SPED 5301 Week 1 Quiz | Actual Questions and Answers Latest
Updated 2025/2026 (Graded A+)
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• Question 1
1 out of 1 points
Andrew had no friends, bad grades, was unmotivated throughout his first six years of school.
Even after being identified with an exceptionality, he was still unreachable and his teachers were
frustrated. Upon entrance to middle school, his IEP team decided he needed to be placed in a
therapeutic day school where he would receive counseling sessions, learn in smaller class
settings, and is in a highly structured school environment. Identify Andrew's exceptionality.
Selected
Answer: Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
Answers: Autism
Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
Learning Disability
Gifted and talented
• Question 2
1 out of 1 points
Identify Anna's exceptionality.
Anna believes she has to work harder than most other students to learn and make lots of lists to
help with remembering things such as taking home the correct books, remembering to do things
on time, keeping up with long term assignments. She needs to set two alarm clocks to be sure
that she wakes up on time because it is difficult for her to wake up. Anna has problems with
attention and organizing her time. She enjoys playing sports and working outdoors.
Selected
Answer: ADHD
Answers:
ADHD
Orthopedic impairment
Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Speech and Language Impairment
• Question 3
1 out of 1 points
What kind of factors can exacerbate the inherited conditions? For example, a young child with
ADHD who is raised in a highly structured home with clear rules in place and where appropriate
behavior is emphasized will display a milder set of symptoms than one who is raised with only a
little structure.
Selected
Answer: environmental
Answers: behavioral
school-related
environmental
, cognitive
The traditional approach to identifying the presence of learning disabilities was known as the
"wait to fail" model because students needed to progress far enough in school and experience
significant academic frustration to be considered as having learning disabilties. What approach is
replacing the traditional approach for identification of learning disabilities?
Selected
Answer: Response to Intervention (RtI)
Answers:
Response to Intervention (RtI)
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Curriculum based assessment (CBA)
Physiological causes of learning disabilities include the following:
Answer: brain injuries, hereditary disorder, or biochemical causes
Answers:
brain injuries, hereditary disorder, or biochemical causes
psychiatric disorders, brain injuries, biochemical causes
poor nutrition, children from highly adverse emotional climates, toxins in
homes/schools
maternal drug abuse, environmental toxins, inherited conditions
What are considered cause of emotional and behavioral disorders?
Answer: both biological and psychosocial factors
Answers: biological factors only
Psychosocial factors only
both biological and psychosocial factors
neither biological and psychosocial factors
Which cognitive characteristic of ADHD impacts a student's ability for analysis and synthesis?
Answer: reconstitution or planning
Answers: Self-directed speech
Updated 2025/2026 (Graded A+)
•
• Question 1
1 out of 1 points
Andrew had no friends, bad grades, was unmotivated throughout his first six years of school.
Even after being identified with an exceptionality, he was still unreachable and his teachers were
frustrated. Upon entrance to middle school, his IEP team decided he needed to be placed in a
therapeutic day school where he would receive counseling sessions, learn in smaller class
settings, and is in a highly structured school environment. Identify Andrew's exceptionality.
Selected
Answer: Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
Answers: Autism
Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
Learning Disability
Gifted and talented
• Question 2
1 out of 1 points
Identify Anna's exceptionality.
Anna believes she has to work harder than most other students to learn and make lots of lists to
help with remembering things such as taking home the correct books, remembering to do things
on time, keeping up with long term assignments. She needs to set two alarm clocks to be sure
that she wakes up on time because it is difficult for her to wake up. Anna has problems with
attention and organizing her time. She enjoys playing sports and working outdoors.
Selected
Answer: ADHD
Answers:
ADHD
Orthopedic impairment
Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Speech and Language Impairment
• Question 3
1 out of 1 points
What kind of factors can exacerbate the inherited conditions? For example, a young child with
ADHD who is raised in a highly structured home with clear rules in place and where appropriate
behavior is emphasized will display a milder set of symptoms than one who is raised with only a
little structure.
Selected
Answer: environmental
Answers: behavioral
school-related
environmental
, cognitive
The traditional approach to identifying the presence of learning disabilities was known as the
"wait to fail" model because students needed to progress far enough in school and experience
significant academic frustration to be considered as having learning disabilties. What approach is
replacing the traditional approach for identification of learning disabilities?
Selected
Answer: Response to Intervention (RtI)
Answers:
Response to Intervention (RtI)
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Curriculum based assessment (CBA)
Physiological causes of learning disabilities include the following:
Answer: brain injuries, hereditary disorder, or biochemical causes
Answers:
brain injuries, hereditary disorder, or biochemical causes
psychiatric disorders, brain injuries, biochemical causes
poor nutrition, children from highly adverse emotional climates, toxins in
homes/schools
maternal drug abuse, environmental toxins, inherited conditions
What are considered cause of emotional and behavioral disorders?
Answer: both biological and psychosocial factors
Answers: biological factors only
Psychosocial factors only
both biological and psychosocial factors
neither biological and psychosocial factors
Which cognitive characteristic of ADHD impacts a student's ability for analysis and synthesis?
Answer: reconstitution or planning
Answers: Self-directed speech
