Sped 420 Midterm || 100% Error-free Answers.
Special Education Involves: correct answers delivering and monitoring a specially designed
and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based and universally designed instructional
and assessment practices.
Special education is characterized by: correct answers -Individualized assessment
-Specialized instruction
-Intensive instruction
-Goal-directed instruction
-Evidence-based instruction
-Collaborative partnerships
-Student performance evaluation
Inclusion: correct answers -A philosophy that brings students, families, educators, and
community members together to create schools and institutions based on acceptance
belonging and community.
-Recognizes that ALL students are capable of benefiting from the gen ed classroom.
Principles of Effective Inclusion: correct answers 1. All learners and equal access.
2. Individual strengths and challenges and diversity.
3. Reflective, Universally-designed, culturally-responsive, Evidence-based, and differentiated
practices.
4. Community and collaboration.
Mainstreaming correct answers -While it may be used interchangeable with inclusion, they
are NOT the same concepts.
-Mainstreaming is the partial or full-time programs that educate students with disabilities
with their general ed peers.
Least Restrictive Environment correct answers -Requires schools to educate students with
disabilities as much as possible with peers without disabilities
-Determined individually, based on students' strengths and weaknesses
-Not determined by disability category.
-Encourages students to attend school as close as possible to their homes
Continuum of Educational Placements correct answers Option 1: General education
classroom placement with few or no supportive services.
Option 2: General education classroom placement with collaborative teacher assistance.
Option 3: General education classroom placement with itinerant specialist assistance
Option 4: General education classroom placement with resource room assistance
Option 5: Special education classroom placement with part time in the general education
classroom
Option 6: Full-time special education classroom
Option 7: Special day school
Option 8: Residential school
Option 9: Homebound instruction
Option 10: Hospital or institution
*Districts must consider:
, -Anticipated outcomes of gen ed compared to benefits of special ed classrooms
-Impact on classmates without disabilities
Factors contributing to Inclusion: correct answers -Normalization
-Deinstitutionalization
Normalization: correct answers Seeks to provide opportunities, social interactions, and
experiences that parallel those of society.
Deinstitutionalization: correct answers Movement of individuals with special needs from
institutions to community-based settings
Early Intervention and Early Childhood Programs correct answers -Developmentally,
individually, culturally appropriate and evidence based practices and curriculum
-Natural environments
-Family-centered service coordination
-Transition practices
Technology Advances correct answers -High technology devices:
*Tend to be electronic, costly, and commercially produced. (ex. speech recognition and
reading systems)
-Low technology devices:
* Usually inexpensive, nonelectric, easy to use , readily available (ex. teacher made
communication boards, pencil holders.)
Universal Design for Learning correct answers -Philosophy guiding the design and delivery
of products and services so they are usable by individual with a wide range of capabilities and
diversities.
-Based on universal design (for architecture), neuroscience, and educational research
-3 networks:
*Multiple means of representation
*Multiple means of action and expression
*Multiple means of engagement
Civil Rights and Resulting Court Cases correct answers -Brown v. Topeka Board of
Education (1954)
*Challenged the separate but equal doctrine
-Pennsylvania Association for Retard Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
*Helped establish the precedent for education students with disabilities in the public school
system
Disproportionate Representation correct answers -Presence of students from a specific group
in an educational program that is higher (overrepresentation) or lower (underrepresentation)
than one would expect based on their representation in the general population of students.
Standards-Based Education Initiatives correct answers -Refers to establishing common
curriculum and educational outcomes for all students and assessing effectiveness of schools
*No Child Left Behind Act (2001)
*Race to the Top
Special Education Involves: correct answers delivering and monitoring a specially designed
and coordinated set of comprehensive, evidence-based and universally designed instructional
and assessment practices.
Special education is characterized by: correct answers -Individualized assessment
-Specialized instruction
-Intensive instruction
-Goal-directed instruction
-Evidence-based instruction
-Collaborative partnerships
-Student performance evaluation
Inclusion: correct answers -A philosophy that brings students, families, educators, and
community members together to create schools and institutions based on acceptance
belonging and community.
-Recognizes that ALL students are capable of benefiting from the gen ed classroom.
Principles of Effective Inclusion: correct answers 1. All learners and equal access.
2. Individual strengths and challenges and diversity.
3. Reflective, Universally-designed, culturally-responsive, Evidence-based, and differentiated
practices.
4. Community and collaboration.
Mainstreaming correct answers -While it may be used interchangeable with inclusion, they
are NOT the same concepts.
-Mainstreaming is the partial or full-time programs that educate students with disabilities
with their general ed peers.
Least Restrictive Environment correct answers -Requires schools to educate students with
disabilities as much as possible with peers without disabilities
-Determined individually, based on students' strengths and weaknesses
-Not determined by disability category.
-Encourages students to attend school as close as possible to their homes
Continuum of Educational Placements correct answers Option 1: General education
classroom placement with few or no supportive services.
Option 2: General education classroom placement with collaborative teacher assistance.
Option 3: General education classroom placement with itinerant specialist assistance
Option 4: General education classroom placement with resource room assistance
Option 5: Special education classroom placement with part time in the general education
classroom
Option 6: Full-time special education classroom
Option 7: Special day school
Option 8: Residential school
Option 9: Homebound instruction
Option 10: Hospital or institution
*Districts must consider:
, -Anticipated outcomes of gen ed compared to benefits of special ed classrooms
-Impact on classmates without disabilities
Factors contributing to Inclusion: correct answers -Normalization
-Deinstitutionalization
Normalization: correct answers Seeks to provide opportunities, social interactions, and
experiences that parallel those of society.
Deinstitutionalization: correct answers Movement of individuals with special needs from
institutions to community-based settings
Early Intervention and Early Childhood Programs correct answers -Developmentally,
individually, culturally appropriate and evidence based practices and curriculum
-Natural environments
-Family-centered service coordination
-Transition practices
Technology Advances correct answers -High technology devices:
*Tend to be electronic, costly, and commercially produced. (ex. speech recognition and
reading systems)
-Low technology devices:
* Usually inexpensive, nonelectric, easy to use , readily available (ex. teacher made
communication boards, pencil holders.)
Universal Design for Learning correct answers -Philosophy guiding the design and delivery
of products and services so they are usable by individual with a wide range of capabilities and
diversities.
-Based on universal design (for architecture), neuroscience, and educational research
-3 networks:
*Multiple means of representation
*Multiple means of action and expression
*Multiple means of engagement
Civil Rights and Resulting Court Cases correct answers -Brown v. Topeka Board of
Education (1954)
*Challenged the separate but equal doctrine
-Pennsylvania Association for Retard Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
*Helped establish the precedent for education students with disabilities in the public school
system
Disproportionate Representation correct answers -Presence of students from a specific group
in an educational program that is higher (overrepresentation) or lower (underrepresentation)
than one would expect based on their representation in the general population of students.
Standards-Based Education Initiatives correct answers -Refers to establishing common
curriculum and educational outcomes for all students and assessing effectiveness of schools
*No Child Left Behind Act (2001)
*Race to the Top
