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What's so special about special education?
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100

This famous psychologist coined the terms ego, superego and id.  

Who is Sigmund Freud?

100

This process involves the ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds including blending sounds into words, segmenting words into sounds, and deleting and playing with the sounds in spoken words.

What is phonemic awareness?

100

This is a score with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10. 

What is a T-Score?

100

This refers to a process of locating children who may have a disability and letting their families know they may be evaluated free of charge to determine if they are eligible for services under the IDEA.

What is "Child Find"?

100
This core deficit in autism spectrum disorder makes it difficult for individuals with autism to engage in a process of thinking that involves, "I know that you know that I know."

What is theory of mind?

200

This psychologist is credited with popularizing behavioral psychology and operant conditioning. His work familiarized the general public with positive and negative reinforcement.

Who is BF Skinner?  

200

In Oregon, school districts must universally screen for risk factors of dyslexia in this grade using a screening test that is on the state education department's approved list.

What is kindergarten?

200

This psychologist is credited with developing the first versions of a cognitive test.  

Who is Alfred Binet?

200

This is required when the school makes any proposed changes in a child’s special education plan and/or if the school denies a parent request.  


What is a prior written notice?  

200

This is the original and arguably most recognizable symbol used to represent autism spectrum disorder.

What is a puzzle piece?

300

This famous psychologist developed the first theory of child cognitive development. Prior to this theory, children were believed to share the cognitive processes of adults.

Who is Jean Piaget?

300

This is the mental process we use to store words for instant retrieval.

What is orthographic mapping?

300

This is a type of on-going assessment that involves periodic monitoring of a student's daily performance in relation to what is taught.

What is curriculum based assessment?

300

If there is no medical evidence of a head injury, this can be used instead to establish special education eligibility under the category of Traumatic Brain Injury.

What is credible history? 

300

This DSM-5 diagnosis can be given if the individual does not show evidence of restrictive, repetitive patterns of behavior or sensory differences but does have characteristics of autism in the communication domain.

What is Social Communication Disorder?

400

This famous psychologist made advancements to the field of humanistic psychology and developed of the hierarchy of needs.

Who is Abraham Maslow?  

400

This variable is the most significant in determining how much an individual will comprehend when reading.

What is background knowledge?

400

This is the extent to which the scores from a measure represent the variable they are intended to.

What is validity?  

400

This is any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability.

What is assistive technology?

400

Up to a third of people with autism spectrum disorder develop this medical condition.

What is a seizure disorder?  

500

One of the individuals who is often regarded as one of the most famous psychologists wasn't actually a psychologist at all. This Russian physiologist's research on conditioned reflexes and classical conditioning influenced the rise of behaviorism in psychology.

Who is Ivan Pavlov?  

500

This discredited method for teaching reading encourages student to use semantic and grammatical cues first when they are attempting to read an unknown word.

What is the three-cuing system?

500

This hashtag became popular as research shows that significant variability between cognitive subtest test scores is not a reason to invalidate Full Scale I.Q.

What is "#scatter doesn't matter"?

500

This special education eligibility is included at the discretion of the individual states and is not required by IDEA but has been adopted by all 50 states.

What is Developmental Delay?

500

Children with autism are 160 times more likely to die in this type of accident relative to neurotypical children.

What is drowning?

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