MTTC EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025
What type of infection can be passed to fetuses from mothers, who may be
asymptomatic? What can this do to the child? - Answer-Congenital cytomegalovirus. It
can cause neurological damage including blindness, other eye disorders, deafness,
heart defects, and intellectual disabilities.
What is Environmental deprivation syndrome? - Answer-Results when developing
children are deprived of necessary environmental elements. Example: Hygiene,
malnutrition etc.
What is Rhett Syndrome? - Answer-A severe neurological, X-linked gene mutation
disorder occurring in females
Girls with Rett's present with:
- severe to profound mental retardation
- epilepsy, apraxia
- deficits in motor abilities and communication
Approximately 25% will never walk and 50% of those who do walk will lose that ability
The brains in children with Rett's are smaller than in typical children
True or False: In some children with learning and behavioral disorders, blood flow is
found to be LOWER than normal to certain regions in the brain. Also the brain cells of
some children with learning and behavioral disabilities show LOWER levels of glucose
metabolism? - Answer-True
True or False: Securely attached children exaggerated separation anxiety, ambivalence
and resistance to mother upon reuniting, fear strangers, cry more, and explore less than
secure or avoiding babies. - Answer-False: INSECURE AND RESISTENT CHILDREN
show exaggerated separation anxiety, ambivalence and resistance to mother upon
reuniting, fear strangers, cry more, and explore less than secure or avoiding babies.
What are the 6 anxiety disorders that all share the same characteristics of
overwhelming, irrational, and unrealistic fears? - Answer-1. Generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD)
2. Obsessive Compulsive Order (OCD)
3. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
4. Panic disorder
5. Social Phobia
,6. Specific Phobias
What are some symptoms of a panic disorder? - Answer-panic attacks involving
extreme fear and physical symptoms like a racing heart, cold hands and feet, pallor,
hyperventilating, and feeling unable to move.
What is the most common learning disability? Which subject does it primarily affect? -
Answer-Dyslexia. It primarily affects reading but can also interfere with writing and
speaking.
List some common symptoms of bipolar children? (11) - Answer-1. mood swings
2. irritability
3. tantrums or rages
4. seperation anxiety
5.hyperactivity
6. impulsivity
7. distractibility
8.restlessness and fidgetiness.
9. depressed moods.
10. low self-esteem
11. social Anxiety
What factors contribute to conduct disorders in children? (4) - Answer-1. Genetic
predispositions
2. neurological damage
3. Child Abuse
4. Other traumatic experiences
True or False: Blind babies typically acquire object permanence. (The understanding
that unseen objects still exist.) - Answer-TRUE
Children with what type of disability, are more likely to have delayed language
development, and their speech is also more likely to develop more slowly and to be
distorted? - Answer-Intellectual disabilities.
True or False: In speech, most phonological disorders are articulacy, that is, children fail
to pronounce specific speech sounds or phonemes currently beyond the normal
developmental age for achieving accuracy. - Answer-True
True or False: In language, one of the most common impairments is delayed language
development due to environmental deprivation, intellectual disabilities, neurological
damage, hearing loss and visual impairment. - Answer-True
What disabilities limits attention span, focus and concentration and thus are sometimes
classified as health impairments requiring special education services? - Answer-
Attention Deficit (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD)
,True or False: Developmental delays can come from genetic or environmental causes
or both. Infants and young children with intellectual disabilities are most likely to exhibit
development delays. - Answer-True
Children who commonly show delays in cognitive, speech-language and emotional and
social development are usually deprived of what? - Answer-deprived of adequate
environmental stimulation.
What are some signs of delayed motor development? - Answer-stiff or rigid limbs,
clumsiness, floppy or limp body posture fir the Childs age, using one side of the body
more than the other.
What is a traumatic brain injury (TBI)? - Answer-A traumatic insult to the brain capable
of producing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and vocational changes that affect
a child's educational performance.
What does the term multiple disabilities refer to? Give an example of how this can
happen? - Answer-refers to any combination of more than one disabling condition.
For example, infants deprived of oxygen or suffering traumatic brain injuries in utero,
during labor or delivery, or postnatally can sustain severe brain damage.
Babies born before how many weeks gestation is considered premature? - Answer-37
weeks
What are some characteristics of premature infants? - Answer-1. Apnea: interrupted
breathing.
2.Lanugo: A coating of body hair that full-term babies no longer have.
3.thin skin, where veins are easily visible.
4. flexible ear cartilage
5.cryptorchidism (undescended testicles)
6.small non-ridged scrotums in males
7. Enlarged clitorises in females
8. Defective sucking reflexes.
When should a developmental screening take place? - Answer-When a child is not
reaching developmental milestones during expected age ranges.
True or False: Screening tests are NOT intended to diagnose specific conditions or give
details. They are meant to identify children who may have some problem. - Answer-true
True or False: After a child is screened and identifies the child as having developmental
delays, the child is then referred for the developmental evaluation? - Answer-True
What is a developmental evaluation? What does the evaluation provide? What is based
off of these results? - Answer-An in-depth assessment using multiple tests administered
, by a psychologist or other highly trained professional. The Evaluation provides a profile
of a child's strengths and weaknesses in all developmental domains.
Determination of needs for early intervention services or treatment plans are based off
of the evaluation results.
Who usually evaluates communication skills? - Answer-They are typically evaluated by
a speech-language pathologist.
What is child find? - Answer-Child find is an ongoing process with the aim of locating,
identifying and referring young children with disabilities and their families as early as
possible for service programs.
True or False: The federal IDEA law mandates under Part B that disabled children are
guaranteed early childhood special education services and under Part C that infants
and toddlers at risk for developmental delays are guaranteed early intervention
programs? - Answer-True
What does the IDEA require school districts to do? - Answer-To find, identify and
evaluate children with disabilities in their attendance areas.
True or False: Developmental risk decreases with increased biological, medical or
enironmental risk factors? - Answer-False. Developmental risk INCREASES with
increased biological, medical or environmental risk factors.
Under which act does the U.S. states have the option to provide early intervention
services to children considered at risk for divers developmental outcomes as well as
those already identified with them? - Answer-Under the IDEA act.
Under the IDEA, evaluation information sources include: (6) - Answer-1.Physician
reports
2. the Childs medical history 3.developmental test results
4. current classroom observations and assessments
5. Completed developmental and behavioral checklists
6. Feedback and observations from parents and all other members of the evaluation
team.
True or False: Special education for preschoolers include various settings, such as in
the home, in the classrooms, hospitals, institution and others. - Answer-True
What are the 3 main purposes of an IEP? - Answer-1. To establish reasonable
educational goals for the individual child.
2. To indicate what services the school district will provide the child.
3. Has instructional goals for the child to achieve through school and parental support,
along with more specific learning objectives.
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025
What type of infection can be passed to fetuses from mothers, who may be
asymptomatic? What can this do to the child? - Answer-Congenital cytomegalovirus. It
can cause neurological damage including blindness, other eye disorders, deafness,
heart defects, and intellectual disabilities.
What is Environmental deprivation syndrome? - Answer-Results when developing
children are deprived of necessary environmental elements. Example: Hygiene,
malnutrition etc.
What is Rhett Syndrome? - Answer-A severe neurological, X-linked gene mutation
disorder occurring in females
Girls with Rett's present with:
- severe to profound mental retardation
- epilepsy, apraxia
- deficits in motor abilities and communication
Approximately 25% will never walk and 50% of those who do walk will lose that ability
The brains in children with Rett's are smaller than in typical children
True or False: In some children with learning and behavioral disorders, blood flow is
found to be LOWER than normal to certain regions in the brain. Also the brain cells of
some children with learning and behavioral disabilities show LOWER levels of glucose
metabolism? - Answer-True
True or False: Securely attached children exaggerated separation anxiety, ambivalence
and resistance to mother upon reuniting, fear strangers, cry more, and explore less than
secure or avoiding babies. - Answer-False: INSECURE AND RESISTENT CHILDREN
show exaggerated separation anxiety, ambivalence and resistance to mother upon
reuniting, fear strangers, cry more, and explore less than secure or avoiding babies.
What are the 6 anxiety disorders that all share the same characteristics of
overwhelming, irrational, and unrealistic fears? - Answer-1. Generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD)
2. Obsessive Compulsive Order (OCD)
3. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
4. Panic disorder
5. Social Phobia
,6. Specific Phobias
What are some symptoms of a panic disorder? - Answer-panic attacks involving
extreme fear and physical symptoms like a racing heart, cold hands and feet, pallor,
hyperventilating, and feeling unable to move.
What is the most common learning disability? Which subject does it primarily affect? -
Answer-Dyslexia. It primarily affects reading but can also interfere with writing and
speaking.
List some common symptoms of bipolar children? (11) - Answer-1. mood swings
2. irritability
3. tantrums or rages
4. seperation anxiety
5.hyperactivity
6. impulsivity
7. distractibility
8.restlessness and fidgetiness.
9. depressed moods.
10. low self-esteem
11. social Anxiety
What factors contribute to conduct disorders in children? (4) - Answer-1. Genetic
predispositions
2. neurological damage
3. Child Abuse
4. Other traumatic experiences
True or False: Blind babies typically acquire object permanence. (The understanding
that unseen objects still exist.) - Answer-TRUE
Children with what type of disability, are more likely to have delayed language
development, and their speech is also more likely to develop more slowly and to be
distorted? - Answer-Intellectual disabilities.
True or False: In speech, most phonological disorders are articulacy, that is, children fail
to pronounce specific speech sounds or phonemes currently beyond the normal
developmental age for achieving accuracy. - Answer-True
True or False: In language, one of the most common impairments is delayed language
development due to environmental deprivation, intellectual disabilities, neurological
damage, hearing loss and visual impairment. - Answer-True
What disabilities limits attention span, focus and concentration and thus are sometimes
classified as health impairments requiring special education services? - Answer-
Attention Deficit (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD)
,True or False: Developmental delays can come from genetic or environmental causes
or both. Infants and young children with intellectual disabilities are most likely to exhibit
development delays. - Answer-True
Children who commonly show delays in cognitive, speech-language and emotional and
social development are usually deprived of what? - Answer-deprived of adequate
environmental stimulation.
What are some signs of delayed motor development? - Answer-stiff or rigid limbs,
clumsiness, floppy or limp body posture fir the Childs age, using one side of the body
more than the other.
What is a traumatic brain injury (TBI)? - Answer-A traumatic insult to the brain capable
of producing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and vocational changes that affect
a child's educational performance.
What does the term multiple disabilities refer to? Give an example of how this can
happen? - Answer-refers to any combination of more than one disabling condition.
For example, infants deprived of oxygen or suffering traumatic brain injuries in utero,
during labor or delivery, or postnatally can sustain severe brain damage.
Babies born before how many weeks gestation is considered premature? - Answer-37
weeks
What are some characteristics of premature infants? - Answer-1. Apnea: interrupted
breathing.
2.Lanugo: A coating of body hair that full-term babies no longer have.
3.thin skin, where veins are easily visible.
4. flexible ear cartilage
5.cryptorchidism (undescended testicles)
6.small non-ridged scrotums in males
7. Enlarged clitorises in females
8. Defective sucking reflexes.
When should a developmental screening take place? - Answer-When a child is not
reaching developmental milestones during expected age ranges.
True or False: Screening tests are NOT intended to diagnose specific conditions or give
details. They are meant to identify children who may have some problem. - Answer-true
True or False: After a child is screened and identifies the child as having developmental
delays, the child is then referred for the developmental evaluation? - Answer-True
What is a developmental evaluation? What does the evaluation provide? What is based
off of these results? - Answer-An in-depth assessment using multiple tests administered
, by a psychologist or other highly trained professional. The Evaluation provides a profile
of a child's strengths and weaknesses in all developmental domains.
Determination of needs for early intervention services or treatment plans are based off
of the evaluation results.
Who usually evaluates communication skills? - Answer-They are typically evaluated by
a speech-language pathologist.
What is child find? - Answer-Child find is an ongoing process with the aim of locating,
identifying and referring young children with disabilities and their families as early as
possible for service programs.
True or False: The federal IDEA law mandates under Part B that disabled children are
guaranteed early childhood special education services and under Part C that infants
and toddlers at risk for developmental delays are guaranteed early intervention
programs? - Answer-True
What does the IDEA require school districts to do? - Answer-To find, identify and
evaluate children with disabilities in their attendance areas.
True or False: Developmental risk decreases with increased biological, medical or
enironmental risk factors? - Answer-False. Developmental risk INCREASES with
increased biological, medical or environmental risk factors.
Under which act does the U.S. states have the option to provide early intervention
services to children considered at risk for divers developmental outcomes as well as
those already identified with them? - Answer-Under the IDEA act.
Under the IDEA, evaluation information sources include: (6) - Answer-1.Physician
reports
2. the Childs medical history 3.developmental test results
4. current classroom observations and assessments
5. Completed developmental and behavioral checklists
6. Feedback and observations from parents and all other members of the evaluation
team.
True or False: Special education for preschoolers include various settings, such as in
the home, in the classrooms, hospitals, institution and others. - Answer-True
What are the 3 main purposes of an IEP? - Answer-1. To establish reasonable
educational goals for the individual child.
2. To indicate what services the school district will provide the child.
3. Has instructional goals for the child to achieve through school and parental support,
along with more specific learning objectives.
