TEXES 181 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
SCRIPT 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS EXPERT REVIEW GRADED A+
●● Sensorimotor.
Answer: birth to 2 years old; sensory information from their surrounding
environments and motor activities
●● Preoperational Stage.
Answer: 2 to 7 years old; not yet developed the ability to perform mental
operations; egocentric; conservation-the concept that quantities remain
constant regardless of shape or appearance.
Animism-attributing human qualities to inanimate objects
Magical thinking-external events to one's internal thoughts
●● Concrete Operational Stage.
Answer: 7 to 11 years old; the ability to think logically and conduct
mental operations with regard to concrete objects. They still have trouble
comprehending hypothetical and abstract concepts.
●● Formal Operational Stage.
,Answer: ability to understand and manipulate completely abstract
concepts; the development of logic; deductive reasoning; consider
hypothetical situations
●● Communication of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Answer: The children also may show excellent verbal skills in
monologues, but they are not able to initiate and maintain conversations
and have difficulty with turn-taking.
●● ADHD.
Answer: impulse control; emotional self-regulation; sustain attention;
interfering with social interactions as much as with academic
performance
●● Three types of hearing loss.
Answer: conductive, sensorineural, and mixed hearing loss
●● Chronic Otitis Media.
Answer: It occurs when fluid remains in the inner ear. This can cause
poor balance as fluid fills the Eustachian tubes. The fluid affects
balance, which can cause clumsiness. It will make hearing soft sounds
difficult.
●● Conductive hearing.
,Answer: It happens when sound is not efficiently conducted from the
outer ear canal to the ear drum. This type can be corrected with surgery.
In this type of hearing loss, the person will have trouble hearing faint
sounds and also have a reduction in their sound levels.
●● Cochlear Implants.
Answer: they are small electronic devices that are used to produce
hearing sensations for people that are deaf or are severely hard of
hearing. It is used to bypass the damaged parts of the ear. They stimulate
the auditory nerve.
●● Pinna.
Answer: the ear lobe
●● Wechsler Intelligence Scale.
Answer: It is useful for eleven years. It is suitable for students between
the ages of 6 and 16.
●● Auditory training.
Answer: It helps children use residual to develop sound awareness.
●● Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence.
, Answer: It is suitable for younger students. Both have alternative
supplements because the verbal scales are not suitable for D/HH
students.
●● Student Communication Repair Inventory and Practical Training.
Answer: helps discover which strategies students use to repair
communication. This provides teachers with the opportunity to guide
students to the appropriate repair strategies.
●● Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Answer: The students also may show excellent verbal skills in
monologues but be unable to initiate and maintain conversations and
have difficulty with turn-taking.
●● Receptive Language.
Answer: the ability to understand spoken and written language
●● Echolalia.
Answer: continually repeating what others say is normal in younger
children.
●● Down syndrome.
Answer: lower/weaker muscle tone/hypotonia
May not develop physical coordination, balance, and proprioception
SCRIPT 2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS EXPERT REVIEW GRADED A+
●● Sensorimotor.
Answer: birth to 2 years old; sensory information from their surrounding
environments and motor activities
●● Preoperational Stage.
Answer: 2 to 7 years old; not yet developed the ability to perform mental
operations; egocentric; conservation-the concept that quantities remain
constant regardless of shape or appearance.
Animism-attributing human qualities to inanimate objects
Magical thinking-external events to one's internal thoughts
●● Concrete Operational Stage.
Answer: 7 to 11 years old; the ability to think logically and conduct
mental operations with regard to concrete objects. They still have trouble
comprehending hypothetical and abstract concepts.
●● Formal Operational Stage.
,Answer: ability to understand and manipulate completely abstract
concepts; the development of logic; deductive reasoning; consider
hypothetical situations
●● Communication of Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Answer: The children also may show excellent verbal skills in
monologues, but they are not able to initiate and maintain conversations
and have difficulty with turn-taking.
●● ADHD.
Answer: impulse control; emotional self-regulation; sustain attention;
interfering with social interactions as much as with academic
performance
●● Three types of hearing loss.
Answer: conductive, sensorineural, and mixed hearing loss
●● Chronic Otitis Media.
Answer: It occurs when fluid remains in the inner ear. This can cause
poor balance as fluid fills the Eustachian tubes. The fluid affects
balance, which can cause clumsiness. It will make hearing soft sounds
difficult.
●● Conductive hearing.
,Answer: It happens when sound is not efficiently conducted from the
outer ear canal to the ear drum. This type can be corrected with surgery.
In this type of hearing loss, the person will have trouble hearing faint
sounds and also have a reduction in their sound levels.
●● Cochlear Implants.
Answer: they are small electronic devices that are used to produce
hearing sensations for people that are deaf or are severely hard of
hearing. It is used to bypass the damaged parts of the ear. They stimulate
the auditory nerve.
●● Pinna.
Answer: the ear lobe
●● Wechsler Intelligence Scale.
Answer: It is useful for eleven years. It is suitable for students between
the ages of 6 and 16.
●● Auditory training.
Answer: It helps children use residual to develop sound awareness.
●● Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence.
, Answer: It is suitable for younger students. Both have alternative
supplements because the verbal scales are not suitable for D/HH
students.
●● Student Communication Repair Inventory and Practical Training.
Answer: helps discover which strategies students use to repair
communication. This provides teachers with the opportunity to guide
students to the appropriate repair strategies.
●● Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Answer: The students also may show excellent verbal skills in
monologues but be unable to initiate and maintain conversations and
have difficulty with turn-taking.
●● Receptive Language.
Answer: the ability to understand spoken and written language
●● Echolalia.
Answer: continually repeating what others say is normal in younger
children.
●● Down syndrome.
Answer: lower/weaker muscle tone/hypotonia
May not develop physical coordination, balance, and proprioception
