OAE Special Education UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
muscular dystrophy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Dystrophin is missing. Muscles deteriorate.
Die late teens/early 20s.
epilepsy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Damage to the brain leads to sudden bursts of
electrical activity that may be seen as seizures.
partial seizure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Aware of what is happening, but unable to stop
it.
tonic-clonic seizure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Body stiffens and loses consciousness.
absence seizure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Daydreaming or attention problem.
type 1 diabetes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Body cannot break down sugars. Adolescence.
Monitor blood sugar levels and diet.
type 2 diabetes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Preventable. Quadrupled among children over
the past 15 years. 46% of U.S. children are overweight.
spina bifida - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Bones of the spinal column are not closed properly.
Physical disability with a neurological basis. Preventable by eating a diet rich in folic acid.
spina bifida occulta and meningocele - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Do not lead to significant
disabilities
myelomeningocele - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Occurs when the spinal cord and its
covering protrude from the opening of the spine. Severe. Paralyzed in lower body and legs,
seizure disorders, bladder and bowel problems.
, rosa's law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Changed the term mental retardation in all federal
applications to intellectual disabilities.
intellectual disability - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Significantly subaverage general
intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and
manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational
performance. Present by the time the child is 18 years old
Boys have lightly higher rate than girls.
adaptive behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Skills that are necessary for independence.
Self-care, use of money.
prenatal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Before birth
perinatal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- During or immediately after birth
postnatal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- After birth
down syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An extra chromosome is present in the twenty-
first chromosome pair called trisomy 21.
Poor muscle tone, eyes slant upwards, small ears, and large tongues.
More than half have vision impairments, hearing loss or heart defects.
An intellectual disability.
specific learning disabilities - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A disorder in one or more of the
basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or
written, that may manifest itself in imperfect ability to listen , think, speak, read, write, spell,
or do mathematical calculations.
Conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia,
and developmental aphasia.
Boys to girls 2:1
Caused by brain injury, heredity, chemical imbalance, situations in which children live
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
muscular dystrophy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Dystrophin is missing. Muscles deteriorate.
Die late teens/early 20s.
epilepsy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Damage to the brain leads to sudden bursts of
electrical activity that may be seen as seizures.
partial seizure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Aware of what is happening, but unable to stop
it.
tonic-clonic seizure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Body stiffens and loses consciousness.
absence seizure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Daydreaming or attention problem.
type 1 diabetes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Body cannot break down sugars. Adolescence.
Monitor blood sugar levels and diet.
type 2 diabetes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Preventable. Quadrupled among children over
the past 15 years. 46% of U.S. children are overweight.
spina bifida - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Bones of the spinal column are not closed properly.
Physical disability with a neurological basis. Preventable by eating a diet rich in folic acid.
spina bifida occulta and meningocele - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Do not lead to significant
disabilities
myelomeningocele - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Occurs when the spinal cord and its
covering protrude from the opening of the spine. Severe. Paralyzed in lower body and legs,
seizure disorders, bladder and bowel problems.
, rosa's law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Changed the term mental retardation in all federal
applications to intellectual disabilities.
intellectual disability - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Significantly subaverage general
intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and
manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational
performance. Present by the time the child is 18 years old
Boys have lightly higher rate than girls.
adaptive behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Skills that are necessary for independence.
Self-care, use of money.
prenatal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Before birth
perinatal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- During or immediately after birth
postnatal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- After birth
down syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- An extra chromosome is present in the twenty-
first chromosome pair called trisomy 21.
Poor muscle tone, eyes slant upwards, small ears, and large tongues.
More than half have vision impairments, hearing loss or heart defects.
An intellectual disability.
specific learning disabilities - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A disorder in one or more of the
basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or
written, that may manifest itself in imperfect ability to listen , think, speak, read, write, spell,
or do mathematical calculations.
Conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia,
and developmental aphasia.
Boys to girls 2:1
Caused by brain injury, heredity, chemical imbalance, situations in which children live
