Part 1

Question 1

What does testing do for the student?

Answer 1

It evaluates progress, determines student outcomes, and evaluates student needs

Question 2

What is the the purpose to assessments?

Answer 2

It is a formal and informal method of evaluating progress/behavior

Question 3

What is RTI?

Answer 3

RTI means response to intervention. It helps teachers assess what kind of support a student needs. Placement into 504 or IEP.

Question 4

What is disproportionality?

Answer 4

It is the under or overrepresentation of various ethnic or linguistically different groups in SpEd

Question 5

What is overrepresentation?

Answer 5

It is when too many students are eligable from one specific group

Question 6

What are the four steps to a traditional model of assessment?

Answer 6

1. Starts in general education classroom instruction
2. Student gets referred to multidisciplinary team
3. Team completes assessment
4. Team meets to determine if student is found eligable for services

Question 7

What are prereferral intervention strategies?

Answer 7

They address bias in the referral process and prevent unnecessary assessments as a part of RTI

Question 8

What is autism? Give an example

Answer 8

It is a developmental disability affecting verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction, and educational preformance. Usually diagnosized by 3 years old from having repetitive activities, stereotypical movements, resistance to change, and sensory problems. **think of Isaac

Question 9

What is deaf-blindness?

Answer 9

Codominance of having deaf and blind impairments that effect communication, development, and education

Question 10

What is deafness?

Answer 10

A hearing impairment that causes the child difficulty linguistically, with or without amplification

Question 11

What is emotional disturbance? Give an example

Answer 11

A condition exhibiting one or more of the following for a long period of time
1. inability to learn (cannot be intellectual, sensory, or health factors)
2. inability to to build of maintain relationships
3. Inappropriate feelings/behaviors in normal settings
4. pervasive mood/unhappiness/depression
5. tendency to develop physical symptoms of fears
6. schizophrenia (does not include maladjustment)
**think of Daryion

Question 12

What is hearing impairment? Give an example.

Answer 12

Permanent or fluctuating impairment of hearing
***think of Amanda

Question 13

What is intellectual disability? Give an example

Answer 13

Signifigantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing cocurrently with deficts in adaptive behavior that develops.
***think Chonte

Question 14

What is multiple disabilities? Give an example

Answer 14

Codominant impairments, the combonation causes severe educational needs that require SpEd programs to accommodate more than one
***think Aiden

Question 15

What is orthopedic impairment? Give an example

Answer 15

Severe orthopedic impairment. Many causes by congenital abnormalities, diseases, or other (cerebral palsy, burns, etc)
***think Grant

Question 16

What is specific learning disability? Give an example.

Answer 16

A disorder in one more of the basic psychological processes involving understanding or using language.
***think Kaden

Question 17

What qualifies as ‘other’ health impairment? Give an example.

Answer 17

Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness in an educational environment due to a chronic or acute health problem.
***think Kennadie

Question 18

What is a speech impairment? Give an example

Answer 18

A communication disorder such as stuttering.
***think Mya

Question 19

What is traumatic brain injury?

Answer 19

An acquired injury to the brain resulting in total or partial functional/psychological disabilities. Effects cognition, language, memory, attention, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgment, problem-solving, sensory, perceptual motor abilities, pyschosocial, physical function, information, processing speech

Question 20

What is visual impairment?

Answer 20

Impaired vision
***think Mya