Characteristics of Disabilities Practice Questions
Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the various types of disabilities, focusing on the unique characteristics, causes, and educational implications associated with each. Students will examine cognitive, physical, sensory, emotional, and developmental disabilities, gaining insight into how these differences can affect learning, behavior, and participation in daily life. The course also discusses legal frameworks, inclusion strategies, and the role of educators and support personnel in creating accommodating environments. Emphasis is placed on promoting understanding, respectful interaction, and evidence-based approaches for supporting individuals with diverse needs in educational settings.
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Educating Exceptional Children 13th Edition by Samuel Kirk
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Chapter 1: Children With Exceptionalities and Their Families
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Q1) The RTI three-tier model is designed to
A)move children with disabilities quickly into special classes.
B)modify the concept of inclusion.
C)allow remedial work to be given before a referral to special education is made.
D)serve only the children who have been diagnosed with a disability.
Answer: C
Q2) According to educators, the exceptional child is different from the average child in that he or she needs
A)close supervision.
B)instructional modifications.
C)encouragement in class.
D)All of these.
Answer: B
Q3) As collaborative members of their child's multidisciplinary team, parents can
A)provide professionals with important information about their child.
B)take an active role in teaching their child.
C)reinforce learning that has taken place in the classroom.
D)All of these.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2:
Exceptional Children and Social Institutions: Government, Courts, and the Schools
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Q1) The ecology of a student refers to the influence of _______________ on the child. A)family
B)community and school
C)peers
D)All of these.
Answer: D
Q2) The continuum of services refers to
A)the range of curriculum adaptations available to classroom teachers.
B)the range of placements that may be available to a student with disabilities.
C)the range of related services that students with disabilities may access.
D)the range of community-based services that educators should be aware of.
Answer: B
Q3) Public Law 99-457 extended the benefits of Public Law 94-142 to A)preschool children.
B)children with severe and profound disabilities.
C)children with autism.
D)children with physical disabilities.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Early Intervention Supports and Services
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Q1) Which is the most common category of conditions that put children at risk?
A)Genetic disorders
B)Events occurring during pregnancy and birth
C)Hospital conditions
D)Cultural conditions
Answer: B
Q2) The most common category of conditions that put children at risk for disabilities is
A)genetic disorders.
B)events occurring during pregnancy and birth
C)environmental factors.
D)poverty.
Answer: B
Q3) The Human Genome Project
A)has identified two thousand genes that may cause Intellectual Disabilities.
B)has found the gene that causes autism.
C)has led the way in understanding the role of genes in human variation and how and why cognitive disabilities occur.
D)only looks at genes that causes disabilities in young children.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Children With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) Repeated experiences of failure and frustration can lead to ________________ in a new situation, even when the situation is not a stressful one.
A)memory failure
B)anticipatory anxiety
C)social anxiety
D)memory anxiety
Q2) Riding a bicycle or playing the piano are examples of
A)semantic memory.
B)episodic memory.
C)motor memory.
D)working memory.
Q3) According to the US.Department of Education, 2006, Learning disabilities makes up approximately ________ percent of all students with disabilities.
A)10
B)25
C)44
D)64
Q4) Differentiate between poor academic performance and learning disabilities.
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Chapter 5: Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) Parents of children with autism can reduce family stress by A)learning to use effective teaching strategies that enable them to help their child develop new behaviors.
B)keeping the child with autism and his or her siblings separated as much as possible since the lives of siblings can be significantly disrupted.
C)learning specialized strategies for only managing problem behavior and letting the teachers develop their child's academic behaviors.
D)following the professional's advice exactly.
Q2) The ability to imitate or learn through observation and not through being directly taught is called
A)functional learning.
B)incidental learning.
C)child directed learning.
D)ABC learning.
Q3) One of the indicators of a fundamental developmental disability in autistic children has been lack of a(n) ____________________, the ability of human beings to understand the thinking and feelings of other people.
Q4) Discuss three of the major treatment centers for children with Autism
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Chapter 6: Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Q1) Rubella
A)is an infection that will not affect a developing fetus.
B)is a type of prenatal test.
C)is a disease that may cause IDD and other serious birth defects.
D)is a form of encephalitis.
Q2) The degree to which individuals meet the standards of personal independence and social responsibility expected of their age and cultural group is an indication of their
A)adaptive behavior.
B)intelligence quotient.
C)physical maturity.
D)moral development.
Q3) In reciprocal teaching
A)the teacher models the behavior to be learned.
B)uses direct instruction.
C)waits for a student to respond.
D)students take turns leading or teaching.
Q4) What factors contribute to intellectual and developmental disabilities in children?
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Chapter 7: Children With Emotional and Behavior Disorders
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Q1) Acting out aggressively often and intensely could be considered a A)conduct disorder.
B)internalized disorder.
C)anxious disorder.
D)compulsive disorder.
Q2) The federal definition for a student with EBD places all the responsibility for the problem on the A)parent. B)child.
C)school environment.
D)siblings.
Q3) Suicide ranks as the _________ leading cause of death in teenagers.
A)first B)second
C)third
D)fifth
Q4) Describe the method of Positive Behavior Supports that can be used to change inappropriate behavior in students with EBD.
Q5) Identify and discuss several potential causes of behavior problems.
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Chapter 8: Children With Communication, Language, and Speech Disorders
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Q1) Most language skills are fairly well in place by a child's ______________ year of life.
A)first B)third C)seventh D)tenth
Q2) ____________________ is central to our ability to fit into society successfully, and when difficulties with language and/or speech interfere with it, children often experience problems.
Q3) Dysphonia is a disorder of A)pitch.
B)voice quality.
C)loudness.
D)articulation.
Q4) ____________________ are defined as support services that are required to assist the child in benefiting from special education.
Q5) ____________________ may include problems with articulation and phonological processing, fluency, and/or voice.
Q6) Explain the roles of speech and language in the communication process.
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Chapter 9: Children With Special Gifts and Talents
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Q1) A subgroup of children with gifts who are referred to as ____________________ are students whose academic performance consistently falls far short of expectations despite high cognitive abilities.
Q2) The ability to produce many different answers to a question is
A)multiple intelligences.
B)open-mindedness.
C)divergent thinking.
D)convergent thinking.
Q3) ____________________ allows students to move more rapidly through the standard curriculum after they have shown mastery of the standard lessons.
Q4) Advanced placement is an example of
A)student enrichment.
B)RTI Model - Tier I activity.
C)student acceleration.
D)vertical equity.
Q5) Discuss the characteristic of perfectionism as part of gifted students' emotional and social life.
Q6) Describe the roles that heredity and the environment play in the development of intellectual giftedness.
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Chapter 10: Children With Deafness or Hearing Loss
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Q1) The age at which a child experiences a hearing loss is significant because it provides a clue to
A)how much language the child might have acquired before becoming hearing impaired.
B)the degree of physical development of the ear before the child became hearing impaired.
C)the level of neurological development the child achieved before the hearing impairment.
D)the parents' involvement in the development of the child's communication skills.
Q2) The three bones of the middle ear are
A)the pinna, the malleus, and the stapes.
B)the malleus, the incus, and the stapes.
C)the temporal bone, the pinna, and the malleus.
D)the incus, the pinna, and the malleus.
Q3) ____________________ have been developed for the deaf and hard of hearing that show flashing lights or use vibration when sounds occur such as the telephone or doorbell ringing.
Q4) What should the classroom teacher watch for to be able to identify possible hearing problems?
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Chapter 11: Children With Visual Impairments
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Q1) Problems in personal and social adjustment
A)are the same for sighted persons.
B)do not follow as a natural result of blindness.
C)cannot be avoided by an individual with severe visual impairment.
D)are worse in children who are congenitally blind.
Q2) About ___________ percent of students with visual impairments are in regular class placements.
A)18
B)35
C)62
D)75
Q3) The muscular partition in the eye that expands and contracts to regulate the amount of light admitted is called the A)iris.
B)lens.
C)pupil.
D)retina.
Q4) ___________________ is the child's feeling that he or she cannot do anything worthwhile or useful.
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Chapter 12: Children With Physical Disabilities, Health
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Q1) Movements that are uncoordinated, uncontrolled, and jerky are characteristic of
A)extrapyramidal cerebral palsy.
B)ataxia cerebral palsy.
C)spastic cerebral palsy.
D)mixed type cerebral palsy.
Q2) A blank expression, lack of awareness of surroundings, and an inability to be awakened are characteristic of
A)a myclonic seizure.
B)an absence seizure.
C)a tonic-clonic seizure.
D)a mixed seizure.
Q3) Elizabeth, a 15-year-old with severe disabilities, has learned to make a bed at school in the bed-making program.She is unable to make her bed at home, however, most likely because
A)her bed at home is too dissimilar to the bed at school.
B)she cannot generalize the skill from one environment to another.
C)her bed at home is more difficult to make than the bed at school.
D)her teacher is not there to help her.
Q4) _________________ are inherited, progressive disorders of the muscles that affect movement and function.
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