Special Education Methods Exam
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Course Introduction
This course explores the principles, strategies, and techniques used in providing effective instruction to students with diverse learning needs in special education settings. Emphasizing evidence-based practices, it covers individualized education program (IEP) development, differentiated instruction, classroom management, and collaboration with families and professionals. The course also addresses strategies for adapting curriculum, assessments, and teaching methods to support learners with disabilities, focusing on inclusion, advocacy, and legal and ethical considerations in special education.
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Educating Exceptional Children 13th Edition by Samuel Kirk
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Chapter 1: Children with Exceptionalities and Their Families
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Q1) Children who have impairments that result in limited strength,vitality,or alertness would be included in which of the following categories?
A) Autism
B) Intellectual impairments
C) Health impairments
D) Language impairments
Answer: C
Q2) The area of _______________ is the only area of exceptionalities that is not covered under federal legislation.
Answer: gifted
Q3) According to the Twenty-eighth Annual Report to Congress,the category of exceptional individuals that is most prevalent is
A) autism.
B) speech and language disorders.
C) learning disabilities.
D) intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Exceptional Children and Social Institutions:
Government,Courts,and the Schools
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Q1) Norm-referenced tests are
A) collections of classroom work or assignments.
B) comparisons between a child's performance and the performance of a reference group of children.
C) informal assessment tools that provide information for developing individualized education programs.
D) interviews used to assess children's exceptionalities.
Answer: B
Q2) Special education services in a school system are responsible for
A) assessing the developmental strengths and weaknesses of children.
B) designing IEPs.
C) periodically assessing the progress of students with IEPs.
D) All of these.
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is not a recent trend in education?
A) Response to Intervention
B) Tracking
C) Cooperative learning
D) Accountability
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Early Intervention Supports and Services
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Q1) A model that involves the family in the treatment plan for their child.The family determines what is best for the child.
A)Apgar test
B)Behavior
C)Behavioral support plan
D)Blended practices
E)Developmental profile
F)Developmentally appropriate practice
G)Family-centered early intervention
Answer: G
Q2) The ABC's of a child's behavior.
A)Apgar test
B)Behavior
C)Behavioral support plan
D)Blended practices
E)Developmental profile
F)Developmentally appropriate practice
G)Family-centered early intervention
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Children with Learning Disabilities
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Q1) Dysgraphia is
A) a difficulty with numbers.
B) a diagnostic-prescriptive strategy.
C) a mnemonic device.
D) a difficulty with handwriting.
Q2) A model for organizing intervention strategies from least to most intensive is called A) intervening hierarchy.
B) metacognition.
C) discrepancy model.
D) IPM.
Q3) The four major components of the Information Processing Model are A) cognition, processing, metacognition, and attention.
B) input, processing, output, and memory.
C) input, processing, output, and the executive processing.
D) social learning, emotional context, attention, and sensory integration.
Q4) Differentiate between poor academic performance and learning disabilities.
Q5) Discuss the term "unexplained underachiever" and how underachievement in general is different from a learning disability.
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Chapter 5: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) The approach to enhancing the social skills of school-age children that focus on social initiations rather than sustained and high-quality social interaction is called a
A) collateral skills intervention.
B) peer-mediated intervention.
C) ecological variation.
D) child-specific intervention.
Q2) The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
A) was developed by the Young Autism Program.
B) can reduce challenging behaviors by improving communication skills.
C) is a newer form of sign language.
D) can only be used with pre-school children with special needs.
Q3) Autism Spectrum Disorder includes which of following?
A) Turner's syndrome
B) intellectual disabilities
C) childhood disintegrative disorders
D) language impaired
Q4) ____________________ are changes in the physical environment for a child or modifications in activity,schedule,or structure designed to enhance social interaction.
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Chapter 6: Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Q1) Presenting information to be learned in the style most accommodating to the individual student's needs is called
A) assistive technology.
B) universal design for learning.
C) instructional technology.
D) cooperative learning.
Q2) The shift in diagnosis of intellectual and developmental disability has been from strictly a measurement of cognitive abilities to
A) measurement of adaptive behaviors.
B) a mix of cognitive abilities and adaptive behaviors.
C) a mix of cognitive abilities and social behaviors.
D) measurement of language skills.
Q3) Memory,association and classification of information,and reasoning and making judgments are assessed by means of
A) achievement tests.
B) adaptive behavior scales.
C) intelligence tests.
D) criterion referenced tests.
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Chapter 7: Children with Emotional and Behavior Disorders
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Q1) Jennifer is consistently unhappy,seems to internalize her problems,and is in tears and depressed much of the time.She has stated that she doesn't believe that she can control her success or failure.Jennifer is suffering from A) learned helpfulness.
B) learned helplessness.
C) a conduct disorder.
D) socialized aggression.
Q2) The federal definition for a student with EBD places all the responsibility for the problem on the A) parent.
B) child.
C) school environment.
D) siblings.
Q3) In many settings the EBD specialist has the role of A) Caseworker.
B) social worker.
C) classroom teacher.
D) support teacher.
Q4) Identify and discuss several potential causes of behavior problems.
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Chapter 8: Children with Communication,Language,and Speech Disorders
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Q1) A(n)____________________ is a variety of language that differs in pronunciation,vocabulary,or syntax from the literary form of the language.
Q2) The language children learn is
A) an expression of emotions.
B) the one spoken in the home.
C) an innate form of communication.
D) initially gestural.
Q3) A problem with pitch would be classified as a disorder of A) articulation-phonology.
B) fluency and speech timing.
C) voice.
D) language.
Q4) The most common communication disorder among public school students is A) an articulation-phonology error.
B) a fluency error.
C) a language disorder.
D) a voice disorder.
Q5) ____________________ may include problems with articulation and phonological processing,fluency,and/or voice.
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Chapter 9: Children with Special Gifts and Talents
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Q1) Encouraging students with gifts to use higher levels of thinking.
A)Underachievers with gifts
B)Homeschooling
C)Magnet schools
D)Multiple intelligences
E)Content sophistication
F)Prodigies
G)Creativity
H)Curriculum compacting
I)Problem-based learning
J)Student accelerations
Q2) The term ____________________ is used to refer to people who perform at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age,experience,or environment.
Q3) The Federal definition of students who are gifted includes students with high levels of accomplishment in which of the following areas?
A) intelligence
B) leadership capacity
C) the arts
D) All of these.
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Chapter 10: Children with Deafness or Hearing Loss
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Q1) The identification of deaf children and children who are severely hard of hearing is usually made
A) before they enter school.
B) when they are in kindergarten.
C) when they are in grades 1 to 3.
D) when they are in grades 4 to 6.
Q2) A curriculum designed to improve social competence and to reduce behavioral problems for children who are deaf is called
A) American Sign Language.
B) Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies.
C) Information Processing Model.
D) Alerting Device System.
Q3) Relaying systems help to ensure
A) all television sets are equipped to receive closed captions.
B) phone access for individuals with hearing impairments.
C) employers are willing to hire individuals with hearing impairments for high-paying jobs.
D) translators are available in public places when needed.
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Chapter 11: Children With Visual Impairments
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Q1) A teacher who explains relationships among objects for a student with visual impairment is providing
A) practice in learning by doing.
B) examples of concreteness.
C) unifying experiences.
D) early intervention.
Q2) Stacy has a profound visual disability.Which of these statements concerning Stacy is true?
A) Her vision can be almost entirely corrected with visual aids.
B) Her vision can be helped somewhat with visual aids.
C) She cannot use vision as an educational tool.
D) Her vision could also be classified as low vision.
Q3) ___________________ is the area most affected in the information processing model.
Q4) It's important for children with visual impairments to learn not to fear new experiences or injury so that
A) they feel comfortable communicating with others.
B) they enjoy school.
C) they are able to read Braille.
D) they develop a sense of control of themselves and their environments.
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Chapter 12: Children with Physical Disabilities,Health
Impairments,and Multiple Disabilities
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Q1) Muscle tone that is abnormally high and that increases during activity is characteristic of
A) extrapyramidal cerebral palsy.
B) choreoathetoid cerebral palsy.
C) spastic cerebral palsy.
D) mixed type cerebral palsy.
Q2) The most common type of neural tube defect is
A) cerebral palsy.
B) muscular dystrophy.
C) spina bifida.
D) Duchenne's dystrophy.
Q3) Age-appropriate skills are based on the child's A) mental age.
B) developmental stage.
C) chronological age.
D) social and cognitive ability levels.
Q4) Discuss cerebral palsy,including the causes and the four different forms of the disorder and how this affects the child's education.
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