?
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Chapter 13: Learners With Low-Incidence, Multiple, and
Severe Disabilities
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Q1) After age 5, and increasingly through adolescence, the primary cause of TBI is A)assaults.
B)accidental falls.
C)vehicular accidents.
D)gunshot wounds.
Q2) Each of the following statements about self-stimulation is true EXCEPT
A)The type of self-stimulation among those with disabilities is what differentiates it from the norm.
B)It may take a wide variety of forms.
C)Nearly everyone engages in some form of self-stimulation.
D)Only the high rate, lack of subtlety, and social inappropriateness of disabling self-stimulation differentiates it from the norm.
Q3) Describe two major problems that students with TBI experience with reentry to school after their trauma.
Q4) People with a severe disability in any area often have more than one disability.
A)True B)False
Q5) Write a case description of an individual with traumatic brain injury (TBI)that illustrates (by example)four possible effects of TBI.
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Chapter 14: Learners With Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairments
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Q1) Gareth uses braces on his legs to help provide support when he walks. This is an example of a/an
A)prosthesis.
B)assistive device.
C)orthosis.
D)adaptive device.
Q2) Stiffness or tenseness of muscles and inaccurate voluntary movements is known as A)choreoathetosis.
B)atonicity.
C)spasticity.
D)reflexivity.
Q3) Discuss the relationship between medical advances and the prevalence of physical disabilities.
Q4) List and define the three categories of physical disabilities described in the chapter and provide one example of each. Define each condition.
Q5) In most students with orthopedic or musculoskeletal disorders, intelligence is unaffected.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 15: Learners With Special Gifts and Talents
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Q1) Early enrollment in college courses has worked particularly well for adolescents who are gifted in
A)writing.
B)the arts.
C)math.
D)science.
Q2) Preschool children with special gifts and talents need the freedom to
A)study with older children in specific areas.
B)develop social competence by remaining with age mates.
C)develop adaptive behavior.
D)develop pragmatic language skills.
Q3) Larry, a student who is gifted, skipped third grade. This is an example of which programming strategy?
A)acceleration
B)independent study
C)enrichment
D)special class
Q4) Precocity refers to remarkably early development.
A)True
B)False
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