NYSTCE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
EXAM STUDY SHEET INCLUDING ALL
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
2026.
◍ General Education Teacher. Ans: 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. Ans: For older students, this person will
work with self care skills including vocational skills. Also will focus
on fine motor skills.
◍ Paraprofessional. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: Provides information to the families about
health related issues. Responsible for medications, therapeutic
services, and care for specific medical conditions
◍ Guidance Counselor. Ans: Responsible for counseling services for
the family and student.
◍ Autism. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: Concomitant impairments (such as
mental retardation- blindness, mental retardation- orthopedic
impairment, etc.) the combination of which causes such severe
educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special
education programs solely for one of the impairments (does not
include deaf-blindness)
◍ Orthopedic Impairment. Ans: Impairments caused by congenital
anomaly (clubfoot, absence of some member), impairment caused by
biases (poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), impairments from other
causes (cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause
contractures).
◍ Other Health Impairment. Ans: Having limited strength, vitality, or
alternates, including heightened sensitivity to environmental stimuli,
that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational
environment that is due to chronic or acute health problems such as
asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead
poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, or sickle cell anemia;
and adversely affects a child's education performance
EXAM STUDY SHEET INCLUDING ALL
ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
2026.
◍ General Education Teacher. Ans: 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. Ans: For older students, this person will
work with self care skills including vocational skills. Also will focus
on fine motor skills.
◍ Paraprofessional. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: Provides information to the families about
health related issues. Responsible for medications, therapeutic
services, and care for specific medical conditions
◍ Guidance Counselor. Ans: Responsible for counseling services for
the family and student.
◍ Autism. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: 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. Ans: Concomitant impairments (such as
mental retardation- blindness, mental retardation- orthopedic
impairment, etc.) the combination of which causes such severe
educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special
education programs solely for one of the impairments (does not
include deaf-blindness)
◍ Orthopedic Impairment. Ans: Impairments caused by congenital
anomaly (clubfoot, absence of some member), impairment caused by
biases (poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), impairments from other
causes (cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause
contractures).
◍ Other Health Impairment. Ans: Having limited strength, vitality, or
alternates, including heightened sensitivity to environmental stimuli,
that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational
environment that is due to chronic or acute health problems such as
asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead
poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, or sickle cell anemia;
and adversely affects a child's education performance
