Law
Which of the following court cases provided all exceptional students with a free and appropriate education and put in place safeguards so that exceptional students can challenge schools that do not live up to the courts' orders?
a. Brown v Board of Education (1954)
b. Serrano vs. Board of Education (1973)
c. Mills vs. Washington DC, Board of Education (1973).
d. Bushnell vs. Board of Education (1966).
c. Mills vs. Washington DC, Board of Education (1973).
During the IEP meeting, which of the following most accurately describes what takes place?
a. The parents do not have any say during this meeting.
b. The teachers, the parents, and the administration play an important part during the entire process.
c. The administration acts as the final authority.
d. The student's teacher takes full control of the meeting.
b. The teachers, the parents, and the administration play an important part during the entire process.
According to the law passed in 1975, a student should be considered having a specific learning disability if his or her academic problems are due primarily to:
a. Motor handicaps
b. Mental Retardation
c. Perceptual handicaps
d. Behavioral disorders
c. Perceptual handicaps
People who are in special education include the personnel following EXCEPT:
a. School Social Workers
b. Law Enforcement
c. Occupational and Physical Therapist
d. Teacher Aides/Paraprofessionals
b. Law Enforcement
Which of the following is an example of functional language training for a student who is nonverbal?
A. Rewarding the student for making a vocalization approximating a sound made by the teacher
B. Rewarding the student for any vocalization made while looking at the teacher
C. Drilling on bilabial sounds so the student can say “mama”
D. Drilling the student on pointing to the sink when he or she wants a drink of water
Option D is correct. Functional language training involves giving children a means of influencing and interacting with the environment. Teaching children to make sounds or imitate words in isolation does not fulfill the goal of functional learning.
In 1975 (re-enacted in 1997), the law that changed Special Education is commonly called:
a. Americans with Disabilities Act
b. The Special Education Act
c. Individuals with Disabilities Act
d. Exceptional Students Act
c. Individuals with Disabilities Act
During the IEP process, if the parent does not want to participate or give their consent, the school must:
a. abide by the parent's wishes because they know what is good for their child.
b. The school districts can force the parents to consent by using federal mandates.
c. The school can implement the IEP, but the parent may challenge the IEP in a due process hearing.
d. The school may transfer the student out of their school to an outside agency.
c. The school can implement the IEP, but the parent may challenge the IEP in a due process hearing
The age range of exceptional students is:
a. birth to 21
b. age 6 to age 18
c. The age ranges vary due to state mandates
d. birth to age 18
a. birth to 21
FAPE
Free Appropriate Public Education
Which of the following is a nondegenerative disorder that affects motor function as a result of brain injury that occurred before, during, or shortly after birth?
A. Multiple sclerosis
B. Cerebral palsy
C. Muscular dystrophy
D. Cystic fibrosis
Option B is correct. Cerebral palsy is the result of a brain injury that occurs before, during, or shortly after birth. As a result of this injury, a child’s motor skills are affected.
Which of the following is not considered a very important principal of IDEA?
a. Procedural Due Process
b. Least Restrictive Environment
c. Appropriate Education
d. Parental and Student Participation
e. All of the above are considered important principles.
e. All of the above are considered important principles.
During an IEP, the following must be addressed EXCEPT:
a. Present Levels of Progress/Performance
b. Measurable Monthly Goals
c. Any related services and/or supplementary aids needed if necessary.
d. The projected date for the beginning of services and program modifications
b. Measurable Monthly Goals
When interpreting assessment information, which of the following must be taken into consideration?
a. Any of the assessments can show the desired results.
b. Ensure that the interpretation is done by the person that gave the assessment.
c. Refuse to determine that the student has a disability if the determining factor is the student's lack of instruction in reading or math, or limited English proficiency.
d. The interpretation of the data is irrelevant if the assessment is outdated.
c. Refuse to determine that the student has a disability if the determining factor is the student's lack of instruction in reading or math, or limited English proficiency.
Which of the following statements best defines the ecological perspective on emotional and behavioral disorders?
A. Poisons in the physical environment cause emotional and behavioral disorders
B. Emotional and behavioral disorders involve interactions between a student and a student’s social environment
C. Students with emotional and behavioral disorders need exposure to an ever-broadening social environment
D. Inclusion settings are less beneficial for students with emotional and behavioral disorders than for students with other types of disabilities
Option B is correct. The ecological perspective emphasizes the importance of interactions between the student and the student’senvironment in emotional and behavioral disorders.
The teachers in a third-grade inclusion classroom have students who read on many different levels. To be sure all students have access to the curriculum, the teachers must differentiate reading instruction.Which of the following will best allow the teachers to differentiate reading instruction?
A. Guided reading
B. Literature circles
C. Shared read-alouds
D. Book clubs
Option A is correct. Guided reading allows teachers to work with small groups of students while focusing on the students’ levels and differentiating instruction while working within the groups.
Which of the following statements is true concerning gifted students in special education?
a. There are legal measures in place to take gifted students out of the special education process.
b. Gifted students requiring special services not ordinarily provided by the public school are covered by IDEA
c. Once educators identify a student as gifted, it is not necessary to place the student in special education.
d. Gifted students do not require any educational planning or goals base don IEP standards.
b. Gifted students requiring special services not ordinarily provided by the public school are covered by IDEA
a. Has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such individual
b. has a record of such an impairment
c. Is regarded as having such an impairment
d. all of the above conditions are correct
d. all of the above conditions are correct
The evaluation team determines that the special education needs of a student would be most appropriately met through enrollment in an alternative school. Which of the following parties is responsible for tuition and associated fees?
a. The student's parents
b. Social service agencies
c. The school district where the student is currently located.
d. Private foundation sources
c. The school district where the student is currently located.
Which of the following supports is most likely to help Beth, a middle school student with autism spectrum disorder, be successful in her new placement?
A. Allowing Beth to attend school for a half-day for the first month
B. Providing Beth with a visual schedule of daily activities
C. Taking Beth on a tour of the school so that she can become familiar with the layout of the classrooms
D. Providing Beth with time away from her classmates when she has an outburst
Option B is correct. Because research has indicated that children with autism spectrum disorder prefer routines and structure in daily academic life. Using the visual schedule would help Beth anticipate the routine and become more accustomed to the new environment.
To best support students moving into Piaget’s concrete operational stage of development, a teacher needs to create learning opportunities for the students to understand which of the following?
A. Object permanence
B. Conservation of number
C. Reasoning with abstract symbols
D. Using symbols to represent objects
Option B is correct.Students at the concrete operational stage learn to understand the concept of conservation, which is the ability to recognize that a quantity will remain the same even if its form or shape is changed.
This Supreme Court decision overturned the previous "merely more than de minims" standard.
a. Rowley
b. Brown vs. BOE
c. Roe v. Wade
d. Endrew F.
d. Endrew F.
A second-grade student with a specific learning disability in mathematics is having difficulty understanding the concept of regrouping when subtracting two-digit numbers. Which of the following is the best strategy the special education teacher can use to support the student’s learning?
A. Assigning extra practice problems for homework
B. Modeling problems using concrete manipulatives
C. Providing fewer math problems per work sheet
D. Allowing the student to use a calculator to solve problems
Option B is correct.A student with a specific learning disability in mathematics needs much practice with concrete, hands-on manipulatives to understand the operation of subtraction with regrouping. Once the student grasps the processes involved in the operation, the student should be able to represent the operation using numbers.
Which of the following is an accurate definition of assistive technology?
a. tools and strategies that act to liberate the use of technology for all students as well as to provide new ways to "assist" interactions and learning.
b. solely tools that act to liberate the use of technology for exceptional students that need it to survive in the general education classroom.
c. is a technological strategy to assist exceptional students n the general education classroom
d. none of the above.
a. tools and strategies that act to liberate the use of technology for all students as well as to provide new ways to "assist" interactions and learning.
A well-made teacher-developed test is generally preferred to a standardized achievement test when measuring learning mastery because it
A. is more likely to yield a true score
B. has higher interrater reliability
C. allows for comparison among students to each other
D. has better content validity
Option D is correct. “Learning mastery” generally refers to those lessons taught in the classroom. A teacher-developed test is more likely than a standardized achievement test to assess students’ mastery of those lessons, and, therefore, to have better content validity.
A paraprofessional struggles to support a student adequately in a special education classroom. Which of following is the most appropriate action for the classroom teacher to take?
A. Reporting the situation to the supervising administrator
B. Replacing the paraprofessional with one who is better trained to support students in the classroom
C. Modeling effective strategies to support students during collaborative conferences
D. Providing articles on research-based strategies and techniques
Option C is correct.Modeling or supported scaffolding is the best way to help the paraprofessional learn to help the student.