Which three criteria must a student with a behavioral disorder display to be eligible for IDEA special education services?
An inability to learn which cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factorsAn inability to build or maintain interpersonal relationships with peers or adultsInappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances
In the 1950s, Samuel Kirk discovered that a number of individuals had been misclassified with intellectual disability at the Michigan facility where he worked.

Why did Kirk claim these individuals were misclassified?

After intensive remediation reading progress madeLeft and became self supporting
What is a characteristic of Fragile X syndrome, which causes speech, language, social-emotional, sensory, and cognitive problems?
More common in males than females
Which characteristic of a specific learning disability is defined by IDEA?
A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes
What controversial issue have critics identified with the federal definition of learning disabilities?
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Which disability are students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, or other neurologically-based deficits often identified as having?
Learning disability
About what percentage of students have emotional problems or mental illness?
Less than 1%
What are the most common problems seen in students with emotional disturbance?
Conduct disorder, anxiety, and depression
What is an organic cause of mild intellectual disability?
Drug abuse by the mother, which can cause Fetal alcohol syndrome.
Which teaching strategy would work best for a student who is at Piaget's concrete stage of development?
experimentation with materials
Which procedure would improve student adaptive behavior?
positive behavior support
What terminology describes putting the person before the disability?
non-discriminatory education
What does every student with a learning disability have by definition?
Academic problems
Which three can be linked to emotional or behavioral disorders?
Biological disorders and disease, bullying experiences in school, and dysfunctional family relationships.

What is a main problem for students with Asperger syndrome in the school setting?
hidden curriculum agenda
Which federal program may provide health insurance for students with disabilities?
CHIP
According to federal and state laws, which decisions are parents required to participate in?
Evaluating their child for special education servicesDetermining accommodations or modifications for their childDetermining their child's initial placement for special education services
For which group are federal programs for families primarily targeted?
Low-income households
Which argument was used In PL 94-142 to advocate the education of students with disabilities in a general education setting to the maximum extent possible?
Academic and social benefits
Which type of delivery model was enabled by the Regular Education Initiative (REI) sponsored by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
Full inclusion
The clause "It is inherently unequal to educate students with disabilities in separate facilities" helped give educational opportunities for students with disabilities.
Brown v. Board of Education
How often must the IEP team meet in order to evaluate the appropriateness of the student's educational program?
At least once a year
Which three actions are considered due process rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for parents of students with disabilities?
Allowing parents to gain monetary damages if actions taken by the school are unfavorable to themAllowing parents a legal means to ensure the IEP is implemented for their studentinforming parents what will happen with their child's education
Where do laws in special education rules and regulations primarily come from?
Federal legislation and court cases
What are three advantages of nonverbal interventions when working with students?
-They don't draw undue attention to the student -They are effective for all students -They allow classroom activities to proceed without interuption.
What does the Child Development Project aim to teach children to develop?
self-control
What is the life space interview (LSI) technique used for?
To manage a behavior crisis as it occurs
A student has difficulties adjusting to social situations on the playground. The student has a learning disability, but no other identified disabilities.
underlying mental disorder
Which problem behavior could result from a student lacki
Grabbing another student's pencil
Which example best describes a student who cannot manage frustration?
The student leaves a game that he or she is losing.

What data can a teacher collect by charting the frequency of a target behavior?
How often a target behavior occurs
Which two preparations are necessary for an inclusion program to be successful?
Conducting meetings between general and special education teachersPlanning experiences in the general classroom that will decrease student anxiety
Which condition leads to the success of inclusion programs?
General and special education teachers are trained to collaborate effectively.
Which students are most likely to make enough progress to no longer require special education services?
speech impartments
Which question could guide classroom observations in an inclusion program?
Do teachers agree students are learning in the least restrictive environment?
What is a nonacademic benefit of homework?
It fosters independence and responsibility.
What kind of instruction does a middle school special education teacher working in a resource room most likely implement?
Small group instruction
At what times should formal curriculum-based measurement be administered?
before instruction and after instruction
Which two assessments are formative assessments?
Examining student products.student portfolios
Which three components are included in curriculum-based objectives?
-curriculum to be used -criteria for success -person responsible for student learning
How can a teacher help raise a student's self-esteem?
praise during a goal
What instructional accommodation could help a student with a learning disability become an accepted part of an inclusion classroom?
small group cooperative learning
Which strategy is designed to help improve the reading comprehension of students with learning disabilities?
Making predictions about the story, summarizing the story, make up questions about the story while reading, and construct an internal visual representation of the story
Which describes the literature on learning styles?
gives examples for progress made at certain stages
Which classification requires analysis of adaptive behavior in and out of school to determine eligibility for special education?
45 emotional disabilities
Which education models would support examination of a student's medical history to obtain insights about present behavior?
biophysical
Which model advocates having general and special education teachers collaboratively plan to facilitate inclusion for students with special needs?
cooperative teaching or mainstreaming model
Which method is an effective strategy for teaching students with disabilities?
cooperative learning
Which activity is a responsibility of a consulting teacher?
Providing expertise around adaptations
Which step in Donald Meichenbaum's self-instructional procedure includes a student performing a task during silent self-instruction?
Covert self-talk
Which adaptation should a teacher use to help a student who experiences difficulty with hand-eye coordination when writing?
adapt gross motor
Which three components of precision teaching?
Emphasizing doing away with undesired behavior -Measure performance daily -Calculate rates of response
Which three stimulant medications are used to treat problem behaviors?
RitalinCylertDexedrine
alternative teaching
One teacher provides instruction to the larger group, while the other teacher works with a smaller group. Commonly used for remediation or enrichment,
station teaching
The lesson is divided into segments & presented in different locations in the room.

Each teacher presents a different portion of the lesson, with groups rotating to the different stations.

team teaching
Both teachers share the instructional activities equally.
parallel teaching
Instruction is planned together, but is delivered by each teacher separately to half of the class.
Autism
Autism means adevelopmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbalcommunication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3, thatadversely affects a child's educational performance.

Other characteristicsoften associated with autism are engagement in repetitive activities andstereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in dailyroutines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. The term does not applyif a child's educational performance is adversely affected primarily becausethe child has an emotional disturbance, as defined in paragraph (b)(4) of thissection. (ii) A child who manifests the characteristics of"autism" after age 3 could be diagnosed as having "autism"if the criteria in paragraph (c)(1)(i) of this section are satisfied.

Deaf-blindness
Deaf-blindness means concomitant hearing andvisual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communicationand other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodatedin special education programs solely for children with deafness or childrenwith blindness.
Deafness
Deafness means a hearing impairment that is sosevere that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information throughhearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child'seducational performance.
Emotional disturbance
Emotional disturbance is defined as follows: The term means a conditionexhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period oftime and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child's educationalperformance: (A) An inability to learn thatcannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.

(B) An inability to build or maintain satisfactoryinterpersonal relationships with peers and teachers. (C) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normalcircumstances. (D) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.(E) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fearsassociated with personal or school problems. (ii) The term includes schizophrenia.

The term does not applyto children who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that theyhave an emotional disturbance.

Hearing impairment
Hearing impairment means an impairment in hearing,whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child's educationalperformance but that is not included under the definition of deafness in this
Mental retardation
Mental retardation means significantly subaveragegeneral intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits inadaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, thatadversely affects a child's educational performance.
Multiple disabilities
Multiple disabilities means concomitantimpairments (such as mental retardation-blindness, mentalretardation-orthopedic impairment, etc.), the combination of which causes suchsevere educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special educationprograms solely for one of the impairments.

The term does not include deaf-blindness.

Orthopedic impairment
Orthopedic impairment means a severe orthopedicimpairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance. The termincludes impairments caused by congenital anomaly (e.g.

, clubfoot, absence ofsome member, etc.), impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bonetuberculosis, etc.

), and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy,amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).

Other health impairment
Other health impairment means having limitedstrength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment, that- Is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficithyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, and sickle cell anemia; and (ii) Adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Specific learning disability
Specific learning disability is defined asfollows: General. The term meansa disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved inunderstanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itselfin an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to domathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptualdisabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, anddevelopmental aphasia.

(ii) Disorders not included. The term does not includelearning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motordisabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or ofenvironmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.

Speech or language impairment
Speech or language impairment means acommunication disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a languageimpairment, or a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child's educationalperformance.
Traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injury means an acquired injuryto the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total orpartial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, thatadversely affects a child's educational performance. The term applies to openor closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such ascognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment;problem-solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psychosocialbehavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.

The term doesnot apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative, or to braininjuries induced by birth trauma.

Visual impairment including blindness
Visual impairment including blindness means animpairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child'seducational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.