Characteristics and Laws Impacting Special Education MCQ
Characteristics and Laws Impacting Special Education MCQ
1. Adaptive behavior is the ability to function socially and practically in one’s environment.
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True
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2. Researchers support the use of an aptitude-achievement discrepancy model for the identification of individuals with learning disabilities.
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False
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3. Mr. Brown has a 17-year-old student with a learning disability. He noticed from a review of her file that she had not been invited to attend her IEP meeting last year. Mr. Brown also knows that the student lacks self-advocacy skills. Does he have to invite her this year?
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Yes, she must be invited
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4. Ethnicity is a term that refers to an individual’s physiological characteristics.
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False
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5. ADHD is an identified separate disability category under IDE
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False
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6. The percentage of students with autism has decreased dramatically since 1990.
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False
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7. Students who are socially maladjusted are automatically included under the category of emotional disturbance.
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False
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8. Professional judgment is applied in the diagnosis of:
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Learning disabilities
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9. High-incidence disabilities that have similar characteristics are:
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Learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorder, mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, ADHD, and high-functioning autism
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10. An 8-year-old boy who is cognitively delayed:
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Can be classified as being developmentally delayed
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11. The law that guarantees a free and appropriate education for individuals with disabilities:
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Also provides definitions for all disabilities covered under the law
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12. Person-first language is used because:
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The laws have changed and the last reauthorization of IDEA mandated it
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13. No child may be excluded from public education because all children can learn and can be taught is summarized in _____.
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Zero reject
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14. ______ for Learning is designing and using instructional materials that allow the instruction goals to be achieved by a wide range of students regardless of their abilities.
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Universal Design
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15. _____ is specially designed instruction that meets the unique needs of a student with a disability.
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Special education
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16. A measure of a person or family’s social and economic status in relation to others is ______.
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Socioeconomic status
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17. Seriously emotionally disturbed is the original label for students in IDEA which was subsequently changed to emotional disturbance in the law.
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Seriously emotionally disturbed
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18. ______ are developmental, corrective, and other supportive services needed to assist a student with a disability to benefit from special education.
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Related services
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19. _____ protects the rights of parents and the school district when disagreements arise related to identification and placement decisions for students with disabilities.
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Procedural due process
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20. Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance refers to the student’s current academic and functional strengths and limitations and the skills to be improved.
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True
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21. Referring to individuals with disabilities by defining the individual first and the disability second, thus focusing on the person rather than the disability is called _____.
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Person-first language
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22. _____ is a disability category that renders students eligible for special education services if they have limited strength due to chronic or acute health problems adversely affecting a child’s education performance.
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Other Health Impaired
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23. Nondiscriminatory assessment is using evaluation methods that are _____ when diagnosing the child’s disability and providing appropriate program plans .
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Unbiased
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24. Nondiscriminatory assessment is using evaluation methods that are _____ when diagnosing the child’s disability and providing appropriate program plans .
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Unbiased
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25. All students learn to grade level standards is summarized in _____.
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No Child Left Behind Act
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26. Multidisciplinary team is same as the IEP team ,is a group of professionals and the student's parents who determine whether a student qualifies for ______.
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Special education
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27. The need or desire that causes someone to act or behave is called _____.
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Motivation
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28. The ability to recall information or experiences is called _____.
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Memory
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29. Usually the equivalent of the school district; a representative from which must present at the IEP meetings is called _____.
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Local Education Agency
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30. Students with disabilities are to be educated with students without disabilities to the maximum extent possible is called _____.
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Least restrictive environment (LRE)
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31. Learning disabilities (LD) is a disorder involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written.
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True
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32. Learner acts, participates, or behaves because of curiosity or desire to succeed, contribute, or participate is called _____ motivation.
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Intrinsic
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33. Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a child’s educational performance is called _____.
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Intellectual disabilities (ID)
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34. Legislation passed in 1975 to ensure that children and adolescents with disabilities have the same opportunity to receive a free appropriate public education as other students through special education and related services is stated in ______.
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
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35. Written document developed by parents and school personnel that details services and goals related specifically to the student’s educational needs are called _____.
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Individualized Education Program (IEP)
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36. Integration of students with disabilities into general education classrooms is called _____.
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Inclusion
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37. Develops the IEP and evaluates student’s progress; members consist of school professionals as well as student’s parents.
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IEP team
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38. Set of procedures outlined in IDEA that governs how school districts provide special education and related services are called _____.
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IEP process
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39. Disabilities that occur in more than _____ people in the United States are called High-incidence disabilities (HID)
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100000
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40. Individuals with autism who demonstrate significant social interaction difficulties and unusual patterns of behavior or interests but have average or above-average intellectual ability are termed in _____.
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High-functioning autism
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41. All children must be afforded the opportunity to attend school and that schooling must be provided at public expense in _____.
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Free and appropriate public education (FAPE)
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42. Learners participate to receive an external consequence, often some form of tangible reward is called _____ motivation.
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Extrinsic
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43. The new name of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA is _____
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Every Student Succeeds Act
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44. Affiliation of a group of people who have the same sociological or cultural factors, such as nationality, religion, socioeconomic class or linguistic origin is called _____.
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Ethnicity
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45. A student whose first language is not English and who has limited English proficiency is called _____.
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English learner
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46. The label used in IDEA to identify students with EBD characteristics is known as ______.
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Emotional disturbance
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47. Emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) are characterized by behavior or emotional responses in school so different from appropriate age, cultural, or ethnic norms that they adversely affect _____ performance.
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Educational
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48. Increases accountability for states, local school districts and schools by requiring that teachers are highly-qualified and use scientifically-based programs and practices is descibed in Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
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True
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49. Original special education law that was signed in _____ and required states to provide services to all children and adolescents regardless of their disabilities is described in the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA).
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November 1975
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50. The use of student performance data to evaluate current progress and recommend necessary changes is called _____ decision making.
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Data-based
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51. The content being taught including state- or district-wide standards students to achieve and goals and objectives identified on student IEPs is called _____.
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Curriculum
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52. Students from backgrounds of other languages or cultures are known as _____.
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CLD
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53. Grouping students in an educational setting based on _____needs of students, not disability category is called cross-categorical approach.
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Instructional
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54. Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is a premiere national professional organization of special educators, paraeducators.
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True
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55. The range of services or placements available for students with disabilities from least to most restrictive is called _____ of services.
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Continuum
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56. The fundamental structure for thoughts and ideas is called _____.
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Concepts
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57. Conscience mental activities, such as thinking, learning, and remembering is called _____.
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Cognition
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58. _____ students by their disabling condition for instruction and other services is called categorical approach.
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Grouping
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59. A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction is called_____.
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Autism
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60. _____ is how an individual explains the causes of his or her successes and failures.
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Attribution
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61. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) interferes with functioning or development,is a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity.
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True
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62. The ability to concentrate on a particular stimulus is called as _____.
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Attention
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63. Students with_____ disabilities all demonstrate academic difficulties cannot receive special education services unless their difficulties hamper their educational experience is known as academic difficulties.
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High-incidence
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Special Education (Students With High-Incidence Disabilities) MCQs | Topic-wise
