The AAIDD description of intellectual disability:
a. requires evaluation of a students functioning within new, atypical environments.
b. assumes a persons limitations often coexist with strengths.
c. assumes a persons performance will not improve over time with appropriate supports.
d. emphasizes the persons adapting to their intellectual limitations.
[Ques. 2] Which of the following is NOT an assumption applied to the 2002 AAIDD definition of intellectual disability?
a. Limitation in present functioning must be considered within context of community environments
b. Valid assessments that consider cultural and linguistic diversity
c. Considering strengths that coexist with limitations
d. Appropriate personalized supports provided over a sustained period generally will not improve life functioning
[Ques. 3] The 2002 AAIDD definition states intellectual disability is a disability characterized by all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. significant limitations in intellectual functioning.
b. significant limitations in adaptive functioning.
c. it originates at birth.
d. it originates before the age of 18.
[Ques. 4] IDEA describes intellectual disability as:
a. an IQ in the low-average range, along with deficits in average functioning.
b. significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning along with deficits in adaptive functioning.
c. significantly average general intellectual functioning along with other deficits.
d. an IQ in the subaverage range along with deficits in average functioning.
[Ques. 5] In an age of increased accountability and high stakes assessments, effective teachers:
a. should focus on students needs and differences.
b. should focus on what their students can do, not what they cannot do.
c. should realize that students with disabilities and those with gifts and talents have more differences than similarities to their typical peers.
d. who concentrate on their students deficits and difference are more likely to create successful inclusive classrooms.
[Ques. 6] Teachers may find it advantageous to focus on individual learners rather than on the special education labels of some students because:
a. the classroom of the 21st century will include a wide range of instructional challenges, regardless of student labels.
b. most students will have disabilities.
c. that is the policy most Departments of Education are adopting.
d. there will be few typical students in their classrooms.
[Ques. 7] Because the vast majority of students with ADHD are served in general education classrooms:
a. general education teachers must be certified in teaching students with the disorder.
b. these students do not receive the education they deserve.
c. teachers must be able to provide appropriate accommodations and interventions.
d. general education teachers should expect to have paraprofessionals and special educators in when students with ADHD are included.
[Ques. 8] Students with high-incidence disabilities accounted for more than ___________ percent of all 6-21 year-old students with disabilities receiving special education services during the 20092010 school year.
a. 50
b. 66
c. 75
d. 85
[Ques. 9] Which of the following is NOT considered a high incidence disability?
a. Speech or language impairment
b. Learning disability
c. Visual impairment
d. Emotional disturbance
[Ques. 10] Students with emotional or behavioral disorders typically score in the low-average range on measures of intelligence.
a. True
b. False
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