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Brain damage, heredity, biochemical imbalance, and environmental factors are all possible causes of which of the following?

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Learning disabilities

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In most cases the cause of a learning disability is

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Unknown

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Which two types of assessments are administered to meet the discrepancy criterion for identifying students with disabilities

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IQ tests and individual achievement tests

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Normalization is a

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Philosophy that people with disabilities should be integrated into everyday society to the greatest extent possible

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What three criteria do most states require to identify students with learning disabilities

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Sever ability-achievement discrepancy, exclusion criterion, and need for special education services

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What is the defining characteristic of a learning disability

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Specific and significant achievement deficits in spite of seemingly adequate overall intelligence

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In what year did federal legislation include learning disabilities as a disability category under which students were entitled to special education and related services

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1975

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Students with learning disabilities are most likely to be referred for special education because of difficulties in which of the following areas

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Reading

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For students with learning disabilities learning to read and reading for comprehension are which of the following?

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The most common problem

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Difficulties with reading, writing, math, social skills, and attention are characteristics of learning disabilities. However, specific and significant achievement deficits despite adequate overall intelligence are considered which of the following?

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The defining characteristic

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Which of the following statements is NOT accurate?

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Prevalence rates are similar from state to state

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Poverty, minimal opportunities to develop early language, child abuse and neglect, and chronic social or sensory deprivation are associated with ________ causes of intellectual disability

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Environmental

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__________ and fragile X syndrome are the two most common genetic causes of intellectual disabilities

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Down Syndrome

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Academic goals for individuals with intellectual disability should be determined by all of the following EXCEPT

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Adhering to the general education curriculum

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The ultimate approach to determining if a given skill qualifies as functional curriculum is to contemplate this question from the student's perspective:

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"Will I need it when I'm 21?"

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______ means breaking down complex or multistep skills into smaller, easier-to-learn subtasks.

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Task analysis

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Which of the following statements is true? IQ tests

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Are strong predictors of school achievement

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The AAIDD's criterion for "significant limitations of intellectual functioning" is an IQ score approximately

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2 standard deviations below the mean

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______ functioning of individuals with intellectual disabilities include poor memory, slow learning rates, attention problems, difficulty maintaining and generalizing what they have learned, and poor motivation

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Cognitive

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individuals with intellectual disabilities may exhibit deficits in cognitive skills. All of the following are areas of cognitive functioning EXCEPT

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Behavior

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Common limitations in adaptive behavior skills for individuals with intellectual disabilities include which of the following?

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Self-care skills and social relationships

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Why is adaptive behavior difficult to measure

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There is no universal agreement about which adaptive behaviors everyone should exhibit

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Which of the following is one of the 10 guidelines for communicating with parents and families

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Help parents strive for realistic optimism

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Which of the following is true about a parents-as-tutors program?

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Keep tutoring sessions short.

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Which of the following is NOT an example of an open-needs assessment

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I need information about_____________

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IDEA defines intellectual disability as a "significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in _______ and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a child's educational performance."

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adaptive behavior

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Which of the following statements about marital adjustment for parents of children with disabilities is true?

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Most families of children with disabilities experience average to above-average levels of marital adjustment

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Which of the following is NOT one of the five principles of effective communication with parents?

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Encourage parents to share private family information that will help you understand the students' needs

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An active listener does which of the following?

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Responds to the speaker's message with animation and interest

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Which tends to be the most difficult step in the RERUN dialoguing approach?

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Understand

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Which of the following is true about a cultural interpreter?

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A cultural interpreter must have a basic understanding of a family culture she is representing

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________ refers to families' strengths, resources, and insights

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Funds of knowledge

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Advocates of full inclusion contend that the LRE model does all of the following, EXCEPT

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Directs attention to the service and supports people need rather than to physical settings

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The most crucial variable in the effectiveness of special education is the

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Quality of instruction a child receives

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Many people___inside and outside the field of education- have detected the following problems with the nature of special education EXCEPT

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Lack of any progress toward providing equal educational opportunities

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An increased emphasis on collaboration between parents and teachers is influenced by which of the following factors?

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Parents wanting to be involved

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Educators must remember that family involvement is important because of which of the following factors?

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Families know certain aspects of their children better than anyone.

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Which of the following explains why there is an emphasis on parent and family involvement in special education

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Educational outcomes are improved when parents are involved

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Which of the following is a required component of the IEP?

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an explanation of the extent to which the child will not participate with children who are not disabled in the regular class

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Education students with disabilities with children who are disabled to the maximum extent possible is called which of the following

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the least restrictive environment

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Which of the following should include a statement of program modifications or supports for school personnel that will be provided for the child

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A statement of special education and related services

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In the continuum of placement options, which of the following is considered most restrictive?

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Homebound or hospital

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Which of the following statements is true regarding LRE

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A student cannot be removed from the regular classroom unless the IEP team determines the specialized instruction or related services the child needs to achieve his IEP goals cannot be provided in the regular classroom

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Which of the following statements regarding cooperative learning is true?

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Cooperative learning arrangements should include group goals and individual accountability

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Which of the following statements regarding multi factored evaluation is true?

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IDEA requires that multi factored evaluation reports provide information about the child's educational needs and hot to meet them

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Disproportionate representation exists when a particular group

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Receives special education at a rate significantly higher or lower than would be expected based on the proportion of the general student population that group represents

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Which of the following three groups of students are disproportionately identified for special education?

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Native american, native hawaiian or other pacific islander, and african american

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Which of the following is not identified as a reason for the overrepresentation of ethnically and culturally diverse students in special education?

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Having a teacher who is from a different cultural or ethnic group from the student being referred

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_____ teams are composed of professionals from different disciplines who work independently of one another

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Multidisciplinary

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In this co-teaching format, both teachers teach the same content to two equal-sized groups of students

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Parallel teaching

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Which of the following is not a major principal of IDEA

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Full inclusion in regular classrooms

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Special educators design ______ to keep a potential or minor problem from becoming a disability.

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Preventive intervention

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The level of preventive intervention is aimed at individuals with a disability and intended to prevent the effects of the disability from worsening

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Tertiary prevention

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Teaching a student who cannot speak to use an alternative and augmentative communication divide is an example of which type of intervention?

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Compensatory intervention

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Which of the following is NOT a challenge facing the field of special education?

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Clarifying which students have multiple and severe disabilities

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The statement "Instruction received by many students with disabilities not only fails to take advantage of that knowledge, it often embraces methods scientific studies have shown to be ineffective" refers to

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The research to practice gap

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Which of the following is NOT one of the purposes of preferred intervention?

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To increase the frequency of special education placement for children whose learning or behavioral problems are the result of inappropriate instruction

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Which of the following is required for classifying or labeling

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For students to be eligible for special education services

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Which of the following court cases set the legal precedent for the civil rights for individuals with disabilities for ruling that "separate is not equal"?

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Pennsylvania association for retarded children (Brown v. Board of education of Topeka

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Which of the following laws extends civil rights protection of people with disabilities to private sector employment, public services, transportation, and telecommunications?

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Americans with disables act

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Which court case challenged a state law that denied public school education to children considered "Unable to profit from public school attendance"?

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Pennsylvania Association for Retarded children v commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Most studies conducted to assess the effects of labeling

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Have produced inconclusive, often contradictor evidence and have generally been marked by methodological weaknesses

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Which of the following involves a group of people who must work together for the benefit of the child

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Teaming

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Which of the following means zero reject

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Schools must educate all children with disabilities

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What percentage of school age children receive special education services

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13%

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Which of the following terms refers to a problem or disadvantage a person with a disability or impairment encounters when interacting with the environment

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Handicap

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Which of the following is NOT a suggestion for using guided notes

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To increase active engagement, require students to write as much as possible

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The majority of student with learning disabilities are educated in which of the following placements

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Regular classroom

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Research demonstrates the most effective interventions for teaching academic skills to children with learning disabilities are

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Explicit instruction and learning strategies

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Which of the following are the three most prevalent disability categories

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Learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, and other health impairments

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Which term refers to children who, although not currently identified as having a disability are considered to have a great that usual chance of developing one?

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at risk

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Which of the following is NOT a key component of explicit instruction

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Discovery learning

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Which of the following is an advantage of disability labels

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Tables helps make exceptional children's special needs more visible to policymakers and the public

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Which of the following requires that students with disabilities be educated with students without disabilities and have access to the core curriculum to the maximum extent appropriate?

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IDEA

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Which term includes children who experience difficulties in learning as well as those whose performance is so superior that modifications in curriculum and instruction are necessary to help them fulfill their potential

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Exceptional children

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In a three-tier RTI model, a student who is responding well to instruction in the regular classroom likely to be in which intervention tier?

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Tier 1

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The consultant teacher provides support to which of the following?

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General education teachers and other staff members

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Which of the following means due process?

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Schools must provide safeguards to protect the rights of children with disabilities and their parents

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All of the following statements regarding the financial situations of parents with disabilities are true, EXCEPT

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The extra costs of providing for a child with a disability are usually covered by financial assistance from federal state and local agencies

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Which of the following is true about siblings of children with disabilities

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children are deeply influenced by having a brother or a sister with special needs, but their experiences are varied

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Which of the following is Not one of the levels of intellectual disability?

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Educable

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A _______ specifies parent-delivered rewards for the child contingent on her behavior or academic performance in the classroom

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Home-school contract

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Which of the following is the recommended sequence for conducting parent-teacher conferences

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Build rapport, obtain information, provide information, summarize, and follow up

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Intellectual disability is the ________ largest disability category after learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, other health impairments, and autism

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Fifth

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all of the following promote instructional and social inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities EXCEPT

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Self contained classrooms

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_______'s definition of giftedness includes the interaction among three clusters of human traits:above average general intellectual abilities, high level of task commitment, and creativity

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Joseph Renzulli

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The first federal definition of gifted and talented students appeared in

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A 1972 report to congress titled education of the gifted

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Highly gifted students have IQ scores ____ standard deviations or greater above the mean

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3

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Which of the following is NOT one of the purposes of assessment in early childhood special education

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identifying the cause of a disability

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Which of the following is an infant screening measure that measures the degree of asphyxia an infant experiences during birth

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the apgar scale

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Although most early childhood special educators view the developmentally appropriate practice guidelines as the foundation on which to provide early intervention, they also recognize that young children with disabilities need

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Specially designed, individualized instruction

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Preschool teachers can incorporate systematic language, social skill, or academic instruction into naturally occurring age appropriate activities throughout the day by ____

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Embedding learning opportunites

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Preschool activity schedules should

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Include a balance of child-initiated and planned activities, large and small group activities, active and quiet times, and indoor and outdoor activities

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Hospitals are frequently the setting where early intervention services are provided to

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Infants and newborns with significant disabilities

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Home-based programs

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Enable parents to receive support by an early intervention specialist who visits the home regularly

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Which of the following is not an advantage of center based programs

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Other family members such as siblings and grandparents, have more opportunities to interact with the child during instruction

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What is group home living

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Family-style living for a small group of individuals

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Individuals with disabilities should not be excluded from opportunities to learn about sexuality and enjoy intimate relationships because

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Sexuality is a part of the human experience

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One measure of the quality of a person's life is

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the extent to which he can make choices

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Which of the following statements about handicaps is true

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Handicapism is a term that describes biased reactions toward people with disabilities

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Watching television, listening to music alone, and spending time socially being isolated are which of the following

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Common, but not ideal, leisure activities for individuals with disabilities

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Regarding sex education for students with disabilities, all of the following statements are true except

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there is ample research in the area of sex education for secondary students with disabilities

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Transportation, the physical ability and skills to play games, and willing and able friends constitute which of the following

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Supports needed for individuals with disabilities to participate in community recreation resources

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what is an apartment cluster

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A small number of apartments housing persons with disabilities and another nearby apartment for a support person

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In which of the following living arrangements does a family opens its home to an unrelated person for an extended period of time

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Foster home

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The employment rate of individuals of working age without disabilities compared with those with disabilities is

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64% vs 18%

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Which of the following is NOT included in the IDEA definition of transition services

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Family support plan

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Madeline will, director of U.S. office of special education and rehabilitation services, proposed a transition services model that encompasses the following three levels of service to bridge secondary special education and adult employment

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Generic, time-limited, and ongoing support.

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When must a transition component be included within an IEP for a student with disabilities?

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By the time the student is 16 years old ( 14 years old in some states)

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Which of the following statements about the summary of performance is true?

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The summary of performance may assist the student in becoming a self-advocate as he or she transitions into adult roles.

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What is the importance of postsecondary education

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Postsecondary education improves chances of meaningful employment

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In addition to increased vocational options, what is another benefit of postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities

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Greater lifetime earnings

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Research based ways to help prepare and support secondary students with disabilities for successful transition to postsecondary education include which of the following?

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access to increasingly rigorous curriculum, training in learning strategies, trainmen in use of assistive technology, and practice in self-advocacy skills.

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What is supported employment

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Work in an integrated setting with ongoing support for individuals with eh most severe disabilities

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which of the following statements about sheltered employment is true?

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because sheltered employment takes place in segregated settings, it should be not be a first choice for individuals with disabilities and should be considered as a temporary trainmen opportunity if possible

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Which statement below is the most accurate regarding the challenges, achievements and advocacy for students with behavioral disorders

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Young children who exhibit emotional or behavioral problems often respond to early intervention

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A major challenge of education students with emotional or behavioral disorders is arranging an environment in which _______ can be learned at acceptable rates and the safety of all students is protected.

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Academic and social skills

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Which of the following is an externalizing behavior

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Noncompliance

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the experimental manipulation of several antecedent or consequent events surrounding the target behavior in an attention verify the hypothesized functions of the behavior is called a

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functional analysis

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Although IDEA mandates that all children with disabilities receive an individualized program of special education and related services, in practice, determination of whether a child is disabled under the category of emotional disturbance is often

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More a function of a school districts available resources to provide needed services that a function of the child's actual need for such services

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In practice, determination of whether a child is disabled under the category of emotional disturbance is often more a function of a school district's _____

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available resources to provide needed services than a function of the child's actual needs for such services

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Which of the following is NOT a scientifically supported intervention for students with emotional or behavioral disorders

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Identifying and teaching to students' learning styles

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there is growing evidence that a common factor may account for at least some family links with dyslexia. What is this common factor

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Genetics

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