Special Education Law and Policy Final Exam Questions
Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the laws and policies governing special education in the United States, including the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Students will examine federal and state requirements for providing educational services to students with disabilities, due process rights, individualized education programs (IEPs), and procedural safeguards. The course also addresses current court decisions, emerging policy trends, and ethical considerations in advocating for the rights of students with disabilities and ensuring equitable access to educational opportunities.
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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) Give three examples of contributions to the foundations of special education by Itard, Séguin, and their contemporaries.
Answer: Individualized instruction
The use of positive reinforcement techniques
A belief in the capacity of all children to learn
Q2) Édouard Séguin's ideas and theories provided a basis for the work of _________ with the urban poor and children with intellectual disabilities.
A) Philippe Pinel
B) Maria Montessori
C) Samuel Gridley Howe
D) Alfred Binet
Answer: B
Q3) What percentage of adults with disabilities is employed?
A) 59%
B) 57%
C) 21%
D) 10%
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Policies Practices and Programs
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Q1) IDEA 2004 dictates that a multitude of formal and informal tools are required during the assessment process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following is a civil rights law?
A) PL 94-142
B) PL 99-457
C) PL 101-476
D) PL 93-112
Answer: D
Q3) What is the concept of a partnership between general and special education resulting in a coordinated delivery system?
A) Least restrictive environment
B) Regular education initiative
C) Full inclusion
D) Equal access for all students
Answer: B
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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) 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
Q3) By the year 2020, students of color are projected to make up almost half of all school-age youth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Parents Families and Exceptionality
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Q1) Cultural heritage can affect how a family reacts to a child with a disability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Because different cultures perceive the cause of a disability, the etiology of a disability is a reflection of a family's cultural reference.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How does a child with an exceptionality affect his or her family?
Q4) It is believed that parents who receive news of a child's disability pass through stages of emotion similar to that of an individual grieving the death of a loved one.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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
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Chapter 5: Assistive Technology
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Q1) IDEA 2004 stipulates that parents/guardians must share the cost for assistive technology, including cochlear implants, provided for their child with disabilities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An example of information technology is
A) Direct instruction
B) Text-to-speech software
C) Word processor
D) Internet
Q3) When deciding upon assistive technology, IEP teams should always first consider
A) No tech
B) Low tech
C) Mid tech
D) High tech
Q4) The cost of assistive technology is considered a priority during the decision-making process of the IEP.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare and contrast assistive technology and educational technology.
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Chapter 6: Individuals With Intellectual Disability
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Q1) The 1992 AAIDD classification of intellectual disability, based on levels of support, was a departure from previous classification models of intellectual impairment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What percentage of the school-age population, aged 6 to 21 years, is identified as having intellectual disabilities?
A) Approximately 1%
B) Approximately 2%
C) Approximately 3%
D) Approximately 5%
Q3) 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
Q4) Name two characteristics of persons with intellectual disabilities that affect learning.
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Chapter 7: Individuals With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) What instructional technique is frequently associated with cognitive training?
A) Direct instruction
B) Strategic instruction
C) Self-instruction
D) Guided notes
Q2) Which phrase best describes the history of learning disabilities?
A) A relatively recent concept
B) Known and treated for over a century
C) Easy to diagnose and treat
D) It rarely occurs anymore
Q3) All of the following are common components of the definition of learning disabilities except
A) Presence of intellectual disabilities
B) Discrepancy between assumed ability and actual achievement
C) Difficulty in learning in one or more subject areas
D) Presumption of central nervous system dysfunction
Q4) Discuss some of the challenges adolescents with learning disabilities encounter on a daily basis.
Q5) List four skills that affect an individual's reading comprehension.
Q6) Discuss three reasons why the prevalence of learning disability has decreased.
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Chapter 8: Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
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Q1) The term comorbidity is used to describe
A) An overlap of multiple conditions
B) A condition for which there is no cure
C) Something that is easy to diagnose and treat
D) A rare blood disease
Q2) "Looking at one's own behavior, given a predetermined criterion" best describes which strategy?
A) Self-observation
B) Self-assessment
C) Self-recording
D) Self-determination of reinforcement
Q3) Environmental modifications are often crucial if the student with ADHD is to succeed in the classroom.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the steps in the three-pronged approach effective teachers take when working with students with ADHD.
Q5) Discuss some ways in which you might maintain home-school communication for your students with ADHD.Why is such communication so important?
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Chapter 9: Individuals With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
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Q1) Which of the following is not considered an emotional and behavioral disorder?
A) Schizophrenia
B) Depression
C) Down syndrome
D) Conduct disorders
Q2) Academic curriculum for students with emotional or behavioral disorders is _______________ the curriculum that students without disabilities are provided.
A) Easier than
B) The same as
C) More difficult than
D) Different from
Q3) Behavioral interventions and cognitive-behavioral interventions differ in that behavioral interventions focus on the students' self-regulatory behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Autism became a separate disability category in 1990.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the five strategies provided for use during instructional delivery?
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Chapter 10: Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) 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
Q2) Discuss the radical revisions of the DSM-5 in 2013.
Q3) Asperger syndrome is foremost a social disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q4) State three reasons cited for the reported increase in the incidence of autism spectrum disorders.
Q5) All of the following are common misconceptions about individuals with autism spectrum disorders except
A) They learn to communicate with sign language
B) They are unable to give or receive affection
C) They have overly aggressive tendencies
D) They possess special abilities
Q6) Describe at least three stressors of families of children with autism spectrum disorders and cite at least one strategy to address each stressor.
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Chapter 11: Individuals With Speech and Language Impairments
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Q1) "A rule-based method of communication" best sums up the definition of which of the following terms?
A) Speech
B) Communication
C) Language
D) Phonology
Q2) The characteristic(s)of a phonation disorder include(s)
A) Too little or too much air passing through the nasal passage
B) Hoarseness, breathiness, and huskiness
C) An inability to make intelligible speech sounds
D) A disruption in the fluency of speech
Q3) A child who was in a car accident and received head trauma developed a speech and language problem following the accident.How would the etiology of this child's communication disorder be classified?
A) Aphasic
B) Developmental
C) Congenital
D) Acquired
Q4) Differentiate between receptive and expressive language.
Q5) What is communication?
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Chapter 12: Individuals With Hearing Impairments
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Q1) During the 2007-2008 school year, what percentage of students with hearing impairments was enrolled in regular classrooms?
A) 42%
B) 52%
C) 17%
D) 4%
Q2) Of the several known modes of genetic inheritance, three mechanisms are most important.Identify and describe each of the three mechanisms.
Q3) During the 2011-2012 school year, what percentage of students with hearing impairments attended public schools?
A) 60%
B) 75%
C) 90%
D) 95%
Q4) The academic area most negatively affected by a hearing impairment is A) Writing
B) Reading
C) Mathematics
D) Science
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Chapter 13: Individuals With Visual Impairments
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Q1) Light enters the eye first through the
A) Retina
B) Iris
C) Cornea
D) Macula
Q2) In the eye, color is defined in the
A) Rod cells
B) Cone cells
C) Macula
D) Vitreous body
Q3) Braille symbols consist of _______ possible dots arranged in two columns.
A) Four
B) Six
C) Eight
D) Ten
Q4) Approximately 5,000 new teachers of the visually impaired graduate each year.
A)True
B)False
Q5) When developing an IEP for adolescents with visual impairments, what types of schools should be considered? Why are these skills critical?
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Chapter 14: Individuals With Physical Disabilities Health
Disabilities and Related Lowincidence
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Q1) What is a strategy that can be used to avoid communication breakdowns?
Q2) A 16-year-old student with traumatic brain injury is asked to count 20 pennies and tell the number of pennies on the table.After numerous attempts, she is unable to accurately count the pennies.This same student is asked to recall multiplication facts and is able to do so with no errors.Which of the following is the most accurate statement about this student?
A) She has splinter skills.
B) She has a severe cognitive disability.
C) She has a math learning disability.
D) She needs cues to improve her attention to the relevant information.
Q3) 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
Q4) Briefly describe the characteristics of myelomeningocele spina bifida.
Q5) The category of orthopedic impairments in IDEA is divided into three main areas.Identify and define each.
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Q6) What does the term limb deficiency refer to?
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Chapter 15: Individuals Who Are Gifted and Talented
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Q1) Which of the following is not a step in the effective instruction of learners who are gifted and talented?
A) Preassessing the students to determine their current level of content knowledge
B) Grouping children according to ability for instructional purposes
C) Giving accelerated students more assignments to keep them busy until the other students master the content
D) Providing products that will motivate and teach students
Q2) The majority of children who are gifted and talented come from upper-class families.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In what way did entering the "space race" catapult gifted and talented education in the United States?
Q4) In which year was the National Association for Gifted Children founded?
A) 1958
B) 1925
C) 1961
D) 1954
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