Foundations and Professional Practice

Question 1

To be identified as having an intellectual disability, a child must exhibit significantly below-average cognitive functioning during development as well as:

Answer 1

deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors

Question 2

School administrators state that they don not have enough funds to provide the services outlined in the student’s IEP. Which of the following best describes the school district’s legal obligation in this case?

Answer 2

Meeting all of the requirements of the IEP regardless of the cost.

Question 3

Which of the following factors has historically contributed most to the overrepresentation of students from some culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in programs for students with disabilities?

Answer 3

the potential for bias in the assessment process

Question 4

what would be the most effective way for an elementary school SPED teacher to establish regular communication with each student’s families?

Answer 4

Obtaining parental consent for individual notebooks in which the teacher and families can write updates, questions, and comments.

Question 5

How can the gen ed teacher reach the goals of a student for functional living skills?

Answer 5

working with the teacher to incorporate life skills into the student’s daily routine.

Question 6

what strategy would provide a special educator with the most objective method for analyzing their instructional effectiveness?

Answer 6

Videotaping a lesson and critiquing it using a checklist

Question 7

In order to integrate students speech and language goals into their regular and extended curricula, the SPSEd teacher should ask the SLP which of the following strategies?

Answer 7

“what are the specific skills that you are working on with each student?”

Question 8

What activity would likely be the most effective for helping special education teachers begin to identify their own cultural biases?

Answer 8

tracing their own backgrounds, values, and traditions