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Students with learning disabilities are more likely than students without
disabilities to exhibit which of the following?
a ) Clear Dominance of the left Brain for Learning
b) Deficits in long-term memory retrieval
c) Selective attention disorders
d) Characteristics of giftedness in artistic expression - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔c)
Selective attention disorders
Which of the following best represents current research findings on brain
damage / dysfunction as it relates to learning disabilities?
,a) Direct, causal links have been found between prenatal exposure to toxic
substances and certain well-defined learning disabilities.
b) Brain damage/dysfunction has been ruled out altogether as a factor in
the occurrence of learning disabilities.
c) Brain damage/dysfunction caused by accident or abuse is clearly linked
to learning disabilities, but such a link has not been established for damage
that is prenatal.
d) There is little direct evidence of a link between learning disabilities and
brain damage/dysfunction but some evidence that is correlational. - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔d) There is little direct evidence of a link between learning
disabilities and brain damage/dysfunction but some evidence that is
correlational.
Which of the following single indicators is most commonly used to signify
students' eligibility for services for specific learning disabilities?
a) Academic Achievement that is hampered by social and emotional
deficits
b) Academic achievement that is significantly below grade level.
,c) Academic aptitude that is significantly lower than the norm for the
chronological age.
d) Academic aptitude that is significantly higher than academic
achievement. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔d) Academic aptitude that is significantly
higher than academic achievement.
A Student with learning disabilities who reads at grade level is enrolled in a
regular biology class. The special education teacher is trying to determine
what strategies to use to help the student perform well in the class and
pass the required tests. Which of the following Steps should the special
education teacher take first?
a) Determine how well the student organizes and retains material that is
representative of the course.
b) Obtain the required reading materials and highlight important concepts
for the student.
c) Secure a tape recorder for the student to use to tape the lectures and
other teacher presentations.
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, d) Use a readability index to determine the difficulty of the required reading
materials. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) Determine how well the student organizes
and retains material that is representative of the course.
Ralph is a fourth grade, recently mainstreamed student who has a learning
disability that causes him to decode written materials in a slow and labored
manner. His comprehension is excellent. His teacher has organized the
classroom in five reading / discussion groups to which students have been
assigned based on their reading performance. Ralph is placed in the
highest group. Which of the following best justifies the teacher's decision?
a) Ralph will have his strengths reinforced and will likely receive
spontaneous peer tutoring.
b) Ralph will be forced to decode faster in order to be competitive with the
other students.
c) The social benefits of being in the higher group will outweigh any
instructional disadvantage Ralph experiences.
d) Ralph can keep pace by listening to the discussion and thereby avoid
some of the decoding tasks. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a) Ralph will have his
strengths reinforced and will likely receive spontaneous peer tutoring.