NYSTCE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
EXAMINATION SCRIPT FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPLETE
SOLUTION BUNDLE
●● General Education Teacher
Answer: Role is to observe the student's learning process and monitor
the success of the IEP. Give feedback to the student and the IEP team.
Work with the students on a regular basis and contribute information to
referrals.
●● Occupational Therapist
Answer: For older students, this person will work with self care skills
including vocational skills. Also will focus on fine motor skills.
●● Paraprofessional
Answer: An assistant to the Special Educator and works in the classroom
with the student with disabilities. A tutor for individual students or with
small groups. Creates the material to be used in class with the student
and also gives important feedback to both the student and the members
of the IEP team
●● Physical Therapist
,Answer: Work with students who have issues with disorders of muscles,
bones, joints, or nerves after the student has received medical
assessment. Usually relates to- cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy. This
person will also be familiar with assistive technologies and or adaptive
equipment
●● School Psychologist
Answer: Role is to administer and interpret results of the standardized
test. Will also contribute to the assessment of the student and help create
the IEP. Observes the student in the classroom, provide testing and
evaluation and document a case history of the student.
●● Social Worker
Answer: provide resources and materials to the parents or caregivers of
the student. Specializes in knowing community and school services
available. Can do intake, interview, and home visits as needed.
●● Speech Pathologist
Answer: Works with students with speech or language disorders on an
ongoing basis. Offers support and feedback to the student and his or her
parents and or caregivers on an ongoing basis.
●● School Nurse
Answer: Provides information to the families about health related issues.
Responsible for medications, therapeutic services, and care for specific
medical conditions
,●● Guidance Counselor
Answer: Responsible for counseling services for the family and student.
●● Autism
Answer: Developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and
nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident
before the age of three, that adversely affects a child's educational
performance. Engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped
movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily
routine, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
●● Cognitive Disability
Answer: Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning,
existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested
during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's
educational performance.
●● Deaf-Blindness
Answer: Concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination
of which causes severe communication and other developmental and
educational needs that they cannot be accommodates in special
education programs solely for children with deafness or children with
blindness
, ●● Deafness
Answer: A hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired
in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without
amplification, that adversely affects a child's educational performance
●● Emotional Disability
Answer: Condition exhibiting one or more of the following
characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that
adversely affects a child's education performance
- An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory,
or health factors
- An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships
with peers and teachers
- Inappropriate types of behavior or feeling under normal circumstances
- A general pervasive mood of anxiety or unhappiness or depression
- A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with
personal or school problems
●● Hearing Impairment
Answer: an impairment in hearing, whether fluctuating or permanent,
that adversely affects a child's educational performance but that is not
included under the definition of deafness
●● Multiple Disabilities
EXAMINATION SCRIPT FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPLETE
SOLUTION BUNDLE
●● General Education Teacher
Answer: Role is to observe the student's learning process and monitor
the success of the IEP. Give feedback to the student and the IEP team.
Work with the students on a regular basis and contribute information to
referrals.
●● Occupational Therapist
Answer: For older students, this person will work with self care skills
including vocational skills. Also will focus on fine motor skills.
●● Paraprofessional
Answer: An assistant to the Special Educator and works in the classroom
with the student with disabilities. A tutor for individual students or with
small groups. Creates the material to be used in class with the student
and also gives important feedback to both the student and the members
of the IEP team
●● Physical Therapist
,Answer: Work with students who have issues with disorders of muscles,
bones, joints, or nerves after the student has received medical
assessment. Usually relates to- cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy. This
person will also be familiar with assistive technologies and or adaptive
equipment
●● School Psychologist
Answer: Role is to administer and interpret results of the standardized
test. Will also contribute to the assessment of the student and help create
the IEP. Observes the student in the classroom, provide testing and
evaluation and document a case history of the student.
●● Social Worker
Answer: provide resources and materials to the parents or caregivers of
the student. Specializes in knowing community and school services
available. Can do intake, interview, and home visits as needed.
●● Speech Pathologist
Answer: Works with students with speech or language disorders on an
ongoing basis. Offers support and feedback to the student and his or her
parents and or caregivers on an ongoing basis.
●● School Nurse
Answer: Provides information to the families about health related issues.
Responsible for medications, therapeutic services, and care for specific
medical conditions
,●● Guidance Counselor
Answer: Responsible for counseling services for the family and student.
●● Autism
Answer: Developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and
nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident
before the age of three, that adversely affects a child's educational
performance. Engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped
movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily
routine, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
●● Cognitive Disability
Answer: Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning,
existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested
during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's
educational performance.
●● Deaf-Blindness
Answer: Concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination
of which causes severe communication and other developmental and
educational needs that they cannot be accommodates in special
education programs solely for children with deafness or children with
blindness
, ●● Deafness
Answer: A hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired
in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without
amplification, that adversely affects a child's educational performance
●● Emotional Disability
Answer: Condition exhibiting one or more of the following
characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that
adversely affects a child's education performance
- An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory,
or health factors
- An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships
with peers and teachers
- Inappropriate types of behavior or feeling under normal circumstances
- A general pervasive mood of anxiety or unhappiness or depression
- A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with
personal or school problems
●● Hearing Impairment
Answer: an impairment in hearing, whether fluctuating or permanent,
that adversely affects a child's educational performance but that is not
included under the definition of deafness
●● Multiple Disabilities
