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The Study of Exceptional Learners - correct answer ✔The study of both differences and similarities
Disability - correct answer ✔An inability to do something, a diminished capacity to perform in a specific
way (an impairment)
Handicap - correct answer ✔A disadvantage imposed on an individual
Disability Vs. Inability - correct answer ✔All disabilities are an inability to do something, but not every
inability to do something is a disability
Prevalence - correct answer ✔Refers to the percentage of a population or number of individuals having
a particular unexceptionality
High Incidence Disabilities - correct answer ✔Among the most common
-Learning disabilities, communication disorders, mild intellectual disabilities
Low Incidence Disabilities - correct answer ✔Occur relatively rarely
-Blindness, deafness, autism
Special Education - correct answer ✔Specially designed instruction that meets the unusual needs of an
exceptional student and that might require special materials, teaching techniques, or equipment and/or
facilities
Individualized instruction - correct answer ✔The child's characteristics, rather than prescribed
academic content, provide the basis for teaching techniques
, A Carefully Sequenced Series of Educational Tasks - correct answer ✔Beginning with tasks the child can
preform and gradually leading to more complex learning
Meticulous Arrangement of the Child's Environment - correct answer ✔So that the structure of the
environment and the child's experience of it lead naturally to learning
Immediate Reward for Correct Performance - correct answer ✔Providing reinforcement for desirable
behavior
Tutoring in Functional Skills - correct answer ✔Make the child as self-sufficient and productive as
possible in everyday life
Belief that every Child should be Educated to the Greatest Extent Possible - correct answer ✔Every
child can improve to some degree
Nature Vs. Nurture - correct answer ✔Either you believe that heredity held the key to determining
intellectual development or that the environment was the all - important factor
Normalization - correct answer ✔Means which are as culturally normative as possible, in order to
establish and/or maintain personal behaviors and characteristics which are as culturally normative as
possible
Deinstitutionalization - correct answer ✔The release of institutionalized individuals from institutional
care to care in the community
Inclusion - correct answer ✔Including those with special gifts or talents