Sped 4000 Midterm Updated Actual Questions And Correct Answers

SPED 4000 MIDTERM UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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1. What is person first language?
Answer:
an objective way of acknowledging, communicating, and reporting on disabilities.

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2. What is NOT acceptable when referring to people with disabilities?
Answer:
generalizations, assumptions, and stereotypes that focus on the disability rather than the person.

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3. Tips for writing or speaking about people with disabilities:
Answer:
* talk about people in ORDINARY terms * never equate a person with a disability (autistic, retarded)
* disabilities tell what a person HAS not what a person IS * emphasize abilities NOT limitations

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4. In people first language we refer to the _____ first and the _____ second.
Answer:
individual, disability

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5. Recognize that a disability is not a challenge to _____overcome.
Answer:
challenge

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6. Ordinary things and accomplishments do not become _______ just because they are done by people
with disabilities
Answer:
extraordinary

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7. handicap refers to
Answer:
a barrier created by people or the environment

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8. disability refers to
Answer:
a functional limitation that interferes with a person's mental, physical, or sensory abilities (walking,
talking, hearing, and learning).

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9. Do not refer to a person as _____ or _____ to a wheelchair.
Answer:
bound, confined

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10. Do not use "special" to mean ______
Answer:
segregated

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11. Do not suggest that the disability itself makes someone
Answer:
"special"

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12. 6 major components of IDEA
Answer:
1. FAPE
2. Appropriate Evaluation
3. Zero Reject
4. LRE
5. Parent & Student Participation
6. Due process

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13. FAPE principles:
Answer:
* free= no cost to parents * appropriate = in keeping with and IEP * public = at public expense, under
public supervision and direction * education = preschool, elementary, or secondary school * IEP

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14. Appropriate Evaluation principles:
Answer:
* testing for SPED services must not be discrimnatory * evaluator must be qualified to give the tests *
variety of tests and procedures must be used

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15. Zero reject principles:
Answer:
* student with a disability cannot be denied an education * Child Find process

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16. What is Child Find?
Answer:
* third principle of IDEA * each state's education agency is responsible for locating, identifying, and
evaluation all children age birth - 21 who have a disability or are suspected of having a disability.

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17. Least Restrictive Environment principles:
Answer:
* continuum of services according the the student's needs *regular classroom to private residential
facility * regular classroom for part of day and SPED classroom part of day * job site with job coach
for part of the day

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18. What is "full inclusion"?
Answer:
ALL students must be educated in the regular education classroom 100% of the time.

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19. Parent and Student Participation principles:
Answer:
* law says students must participate as much as possible * notify parents before pre-referral process *
parents must give consent * parents pare of eligibility team and IEP team * If not then due process can
begin

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20. Due process/procedural safeguards principles:
Answer:
* protect the rights of the parent and child * full written explanation of all procedural safeguards
available to parents and their children under IDEA.

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21. Describe some of the Due Process safeguards:
Answer:
* independent educational evaluations * prior written notice * parental consent to assess, place *
access to education records * right to present and resolve complaints * hearings, state-level appeals,
civil actions, attorney's fees * confidentiality

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22. How does IDEA define a "child with a disability"?
Answer:
Factor A: evaluated in accordance with the IDEA law Factor B: one of 13 major categories of
disabilities Factor C: state definitions Factor D: by reason thereof

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23. What does "by reason thereof" mean?
Answer:
because of the disability, the child needs special education and related services.

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24. If a child if found to only need a related service and not special education , the he or she does not
meet the definition of a "_____________"
Answer:
"child with a disability"