General Special Education
Intellectual Disabilities
Learning Disabilities
Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Autism
100
The physical attributes or learning abilities of a child differ from the norm to the extent that they require special education services to access the curriculum; includes students who are gifted and talented.
What is exceptional children?
100
Individuals with intellectual disabilities may exhibit deficits in cognitive skills. All of the following are areas of cognitive functioning EXCEPT: attention, learning rate, behavior, memory.
What is behavior?
100
Guided notes, graphic organizers, and mnemonic strategies are types of which of the following: A. Direct instruction B. Assessment techniques C. Content enhancements D. Explicit instruction techniques
What is content enhancements?
100
Which of the following is an important curriculum component for students with emotional and behavioral disorders: A. Leisure skills instruction, B. An extracurricular activity, C. Social skills instruction, D. A behavior management plan
What is C. social skills instruction?
100
Verbatim repititions of what people around the speaker have said.
What is echolalia?
200
In order for students to receive special education services, they need which of the following? A. Classification in a disability category B. A medical evaluation C. Teacher approval D. Score at least two grade levels below average performance.
What is classification in a disability category?
200
Deficits in self-care skills and social relationships are two ares of what kind of behavior?
What is adaptive behavior?
200
Reports of comorbidity between LD and ADHD show which of the following: A. There are no reports about comorbidity, B. High rate, C. No connection, D. Low rate
What is B high rate?
200
A team-based approach to teach appropriate behavior to all students in the school is called which of the following: A. Positive classroom climate, B. Self-management, C. A behavior management plan, D. a school-wide system of positive behavioral support.
What is D. a school-wide system of positive behavioral support (SWPBS)?
200
Autistic disorder is marked by three defining features with onset before age three: a qualitative impairment of social interaction, a qualitative impairment of communication, and.....
What is restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior.
300
Name two pros for labeling a student with a disability.
What is access to services not otherwise available without the label, identifies a problem, professional communication, a protective response in which peers are more accepting, funding and resources, and disability-specific advocacy groups.
300
Name two considerations of IQ tests.
What is hypothetical construct (can't see intelligence), it measures how a child performs at one point in time, can be culturally biased, scores can change significantly, IQ testing is not an exact science, and the results are not useful for targeting educational objectives.
300
Give a brief description of Response to Intervention (RtI).
What is a systematic prereferral and early intervention process that consists of universal screening and three tiers of increasingly intensive interventions before referral for assessment for special education.
300
Describe how an ABC Chart can be helpful to a teacher working with a student with an EBD.
By using a systematic way of collecting data, the teacher is able to directly observe a sequenced account of all the student's behaviors before the incident (antecedent), during (behavior), and after (consequences).
300
Name 2 characteristics of children with autism.
What is impaired social relationships, communication and language deficits, unusual response to sensory stimuli, perseveration, ritualistic and unusual behavior patterns, severe problem behavior, or other acceptable answer.
400
Name two cons to labeling a student with a disability.
What is focusing on the disability or weakness, lowering expectations, negatively affecting self-esteem, assuming all people in the category share the same charactertistics.
400
Explain why generalization and maintenance of skills is so important for students with MR/ID.
Students with ID have trouble using their new knowledge in settings that are different from where they learned the skill. The transfer, or generalization, of learning happens naturally for students without disabilities, but students with disabilties need explicit instruction to guide it.
400
Name 3 characteristics of children with a learning disability.
What is reading problems, deficits in written language, underachievement in math, poor social skills, attention problems and hyperactivity, behavioral problems, and low rates of self-efficacy.
400
Name three types of disorders included under the ED label.
What is anxiety (phobias, OCD, anorexia, bulimia, PTSD, selective mutism), mood (depression, bipolar), and other (schizophrenia, Tourette syndrome)?
400
Name the 5 developmental disorders on the autism spectrum.
What is Autism, Asperger's Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), and Rett's Syndrome.
500
Explain two of these IDEIA components: Child Find, Protection in Evaluation Procedures, FAPE, LRE, Procedural Safeguards, Shared Decision Making, Early Intervention
What is finding ALL children birth-21 who qualify for services, Using non-biased, multifactored methods to test students, Free Appropriate Public Education where an IEP is developed, Least Restrictive Environment, Procedures to safeguard and protect the rights and interests of children with disabilities and their parents, Collaborating wtih parents and students with disabilities in the planning and implementing of special education, Services for children age birth to 2 who show developmental delays.
500
Name and explain two effective instructional methods we studied for teaching students with intellectual disabilities.
Explicit and systematic instruction Task analysis Active student response Systematic feedback Transfer of stimulus control from prompts to task Generalization and maintenance Direct and frequent measurement
500
Give a specific test name for each kind of test: adaptive, intelligence, achievement.
What is adaptive: Vineland, IQ: Stanford Binet and WISC 4, Achievement: WRAT 4, IOWA, Brigance, Woodcock Johnson
500
Describe two ways that would create a positive classroom environment for students with emotional or behavioral disorders.
What is good classroom management, effective instruction, providing support, having a sense of humor, creating a pleasant working environment, having a class reward system, get to know the students, or other acceptable answer.
500
Describe two effective strategies for working with students with autism.
What is provide structure, establishing a means of communication, modify tasks for success, hippotherapy, exercise (mainly swimming or running), ABA, visual supports, social stories, picture activity schedules, or other acceptable answer.
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