Introduction to Special Education
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Course Introduction
Introduction to Special Education provides an overview of the field of special education, exploring the historical, legal, and ethical foundations that shape the education of students with disabilities. The course examines diverse categories of disabilities, the principles of individualized instruction, and inclusive practices within various educational settings. Emphasis is placed on identifying characteristics of learners with special needs, designing appropriate interventions, understanding policy frameworks such as IDEA, and fostering collaboration among educators, families, and support professionals. Students will develop an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of special education professionals and acquire strategies to support all learners in achieving their educational potential.
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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) Which major educational reform focused on the academic achievement of students and qualifications of teachers?
A) No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (PL 107-110)
B) Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (PL 105-17)
C) Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1986 (PL 99-457)
D) Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (PL108-446)
Answer: A
Q2) With regards to exceptionality, as discussed in the text, all of the following would be examples of exceptionality except a
A) Student with autism
B) Child who is gifted and talented
C) Person who has traumatic brain injury
D) Student who is much taller than his or her classmates
Answer: D
Q3) Because it originates in the field of architecture, universal design for learning applies only to physical accessibility issues.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Policies Practices and Programs
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Q1) IDEA does not mandate parental consent for referral but does require consent for evaluation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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) The philosophy of "zero reject" holds that all children, regardless of their disability, should be provided an appropriate education.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) IDEA 2004 requires that all students participate in statewide assessments.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Exceptionality
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Q1) Which of the following is not a contributing factor of overrepresentation in special education of children of color?
A) Poverty
B) Limited access to health care
C) Cultural and language differences
D) Lack of teacher training in the area of multiculturalism
Answer: D
Q2) English learners (ELs)are individuals whose primary or home language is not English and who have yet to achieve proficiency in English.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) An equally controversial and somewhat confusing concept associated with multicultural education is
A) Diversity
B) Cultural education
C) Bilingual education
D) English learner (EL)
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Parents Families and Exceptionality
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Q1) Family functions are necessary to fulfill the individual and collective needs of the family. Which of the following is not one of those functions?
A) Education
B) Transition
C) Socialization
D) Recreation
Q2) _____________ is characterized by a state of mind in which a deliberate effort is made to recognize, understand, and resolve problems.
A) Rationalizing
B) Bargaining
C) Acceptance
D) Adjustment
Q3) Which is a major factor in how a family reacts to change?
A) Adaptability
B) Wealth
C) Family size
D) Marital status of the parents
Q4) Why is sensitive and caring support from professionals especially important?
Q5) What is an underlying assumption of the family systems model?
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Chapter 5: Assistive Technology
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Q1) Assistive technology can be anything or come from anywhere as long as it helps or just maintains an individual's skills.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Student, Environments, Tasks, and Tools (SETT)framework involves all the following except
A) The financial status of the student's family
B) Identification and consideration of the student's needs, strengths, and preferences
C) Where the student functions
D) What the student is expected to perform
Q3) Examples of technology that support the writing process include all of the following except
A) Speech-to-text
B) Word prediction
C) Computer-based concept maps
D) Pencil grips
Q4) Briefly describe the historical development of assistive technology from the early 1800s to the reauthorization of IDEA in 2004.
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Chapter 6: Individuals With Intellectual Disability
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Q1) A functional or life skills curriculum:
A) Generic model
B) Task analysis
C) Cooperative learning
D) CLOC-RAM
Q2) Intelligence is an abstract concept that must be deduced and inferred.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Considering causes of intellectual disabilities, cytomegalovirus would be categorized as what type of cause?
A) Postnatal
B) Pronatal
C) Prenatal
D) Perinatal
Q4) According to the 1992 AAIDD definition, intellectual disability manifests prior to what age?
A) 5 years
B) 12 years
C) 18 years
D) 21 years
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Chapter 7: Individuals With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) Mnemonic strategies are a component of direct instruction.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Learning disabilities tend to be
A) Short in duration
B) Easy to see
C) Life threatening
D) A chronic condition
Q3) Despite a solid multidisciplinary foundation, individuals with learning disabilities are often an enigma to their parents, teachers, and researchers in the field.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are three potential advantages of RTI?
Q5) What percentage of children receiving a special education is classified with learning disabilities?
A) 80.5%
B) 10.2%
C) 40.7%
D) 50.2%
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Chapter 8: Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
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Q1) Which is not a recommendation outlined by the American Academy of Pediatrics for professionals identifying persons with ADHD?
A) In assessing for ADHD, it is necessary to get a full cognitive evaluation.
B) In a child 6 to 12 years old who presents with inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, academic underachievement, or behavior problems, primary care clinicians should initiate an evaluation for ADHD.
C) The diagnosis of ADHD requires that a child meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition criteria.
D) Evaluation of the child with ADHD should include assessment for coexisting conditions.
Q2) According to the DSM-V, to be considered as having ADHD, an individual must have had symptoms that occurred before age _______________.
A) 6
B) 12
C) 10
D) 7
Q3) List the five steps students follow in the self-regulation process.
Q4) What is the youngest age any medication used to treat ADHD is approved for?
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Chapter 9: Individuals With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
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Q1) What are the five strategies provided for use during instructional delivery?
Q2) Research suggests that more than _____ of children and adolescents who committed suicide had an apparent, although not identified, emotional or behavioral disorder.
A) Moderate
B) High
C) Low
D) None of the above
Q3) List three areas where students with emotional or behavioral disorders fare worse than typically developing peers within the school environment.
Q4) Students with an emotional or behavioral disorder typically exhibit problems across _________________ dimension(s).
A) One
B) Two or more
C) Academic
D) Personality
Q5) Explain why students with emotional or behavioral disorders receive instruction in settings other than the general education classroom.
Q6) List problems that have been associated with child maltreatment.
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Chapter 10: Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) List at least five features of effective programs for preschoolers with ASD.
Q2) All of the following are examples of repetitive and restrictive behavior except A) Cleanliness
B) Eating only certain foods
C) Repeated body movements
D) Rigidity about routines
Q3) A diagnosis of ASD can only be determined with medical testing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to the federal government, more than 407,000 pupils ages __________ were identified as having autism during the 2011-2012 school year.
A) Birth-18
B) 6-21
C) 3-12
D) 14-21
Q5) During 2011-2012, one third of school-aged students also received services in a self-contained classroom.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Individuals With Speech and Language Impairments
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Q1) Care must be taken that normative data account for individual and cultural differences that affect language acquisition.One way to do this is through a language sample.This type of assessment can be described as which one of the following?
A) Formal
B) Evaluative
C) Critical
D) Informal
Q2) A speech-language pathologist's use of formal assessment measures is the primary means for identifying students with speech and language impairments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss how seating and setting can be manipulated so that the individual with speech-language disorder can be successful.
Q4) Language and communication are synonymous terms.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the family-directed assessment process.
Q6) What is communication?
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Chapter 12: Individuals With Hearing Impairments
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Q1) 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
Q2) For nearly 135years, the ______________ has been actively involved in obtaining the basic rights under the U.S.Constitution for individuals with hearing impairments.
A) National Association for the Hearing Impaired (NAHI)
B) National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
C) National Education Association (NEA)
D) National Association for the Deaf (NAD)
Q3) The degree of hearing loss can be measured in decibels and the frequency of the sound described in
A) Sprint
B) Verizon
C) Avis
D) Hertz
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Chapter 13: Individuals With Visual Impairments
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Q1) Which type of Braille is used in many elevators?
A) Nemeth code
B) Grade 1
C) Grade 2
D) Grade 3
Q2) A hereditary condition involving gradual degeneration of the retina is
A) Retinitis pigmentosa
B) Cataracts
C) Glaucoma
D) Macular degeneration
Q3) The middle layer of the eyeball containing veins and arteries best describes which part of the eye?
A) Conjunctiva
B) Cochlea
C) Cornea
D) Choroid
Q4) JAWS software produces synthetic speech.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain the need for orientation and mobility (O&M)skills instruction.
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Chapter 14: Individuals With Physical Disabilities Health
Disabilities and Related Lowincidence Disabilities
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Q1) A student in Mr.Baker's 10th-grade class is recently returning to school following a traumatic brain injury.The student is showing significant memory deficits.Recommend at least three strategies for Mr.Baker to use with the student to compensate for the memory problems.
Q2) 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
Q3) Traumatic brain injury refers to permanent injury to the brain only from acquired causes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain what the acronym CHARGE represents.Explain also the prevalence of this syndrome.
Q5) Augmentative communication is meant to replace speech.
A)True
B)False
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Q6) What are two neuromotor impairments?
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Chapter 15: Individuals Who Are Gifted and Talented
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Q1) With a variety of theories on multiple intelligences, why might the field be reluctant to let go of the traditional IQ testing?
A) Most parents understand IQ better than other measures of giftedness.
B) Without an above-average IQ, an individual cannot be considered gifted or talented.
C) IQ is the only foolproof way to identify an individual as gifted or talented.
D) Scores from an IQ test offer standardized information on a student's strengths and weaknesses.
Q2) Children who are gifted and talented and learning disabled are often overlooked because they perform at an average level.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The combining or grouping of students according to needs and abilities matched to their level of achievement is called
A) Tracking
B) Tiered instruction
C) Flexible grouping
D) Cluster grouping
Q4) List the three traits of Renzulli's model of giftedness.
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