LBS 1 (ILTS 290) EXAM STUDY
SET @ 2024
IDEA - Answer Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004: The main U.S. Federal Law for
special education, which mandates schools to find, evaluate, and provide a free,
appropriate program of education for each child with a disability
FAPE - Answer Free, appropriate program of education, legally required under IDEA
IEP - Answer Individualized Educational Plan (Requirement of IDEA): A written
document with special instructions detailing related services designed for students with
a diagnosed disability
Accomidation - Answer Changes in the setting or task that are made by the teacher to
bring out optimal responding from the child
Intervention - Answer Treatments used to change a child with disabilities (medications,
skill training in weak areas, remedial phonics training for reading)
Assistive Technology - Answer An item or piece of equipment or product system
acquired commercially, off the shelf, modified, or customized, and used to increase,
maintain, or improve functional capability for an individual with a disability
LRE - Answer Least Restrictive Environment: The LRE for a child is typically the general
education classroom, in contrast to, for example, a self-contained classroom for
students with disabilities
ADHD - Answer Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Manifest Determination - Answer The determination of whether a child's "misconduct" is
an outcome of the child's disability (Phone Example)
LEA - Answer Local educational agency, such as a local school
DSM-IV-TR - Answer The fourth edition, text revised, of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders, which presents the most widely used medical/psychological
classification system (APA, 2000)
14 IDEA Disability Categories - Answer 1. Autism
2. Deaf-Blindness
3. Deafness
4. Developmental Delay
5. Emotional Disturbance (ED)
,6. Hearing Impairment
7. Intellectual Disability
8. Multiple Disabilities
9. Orthopedic Disability
10. Other Heath Impairment (OHI)
11. Specific Learning Disability (SLD/LD)
12. Speech for Language Impairment
13. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
14. Visual Impairment including Blindness
SLD - Answer Specific Learning Disability (In math, reading)
LD - Answer Learning Disability, also termed specific learning disability
ID and MID - Answer Intellectual Disability and mild Intellectual Disability
Differential Diagnosis - Answer The ability to identify a child at risk for a disability as
different from related disabilities with similar or overlapping characteristics
Norm - Answer A statistical average or the most frequent occurring score or responce
in a setting or during the performance of a tast
Traits - Answer Habitual pattern of behavior that is associated with personality
characteristics (extroversion) and is relatively enduring over time. Traits can be
physical, such as height and eye color
Impairment - Answer The outcome of a disability in terms of reduced functioning
Introversion - Answer Demonstration of internalizing behavior (shyness, anxieties)
Extroversion - Answer Demonstration of active, talkative, and acting out types of
behavior (hyperactive)
Expressive Language - Answer Talking (Spoken Language) and composition/spelling
(written language)
Learning Processes - Answer Psychological processes or abilities that contribute to the
learning of academic skills; these learning processes are intelligence, memory,
perception/discrimination, and attention
WM - Answer Working Memory: Memory that involves holding information in mind to
bring to hindsight and forethought into decision making, to consider personal history
and possible future consequences for the purpose of planning, sequencing,
, summarizing, reorganizing, problem solving, and the like.
Visual Perception - Answer The ability to take what they eyes see (color, form, and size)
and give these visual sensations meaning (to identify objects and words)
Auditory perception - Answer The ability to identify words/sentences from the
sensations of sound. Perception can also require a synthesis or blending of sounds and
an analysis or breaking of words into syllables
Short Term Memory - Answer Immediate recall (within seconds when rehearsal is
prevented) of from 3 to 9 elements (words, digits, letters)
Long Term Memory - Answer The ability to recall information, such as math facts,
learning last week, last month, or years earlier
GT - Answer Gifted and Talented
EF - Answer Executive Functioning: Self-regulatory process involved in such tasks as
identifying problems, goal setting, developing plans, and evaluating or self-monitoring
the implementations of plans
EQ - Answer Emotional Intelligence: The ability to identify and understand one's own and
others' emotions by "reading" faces, gestures, and tone of voice- in essence to read
between the lines of what is spoken
Temperament - Answer Biologically based behavioral style that has a number of
components.
1) Emotionality or the degree at which a person can become upset
2) Sociability or the degree at which a person prefers the presence of others
3) Activity or the degree to which a person is restless
4) Shyness or the degree to which a person is uneasy in unfamiliar social situations
Right-Hemispheric Functions - Answer Functions of the right side of the brain. Damage
to this region can impair pragmatics in language and in the nonverbal aspects of
communication (Understanding sarcasm, humor, irony)
Arousal - Answer Psychological activation of the child, which has trait qualities (inborn
individual differences) and state qualities that depend on setting conditions (number of
people in a setting)
Yerkes-Dodson Law - Answer Developed by psychologist Robert M. Yerkes and John D.
Dudson (1908). This law posits that performance increased alertness (arousal), but only
up to a certain level, and when arousal is too high, performance decreases
State - Answer Behavior, thinking, or mood that is temporary and depends on the
conditions within the setting, such as time, task, persons, and amount of light or noise
SET @ 2024
IDEA - Answer Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004: The main U.S. Federal Law for
special education, which mandates schools to find, evaluate, and provide a free,
appropriate program of education for each child with a disability
FAPE - Answer Free, appropriate program of education, legally required under IDEA
IEP - Answer Individualized Educational Plan (Requirement of IDEA): A written
document with special instructions detailing related services designed for students with
a diagnosed disability
Accomidation - Answer Changes in the setting or task that are made by the teacher to
bring out optimal responding from the child
Intervention - Answer Treatments used to change a child with disabilities (medications,
skill training in weak areas, remedial phonics training for reading)
Assistive Technology - Answer An item or piece of equipment or product system
acquired commercially, off the shelf, modified, or customized, and used to increase,
maintain, or improve functional capability for an individual with a disability
LRE - Answer Least Restrictive Environment: The LRE for a child is typically the general
education classroom, in contrast to, for example, a self-contained classroom for
students with disabilities
ADHD - Answer Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Manifest Determination - Answer The determination of whether a child's "misconduct" is
an outcome of the child's disability (Phone Example)
LEA - Answer Local educational agency, such as a local school
DSM-IV-TR - Answer The fourth edition, text revised, of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders, which presents the most widely used medical/psychological
classification system (APA, 2000)
14 IDEA Disability Categories - Answer 1. Autism
2. Deaf-Blindness
3. Deafness
4. Developmental Delay
5. Emotional Disturbance (ED)
,6. Hearing Impairment
7. Intellectual Disability
8. Multiple Disabilities
9. Orthopedic Disability
10. Other Heath Impairment (OHI)
11. Specific Learning Disability (SLD/LD)
12. Speech for Language Impairment
13. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
14. Visual Impairment including Blindness
SLD - Answer Specific Learning Disability (In math, reading)
LD - Answer Learning Disability, also termed specific learning disability
ID and MID - Answer Intellectual Disability and mild Intellectual Disability
Differential Diagnosis - Answer The ability to identify a child at risk for a disability as
different from related disabilities with similar or overlapping characteristics
Norm - Answer A statistical average or the most frequent occurring score or responce
in a setting or during the performance of a tast
Traits - Answer Habitual pattern of behavior that is associated with personality
characteristics (extroversion) and is relatively enduring over time. Traits can be
physical, such as height and eye color
Impairment - Answer The outcome of a disability in terms of reduced functioning
Introversion - Answer Demonstration of internalizing behavior (shyness, anxieties)
Extroversion - Answer Demonstration of active, talkative, and acting out types of
behavior (hyperactive)
Expressive Language - Answer Talking (Spoken Language) and composition/spelling
(written language)
Learning Processes - Answer Psychological processes or abilities that contribute to the
learning of academic skills; these learning processes are intelligence, memory,
perception/discrimination, and attention
WM - Answer Working Memory: Memory that involves holding information in mind to
bring to hindsight and forethought into decision making, to consider personal history
and possible future consequences for the purpose of planning, sequencing,
, summarizing, reorganizing, problem solving, and the like.
Visual Perception - Answer The ability to take what they eyes see (color, form, and size)
and give these visual sensations meaning (to identify objects and words)
Auditory perception - Answer The ability to identify words/sentences from the
sensations of sound. Perception can also require a synthesis or blending of sounds and
an analysis or breaking of words into syllables
Short Term Memory - Answer Immediate recall (within seconds when rehearsal is
prevented) of from 3 to 9 elements (words, digits, letters)
Long Term Memory - Answer The ability to recall information, such as math facts,
learning last week, last month, or years earlier
GT - Answer Gifted and Talented
EF - Answer Executive Functioning: Self-regulatory process involved in such tasks as
identifying problems, goal setting, developing plans, and evaluating or self-monitoring
the implementations of plans
EQ - Answer Emotional Intelligence: The ability to identify and understand one's own and
others' emotions by "reading" faces, gestures, and tone of voice- in essence to read
between the lines of what is spoken
Temperament - Answer Biologically based behavioral style that has a number of
components.
1) Emotionality or the degree at which a person can become upset
2) Sociability or the degree at which a person prefers the presence of others
3) Activity or the degree to which a person is restless
4) Shyness or the degree to which a person is uneasy in unfamiliar social situations
Right-Hemispheric Functions - Answer Functions of the right side of the brain. Damage
to this region can impair pragmatics in language and in the nonverbal aspects of
communication (Understanding sarcasm, humor, irony)
Arousal - Answer Psychological activation of the child, which has trait qualities (inborn
individual differences) and state qualities that depend on setting conditions (number of
people in a setting)
Yerkes-Dodson Law - Answer Developed by psychologist Robert M. Yerkes and John D.
Dudson (1908). This law posits that performance increased alertness (arousal), but only
up to a certain level, and when arousal is too high, performance decreases
State - Answer Behavior, thinking, or mood that is temporary and depends on the
conditions within the setting, such as time, task, persons, and amount of light or noise
