Ch 1: Disablities and Special Education-Making a Difference

Question 1

What is the difference between a DISABILITY and a HANDICAP?

Answer 1

A DISABILITY is a condition or impairment
A HANDICAP is barriers or limitations created/imposed by others

Question 2

What is the DEFICIT PERSPECTIVE?

Answer 2

the DEFICIT PERSPECTIVE follows the idea of normal distribution and forces individuals to be considered in terms of how far away from average they are

Question 3

What is the CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE of disability?

Answer 3

cultures have unique views of what a disability is and what it means

Question 4

What is the SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE of disabilities?

Answer 4

Differences considered to be socially constructed

Question 5

Why does disability perspective matter?

Answer 5

Leads to support or demonization, people are treated as a reflection of how they’re perceived

Question 6

What are the rules to Person First language and why does it matter?

Answer 6

Put the person first, do not make the person equal to their disability
Communicates perspective

Question 7

What does the 1973 SECTION 504 OF THE REHABILITATION ACT put into law?

Answer 7

Requirements for accommodations

Question 8

What overriding principles of service are defined by the 1975 INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (EHA/IDEA)?

Answer 8

Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)

Question 9

What does Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) mean?

Answer 9

students are required to have meaningful access to same age peers without disabilities when appropriate

Question 10

What does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) put into affect in terms of education?

Answer 10

Universal Design and Normalization

Question 11

What does the Assistive Technology Act (ATA/Tech Act) give access to?

Answer 11

Access to information technology

Question 12

What is the benefit of differentiation of instruction for all?

Answer 12

needs met early=less struggle and minimized for interventions later on
allows for universal design in learning for all

Question 13

What does MTSS stand for?

Answer 13

Multi Tiered System of Supports

Question 14

what principles is MTSS rooted in?

Answer 14

MTSS is rooted in principles of differentiated instruction

Question 15

what is the goal of MTSS?

Answer 15

provide tiers in increasingly intensive support to students with and without disabilities to ensure adequate intervention and support given in learning

Question 16

What does RTI stand for?

Answer 16

Response to Intervention

Question 17

What is Tier 2 used for in RTI?

Answer 17

Tier 2 of RTI is used to provide interventional support in small groups to students who are below grade level on a topic as a supplement to Tier 1, 15% of students in a classroom

Question 18

How do the tiers of RTI build onto each other?

Answer 18

Tier 1- all students receive regardless, effective for 80-85%
Tier 2-given to those that continue to struggle in small group instruction to supplement tier 1
Tier 3-one on one and minimal small group intervention given to 5% of students as a supplement to tier 1 and 2

Question 19

What did Elizabeth Farrell do?

Answer 19

She initiated public school classes for students with disabilities

Question 20

Who is the “Father of Special Ed”?

Answer 20

Jean Marc Gaspard Itard

Question 21

High Incidence vs. Low Incidence

Answer 21

High-Incidence=category with the most students
Low-Incidence=category with few students

Question 22

How are Disability Categorizations used?

Answer 22

Disability Categorizations are used to ensure proper allocation of resources

Question 23

What are the 14 categories of disability served under the IDEA/EHA?

Answer 23

Autism
Deaf-Blindness
Deafness
Emotional Disturbance
Hearing Impairment
Mental Retardation
Multiple Disabilities
Orthopedic Impairment
Specific Learning Disability
Other Health Impariment
Speech/language Impairment
Traumatic Brain Injury
Visual Impairment
Developmental Delay

Question 24

What is Responsive Education?

Answer 24

Education and instruction is guided by individual’s needs

Question 25

What are the 6 common features of Data-based practices?

Answer 25

Validates, Individually determined, explicit, strategic, sequential, accountable

Question 26

how is educational progress monitored?

Answer 26

directly on skills of concern, systematically, consistently, and frequently