Foundations of Special Education Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Foundations of Special Education provides an overview of the historical, legal, and philosophical underpinnings of the field of special education. This course explores key legislation, such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and examines major categories of disabilities, their characteristics, and implications for learning and development. Students will learn about inclusive practices, assessment methods, and the development of individualized education programs (IEPs). The course also addresses family and cultural perspectives, ethical responsibilities, and current trends and issues in special education, preparing future educators to support diverse learners in a variety of educational settings.
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Special Education in Contemporary Society an Introduction to Exceptionality 4th Edition by Richard
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Chapter 1: Special Education in Context: People, Concepts, and Perspectives
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Q1) Which category of disability has the highest incidence?
A)Autism
B)Behavioral disorders
C)Specific learning disabilities
D)Hearing impairments
Answer: C
Q2) An approach in which related service professionals teach their skills to each other is referred to as a
A)multidisciplinary approach
B)interdisciplinary approach
C)collaborative approach
D)transdisciplinary approach
Answer: D
Q3) All of the following are good suggestions for communicating about individuals with disabilities, EXCEPT:
A)Emphasizing abilities
B)Putting people first
C)Portray successful people with disabilities as superhuman
D)Show people with disabilities as active
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Policies, Practices, and Programs
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Q1) Schools are liable if the goals in the IEP are not achieved.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) What two questions must the IEP team address when selecting disciplinary actions resulting from the behavior of a student with a disability?
Answer: Did the disability cause or have a direct and substantial relationship to the offense?
Was the violation a direct result of the school's failure to implement the IEP?
Q3) What model does Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 employ?
A)Diagnostic
B)Functional
C)Categorical
D)Rehabilitative
Answer: B
Q4) IDEA 1997 requires that all students participate in state-wide assessments.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Exceptionality
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Q1) Bilingual students must obtain which level of language skills before achieving a successful transition to a monolingual English class setting?
A)Beginning language level
B)Conversational fluency level
C)Complex language level
D)Completely proficient level
Answer: C
Q2) The United States is composed of only a few different cultures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Define culture. What is it? What are the potential problems for teachers in addressing cultural issues? What are the ways that teachers can present diverse cultures in their classrooms in a positive manner?
Answer: Not Answer
Q4) There is an underrepresentation of minority children in special education
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Parents, Families, and Exceptionality
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Q1) The relationships and interactions among and between family sub-systems.
A)Adaptability
B)Family Functions
C)Family Life Cycle
D)Family Interactions
Q2) Bronfenbrenner's _________________ provided a foundation for family systems theory.
A)Environmental influences theory
B)Ecological thinking
C)Family cycle
D)Family interaction
Q3) Discuss potential life cycle issues that parents and siblings may experience in each stage of the family life cycle: Early Childhood, School Age, Adolescence, and Adulthood.
Q4) It is safe to assume that all families will view the diagnosis of their child with a disability as a devastating tragedy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why is sensitive and caring support from professionals especially important?
Q6) Why are Life Cycle functions considered to be highly age related?
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Chapter 5: Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities or Mental Retardation
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Q1) Pupils identified as intellectually disabled area are also deficient in arithmetic, but their performance is more in line with their mental age.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An 8 year old girl living in the United States who is able to dress herself, brush her own teeth, make a peanut butter sandwich, and do her homework is demonstrating competence in
A)metabolic processes.
B)adaptive behavior.
C)social skills.
D)intellectual functioning.
Q3) Students who experience repeated academic failures may develop a style of learning known as ____________ in which they do not trust their own abilities and rely on others for help.
A)externalism
B)motivation
C)outer directedness
D)locus of direction
Q4) Transition services for students should begin no later than what age?
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Chapter 6: Individuals With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) What emerging method of identifying a learning disability was supported with the reauthorization of IDEA 2004?
A)Severe discrepancy
B)Progress monitoring
C)Response to intervention
D)Disability assessment
Q2) Individuals with learning disabilities experience effects of the disability only during the school age years.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________ approach stresses behaviors that have immediate relevance for students as they confront the demands of their natural environment
A)Functional curriculum
B)Behavioral curriculum
C)Developmental/cognitive
D)Behavioral/cognitive
Q4) Select a minimum of three theorists from the transition phase and discuss their contributions to the field of learning disabilities.
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Chapter 7: Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder
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Q1) Researchers have found significant improvements in children's behavior when they are taking stimulant medication.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is a good recommendation for a teacher who is working with a student with ADHD struggling with oral expression?
A)Substitute a display for an oral report
B)Call on the student randomly to speak aloud so he grows accustomed to it
C)Correct the student when their oral expression is inaccurate
D)Provide strict guidelines of what the student should discuss
Q3) All of the following are examples of executive functions of the brain, EXCEPT:
A)Working memory
B)Arousal levels
C)Inner speech
D)Motor coordination
Q4) 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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Q5) Name one behavior rating scale discussed in the chapter used to identify ADHD.
Chapter 8: Individuals With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
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Q1) Two global dimensions of emotional and behavioral disorders are ____________ and ____________ disorders.
A)visual, auditory
B)externalizing, internalizing
C)covert, overt
D)social, academic
Q2) When did the first teacher-training program in special education appear?
A)1914
B)1909
C)1913
D)1917
Q3) _________________ of students with emotional and behavioral disorders has been attributed to the marked variability across states in identifying pupils.
A)Over-identification
B)Under-identification
C)Treatment
D)Hospitalizations
Q4) What are four attributes of resilient children?
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Q5) What are the five strategies provided for use during instructional delivery?
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Chapter 9: Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) Autism spectrum disorders tend to occur more frequently in families that earn higher wages.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which one of the following is not a characteristic of assessment for students with autism spectrum disorders?
A)The use of multiple assessment instruments
B)Diagnostic processes are administered by a team of professionals
C)Direct observations
D)A focus on measures of cognitive functioning
Q3) Autism is a complex ___________________disorder of development.
A)neurobiological
B)behavioral
C)psychological
D)genetic
Q4) Describe 3 disadvantages of sheltered workshops?
Q5) List the five autism spectrum disorders?
Q6) Research has identified a cure for autism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Individuals With Speech and Language Impairments
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Q1) The three basic types of speech impairments are _______, _______, and _______.
A)articulation disorders, voice disorders, fluency disorders.
B)aphasia, apraxia, articulation.
C)resonance, phonation, nasality
D)central auditory processing disorder, developmental delay, receptive disorder
Q2) What is communication?
Q3) Provide an example of a beginning activity that could be used with a child using a communication board.
Q4) A child with normal hearing who has difficulty paying attention while listening, paying attention to the teacher when background noise is in the classroom, remembering information presented orally, and discriminating between similar sounding words may be demonstrating
A)a syntactic disorder.
B)aphasia.
C)apraxia of speech.
D)a central auditory processing disorder.
Q5) Speech has an expressive and receptive component.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Individuals With Hearing Impairments
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Q1) How can you facilitate the acceptance of a student who is deaf or who has a hearing loss in your first grade general education classroom?
A)Wait until they are in 5<sup>th</sup> grade, the students are too young to understand anything
B)Provide a model of positive acceptance, implement modifications in a natural manner
C)Decide that the parents will answer any questions outside the school day
D)There is nothing that you need to do, the students will figure it all out on their own
Q2) Under ______________, colleges and universities are required to provide qualified sign language interpreters and other auxiliary aids needed to ensure effective communication opportunities for the deaf and hard of hearing student population.
A)PL 94-142
B)Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
C)the Americans with Disabilities Act
D)PL 89-36
Q3) What device can persons with a severe hearing impairment use to communicate by telephone?
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Chapter 12: Individuals With Visual Impairments
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Q1) The sclera refers to the
A)inner layer of the eye
B)the colorless mass that fills the eyeball
C)the white part of the eye
D)the transparent disc in the behind the pupil
Q2) All of the following are examples of adaptive software listed in the text, EXCEPT:
A)Screen enlargement software
B)Screen readers
C)Speech recognition
D)Braille input devices
Q3) Cite one challenge to the provision of certified vision teachers for students with visual impairments.
Q4) What factors related to eye health can be attributed to socioeconomic factors? (Give two examples)?
Q5) A Snellen chart is used to make the determination that someone is
A)colorblind
B)legally blind
C)has a field loss
D)able to use Braille
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Chapter 13: Individuals With Physical Disabilities, Health
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Q1) A student with a severe case of traumatic brain injury will typically
A)have the most dramatic improvement in skills during the first two years following the trauma.
B)remain in a coma for the first year following the trauma.
C)continue to improve for 10 years following the trauma.
D)have the most dramatic improvement in skills during the first year following the trauma.
Q2) During the perinatal period, the most common cause of brain injury is
A)maternal age.
B)toxoplasmosis.
C)asphyxia.
D)premature birth.
Q3) Explain how a written assignment might be adapted for an individual with a physical disability who requires a great amount of time and expends great amounts of effort in order to produce written response?
Q4) All of the following are cited, in the text, as types of cerebral palsy, EXCEPT?
A)Spastic
B)Mixed
C)Athetoid
D)Multiple
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Chapter 14: Individuals Who Are Gifted and Talented
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Q1) A major contribution of early longitudinal studies of gifted individuals was
A)they identified the social peculiarities experienced by gifted individuals throughout the years
B)they demonstrated that all individuals who were identified as gifted became experts in their fields
C)they disproved many early theories people held about gifted individuals
D)they demonstrated that gifted individuals experienced longer lives than non gifted individuals
Q2) Which is not a common characteristic of gifted adolescent girls?
A)IQ scores drop during adolescence
B)Gifted girls take less rigorous courses than gifted boys
C)Academic performance drops during adolescence
D)Gifted girls attend less prestigious universities than gifted boys
Q3) Why is a "one-size-fits-all" approach an inappropriate way to provide services to students who are gifted and talented? Provide examples.
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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