Exceptional Learners Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the characteristics, needs, and educational strategies for teaching students with diverse abilities, including those with disabilities, giftedness, and other exceptionalities. Students will learn about the legal and ethical foundations of special education, individualized education programs (IEPs), inclusive practices, and evidence-based interventions. Emphasis is placed on collaboration with families, professionals, and communities to support exceptional learners academic, social, and emotional development in various educational settings.
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Special Education in Contemporary Society 5th edition
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Chapter 1: Special Education in Context People Concepts and Perspectives
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Q1) American educator and psychologist who developed the notion of intelligence quotient, or IQ, is
A) Alfred Binet
B) Alexander Graham Bell
C) Lewis Terman
D) Samuel Gridley Howe
Answer: C
Q2) What percentage of students with disabilities will drop out of school?
A) 10%
B) 25%
C) 33%
D) 57%
Answer: B
Q3) Cite two barriers to collaboration.
Answer: Planning time
Interpersonal skills
Turf battles
Lack of administrative support
Q4) How did Itard affect the general perceptions of people with disabilities?
Answer: They could benefit from instruction.
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Chapter 2: Policies Practices and Programs
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Q1) What is the IDEA-mandated process of screening and identification of individuals suspected of having a disability?
A) Brigance
B) Child seek
C) Child find
D) SCOPE
Answer: C
Q2) Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 forbids discrimination against persons with disabilities in both the public and private sectors.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Standardized tests linked to intraindividual differences are called
A) Criterion-referenced tests
B) Norm-referenced tests
C) Curriculum-based measurements
D) Mastery-based assessments
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and Exceptionality
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Q1) Multicultural means ______________.
A) The dominant culture
B) More than one culture
C) A foreign culture
D) Macroculture
Answer: B
Q2) Effective programs for culturally and linguistically diverse students with exceptionalities must consider all the following except
A) Instructional environment
B) Student behaviors
C) The content
D) Student age
Answer: D
Q3) Discuss some of the problems that occur when attempts are made to provide special education to students who are English learners (ELs).
Answer: Obtaining accurate diagnosis
Assessment difficulties
Inappropriate placement
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Chapter 4: Parents Families and Exceptionality
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Q1) List and briefly describe three of the seven family functions.
Q2) Family interactions comprise the relationships and interactions among and between the various family subsystems.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The fundamental belief underlying a ________________ is that a family is an interrelated social system with unique characteristics and needs.
A) Parental belief system
B) Family systems model
C) Professional service system
D) Child first model
Q4) Research has indicated much higher divorce rates among families with children with disabilities compared to families without disabled children.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the four key elements to Turnbull's model: family characteristics, family interaction, family functions, and family life cycle.How do these elements fit into the family systems concept?
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Chapter 5: Assistive Technology
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Q1) Anchored instruction and computer-assisted instruction can be considered instructional technologies that support students with and without disabilities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The reauthorization of IDEA in 1997 shifted the focus of assistive technology as primarily for students with more severe or low-incidence disabilities to also include students with high-incidence disabilities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In the 1970s, with the invention of the _______, additional assistive technology became available to support students with disabilities.
A) Digital camera
B) iPod
C) Microcomputer
D) Text-to-speech software
Q4) All assistive technology must be research based before being used with students.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Individuals With Intellectual Disability
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Q1) Identify and describe each level of support used to determine the type and extent of needed supports for individuals with intellectual disability.Give an example of each.
Q2) A person with intellectual disabilities receives a Social Security payment each month because of his or her disability.What type of support is this considered?
A) Programmatic support
B) Formal support
C) Intermediate support
D) Natural support
Q3) What percentage of children receiving a special education is classified intellectually disabled?
A) 5%
B) 9.2%
C) 7.4%
D) 20%
Q4) What is the instructional technique used when a teacher takes a student into the natural environment to teach skills in the real settings in which they will be used?
Q5) Transition services for students should begin no later than what age?
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Chapter 7: Individuals With Learning Disabilities
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Q1) Sherry has difficulty maintaining attention during an instructional lesson.What instructional model would be appropriate?
A) Direct instruction
B) Strategic instruction
C) Self-instruction
D) Guided notes
Q2) What is the most common location for the delivery of services for students with learning disabilities?
A) General education classroom
B) Collaborative classroom
C) Resource classroom
D) Separate school setting
Q3) What is the focus of the learning strategies approach?
A) When to learn
B) What to learn
C) Why to learn
D) How to learn
Q4) Describe five learning and behavioral characteristics of individuals with learning disabilities.
Q5) List four common components of the definitions of learning disability.
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Chapter 8: Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
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Q1) During the 2011-2012 school year, more than 734,000 students were identified as Other Health Impaired.In the past decade, this category has seen an astonishing _______increase, largely suspected to be the result of the increased number of students diagnosed with ADHD.
A) 50%
B) 97%
C) 117%
D) 200%
Q2) What is the youngest age any medication used to treat ADHD is approved for?
Q3) In regards to individuals with ADHD, postsecondary institutions
A) Are not required to make accommodations for students because they do not fall under IDEA
B) Are required to offer services if made aware that a student has been identified with the disorder
C) Are required to seek out students who may be affected by the disorder and offer them services
D) Can refuse services to a previously identified student if the institution's evaluation team does not agree with the identification
Q4) List the five steps students follow in the self-regulation process.
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Chapter 9: Individuals With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
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Q1) Students with an emotional or behavioral disorder typically exhibit problems across _________________ dimension(s).
A) One
B) Two or more
C) Academic
D) Personality
Q2) Which of the following is not considered an emotional and behavioral disorder?
A) Schizophrenia
B) Depression
C) Down syndrome
D) Conduct disorders
Q3) The prevalence of emotional or behavioral disorders is difficult to determine because the definition of emotional or behavioral disorders is not clear.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The identification of students with an emotional or behavioral disorder is consistent from state to state.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q1) A specific medical test has been developed to diagnose autism spectrum disorders.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A diagnosis of autism requires evidence that 11 of the 12 symptoms are present.
A)True
B)False
Q3) State three reasons cited for the reported increase in the incidence of autism spectrum disorders.
Q4) "Bad mothering" is associated with which theory for causes of autism?
A) Environmental theory
B) Psychogenic theory
C) Organic theory
D) Behavioral theory
Q5) Autism spectrum disorders are generally described as mild, moderate, or severe.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the process that should occur for the diagnosis of ASD.
Q7) List at least five features of effective programs for preschoolers with ASD.
Q8) Describe three disadvantages of sheltered workshops.
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Chapter 11: Individuals With Speech and Language Impairments
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Q1) Speech is the most complex mode for expression of language.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The U.S.Department of Education (2013)reports that over 342,000 preschoolers with disabilities exhibit speech and language impairments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following are organs that are used in the production of speech except
A) Amygdala
B) Epiglottis
C) Uvula
D) Frenum
Q4) Why is it important for professionals to be aware of basic developmental milestones for speech and language?
Q5) Which of the following is not associated with stuttering?
A) More males than females stutter.
B) Children who are twins are more likely to stutter.
C) Stuttering has been linked to psychological trauma.
D) Stuttering is the most common fluency disorder.
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Chapter 12: Individuals With Hearing Impairments
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of a congenital cause for abnormal hearing that involves a narrowing or closure of the external ear canal?
A) Atresia
B) Armenia
C) Autosomal recessive
D) Adventiticious loss
Q2) This hearing assessment is often used with children who are difficult to test or unable to follow simple commands:
A) Audiogram
B) Speech audiometry
C) Play audiometry
D) Children's audiogram
Q3) According to the text, an individual's language and speech skills are developed and refined by all of the following except
A) Pictures
B) Observing
C) Imitation
D) Listening
Q4) What are the pros and cons of having a cochlear implant?
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Chapter 13: Individuals With Visual Impairments
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Q1) ______________________ created the first school for children with vision loss.
A) Denis Diderot
B) Valentin Haüy
C) Nicholas Saunderson
D) Helen Keller
Q2) Students with a field loss, or a restriction to the visual field, must be taught to use auditory cues for safety purposes on the playground, in the classroom, and in other environments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A hereditary condition involving gradual degeneration of the retina is
A) Retinitis pigmentosa
B) Cataracts
C) Glaucoma
D) Macular degeneration
Q4) Visual impairments are one of the least prevalent disabilities.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Cite one challenge to the provision of certified vision teachers for students with visual impairments.
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Chapter 14: Individuals With Physical Disabilities Health
Disabilities and Related Lowincidence Disabilities
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Q1) Given a student with significant health or physical impairments, discuss modifications or adaptations that may need to be made to ensure the student is getting his or her needs met to be successful in school.Include at least one modification/adaptation from five of the following areas of concern: environmental arrangement, communication, instructional and curricular modifications, modifications and assistive technology for content areas, class participation, assignments and classroom tests, and sensory and perceptual modifications.
Q2) What should you not do when a student in your class has a tonic-clonic seizure?
A) Withhold liquids immediately following the seizure
B) Turn the student on his or her stomach
C) Time the duration of the seizure
D) Allow the student to sleep following the seizure
Q3) Name three strategies a special education teacher may use to facilitate successful inclusion practices with a general education teacher.
Q4) Discuss multiple ways an individual can acquire a traumatic brain injury.
Q5) In students with traumatic brain injury, motor skills generally improve first and higher-order cognitive skills improve last.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Individuals Who Are Gifted and Talented
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Q1) One important concept addressed in the National Excellence report that had not been previously considered was
A) The role of gifted and talented education in culturally diverse individuals
B) The role of parents in gifted and talented education
C) The need for special schools to address the needs of gifted and talented youth
D) None of the above
Q2) Do you more closely adhere to a linear model of giftedness or a circular model? Provide support for your opinion.
Q3) A major contribution of early longitudinal studies of gifted individuals was that they
A) Identified the social peculiarities experienced by gifted individuals throughout the years
B) Demonstrated that all individuals who were identified as gifted became experts in their fields
C) Disproved many early theories people held about gifted individuals
D) Demonstrated that gifted individuals experienced longer lives than did nongifted individuals
Q4) List the three traits of Renzulli's model of giftedness.
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