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Special Education
Q:
The response to intervention approach in the field of learning disabilities focuses on _______ and ______. Explain these two areas of focus.
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There has been a decrease in the number of due process hearings in recent years.
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Enriching the content of instruction includes all but which of the following?
A) accelerating content
B) independent study
C) mentorships
D) investigating topics in greater detail
Q:
What percentage of students who are deaf or hard of hearing are educated in residential schools?
A) 4%
B) 35%
C) 50%
D) 75%
Q:
What is the appropriate placement for a student with learning disabilities?
Q:
Related services provided under IDEA are only for parents of students with disabilities.
Q:
According to the author of the text, which subjects are ideally suited to acceleration?
A) reading and math
B) math and science
C) reading and social studies
D) math and foreign language
Q:
Which of the following is an example of an iconic sign used in ASL?
A) a sign that involves intense motions
B) a sign that represents a proper name
C) a sign that resembles the action or object it represents
D) a sign that can easily be translated into a foreign language
Q:
Teaching a child what sound each letter makes is an example of which of the six principles of early reading instruction?
Q:
Parents or guardians are responsible for informing school administrators of their child's disability.
Q:
Which step in curriculum compacting is usually the most difficult for teachers?
A) assessing the target content areas
B) substituting more appropriate content
C) determining the content to be eliminated
D) determining which students qualify for compacting
Q:
Which of the following is the language of the Deaf culture in the United States and Canada?
A) American Sign Language (ASL)
B) English Sign Language (ESL)
C) Signing Essential English (SEE I)
D) Signing Exact English (SEE II)
Q:
List four of Grossen's (2004) six principles for early reading instruction.
Q:
The six major principles of IDEA have remained virtually the same since 1975)
Q:
Which is the best example of enrichment?
A) Jewel is 14 years old, but is allowed to enroll in college courses.
B) With a teacher's guidance, Dale researches, designs, and builds a robot.
C) Tosha is given extra reading and math problems because she always finishes early.
D) Since Lynn already knows the algebra content covered in the first 8 weeks in class, she is allowed to begin with content usually introduced later.
Q:
Which of the following is not a limitation associated with speechreading?
A) Many words look alike on the lips.
B) Many speakers use vision to decode speech
C) Many speakers are able to talk while barely moving their lips.
D) Many students experience fatigue after speech reading for a short time.
Q:
Explain any one of the major dangers of placing too much emphasis on theories linking LD to brain damage or dysfunction.
Q:
Special education is mandated for children who are gifted and talented under IDEA.
Q:
Maker characterizes a person who is gifted as
A) highly talented
B) a problem solver
C) extremely creative
D) an individual with an IQ score two standard deviations above the mean
Q:
The most widely used method of instruction in schools for the deaf is
A) cued speech
B) fingerspelling
C) speechreading
D) total communication
Q:
Give a brief description of the relationship between heredity and/or genetics and reading disability.
Q:
About twice as many males as females receive special education services.
Q:
Which is not a recommended curriculum and instruction feature for gifted and talented students?
A) ensure academic rigor
B) match ability and interests
C) focus only on math and the sciences
D) be thematic or interdisciplinary in nature
Q:
Which of the following is not true of cued speech?
A) The hand signals must be used along with speech.
B) The hand signals constitute a manual alphabet.
C) It does not disrupt the natural rhythm of speech.
D) It helps students identify speech features such as syllables.
Q:
Name two early environmental variables that influence achievement in school.
Q:
Exceptional children are more like other children than they are different.
Q:
Appropriate curricular approaches for educating students who are gifted and talented include all of the following except
A) acceleration
B) problem based learning
C) differentiation
D) enrichment
Q:
Mr. Johansen is trying to teach Timothy, a young child with a hearing loss, to use his residual hearing to learn. He does not allow Timothy to look at the speaker's lips. Mr. Johansen is using
A) auditory learning
B) auditory-verbal-therapy
C) interactive-alinguistic communication
D) oral-aural communication
Q:
What is the defining characteristic of students with learning disabilities?
Q:
The terms impairment, disability, and handicap are synonymous.
Q:
Twice exceptional means
A) being gifted academically and also talented
B) being gifted and talented and having a disability
C) being in the top 1% on the bell curve of IQ scores
D) being gifted and talented but unidentified because of gender
Q:
The most likely sequence of activities related to sound for children involved in auditory training is
A) awareness, discrimination, identification, localization
B) awareness, identification, discrimination, localization
C) awareness, identification, localization, discrimination
D) awareness, localization, discrimination, identification
Q:
Explain why predictable text is not useful for a child who needs to improve word-recognition skills.
Q:
List the three levels of preventive intervention and briefly describe each.
Q:
For students who are twice exceptional, which of the following is NOT recommended for supporting their social and emotional needs?
A) encourage students to succeed
B) teach strategies for coping with frustrations
C) provide support in establishing and maintaining social relationships
D) use conventional or nontraditional measurement tools as well as nonverbal measurement
Q:
Activities to improve the listening skills of students with hearing loss
A) are appropriate for all students with hearing loss
B) are most appropriate for students who prefer oral communication
C) are most appropriate for students who prefer manual communication
D) are most appropriate for students with mild or moderate hearing loss
Q:
A special form of direct daily measurement in which instructional decisions are based on changes in the frequency of student performance is known as
A) acceleration
B) CBM
C) precision teaching
D) tertiary intervention
Q:
Define and give an example of alternative assessments.
Q:
Which of the following is not true regarding the problems that boys, who are gifted and talented, encounter?
A) Boys outscore girls on standard achievement tests.
B) Creative behavior in boys is generally encouraged.
C) A boy code operates against the expression of emotions by boys.
D) There is negative stereotyping of boys who are talented in the arts.
Q:
Which of the following is/are true regarding C-Print speech-to-text service for deaf students?
A) Deaf students must learn shorthand to use the service.
B) The presenter or lecturer types notes and comments for deaf students.
C) The system provides meaning-for-meaning translation of class lectures.
D) The system provides verbatim, word-for-word translations of class lectures.
Q:
Which of the following statements about DIBELS is not accurate?
A) It is a summative evaluation.
B) It measures reading fluency.
C) It is used to monitor early reading skills.
D) It can identify children who are likely to become deficient readers.
Q:
What constitutes a functional curriculum?
Q:
Which of the following is an external variable that impedes the identification and education of girls who are gifted and talented?
A) lack of female geniuses
B) parental pressure to excel
C) poor academic choices at the secondary level
D) general disinterest in math and science curriculum
Q:
Which educational approach emphasizes the use of both speech and sign language?
A) oral/aural
B) cued speech
C) bilingual/bicultural
D) total communication
Q:
Which of the following is an example of curricula that includes explicit instruction?
A) Everyday Mathematics
B) Reading Mastery
C) Rigby Literacy
D) The Blueford Series
Q:
Explain the court case Timothy W. v. Rochester School District and the outcome.
Q:
Which is a goal agreed upon by professionals, in gifted and talented education, for the identification of students who are culturally diverse and who live in poverty?
A) use mainly informal testing techniques
B) use subjective rather than objective data
C) defer the identification process until students have learned English
D) use multiple sources to gather data, including unconventional measures
Q:
Which educational approach emphasizes training in the production and understanding of speech?
A) oral/aural
B) cued speech
C) bilingual/bicultural
D) total communication
Q:
Neuroimaging research has indicated that students with dyslexia have differences in the brain structure or functioning in the
A) cerebral cortex
B) corpus callosum
C) frontal lobe
D) left temporal lobe
Q:
Explain the court case Armstrong v. Kline and the outcome.
Q:
What is primarily to blame for the underrepresentation of students from culturally diverse groups in programs for the gifted and talented?
A) biases inherent in the identification process
B) the increasing numbers of culturally diverse students in the school population
C) reduced numbers of minority students entering fields requiring math and science skills
D) students in culturally diverse groups lack the qualities of students who are gifted and talented
Q:
Which of the following is true about telecommunication devices for the deaf?
A) They are available as a related service under IDEA.
B) They require the presence of a sign language interpreter.
C) They are available in many public places because of the ADA.
D) They have recently been replaced by cell phones with text messaging.
Q:
Which of the following service options for students with learning disabilities is the most restrictive?
A) consultation
B) general education classroom
C) resource room
D) separate classroom
Q:
What is assistive technology?
Q:
Which is not a type of qualitative assessment tool used for identification of students who are gifted and talented?
A) IQ test
B) interview
C) observation
D) portfolio
Q:
Rear Window is
A) a popular movie about a deaf girl
B) computer software that translates speech into text
C) a captioning system available in some movie theatres
D) a device that alerts a deaf person when someone is at door
Q:
Which of the following is not a typical responsibility of a resource teacher?
A) assisting general educators with program planning
B) teaching social skills to students with learning disabilities
C) teaching learning strategies to students with learning disabilities
D) writing lesson plans for general educators who teach students with learning disabilities
Q:
List and explain six educational placement options, for students with disabilities, in order from least restrictive to most restrictive.
Q:
In which of the following groups would students be least likely to be identified as gifted and talented?
A) girls
B) Hispanics
C) African Americans
D) Native Americans
Q:
Which of the following is true about advances in hearing aids?
A) Newer hearing aids are accepted by the Deaf culture.
B) Newer hearing aids are still unsuitable for preschoolers.
C) Newer hearing aids amplify all sounds indiscriminately.
D) Newer hearing aids can be preprogrammed for optional listening.
Q:
On average, how many students does a resource teacher serve?
A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) 40
Q:
Compare and contrast funding for Gifted and Talented programs and special education funding?
Q:
Identification and placement of gifted and talented children from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural groups
A) is a persistent problem in education
B) is addressed in the federal legislation for the gifted
C) is increasing, as disproportionate numbers of children from these groups are served
D) was an issue resolved in the last decade, as these groups are served in proportion similar to that of other populations
Q:
How do cochlear implants benefit students with hearing loss?
A) They restore normal hearing.
B) They reduce background noise.
C) They help students understand speech.
D) They deliver amplified sound directly to the middle ear.
Q:
Studies on educational placement and its effect on the self-concept of students with learning disabilities concluded that
A) placement did not have a major influence on self-concept
B) placement in resource rooms generally enhanced self-concept.
C) placement in inclusive classrooms generally enhanced self-concept
D) placement in segregated classrooms had a negative effect on self-concept
Q:
Define early intervention services for infants and toddlers.
Q:
Which is not descriptive of Maker's (2005) DISCOVER assessment procedure?
A) It "levels the playing field" for students from culturally diverse grounds.
B) It involves decreasingly less structured problem-solving tasks.
C) It includes tasks which require both convergent and divergent thinking.
D) It has been found to be inequitable when used with girls or diverse cultural groups.
Q:
Colby is a year old and has cleft palate. He needs an evaluation to determine if problems associated with this condition are affecting his hearing. Which of the following tests can be used?
A) pure-tone audiometry
B) operant conditioning audiometry
C) speech reception threshold (SRT)
D) voice recognition testing (VRT)
Q:
Special educators can help students with learning disabilities succeed in general education classes by
A) providing assistance with homework
B) providing assistance with assessments
C) teaching them basic skills in the resource room
D) teaching them behaviors that general educators value
Q:
List and explain the six major principles of IDEA.
Q:
An approach toward identification of gifted and talented children that is gaining popularity among educators is best described as
A) a nomination system
B) group analysis
C) multidimensional screening
D) standardized test administration
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Hearing loss may not be detected in very young children because
A) all infants smile, babble and coo
B) most deaf children are born to deaf parents
C) screening for hearing loss in infants is not possible
D) parents don"t usually seek diagnosis until the child starts school
Q:
Mr. Romano teaches his students to think of the acronym HOMES to remember the names of the five great lakes. What type of mnemonic device is this?
A) a cryptic strategy
B) a keyword method
C) a letter strategy
D) a pegword method
Q:
Which is not a defining feature of special education?
A) intensive
B) guided by teacher performance
C) goal-directed
D) individualized
Q:
According to Torrance's research on creativity, most creative people are
A) individuals who walk and talk at an early age
B) individuals who spend more time reading than watching television
C) individuals from affluent backgrounds who are exposed to the fine arts at an early age
D) individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who use their imaginations to think outside the box
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Malcolm is a student in Mrs. Whetstone's fourth grade class. She is confused by his difficulties. Some days, he is so dizzy that he spends most of the day with the nurse. He also reports that he hears noises or ringing sounds that nobody else hears. Sometimes, Malcolm does not seem to hear and other days his hearing is much better. Malcolm has symptoms associated with
A) cytomegalovirus
B) Mnire's disease
C) otitis media
D) toxoplasmosis
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Mrs. Cooper prepares handouts for her students with learning disabilities to help them understand her lecture. The handouts contain an outline of lecture content and include spaces for writing key facts, concepts, or relationships. This is an example of
A) a graphic organizer
B) guided notes
C) prescribed notes
D) strategic note taking
Q:
All of the following are features of special education curriculum except
A) self-care skills are sometime taught
B) functional skills are sometimes taught
C) individualized goals are always aligned to state standards
D) instruction may be intensive and systematic
Q:
Using intelligence test scores and including students regarded as highly talented, the prevalence for giftedness is estimated as high as
A) l%
B) 3"5%
C) 25%
D) 10"15%
Q:
Signs of noise sufficient enough to risk hearing loss include
A) Ringing in the ears while in the noisy area
B) Placing a hand to the ear in order to hear better
C) Hearing only soft or muffled sounds after leaving the noisy area
D) Having to shout to be heard when standing 10 feet away from a person