Children who are autistic are often involved in activities such as spinning wheels on a toy vehicle ...

Children who are autistic are often involved in activities such as spinning wheels on a toy vehicle while making odd noises.
 
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Explanations or reasoning about the purpose of rules is generally NOT useful with young children.
 
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Evaluate this statement of present performance:
  Billy is a loud and inattentive youth who must have directions repeated to him routinely. The assessment given to Billy indicated that he has high distractibility. He scored a standard score 20 where the average for students his age is 60 . This indicates that this is an area of weakness for Billy. Although Billy is easily distracted he is well liked by his peers and wants to please his teachers and parents. How could the writer make this statement more positive for parents?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Children with speech and language delays typically do NOT display delays in level of play.
 
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At 5 years old, the brain attains approximately 50 its adult weight.
 
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You are collecting data for the writing of an IEP. You have gathered information on a high school student's academic performance as well as her attitude, interactions with others and overall behavior from parents, teachers and related service providers. You also gathered information on the student's life skills and life in the community after graduation; this is an example of what kind of information needed in present performance?
 
  a. Behavioral Data
  b. Academic Functioning
  c. Functional performance
  d. Related Service Providers

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Children benefit from being allowed to only play inside with store-bought toys.
 
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Most theorists acknowledge that cognitive skills are acquired through the interplay of neurological structure, which include the brain and nervous system as well as cultural environmental influences.
 
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The purpose of the Individualized Education Plan for students is to identify a student's strengths and weaknesses as well as identify what is needed in the classroom to be successful so that teachers can use it to:
 
  a. lower expectations
  b. guide instruction
  c. identify problems
  d. none of the above

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Associative play is characterized by group play with the groups typically varying in gender and number.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Cognitive disabilities are sometimes discussed in terms of levels of mental retardation.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false