Special Education Certification Test
questions n answers already passed
Wheelchair
Large pencils
Graphic organizer software - correct answer ✔✔Assistive technology refers to any device that
maintains or improves the functioning of individuals with disabilities. Example of assistive
technology
The general education curriculum - correct answer ✔✔Related services consist of
developmental, corrective, and other supportive services that help students with disabilities
access
After a language arts teacher has recited a poem, students are given the opportunity to recite
the poem while looking at the written text as little as possible. The teacher provides corrective
feedback with respect to students' accuracy as well as their phrasing and expression - correct
answer ✔✔After presenting students with new information and skills, a teacher wishes to
provide them with an opportunity for guided practice. What is an example of a guided practice
activity?
1965 - Provided federal funding for primary and secondary education and was meant to
improve the education of poor people. This was the first federal program to fund education. -
correct answer ✔✔Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Educating a child with special education needs full-time in the regular classroom - correct
answer ✔✔Inclusion
integrating students with disabilities or special needs into the overall educational program -
correct answer ✔✔Mainstreaming
,Inclusion treats general ed classroom as the student's primary placement along with general ed
teacher as the primary instructor - correct answer ✔✔Difference between inclusion and
mainstreaming
Federal law that governs the education of CWD - correct answer ✔✔Individuals with disabilities
improvement act (IDEIA)
U.S. legislation granting educational rights to people with cognitive, emotional, or physical
disabilities from birth until age 21; initially passed in 1975, it has been amended and
reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004. IDEA operates under six basic principles: zero reject,
nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation, free and appropriate public education, least
restrictive environment, due process, and parent and student participation in shared decision
making with regard to educational planning. - correct answer ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA)
A function of each state, mandated by federal law, to locate and refer individuals who might
require special education - correct answer ✔✔Child Find
Special education and related services that (a) have been provided at public expense, under
public supervision and direction and without charge; (b) meet the standards of the state
educational agency; (c) include an appropriate preschool, elementary, or secondary school
education in the state involved; and (d) are provided in conformity with the individualized
education program. - correct answer ✔✔Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
a legal requirement that children with special needs be assigned to the most general
educational context in which they can be expected to learn - correct answer ✔✔Least
Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Written document required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (P.L. 94-142) for
every child with a disability; includes statements of present performance, annual goals,
instructional objectives, specific educational services needed, extent of participation in the
,general education program, evaluation procedures, and relevant dates, and must be signed by
parents as well as educational personnel. - correct answer ✔✔Individualized Education Program
(IEP)
a written plan developed by a team that coordinates services for infants and toddlers and their
families - correct answer ✔✔individualized family service plan (IFSP)
The act requiring certain federal contractors to take affirmative action for disabled persons. -
correct answer ✔✔Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned discrimination against the disabled in employment
and mandated easy access to all public and commercial buildings. - correct answer
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act
A federal law that governs student confidentiality in schools. It requires that schools not divulge,
reveal or share any personally identifiable information about a student or his/her family, unless
it is with another school employee who needs the information to work with the student. An
exception is the publishing of student directory information. - correct answer ✔✔Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
A referral for evaluation must be made, a referral can be made by parents, school staff, and/or
school administrators - correct answer ✔✔The process for referrals
stores student special education records, opens all initial referrals and assigns a CSE case
number for public school students. The CSE also manages all special education issues for non-
public schools (private, parochial) and charter schools - correct answer ✔✔Committee on
Special Education (CSE)
Multidisplinary team for children between ages of 3 and 5 - correct answer ✔✔Committee on
Preschool Special Education (CPSE)
, Making arrangements for the evaluation, determining on the basis of evaluation results
whether student is eligible, developing and implementing appropriate IEP, reviewing the IEP on
annual basis and modify it, and developing a transition plan - correct answer ✔✔CSE
responsibilities
School officials must notify parents prior to any assessments, assessments must be conducted
by team with one teacher or educational professional, assessments carried out on individual
basis, assessments must have more than one test of criterion, assessment materials must be
nondiscriminatory, assessments must be validated for the purpose for which they are used, test
protocols must be followed, and children between birth and 3 assessment must take place in
natural environments - correct answer ✔✔Required assessments for students who may have
disabilities
The opportunity for parents to review their child's full educational records; full parent
participation in identification and IEP team meetings; parent involvement in placement
decisions; Prior Written Notice; the right of parents to request independent educational
evaluations at public expense; Notice of Procedural Safeguards; Resolution Process; and
objective mediation funded by the state education agency and impartial Due Process Hearings -
correct answer ✔✔Procedural Safeguards in IDEA
Principles that attempt to guarantee the rights of citizens. The rights and responsibilities that
IDEA accords to parents, children, and schools are complex and there are many potential
sources of conflict - correct answer ✔✔Due Process (IDEA)
A procedure to resolve a conflict between school and family over the evaluation, program, or
placement of a student with a disability. - correct answer ✔✔due process hearing
the designated age at which an individual is recognized as an adult - correct answer ✔✔age of
majority
first step in the IEP process that begins to determine a student's eligibility for special education
services - correct answer ✔✔Prereferral
questions n answers already passed
Wheelchair
Large pencils
Graphic organizer software - correct answer ✔✔Assistive technology refers to any device that
maintains or improves the functioning of individuals with disabilities. Example of assistive
technology
The general education curriculum - correct answer ✔✔Related services consist of
developmental, corrective, and other supportive services that help students with disabilities
access
After a language arts teacher has recited a poem, students are given the opportunity to recite
the poem while looking at the written text as little as possible. The teacher provides corrective
feedback with respect to students' accuracy as well as their phrasing and expression - correct
answer ✔✔After presenting students with new information and skills, a teacher wishes to
provide them with an opportunity for guided practice. What is an example of a guided practice
activity?
1965 - Provided federal funding for primary and secondary education and was meant to
improve the education of poor people. This was the first federal program to fund education. -
correct answer ✔✔Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Educating a child with special education needs full-time in the regular classroom - correct
answer ✔✔Inclusion
integrating students with disabilities or special needs into the overall educational program -
correct answer ✔✔Mainstreaming
,Inclusion treats general ed classroom as the student's primary placement along with general ed
teacher as the primary instructor - correct answer ✔✔Difference between inclusion and
mainstreaming
Federal law that governs the education of CWD - correct answer ✔✔Individuals with disabilities
improvement act (IDEIA)
U.S. legislation granting educational rights to people with cognitive, emotional, or physical
disabilities from birth until age 21; initially passed in 1975, it has been amended and
reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004. IDEA operates under six basic principles: zero reject,
nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation, free and appropriate public education, least
restrictive environment, due process, and parent and student participation in shared decision
making with regard to educational planning. - correct answer ✔✔Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA)
A function of each state, mandated by federal law, to locate and refer individuals who might
require special education - correct answer ✔✔Child Find
Special education and related services that (a) have been provided at public expense, under
public supervision and direction and without charge; (b) meet the standards of the state
educational agency; (c) include an appropriate preschool, elementary, or secondary school
education in the state involved; and (d) are provided in conformity with the individualized
education program. - correct answer ✔✔Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
a legal requirement that children with special needs be assigned to the most general
educational context in which they can be expected to learn - correct answer ✔✔Least
Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Written document required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (P.L. 94-142) for
every child with a disability; includes statements of present performance, annual goals,
instructional objectives, specific educational services needed, extent of participation in the
,general education program, evaluation procedures, and relevant dates, and must be signed by
parents as well as educational personnel. - correct answer ✔✔Individualized Education Program
(IEP)
a written plan developed by a team that coordinates services for infants and toddlers and their
families - correct answer ✔✔individualized family service plan (IFSP)
The act requiring certain federal contractors to take affirmative action for disabled persons. -
correct answer ✔✔Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned discrimination against the disabled in employment
and mandated easy access to all public and commercial buildings. - correct answer
✔✔Americans with Disabilities Act
A federal law that governs student confidentiality in schools. It requires that schools not divulge,
reveal or share any personally identifiable information about a student or his/her family, unless
it is with another school employee who needs the information to work with the student. An
exception is the publishing of student directory information. - correct answer ✔✔Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
A referral for evaluation must be made, a referral can be made by parents, school staff, and/or
school administrators - correct answer ✔✔The process for referrals
stores student special education records, opens all initial referrals and assigns a CSE case
number for public school students. The CSE also manages all special education issues for non-
public schools (private, parochial) and charter schools - correct answer ✔✔Committee on
Special Education (CSE)
Multidisplinary team for children between ages of 3 and 5 - correct answer ✔✔Committee on
Preschool Special Education (CPSE)
, Making arrangements for the evaluation, determining on the basis of evaluation results
whether student is eligible, developing and implementing appropriate IEP, reviewing the IEP on
annual basis and modify it, and developing a transition plan - correct answer ✔✔CSE
responsibilities
School officials must notify parents prior to any assessments, assessments must be conducted
by team with one teacher or educational professional, assessments carried out on individual
basis, assessments must have more than one test of criterion, assessment materials must be
nondiscriminatory, assessments must be validated for the purpose for which they are used, test
protocols must be followed, and children between birth and 3 assessment must take place in
natural environments - correct answer ✔✔Required assessments for students who may have
disabilities
The opportunity for parents to review their child's full educational records; full parent
participation in identification and IEP team meetings; parent involvement in placement
decisions; Prior Written Notice; the right of parents to request independent educational
evaluations at public expense; Notice of Procedural Safeguards; Resolution Process; and
objective mediation funded by the state education agency and impartial Due Process Hearings -
correct answer ✔✔Procedural Safeguards in IDEA
Principles that attempt to guarantee the rights of citizens. The rights and responsibilities that
IDEA accords to parents, children, and schools are complex and there are many potential
sources of conflict - correct answer ✔✔Due Process (IDEA)
A procedure to resolve a conflict between school and family over the evaluation, program, or
placement of a student with a disability. - correct answer ✔✔due process hearing
the designated age at which an individual is recognized as an adult - correct answer ✔✔age of
majority
first step in the IEP process that begins to determine a student's eligibility for special education
services - correct answer ✔✔Prereferral
