Education of Exceptional Learners
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Course Introduction
This course explores the educational needs, characteristics, and potential of exceptional learners, including individuals with disabilities and those who are gifted and talented. Students will examine the legal foundations, identification procedures, instructional strategies, and support services essential for fostering an inclusive learning environment. Emphasis is placed on understanding diversity, developing individualized education plans (IEPs), collaborating with families and professionals, and promoting positive educational outcomes for all learners. The course prepares future educators to effectively address and advocate for the unique learning challenges and strengths of exceptional students in various educational settings.
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Special Education in Contemporary Society 5th edition
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Chapter 1: Special Education in Context People Concepts and Perspectives
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Q1) You are asked to write an article about a young special Olympian for a local newspaper.Describe how you will ensure that the article will reflect the most appropriate view of persons with disabilities.Include at least five considerations.
Answer: Do not focus on a disability
Do not portray successful people with disabilities as superhuman
Do not sensationalize a disability
Put people first
Emphasize abilities
Avoid euphemisms
Do not equate disability with illness
Show people with disabilities as active participants
Q2) The term exceptional children is defined as individuals who deviate from the norm to such an extent that special education services are required.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Where has research demonstrated that it is beneficial to teach functional skills?
Answer: Natural environments/community-based settings
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Chapter 2: Policies Practices and Programs
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Q1) Differences between pupils are an example of
A) Intraindividual differences
B) Intermediate differences
C) Exceptional differences
D) Interindividual differences
Answer: D
Q2) What are the five components that measurable annual goals should include?
Answer: The student (the who) Will do what (the behavior)
To what level or degree (the criterion) Under what conditions (the conditions) In what length of time (the timeframe)
Q3) What is the belief that all students should be taught exclusively in general education classrooms at neighborhood schools?
A) Least restrictive environment
B) Regular education initiative
C) Full inclusion
D) Equal access for all students
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Exceptionality
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Q1) Students who have disabilities and are culturally and linguistically diverse do not present significant challenges for their teachers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Many standardized tests have been revised for the purpose of reducing bias.Which is not an example of a way in which bias has been reduced in tests?
A) Eliminated all references to animals in test items
B) Reduced the number of culturally specific test items
C) Renormed, or restandardized, the tests across more diverse students
D) Reduced culturally specific language
Answer: A
Q3) According to the U.S.Census Bureau in 2011, what percentage of Americans are native?
A) 1%
B) 5%
C) 10%
D) 18%
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Parents Families and Exceptionality
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Q1) One of the most common and difficult feelings parents may experience when their child is diagnosed with a disability is
A) Guilt
B) Joy
C) Ambivalence
D) Hatred
Q2) What was the term, coined by Bettelheim, to describe the thought that cold, rigid mothers were the cause of a child's autism?
A) Frozen mothers
B) Cold families
C) Chilly household
D) Refrigerator mom
Q3) In creating a successful partnership with families who have a disabled child, caregivers should do all of the following except
A) Concentrate on the challenges the family will face
B) Show empathy and support
C) Engage in active listening strategies
D) Acknowledge one's own limitations
Q4) How does a child with an exceptionality affect his or her family?
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Chapter 5: Assistive Technology
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Q1) A word prediction program would be considered
A) No tech
B) Low tech
C) Mid tech
D) High tech
Q2) Stigmatization can lead to assistive technology abandonment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ are typically found in elementary and secondary classrooms and are considered an evidence-based practice for educating students with disabilities.
A) Calculators
B) Number lines
C) Multiplication charts
D) Concrete manipulatives
Q4) Explain how IEP teams might consider and select assistive technology for individual students.
Q5) Compare and contrast assistive technology and educational technology.
Q6) Discuss how assistive technology can be included in a student's IEP.
Q7) When defining assistive technology, what is meant by "devices and services"?
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Chapter 6: Individuals With Intellectual Disability
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Q1) Which of the following is not a recommended teaching and learning adaptation designed to improve learning outcomes for students with intellectual disability?
A) Ensure attention to relevant task demands
B) Teach ways to learn content while teaching content itself
C) Provide training that crosses multiple learning and environmental contexts
D) Provide multiple drills in skill development
Q2) Parents who have children with the metabolic disorder of _________ can greatly reduce developmental delays if they discover the condition early and place their children on a milk-free diet.
A) PKU
B) Galactosemia
C) Cytomegalovirus
D) Toxoplasmosis
Q3) A student of yours is included in a general education classroom.Name and describe three strategies that you could use to increase the student's access to the general education curriculum and ensure that the student progresses adequately.
Q4) Transition services for students should begin no later than what age?
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Chapter 7: Individuals With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) A form of alternative assessment thought to provide a more accurate representation of what a student can accomplish is
A) Authentic
B) Curriculum based
C) Criterion referenced
D) Norm referenced
Q2) A learning disability typically interferes with living independently, obtaining and maintaining employment, maintaining social relationships, and experiencing satisfaction with life in general.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The response to intervention (RTI)model shifts from what concept that is attributed to the discrepancy model?
A) Wait to fail
B) Believe and achieve
C) Efficient identification
D) Under-identification
Q4) Provide five principles for effective cognitive education programming.
Q5) List four skills that affect an individual's reading comprehension.
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Chapter 8: Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
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Q1) In regards to individuals with ADHD, postsecondary institutions
A) Are not required to make accommodations for students because they do not fall under IDEA
B) Are required to offer services if made aware that a student has been identified with the disorder
C) Are required to seek out students who may be affected by the disorder and offer them services
D) Can refuse services to a previously identified student if the institution's evaluation team does not agree with the identification
Q2) A highly recommended strategy for students with ADHD that requires students to stop and compare their behavior to preset criteria is known as
A) Self-control
B) Self-regulation
C) Impulse control
D) Self-discipline
Q3) Discuss two classroom-wide interventions (one academic, one behavioral)that you, as a teacher, may employ to serve students with ADHD within your classroom.What would be the benefits of using those interventions? What would be the cons?
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Chapter 9: Individuals With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
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Q1) Select the potential reason for variability across states on identification of students with emotional and behavioral disorders.
A) Variability in state academic achievement scores
B) Variability across states in identification procedures for emotional or behavior disorders
C) Variability in the budgeted resources
D) Not all states recognize this disability category
Q2) _________________ of students with emotional and behavioral disorders has been attributed to the marked variability across states in identifying pupils.
A) Overidentification
B) Underidentification
C) Treatment
D) Hospitalizations
Q3) List three management interventions for supporting students with emotional or behavioral disorders in the classroom.
Q4) Positive behavior support tends to respond reactively to problem behaviors.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is not an example of how to teach high-functioning individuals with ASD?
A) Break down tasks
B) Prepare students for change
C) Avoid abstract ideas whenever possible
D) Use sarcasm
Q2) Uneven skill development may be the cause for a common myth that, inside each autistic child, there is a(n)
A) Genius
B) Self-injurious tendency
C) Aggressive attitude
D) None of the above
Q3) The part of the brain responsible for emotional responses is
A) Cerebral cortex
B) Brainstem
C) Basal ganglia
D) Amygdala
Q4) Asperger syndrome is foremost a social disorder.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Individuals With Speech and Language Impairments
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Q1) For a young preschool child with speech and language impairment, what would you recommend in terms of where the child should be placed? In addition, provide a rationale for why you made this recommendation.
Q2) What is communication?
Q3) Language form comprises all of the following elements except
A) Syntax
B) Phonology
C) Semantics
D) Morphology
Q4) Most young children who do not speak fluently will develop stuttering as they mature.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Speech and language impairments represent a high-incidence disability.According to the text, this means that most children receiving a special education have a speech or language impairment.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Differentiate between receptive and expressive language.
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Chapter 12: Individuals With Hearing Impairments
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Q1) What type of graph is used to measure hearing?
A) Cardiogram
B) Audiogram
C) Hearing chart
D) Cochleogram
Q2) In 1817, the first school in the United States for students with a significant hearing loss was called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb Persons.Today we know the school as
A) Thomas H. Gallaudet College
B) University for the Deaf
C) American School for the Deaf
D) George Mason University
Q3) Mathematics is the academic area most negatively affected for students with a hearing impairment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Two pieces of equipment should be kept in the classroom to check the student's hearing aids.What are these?
Q5) Name the three connected sections of the ear.
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Chapter 13: Individuals With Visual Impairments
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Q1) Approximately 5,000 new teachers of the visually impaired graduate each year.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What percentage of students with disabilities do students with visual impairments account for?
A) 10%
B) 5%
C) 2%
D) 0.4%
Q3) JAWS software produces synthetic speech.
A)True
B)False
Q4) At what age should a child be enrolled in classes for children with visual impairments?
A) 2 years
B) 3 years
C) 5 years
D) 6 years
Q5) What is the name of the material resource center for individuals with visual impairments located in Kentucky?
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Chapter 14: Individuals With Physical Disabilities Health
Disabilities and Related Lowincidence Disabilities
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Q1) The goal of augmentative and alternative communication is to
A) Find a technological solution
B) To enable individuals to effectively communicate and engage in a variety of interactions
C) To optimize the student's instructional plan
D) None of the above
Q2) Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is categorized as a(n)
A) Infectious disease
B) Neuromotor impairment
C) Degenerative disease
D) Musculoskeletal disorder
Q3) What is self-advocacy? Why is it important for students to develop this skill? How can teachers help students develop this skill?
Q4) Name five principal communication systems used by persons with deaf-blindness.
Q5) Children with severe physical disabilities cannot have normal or gifted intelligence. A)True B)False
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Q6) What does the term limb deficiency refer to?
Q7) What is a strategy that can be used to avoid communication breakdowns?
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Chapter 15: Individuals Who Are Gifted and Talented
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Q1) The ____________________ emphasized the importance of gifted and talented students in the United States and provided for a national research center focusing on gifted children.
A) Individuals With Disabilities Act
B) Javits Act
C) Exceptional Children Act
D) Davis Act
Q2) The ____________________ was the first national report on gifted education.
A) Adams Report
B) Marland Report
C) Jackson Report
D) Douglas Report
Q3) Gifted and talented students are less likely to make a year's progress than nongifted students.
A)True
B)False
Q4) You are a teacher who often has children who are gifted and talented in your general education classroom.Discuss the importance of collaboration in this inclusionary model.What types of things might you do to ensure effective collaboration?
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