Students with speech and language impairments may be eligible for services under IDEA if they meet all of the following criteria, EXCEPT a communication disorder such as:
a. poor social skills, which negatively affects the students educational performance.
b. impaired articulation, which negatively affects the students educational performance.
c. language impairment, which negatively affects the students educational performance.
d. stuttering which negatively affects the students educational performance.
[Ques. 2] Which of the following characteristics is NOT associated with learning disabilities?
a. Reading difficulties
b. Below average intellectual ability
c. Disorders of attention
d. Difficulties with social skills
[Ques. 3] Which of the following is NOT true regarding the intense research into determining the etiology or causes of learning disabilities?
a. It remains an elusive goal
b. Not much concrete evidence exists into the etiology of learning disabilities
c. There appear to be multiple etiological possibilities
d. In most instances the causes of a persons learning disability can be discovered through intensive observation.
[Ques. 4] The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (PL 108-446):
a. retained the severe discrepancy between achievement and disability as the only criteria for identifying learning disabilities.
b. permits states and local school districts to use response-to-intervention to identify an individual for a possible learning disability.
c. requires states and local school districts to use response-to-intervention to identify an individual for a possible learning disability.
d. stipulated that a a severe discrepancy means two years or more below expected performance levels in one academic area for the identification of a learning disability.
[Ques. 5] PL 94-142 and its reauthorization as IDEA describe all of the following elements in the definition of a specific learning disability, EXCEPT:
a. a disorder in basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language.
b. a disorder that manifests itself in an imperfect ability to react appropriately in social situations.
c. includes conditions such as brain injury and minimal brain dysfunction.
d. does not include children whose learning disability is primarily the result of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
[Ques. 6] All of the following are confusing and controversial labels that have been used by special educators to describe students with learning disabilities, EXCEPT:
a. neurologically impaired.
b. slow learner.
c. remedial reader.
d. modified learner.
[Ques. 7] The 2002 AAIDDs classification system for individuals with intellectual disability:
a. was based on three levels of support.
b. focused on functional as opposed to intellectual limitations.
c. was based on the concepts of mild, moderate, and severe.
d. did not bring about any changes.
[Ques. 8] . Adaptive behavior can be defined as:
a. how well a person copes with the everyday demands and requirements of his or her environment.
b. how well family members cope and adapt to the behavior of the family member with a disability.
c. social and practical skills learned by family members in order to adapt to the family member with a disability. d. how well a person copes when taught a new behavior.
[Ques. 9] The AAIDD defines significantly subaverage intellectual functioning as an IQ score of:
a. 90 or below.
b. 80 or below.
c. 70 or below.
d. 60 or below.
[Ques. 10] Both the IDEA and AAIDD definition have all the following elements in common, EXCEPT:
a. significant subaverage intellectual functioning.
b. concept of adaptive behavior.
c. an IQ score two or more standard deviations below the mean.
d. a mandatory group administered IQ test.
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