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This comprehensive study guide is designed to help candidates prepare for the Exceptional Needs National Board Certification Exam for the 2025/2026 cycle. It features over 80+ exam-style questions and detailed answers that span essential domains in special education and learning disabilities. The content is structured to support educators, special education teachers, and candidates pursuing national certification, covering: Specific learning disabilities (e.g., dyslexia, dyscalculia, processing disorders) Cognitive development theories (Erikson, Piaget, Gardner) Federal legislation (IDEA, ADA, FERPA, AT Act) RTI and IEP processes Assessment tools (Cloze Test, Maze Test, informal vs formal assessments) Instructional strategies for diverse learners Co-teaching models and inclusive education Behavior management techniques Assistive technology and service delivery Functional behavioral analysis (FBA) and positive behavior support (PBS) This resource integrates realistic scenarios, pedagogical strategies, and diagnostic criteria aligned with national board certification requirements.

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Exceptional Needs National Boards
Study Guide 2025/2026 Exam Questions
and Correct Answers | New Update



dyslexia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔It's a chronic neurological disorder in which a person

has trouble learning to read and spell


Dyscalculia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔It's a brain disorder that causes impairment and the

ability to solve arithmetic problems and difficulty understanding mathematical

concepts


Auditory and visual processing disorders - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cover a range of

sensory problems in which a person even though his hearing and vision are normal

has difficulty understanding language


Nonverbal Learning Disabilities - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Are neurological disorders in

the right side of the brain that cause problems with processing spatial, intuitive,

organizational, evaluation all and holistic functions


True - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True or false:



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People with learning disabilities frequently are very intelligent I have strong leader

ship skills they often show amazing abilities and creative areas like art and music

or are athletically gifted


True - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True or false:


Learning disabilities tend to run in families


True - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔True or false:


People with learning disabilities or never cured but learn ways to cope with and

work around whatever problems they have and many function very well in later

life


RTI - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Students receive the special education services that they

need in a general education classroom setting.


Input, integration, memory, output. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Four basic steps the brain

must take for learning are:


trust versus mistrust - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Erikson's first crisis of psychosocial

development. Infants learn basic trust if the world is a secure place where their

basic needs (for food, comfort, attention, and so on) are met.




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Autonomy versus shame and doubt - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Erikson's second crisis of

psychosocial development. One to three years old. Toddlers either succeed or fail

in gaining a sense of self-rule over their actions and their bodies.


initiative versus guilt - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Erikson's third psychosocial crisis, in

which children undertake new skills and activities and feel guilty when they do not

succeed at them. Early childhood three to five years old.


Ego integrity versus despair - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in Erikson's life span theory, the

central crisis of late adulthood, with alternatives of ego integrity, which means

looking back on one's life and accepting it for better and worse, or despair, which

entails regrets and bitterness about the course of one's life


industry versus inferiority - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The fourth of Erikson's eight

psychosocial crises, during which children attempt to master many skills,

developing a sense of themselves as either industrious or inferior, competent or

incompetent. 6 to 10 yrs old


generativity versus stagnation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Erikson's seventh stage of

psychosocial development, in which the middle-aged adult develops a concern

with establishing, guiding, and influencing the next generation or else experiences

stagnation (a sense of inactivity or lifelessness) 35 to 60 yrs old


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Identity versus role confusion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Erikson's term for the fifth stage

of development, in which the person tries to figure out "who am I?" but is confused

as to which of many possible roles to adopt 11-18 yrs old.


Intimacy versus isolation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Erikson's sixth stage of development.

Adults see someone with whom to share their lives in an eduring and self-

sacrificing commitment. Without such commitment, they risk profound aloneness

and isolation. 18-34 yrs old


Sensory motor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In paigets theory, Pertaining to the combination

or processing of a sensory stimulus and motor response. Jean paiget's 1st stage

birth to 2 years old


Formal operational - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive

development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to

think logically about abstract concepts


preoperational stage - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2

to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet

comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic


concrete operational stage - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage of

cognitive development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which

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