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Special Education Program Common Knowledge and Application
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What is the most important information gained from conducting a functional behavioral assessment?
Skill Deficits
Student Strengths
Causes of Behavior
Behavior Consequences
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What is the primary purpose of a formative assessment?
checking student progress so that instruction can be adjusted
recording mastery of a concept
gauging student learning based on the curriculum
determining whether students can pass the standardized test
3
Good tests accurately:
Show if your student(s) were paying attention
Assess what your student(s) understands
Show if your student(s) failed the subject.
Find out what your student(s) got wrong
4
To be eligible to receive SPED services under Part B of IDEA, students must be in which of the following ranges?
Ages 3 to 21
6th grade through 12th grade
Pre-K through 5th grade
Infant through 5th grade
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Examiners attempting to identify a student with learning disabilities tend to focus on the discrepancy between...
ability & achievement test scores, with ability greater than achievement.
ability & achievement test scores, w/ achievement being greater than abilty
CBA & achievement test scores, w/ achievement being greater than CBA.
CBA & achievement test scores, w/ CBA results greater than achievement.
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Procedural safeguards for ___ to participate in all meetings, educational records, and placements for their student.
Students
Government
Parents
Teachers
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Formal Operation Stage
Was created by Piaget
Ages 12-adulthood
Adds deductive reasoning to inclusion reasoning
Can understand and manipulate completely abstract concepts
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_________ is mixing high and low achievers in the same group, low achievers can learn from high achievers.
Homogeneous Groups
Heterogeneous Groups
9
Which of the following are characteristics commonly exhibited by students who have acquired a traumatic brain injury?
pronounced inconsistencies
inappropriate responses in social situations
responsiveness to incentive-based behavioral plans
deficits in problem solving and abstract thinking
10
_______ is using our receptive and expressive language to facilitate our social interactions.
Social Skills
Contextual Analysis
Pragmatic Language
Antecedents
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These behaviors are most likely to be associated with a student who exhibits passive-aggressive behaviors:
Pretending to be in agreement with others
Failing to comply with teachers requests
Damaging intimate relationships
Performing poorly on written tasks
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A resource room teacher is most likely to ask an occupational therapist for help with:
counseling a H.S. student with learning disabi. about applying to college
arranging a play-therapy for young students w/ disabilities
teaching a student with muscular dsytrophy how to paint a brush
talking to parents about their genetic risk of having a seriously ill baby
13
What is the most important information gained from conducting a functional behavioral assessment?
Skill deficits
Student strengths
Behavior consequences
Causes of the behavior
14
Which of the following is most appropriate for identifying students with learning disabilities?
Response to Intervention (RTI)
Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA)
Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)
Individualized Education Program (IEP
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The development of language skills is critical to the development of ____________ skills
Emotional
Social
Cognitive
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This topic should be included when evaluating the quality of life of a 19 yr old student with severe disabilities?
Adaptive behaviors
Social inclusion
Educational needs
Sensory functioning
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About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with....
Articulation
Fluency
Delayed speech onset
Voice
18
Early Childhood is the best time to learn....
Respectful communication and social skills while playing
How to be successful in academics.
Have fun!
Survival of the fittest
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In a full-inclusion model, services to students with disabilities are available in:
charter schools
general education classrooms
self-contained classrooms
resource rooms
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An alteration to an environment, curriculum format, or equipment that allows a student with a disability to gain access:
Observations
Assessments
Modification
Accommodations
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What is Howard Gardner's Theory of Intelligences?
To Know what career to go into
Identifies how a person learns, thinks, and understand concepts
A made up quiz on Facebook
Operational Stages of LIfe
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Many students with disabilities receive instruction in social skills because...
social skills are easier to teach than academic skills.
they are unable to benefit from educational training.
social skills are crucial for success in an inclusion classroom.
teachers in general education focus primarily on instruction in social skil
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Must understand what they hear before they learn to speak, read and comprehend before they learn to write.
Expressive Language
Inexpressive Language
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Which of the following is a benefit to all students of an inclusion classroom?
Stdnts w/ disblties in an inclsion clssrm demnstrte imprved self-help skill
All students, regarlss of ablty, show an imprvmnt in social sklls & esteem
Gen. Ed. students in an inclusion classroom have higher test scores.
All students, regardless of ability, exhibit increased intelligence
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_________ is a learning disability that affects the motor skills involved in writing.
ADHD
Dysgraphia
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Fluency Disorder
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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a....
federal program that authorizes aid for SPED and related services.
federal program to provide funds for removing barriers for indiv. w/ disabi
federal law that sets deadlines for states to expand testing requirements
civil rights law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability.
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Which of the following best describes a testing accomm. for a student who has difficulty remaining on 1 task for a time.
Permitting the student to record answers directly into the test booklet.
Providing a computer for the student to use to record test answers.
Allowing the student to dictate answers to a scribe.
Administering a test in several timed sessions.
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______________ is reflected in difficulties with speaking. (Words, sentences, processing, poor articulation, etc)
Dysgraphia
Fluency Disorder
Deficit in expressive communication
Stuttering
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Good tests accurately assess whether your instruction was understood by your students.
True
False
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The number of times a student engages in a particular behavior is referred to as:
topography
duration
frequency
latency
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Adapting existing vocal or gestural abilities and static symbols/icons and using tech. devices for speech and languages:
augmentative communication
synthesized speech
assistive technology
blissymbols
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Students must not be determined as having a disability due to lack of instruction/lack of proficiency in language:
Determination of Eligibility
ELLS
IDEA Special Rule (300.306)
PLAFFP
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Of the following, which student would receive services under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act?
A student who is not successful in the resource room
A student who is an out-of-district school
A student who requires SPED
A student who requires related services
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_________ refers to observing behaviors that are a direct response to stimuli.
Behaviorism
Consequences
Observations
Antecedents
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The most likely reason for administering the entire W-J Psycho-Edu. Battery, Third Edition, to a student is to evaluate
For Intellectual Disability
For Learning Disabilities
For Attention-Deficit/Peractivity Disorder (ADHD)
For Serious Emotional Disturbance
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This learning tool is the most beneficial to help Angie, a 2nd-grade student w/ ASD, learn how to use a schedule.
An audiotape witha step-by-step directions.
A written schedule with simplified wording.
A visual schedule including picture symbols.
An ink stamp to mark each completed activity on a chart.
37
Special education teachers are expected to hold highly qualified status when teaching which of the following? (multiple)
Alternate achievement standards
Multiple subjects
Primary grades
Core academics subjects
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Which of the following should be included when evaluating the quality of life of a 19 yr old w/ severe disabilities?
Social Inclusion
Adaptive Behaviors
Educational Needs
Sensory Functioning
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Which of the following is a procedural safeguard included in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Parents have the right to examine all educational records.
Stud. can be tested for classroom classification, at the request of parents
An IEP must be reviewed every year.
Students must be present at all IEP meetings
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____ compares the students scores to a norm such as national averages of score for students the same age or grade level.
Assessments
PLAFFP
Related Services
Norm-Referenced Tests
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Repetitions and interruptions in the flow of speech are characteristic of stuttering and indicative of a __________.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Fluency disorder
Not being taught correctly
Lack of understanding English
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Those with Down Syndrome show overall slow development in physiology and motor skills.
False
True
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A condition demonstrating various symptoms over a period of time: pervasive mood of unhappiness/ difficulty learning.
Teenage-hood
Depression
Emotional Disturbance
Hormones
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This type of information is generally the most useful in making decisions about instruction for a student w/ disability?
The category of the disability
The amount of time the student spends in the resource room
Curriculum-based assessment
Scores from standardized tests
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To be identified as having an intell. disab., a child must demonstrate significantly below average intell. functioning &
seizure syndrome and brain dysfunction
genetic abnormalities
a dicreppancy between ability and acheivement
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
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Many students with disabilities receive instruction in social skills because ______.
they are unable to benefit from educational training
teachers in gen. ed. focus primarily on instruction in social skills.
social skills are crucial for success in an inclusive classroom.
social skills are easier to teach than academic skills
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Which of the following is the best example of a summative assessment?
Providing word problems before beginning a new unit of study.
Questioning students about the problems in order to revise instructions.
Working with students to complete a set of word problems.
Having students independently complete a set of ten word problems.
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The purpose of self-monitoring is to allow students to...
Assess their own behaviors in need of improvement.
Imitate the appropriate behavior of other students.
Record their own negative behaviors on a daily basis.
Assess the behavior of other students.
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Another name for ASD causes disabilities in language, thought, emotion and empathy. most severe form is Asperger's.
Autism Disorders
Down Syndrome
Specific Learning Disability
Pervasive Spectrum/Development Disorders
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Benefits a student with a SLD that is a visual leaner, represents ideas and relationships visually.
Picture Books
PECs
Multiple Choice Answers
Graphic Organizers
51
The classification of severe intellectual disability is determined primarily on the basis of _________.
Perinatal complications
an IQ of 40-55
an IQ of 20-35
postnatal complications
52
Follows segmenting, students must identify whether a given phoneme is at the beginning, middle, or end of a given words.
Phoneme Blending
Phoneme Idenitification
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_______states that students must be placed in the least restrictive environment where their unique needs of the student.
EHA
ADHD
IDEA
EDA
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Which of the following is an essential component of an Individualized Education Program (IEP)?
Instructional strategies
Grading policy
Annual goals
Class schedule
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One teacher teaches the class while the other pulls out a smaller group for remedial/supplemental/enrichment activity.
Alternative Teaching
Substitution
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The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales is most likely to be used in the identification of:
Learning disability
Intellectual disabilities
Fragile X syndrome
Gifted and talented students
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_________________ is an approach that encompasses many different methods to build or augment communication.
Augmentative Communication
Synthesized speech
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The number of times a student engages in a particular behavior is called Frequency?
True
False
