WGU D002 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
RATED A+
✔✔Which part of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) deals with
providing special education services to school-age students? - ✔✔Part B
✔✔Which federal program may provide health insurance for students with disabilities? -
✔✔CHIP
✔✔The clause "It is inherently unequal to educate students with disabilities in separate
facilities" helped give educational opportunities to students with disabilities.Which
famous court case did this clause come from? - ✔✔Brown v. Board of Education
✔✔What did Hobson v. Hansen determine about using standardized aptitude tests for
special education assessment and placement? - ✔✔IQ tests are fair and used with
other types of assessments to determine if a student is placed in a special needs
category.
✔✔What did Larry P. v. Riles (1979) find regarding standardized tests used for
assessment and placement in special education? - ✔✔Assessment testing biases result
in discrimination of students from different cultural, social, and linguistic groups.
✔✔What was the key ruling of Board of Education v. Rowley (1982)? - ✔✔Schools must
provide children with disabilities access to education equal to that provided to other
children.
✔✔An elementary school student moves to a new school district. The student is non-
ambulatory, and experiences cognitive delays. Because the student primarily uses a
wheelchair, the school district claims that the student cannot attend school because the
building is not accessible. What is the school district required to do, according to Mills v.
Board of Education of the District of Columbia (1972)? - ✔✔To make structural changes
to the building to give the student access
✔✔What is an appropriate accommodation for statewide testing for students with ADHD
or SLD? - ✔✔Scheduling additional breaks
✔✔A student with both written and expressive language disabilities is taking a
geography class. What would be a practical alternative to traditional testing for this
student? - ✔✔Multiple-choice tests
✔✔FAPE - ✔✔free appropraite public eduction that meets the unique needs of each
student, where progress is a priortiy, and
, ✔✔all individauls with learning disabilites qualify for fape ages: - ✔✔3-21
✔✔zero reject is: - ✔✔a part of child find that requires all students with diabilites must
receive services no matter how high the needs are.
✔✔Timothy W. vs. Rochester - ✔✔was the case of a blind student with cerebral palsy
who was denied special education services.
✔✔In which case did the court find that equal treatment means that resources and
budgets must be distributed equitably and must include resources for students with
exceptionalities - ✔✔Mills vs. board of education columbia. The court said that no
government has all the resources it needs, so this cannot be the way to determine who
gets funded and who does not. Equal protection rights must guide resource allocation.
✔✔The americans with disabilities act - ✔✔This law ensures protections and
accommodations to private businesses, public venues, communication systems,
transportation, certification exams, the work environment, and those associated with
people who have disabilities.
✔✔This law provides access, removes barriers, and prohibits discrimination in agencies
receiving federal funding - ✔✔section 504 0f the rehabitlitation act
✔✔what does section 504 mean? - ✔✔Section 504 specifies that if an individual is
otherwise qualified, that individual may not be excluded purely due to a disability.
Section 504 further only applies to agencies receiving federal funding.
✔✔what is the purpose of ada? - ✔✔ADA defines protected individuals. However, ADA
not only extends the protections to both public and private schools but also broadens
the scope of protected individuals by including associated individuals.
✔✔PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - ✔✔In this case, a U.S. federal court in
Pennsylvania ratified a consent agreement ensuring that schools may not exclude
students who have been classified with mental retardation.
✔✔Mills v. Board of Education - ✔✔which case in 1972 ruled that students cannot be
excluded from school because of a disability
✔✔Rowley v. Board of Education - ✔✔Landmark case states that schools do not have
to provide the best education, but an adequate. Provided FAPE parameters
✔✔procedural safeguards are - ✔✔the rights for parents to be invovled in creating plans
and educating their children with disabilites.
RATED A+
✔✔Which part of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) deals with
providing special education services to school-age students? - ✔✔Part B
✔✔Which federal program may provide health insurance for students with disabilities? -
✔✔CHIP
✔✔The clause "It is inherently unequal to educate students with disabilities in separate
facilities" helped give educational opportunities to students with disabilities.Which
famous court case did this clause come from? - ✔✔Brown v. Board of Education
✔✔What did Hobson v. Hansen determine about using standardized aptitude tests for
special education assessment and placement? - ✔✔IQ tests are fair and used with
other types of assessments to determine if a student is placed in a special needs
category.
✔✔What did Larry P. v. Riles (1979) find regarding standardized tests used for
assessment and placement in special education? - ✔✔Assessment testing biases result
in discrimination of students from different cultural, social, and linguistic groups.
✔✔What was the key ruling of Board of Education v. Rowley (1982)? - ✔✔Schools must
provide children with disabilities access to education equal to that provided to other
children.
✔✔An elementary school student moves to a new school district. The student is non-
ambulatory, and experiences cognitive delays. Because the student primarily uses a
wheelchair, the school district claims that the student cannot attend school because the
building is not accessible. What is the school district required to do, according to Mills v.
Board of Education of the District of Columbia (1972)? - ✔✔To make structural changes
to the building to give the student access
✔✔What is an appropriate accommodation for statewide testing for students with ADHD
or SLD? - ✔✔Scheduling additional breaks
✔✔A student with both written and expressive language disabilities is taking a
geography class. What would be a practical alternative to traditional testing for this
student? - ✔✔Multiple-choice tests
✔✔FAPE - ✔✔free appropraite public eduction that meets the unique needs of each
student, where progress is a priortiy, and
, ✔✔all individauls with learning disabilites qualify for fape ages: - ✔✔3-21
✔✔zero reject is: - ✔✔a part of child find that requires all students with diabilites must
receive services no matter how high the needs are.
✔✔Timothy W. vs. Rochester - ✔✔was the case of a blind student with cerebral palsy
who was denied special education services.
✔✔In which case did the court find that equal treatment means that resources and
budgets must be distributed equitably and must include resources for students with
exceptionalities - ✔✔Mills vs. board of education columbia. The court said that no
government has all the resources it needs, so this cannot be the way to determine who
gets funded and who does not. Equal protection rights must guide resource allocation.
✔✔The americans with disabilities act - ✔✔This law ensures protections and
accommodations to private businesses, public venues, communication systems,
transportation, certification exams, the work environment, and those associated with
people who have disabilities.
✔✔This law provides access, removes barriers, and prohibits discrimination in agencies
receiving federal funding - ✔✔section 504 0f the rehabitlitation act
✔✔what does section 504 mean? - ✔✔Section 504 specifies that if an individual is
otherwise qualified, that individual may not be excluded purely due to a disability.
Section 504 further only applies to agencies receiving federal funding.
✔✔what is the purpose of ada? - ✔✔ADA defines protected individuals. However, ADA
not only extends the protections to both public and private schools but also broadens
the scope of protected individuals by including associated individuals.
✔✔PARC v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - ✔✔In this case, a U.S. federal court in
Pennsylvania ratified a consent agreement ensuring that schools may not exclude
students who have been classified with mental retardation.
✔✔Mills v. Board of Education - ✔✔which case in 1972 ruled that students cannot be
excluded from school because of a disability
✔✔Rowley v. Board of Education - ✔✔Landmark case states that schools do not have
to provide the best education, but an adequate. Provided FAPE parameters
✔✔procedural safeguards are - ✔✔the rights for parents to be invovled in creating plans
and educating their children with disabilites.
