EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION
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What are curriculum-based assessments? - CORRECT ANSWER -a type of
on-going assessment that involves periodic monitoring of a student's daily
performance in relation to what is t Which of the following language
behaviors typically emerges when children in the preoperational stage
begin to engage in social play?
A. Echolalic speech
B. Mimicking intonation pattern demonstrated by others
C. Metaphoric Speech
D. Taking turns in conversation - CORRECT ANSWER -D. Taking turns in
conversation
Piagets 4 Stages of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -1. Sensorimotor
(Birth-2)
2. Pre Operational (2-7)
3. Concrete Operational (7-12)
4. Formal Operational (12 and up)
,Sensorimotor stage of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -Understands
world through senses and actions
Preoperational stage of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -Understands
world through language and mental images
Concrete Operational stage of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -
Understands world through logical thinking and categories
Formal Operational stage of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -
Understands world through hypothetical thinking and scientific reasoning
Longitudinal studies identify a consistent relationship between young
children with communication impairments and the incidence of:
A. Psychosocial and behavior disorders
B. Autism Spectrum Disorder
C. Moderate Cognitive Disability
D. High risk and addictive personality disorder - CORRECT ANSWER -A.
Psychosocial and behavior disorders
During the Preoperational stage, a child's thinking is affected primary by
the child's:
A. Application of rules of conversation
, B. Symbolic representation of abstract concepts
C. Perceptions of concrete objects
D. Sensory and motor reflexes - CORRECT ANSWER -C. Perceptions of
concrete objects
A 5 year old child with a moderate intellectual disability is likely to respond
most similarly to a peer in the general education program during which of
the following sequencing events?
A. Following multistep verbal commands
B. Following classroom routines over time
C. Assembling designs from written directions
D. Retelling the details of a story read the previous week - CORRECT
ANSWER -B. Following classroom routines over time
Which of the following screening activities would be most effective in
detecting a deficit in auditory memory in a 5 year old child?
A. Asking the child to point to the picture that matches an orally presented
word
B. Ringing a bell outside of the child's field of vision and asking the child to
point to the source of the sound
C. Directing the child verbally to perform a series of 3 sequential tasks and
observing his or her performance
D. Reading aloud a 200 word story and asking the child to answer
questions about details in the story - CORRECT ANSWER -C. Directing the
EXAM STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
WITH DETAILED RATIONALES
COMPREHENSIVE ECSE CERTIFICATION
EXAM PREP
What are curriculum-based assessments? - CORRECT ANSWER -a type of
on-going assessment that involves periodic monitoring of a student's daily
performance in relation to what is t Which of the following language
behaviors typically emerges when children in the preoperational stage
begin to engage in social play?
A. Echolalic speech
B. Mimicking intonation pattern demonstrated by others
C. Metaphoric Speech
D. Taking turns in conversation - CORRECT ANSWER -D. Taking turns in
conversation
Piagets 4 Stages of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -1. Sensorimotor
(Birth-2)
2. Pre Operational (2-7)
3. Concrete Operational (7-12)
4. Formal Operational (12 and up)
,Sensorimotor stage of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -Understands
world through senses and actions
Preoperational stage of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -Understands
world through language and mental images
Concrete Operational stage of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -
Understands world through logical thinking and categories
Formal Operational stage of Development - CORRECT ANSWER -
Understands world through hypothetical thinking and scientific reasoning
Longitudinal studies identify a consistent relationship between young
children with communication impairments and the incidence of:
A. Psychosocial and behavior disorders
B. Autism Spectrum Disorder
C. Moderate Cognitive Disability
D. High risk and addictive personality disorder - CORRECT ANSWER -A.
Psychosocial and behavior disorders
During the Preoperational stage, a child's thinking is affected primary by
the child's:
A. Application of rules of conversation
, B. Symbolic representation of abstract concepts
C. Perceptions of concrete objects
D. Sensory and motor reflexes - CORRECT ANSWER -C. Perceptions of
concrete objects
A 5 year old child with a moderate intellectual disability is likely to respond
most similarly to a peer in the general education program during which of
the following sequencing events?
A. Following multistep verbal commands
B. Following classroom routines over time
C. Assembling designs from written directions
D. Retelling the details of a story read the previous week - CORRECT
ANSWER -B. Following classroom routines over time
Which of the following screening activities would be most effective in
detecting a deficit in auditory memory in a 5 year old child?
A. Asking the child to point to the picture that matches an orally presented
word
B. Ringing a bell outside of the child's field of vision and asking the child to
point to the source of the sound
C. Directing the child verbally to perform a series of 3 sequential tasks and
observing his or her performance
D. Reading aloud a 200 word story and asking the child to answer
questions about details in the story - CORRECT ANSWER -C. Directing the
