Teacher Preparation in Special Education Practice Exam
Course Introduction
This course provides prospective educators with foundational knowledge and practical strategies for supporting students with diverse learning needs in inclusive and specialized educational settings. Emphasizing legal mandates, individualized education program (IEP) development, and evidence-based instructional methods, the course explores the roles and responsibilities of special education teachers. Participants will examine approaches for collaboration with families, professionals, and community resources, as well as effective classroom management and assessment techniques. Through case studies and hands-on activities, students will develop the skills necessary to create equitable, supportive, and accessible learning environments for all learners.
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Exceptional Learners An Introduction to Special Education 12th Edition by Daniel P. Hallahan
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Chapter 1: Exceptionality and Special Education
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Q1) Which one of the following provides the best description of normalization?
A)the theory that disabilities are a matter of social perceptions and values
B)the belief that people with disabilities should have experiences as similar as possible to those of people without disabilities
C)the principle that schools should educate all students in the regular classroom, regardless of the nature of their disabilities
D)the philosophy that students with disabilities should be educated in the environment that will allow them to achieve their maximum potential as adults
Answer: B
Q2) Advances in drug treatments appear to hold the potential for a cure for A)cerebral palsy.
B)cystic fibrosis.
C)Down syndrome.
D)muscular dystrophy.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Current Practices for Meeting the Needs of
Exceptional Learners
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Q1) The ability to make personal choices and regulate one's own life is known as A)self-concept.
B)self-awareness.
C)self-control.
D)self-determination.
Answer: D
Q2) Each of the following is an issue/controversy concerning universal design or the use of technology for people with disabilities EXCEPT
A)deciding when the limits of universal design have been reached.
B)deciding when the use of technology is in a person's best interest.
C)unnecessary cost associated with having to consider the relatively small population of people with disabilities when designing technology.
D)the potential for dependence on technology at the cost of learning to do something independent of technology.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Multicultural and Bilingual Aspects of Special Education
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Most of education is appropriately challenging for students.
B)Students from cultural minorities, who are at risk for failure or who have disabilities, should not be given challenging tasks.
C)Appropriately challenging tasks are those that a given student finds just manageable.
D)Teachers tend to overestimate the capabilities of minority and exceptional children.
Answer: B
Q2) An example of a culturally linked behavior that might be confused with exceptionality is
A)handedness.
B)eye contact.
C)skin color.
D)killing.
Answer: B
Q3) An individual can be a member of many subcultures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Parent and Families
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Q1) A frequent complaint made by parents about communication with teachers is that A)they are not notified about meetings until the last minute.
B)teachers interrupt them at work to ask questions about their child's routine.
C)they only hear from school personnel when their child has misbehaved.
D)teachers respond promptly to parents' requests for information.
Q2) A primary goal of early intervention is to train parents to work in a therapeutic role with their child.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe three strategies that teachers can use to make homework assignments more effective.
Q4) Functional behavioral assessment involves evaluation of each of the following EXCEPT
A)antecedent events.
B)contextual factors maintaining behavior.
C)consequences of behavior.
D)disciplinary style.
Q5) Families with a high level of cohesion may limit their child's independence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Learners With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Q1) Claudia is a third grader with intellectual disabilities. She has thick epicanthal folds in the corner of her eyes, small stature, decreased muscle tone, speckling of the iris of the eye, a small oral cavity, and short, broad hands with a single palmar crease. These characteristics are typical of A)cultural-familial intellectual disabilities.
B)Down syndrome.
C)fetal alcohol syndrome.
D)Fragile X syndrome.
Q2) IQ is generally considered the single best index of how well a person will do in school. A)True
B)False
Q3) Distinguish between intelligence and adaptive behavior, giving examples of tasks that are representative of each. Why is adaptive behavior included in the definition of mental retardation?
Q4) The most common know hereditary cause of intellectual disabilities is Fragile X syndrome.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Learners With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) Children and youths with learning disabilities comprise over half of all students who receive special education.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define IQ-achievement discrepancy and list three objections to using it for identifying learning disabilities.
Q3) Identify the major features of direct instruction (DI)and describe the benefit of this approach for students with learning disabilities.
Q4) The degree to which a certain condition, such as a learning disability, occurs in a single family is determined by
A)heritability studies.
B)neuroimaging studies.
C)familiality studies.
D)retrospective studies.
Q5) The vast majority of children with learning disabilities develop social-emotional problems.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 7: Learners With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder
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Q1) All of the following are true EXCEPT
A)If a child has ADHD, there is about a 32% chance his or her sibling will have it.
B)Children of parents with ADHD have about a 57% chance of having ADHD themselves.
C)If an identical twin and a fraternal twin have ADHD, the second fraternal twin is much more likely to have ADHD than the second identical twin.
D)Exposure to lead and the abuse of alcohol by pregnant women increases the likelihood of ADHD.
Q2) Part of the brain responsible for executive functions such as the ability to regulate one's own behavior is the
A)basal ganglia.
B)cerebellum.
C)corpus collosum.
D)frontal lobes.
Q3) How have methods for teaching students with ADHD changed since Cruickshank's approach in the late 1950s? In what ways are today's methods similar to Cruickshank's ideas?
Q4) Describe the four components used in the identification of ADHD.
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Chapter 8: Learners With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
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Q1) What percentage of the school-aged population exhibits serious and persistent emotional/behavioral problems, according to credible studies in the U.S. and other countries?
A)less than 1%
B)about 2%
C)6-10%
D)3-5%.
Q2) "Manifestation determination" means that the circumstances surrounding a particular incident are not weighed in deciding what the consequences should be.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many social learning theorists and behavioral psychologists believe that aggression is
A)caused by an overwhelming sense of frustration.
B)a result of subconscious motives.
C)a defense mechanism used in distressing situations.
D)a learned behavior.
Q4) Differentiate between externalizing and internalizing behavior disorders by writing two brief case descriptions of students with these types of E/BD.
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Chapter 9: Learners With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) Most children with autism can be diagnosed by the age of A)12 years
B)9 years
C)6 years
D)3 years
Q2) The majority of people with autistic spectrum disorders have autism rather than Asperger syndrome.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Evidence strongly indicates that there is a connection between the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine and autism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why has autism been "fertile ground for faddish and unproven treatment methods?"
Q5) Asperger referred to the children he studied as having A)schizophrenia.
B)childhood disintegrative disorder.
C)pervasive developmental disorder.
D)autistic psychopathy.
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Chapter 10: Learners With Communication Disorders
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Q1) Ideally, early intervention in the area of speech and language development should begin
A)during the first few months of life.
B)between the ages of 12 and 18 months.
C)when the child is of preschool age.
D)in kindergarten.
Q2) Much of a child's language and social development depend on two characteristics of language interaction the child has with caregivers. What are the characteristics?
A)nature and quantity of the language
B)quality and variety of the language
C)variety and resonance of the language
D)loudness and functionality of the language
Q3) A language disorder that involves problems with functional and socially appropriate communication is
A)communication.
B)semantics.
C)speech.
D)pragmatics.
Q4) Explain why communication does not require speech.
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Chapter 11: Learners Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
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Q1) The rationale behind a bicultural-bilingual approach is A)teaching the history of the Deaf culture instead of that of the dominant culture.
B)providing a foundation in spoken English to serve as a basis for ASL
C)providing a foundation in ASL to serve as a basis for learning English.
D)encouraging hearing people to learn ASL as a second language.
Q2) Simon has a hearing loss that occurred when he was seven years old. His loss is best described as A)conductive.
B)sensorineural.
C)congenital.
D)postlingual.
Q3) A signing system that maintains the same word order as spoken English is A)ASL.
B)fingerspelling.
C)transliteration.
D)English Sign Language (ESL).
Q4) Discuss the effects of hearing impairment on intellectual development and describe recent changes in knowledge associated with this issue.
Q5) Describe four factors that demarcate the Deaf community as a true culture.
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Chapter 12: Learners With Blindness or Low Vision
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Q1) Impediments to independent living and feeling comfortable in society for people who are blind or who have low vision include all of the following EXCEPT
A)paternalistic attitudes.
B)tendency to make superheroes out of people with disabilities for their accomplishments.
C)difficulty with incidental learning.
D)cognitive deficits.
Q2) Describe two behavioral, two appearance, and two complaint signs that might indicate a student has a vision problem.
Q3) A group of eye diseases that cause damage to the optic nerve is A)myopia.
B)hyperopia.
C)glaucoma.
D)cataracts.
Q4) When guiding a person who is blind, you should
A)take his or her arm and push him/her ahead of you.
B)let the person take your arm and walk slightly behind you.
C)walk at a slower pace than normal.
D)allow the person to go through a door ahead of you.
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Chapter 13: Learners With Low-Incidence, Multiple, and
Severe Disabilities
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Q1) Why should students with Usher syndrome receive intensive and extensive instruction in Braille and orientation and mobility even when they are still able to see?
Q2) Each of the following has been shown to sometimes cause deaf-blindness EXCEPT A)rubella.
B)congenital cytomegalovirus.
C)meningitis.
D)childhood mumps.
Q3) Carl was three years old when he acquired TBI. Which of the following was the most likely cause of his brain injury?
A)He was accidentally shot by a playmate when showing off his father's gun.
B)He was violently shaken by a babysitter.
C)He was in a car that was hit by another car.
D)He fell off a counter in his home.
Q4) A condition in which a child is born with an abnormally shaped pupil and/or abnormalities of the retina or optic nerve is A)atresia.
B)choanae.
C)coloboma.
D)retinitis pigmentosa.
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Chapter 14: Learners With Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairments
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Q1) In addition to its effect on the immune system, AIDS poses all of the following threats to children EXCEPT
A)intellectual disability.
B)emotional or behavioral disorders.
C)seizures.
D)muscular dystrophy.
Q2) Children with epilepsy are more disposed to learning disabilities than are children who do not have epilepsy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What causes more deaths in children than all childhood diseases combined?
A)AIDS
B)accidents
C)suicide
D)abuse
Q4) A condition that may be severe but resolves with treatment is A)progressive.
B)episodic.
C)chronic.
D)acute.
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Chapter 15: Learners With Special Gifts and Talents
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Q1) The ability to express novel and useful ideas, to sense and elucidate relationships, and ask previously unthought of but important questions is A)talent. B)genius.
C)creativity. D)insight.
Q2) The recognition of giftedness is a relatively new phenomenon. A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following are principles of identification that help ensure fairness EXCEPT A)assessments that go beyond a narrow conception of talent.
B)reliable and valid instruments.
C)multiple measures/criteria approach.
D)appreciation of large group studies and focus on a combination of scores.
Q4) Describe acceleration and discuss the advantages of this approach to meeting educational needs of students who are gifted or talented.
Q5) What factors seem to influence intelligence? How do each contribute to giftedness?
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