EDSP FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
What does OSEP stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Office of Special Education Programs
What report to they prepare for Congress? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The implementation of the
Individuals with disabilities education act
What type of information is in those reports? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔It describes the United States
progress in providing FAPE for children with disabilities under IDEA and early intervention services to
infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families under IDEA; ensuring that the rights of these
children and their parents are protected; assisting states and localities in providing for the education of
all children with disabilities; assessing the effectiveness of efforts to educate children with disabilities
How often do they report these data? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Annually
exceptional learner - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔An exceptional learner is a student who learn and develop
differently than most others. This is a person that might have problems or special talents in thinking,
seeing, hearing, speaking, socializing, or moving in a way that affects their learning.
Prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Prevalence refers to the percentage of a population or number of
individuals having a particular exceptionality
Incidence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Incidence is how frequently we see the disability.
special education - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Special education means specially designed instruction that
meets the unusual needs of an exceptional student and that requires special materials, teaching
techniques, equipment and/or facilities.
· Be able to explain the importance of abilities - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Many people with disabilities
have abilities that go unrecognized because their disabilities become the focus of concern and distract
attention from what the individual can do. We must not lose sight of the fact that the most important
characteristics of exceptional learners are their abilities, not their disabilities.
,· The relationship/difference between "inability," "disability" and "handicap" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
disability is an inability to do something, a diminished capacity to perform in a specific way (an
impairment)
A handicap is a disadvantage imposed on an individual
All disabilities are an inability to do something. However, not every inability to do something is a
disability. A disability is an inability to do something that most people (relatively) can do
Early Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Widespread interest in educating people with disabilities first
emerged due to philosopher's inquiries. Interest in education also stemmed from the empirical inquiries
of the contemporary medical community, and to serve the economic interests of an industrializing
society by creating workers. Dorthea Dix helped the mindset of individuals with disabilities to be more
quantitative based which prompted the Massachusetts legislature to revise laws and funding for
institution. Methods for training and teaching people with disabilities were developed and institutions
were much improved. Overall there was better care. However, as costs increased quality of care went
down rapidly and institutions quickly went back to places for training workers.
Stagnation and Regression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔As Eugenics arose so did methods of identifying,
measuring, and then segregating disabilities. There was motivations to eliminate disability. People with
disabilities were seen as a threat and qualitatively different. Eagerness to categorize and label soon
resulted in test abuse and the clinical concept of intellectual disability. Restrictive eugenics progressed
and it aimed to decrease reproduction through isolation and segregation, marriage restriction laws, and
sterilization. Students with disabilities were often segregated from schools.
Contemporary Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Seeing eugenics tactics used by Nazi Germany made
Americans turn their stance. Public awareness and sensitivity toward people with disabilities increased
as war veterans returned with physical and emotional disabilities. Parent groups and the Kennedys
fought for equal rights, funding, research, and services for individuals with disabilities. Brown vs. Board
of Education paved the way for far-reaching changes to educating students with disabilities. Lawsuits
successful framed disability as an issue of civil rights and secured a free and appropriate education for all
students with disabilities. Individuals with disabilities were seen as people that could grow and should
participate in society.
The progression of special education law (Celebrating 35 Years of IDEA video and note sheet) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Prior to 1975 access to school was denied, one fifth of students with disabilities were in
school, and there were separate institutions. EAHCA Education for All handicapped children act in 1975's
mission was to provide a free public education for students with disabilities in the least restrictive
environment possible. Amendments to EAHCA in 1986 includes early intervention programs and rights
, for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. In 1990 IDEA reaffirmed the free public
education, there was federally sponsored research, and focus was on quality of life and transition into
adulthood. In 1997 IDEA changes focused on access; access to the general curriculum, higher
expectations, and maximum extent education. In 2004 the IDEA revision increased local and state
responsibilities to have accountability, highly qualified teachers, and inclusion for children of color.
The main purpose of IDEA (i.e., the quoted purpose statement) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔IDEA ensures
that all children with disabilities have the right to a free, appropriate public education.
Major provisions of IDEA: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔identification, FAPE, due process, parent/guardian
surrogate consultation, LRE, IEP, nondiscriminatory evaluation, confidentiality, personnel development
· Continuum of placements (common options) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔General education class only,
general education class with consultation or coteaching, itinerant teacher, resource teacher, self-
constrained special class, special day school, homebound or hospital instruction, residential school
· 13 federal disability categories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Autism, deaf-blindness, deafness, emotional
disturbance, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment,
other health impairment, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain
injury, visual impairment (including blindness)
· Expectations for all educators - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Maximum effort to accommodate individual
needs, evaluate academic abilities and disabilities, collaborate with other professions, get to know
students, make things more usable by more people
Explain issues related to disproportionate representation of ethnic minority students in special
education - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Students from three ethic minority groups are disproportionately
identified for special education: American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and African American. Teacher bias,
test bias, and poverty all cause the overrepresentation of African American students in special
education. The disproportionate placement of ethnic minority students in special education strongly
suggests that in some cases, students are misidentified and wrongly placed (and stigmatized and
segregated) in special education, whereas in other cases, ethnic minority students' disabilities are
ignored and the students are therefore denied appropriate education.
· Explain issues in assessment as it pertains to culturally diverse populations - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Traditional assessment practices have frequently violated the US ideals of fairness and
ANSWERS
What does OSEP stand for? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Office of Special Education Programs
What report to they prepare for Congress? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The implementation of the
Individuals with disabilities education act
What type of information is in those reports? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔It describes the United States
progress in providing FAPE for children with disabilities under IDEA and early intervention services to
infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families under IDEA; ensuring that the rights of these
children and their parents are protected; assisting states and localities in providing for the education of
all children with disabilities; assessing the effectiveness of efforts to educate children with disabilities
How often do they report these data? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Annually
exceptional learner - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔An exceptional learner is a student who learn and develop
differently than most others. This is a person that might have problems or special talents in thinking,
seeing, hearing, speaking, socializing, or moving in a way that affects their learning.
Prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Prevalence refers to the percentage of a population or number of
individuals having a particular exceptionality
Incidence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Incidence is how frequently we see the disability.
special education - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Special education means specially designed instruction that
meets the unusual needs of an exceptional student and that requires special materials, teaching
techniques, equipment and/or facilities.
· Be able to explain the importance of abilities - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Many people with disabilities
have abilities that go unrecognized because their disabilities become the focus of concern and distract
attention from what the individual can do. We must not lose sight of the fact that the most important
characteristics of exceptional learners are their abilities, not their disabilities.
,· The relationship/difference between "inability," "disability" and "handicap" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
disability is an inability to do something, a diminished capacity to perform in a specific way (an
impairment)
A handicap is a disadvantage imposed on an individual
All disabilities are an inability to do something. However, not every inability to do something is a
disability. A disability is an inability to do something that most people (relatively) can do
Early Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Widespread interest in educating people with disabilities first
emerged due to philosopher's inquiries. Interest in education also stemmed from the empirical inquiries
of the contemporary medical community, and to serve the economic interests of an industrializing
society by creating workers. Dorthea Dix helped the mindset of individuals with disabilities to be more
quantitative based which prompted the Massachusetts legislature to revise laws and funding for
institution. Methods for training and teaching people with disabilities were developed and institutions
were much improved. Overall there was better care. However, as costs increased quality of care went
down rapidly and institutions quickly went back to places for training workers.
Stagnation and Regression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔As Eugenics arose so did methods of identifying,
measuring, and then segregating disabilities. There was motivations to eliminate disability. People with
disabilities were seen as a threat and qualitatively different. Eagerness to categorize and label soon
resulted in test abuse and the clinical concept of intellectual disability. Restrictive eugenics progressed
and it aimed to decrease reproduction through isolation and segregation, marriage restriction laws, and
sterilization. Students with disabilities were often segregated from schools.
Contemporary Reform - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Seeing eugenics tactics used by Nazi Germany made
Americans turn their stance. Public awareness and sensitivity toward people with disabilities increased
as war veterans returned with physical and emotional disabilities. Parent groups and the Kennedys
fought for equal rights, funding, research, and services for individuals with disabilities. Brown vs. Board
of Education paved the way for far-reaching changes to educating students with disabilities. Lawsuits
successful framed disability as an issue of civil rights and secured a free and appropriate education for all
students with disabilities. Individuals with disabilities were seen as people that could grow and should
participate in society.
The progression of special education law (Celebrating 35 Years of IDEA video and note sheet) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Prior to 1975 access to school was denied, one fifth of students with disabilities were in
school, and there were separate institutions. EAHCA Education for All handicapped children act in 1975's
mission was to provide a free public education for students with disabilities in the least restrictive
environment possible. Amendments to EAHCA in 1986 includes early intervention programs and rights
, for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. In 1990 IDEA reaffirmed the free public
education, there was federally sponsored research, and focus was on quality of life and transition into
adulthood. In 1997 IDEA changes focused on access; access to the general curriculum, higher
expectations, and maximum extent education. In 2004 the IDEA revision increased local and state
responsibilities to have accountability, highly qualified teachers, and inclusion for children of color.
The main purpose of IDEA (i.e., the quoted purpose statement) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔IDEA ensures
that all children with disabilities have the right to a free, appropriate public education.
Major provisions of IDEA: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔identification, FAPE, due process, parent/guardian
surrogate consultation, LRE, IEP, nondiscriminatory evaluation, confidentiality, personnel development
· Continuum of placements (common options) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔General education class only,
general education class with consultation or coteaching, itinerant teacher, resource teacher, self-
constrained special class, special day school, homebound or hospital instruction, residential school
· 13 federal disability categories - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Autism, deaf-blindness, deafness, emotional
disturbance, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment,
other health impairment, specific learning disability, speech or language impairment, traumatic brain
injury, visual impairment (including blindness)
· Expectations for all educators - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Maximum effort to accommodate individual
needs, evaluate academic abilities and disabilities, collaborate with other professions, get to know
students, make things more usable by more people
Explain issues related to disproportionate representation of ethnic minority students in special
education - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Students from three ethic minority groups are disproportionately
identified for special education: American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and African American. Teacher bias,
test bias, and poverty all cause the overrepresentation of African American students in special
education. The disproportionate placement of ethnic minority students in special education strongly
suggests that in some cases, students are misidentified and wrongly placed (and stigmatized and
segregated) in special education, whereas in other cases, ethnic minority students' disabilities are
ignored and the students are therefore denied appropriate education.
· Explain issues in assessment as it pertains to culturally diverse populations - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Traditional assessment practices have frequently violated the US ideals of fairness and
