human exceptionality ch 5

Identify the adaptive behavior assessment that is likely to assess conceptual skills, social skills, and practical skills of students with disabilities.

The Diagnostic Adaptive Behavior Scale

Which of the following is an example of assistive technology that provides benefits to students with intellectual disabilities by adapting the curriculum?

Use of software programs that allow teachers to make adjustments based on student needs.

Like the definition of intellectual disability given in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the definition of the American Association on Intellectual and Development Disabilities tends to ______.

be focused on how to diagnose the condition

The Best Buddies International program called e-Buddies provides individuals with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to ______ while acquiring and practicing needed computer skills.

develop new e-mail friendships

Which of the following must be incorporated in instruction to ensure transfer and generalization among students with intellectual disabilities?

different situations and settings

Students with intellectual disabilities are likely to experience delays in learning vocabulary because of ______.

difficulties in memory

Which of the following teaching approaches is particularly effective with students with intellectual disabilities?

direct instruction

Match the causes of intellectual disabilities (in the left column) with their descriptions as suggested by Shapiro and Batshaw (in the right column).

environmental causes matches Choice, Tend to cause a disability which needs less intensive supports. Tend to cause a disability which needs less intensive supports. genetic and biological causes matches Choice, Tend to cause a disability which needs more intensive supports. Tend to cause a disability which needs more intensive supports.

The National Association for Retarded Children (the ARC) was formed in the 1950s to provide services to people with ______.

intellectual disabilities

Which of the following are the common methods used in identification of mild intellectual disabilities in individuals? (Check all that apply.)

intelligence testing academic skills assessment adaptive behavior skills assessment

What should be considered in structuring the environment of the elementary classroom for students with intellectual disabilities?

Physical factors such as the placement of desks or carrels and materials.

______ measures a student's ability to perform skills needed for everyday life.

Adaptive behavior skills assessments

The 2016 Annual Report to Congress indicates that ______ students aged 6-21 years were 2.08 and 2.22 times more likely to be served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for emotional disturbance and intellectual disabilities, respectively, than were the students aged 6-21 years in all other racial/ethnic groups combined.

African American

Identify a true statement about the physical arrangement of the classroom for students with intellectual disabilities.

All furniture and materials should be arranged attractively, appropriately, and neatly.

is a specific type of teaching procedure conducted in small group environments that have received support in its use with students with disabilities, including those with intellectual disabilities.

Blank 1: Cooperative Blank 2: learning

are practical, everyday problem-solving skills that will serve an individual in his or her current and future life.

Blank 1: Functional Blank 2: academics

is an approach to allow students with and without intellectual disabilities to integrate and apply knowledge and skills learned in class to address authentic needs in their schools and communities through community service activities.

Blank 1: Inclusive Blank 2: service Blank 3: learning

is educational planning that makes an individual the most important part of the planning, involves family and friends in the planning, and takes into consideration the abilities and aspirations of an individual.

Blank 1: Person Blank 2: centered Blank 3: planning

is a combination of skills, knowledge, and beliefs that enable a person to engage in goal-directed, self-regulated, autonomous behavior.

Blank 1: Self Blank 2: determination

is the part of the memory that allows one to hold information in memory while working on a task.

Blank 1: Working Blank 2: memory

A(n) is a system in which a student is assigned a buddy who will give him or her support by doing such things as going over instructions, explaining rules, or answering questions.

Blank 1: buddy Blank 2: system

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act defines as significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

Blank 1: intellectual Blank 2: disabilities

According to the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), is characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior as expressed in conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills.

Blank 1: intellectual Blank 2: disability

Identify a similarity between the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) for the purpose of identifying people with intellectual disabilities.

Both stress on identifying how to best help individuals with disabilities to grow and improve in knowledge and skills.

______ has become the benchmark for many educational programs for adolescents with intellectual disabilities.

Community-based instruction

True or false: According to Taylor et al., psychosocial factors always lead to an intellectual disability.

False

Identify an accurate statement about functional academics.

Functional academics tend to include everyday literacy skills and everyday number skills.

Identify a true statement about the definition of intellectual disabilities given by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD).

It describes limitations to identify needed supports.

In the context of the actual physical arrangement of the classroom for preschool students with intellectual disabilities, identify a true statement about a natural environment.

It is a setting where a child would be if he or she did not have a disability.

Identify a true statement about inclusive service-learning.

It is linked to the curriculum and, for students with intellectual disabilities, to Individualized Education Program (IEP) objectives.

Identify a feature of an elementary classroom for students with disabilities.

It must be attractive and neat and contain displays of charts and graphs.

Identify the role of technology in enhancing the life of individuals with disabilities beyond school. (Check all that apply.)

It provides ways to make social contact. It helps access business and consumer resources.

Identify a true statement about the IQ of an individual.

It should not be construed as a permanent measure.

Identify a true statement about peer tutoring.

It tends to be a powerful tool in improving inclusive classroom performance.

______ are those skills that are needed to thrive in today's society, such as using a telephone, participating in leisure activities, grocery shopping, and preparing meals.

Life skills

Which of the following statements is true about the actual physical arrangement of the classroom for preschool students with intellectual disabilities? (Check all that apply.)

Materials should be placed in a manner that ensures social interaction with other students. Highly structured routines need to be determined to promote the acquisition of specific information. Scheduling that engages students must be developed.

______ skills allow individuals with disabilities a chance to speak for themselves and others.

Self-advocacy

Identify an accurate statement about people with intellectual disabilities during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Special hospitals and institutions were constructed to provide care and treatment to people with intellectual disabilities.

Identify the widely used tests of intelligence. (Check all that apply.)

The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-IV

Identify the tests that are frequently administered to assess the academic skills of students. (Check all that apply.)

The Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III The Woodcock-Johnson-IV The Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-III

What should a teacher do while teaching a direct instruction lesson to students with intellectual disabilities?

The teacher should actively target specific skills and then systematically teach them to the students.

Identify an example of assistive technology that helps to remove barriers for students with intellectual disabilities.

The use of graphics to improve the presentation of materials.

Identify a feature of the instructional procedures used with students with intellectual disabilities.

These procedures increase opportunities for the students to learn.

Identify an accurate statement about adaptive behavior skills assessment scales.

These scales often rely on interviewing people familiar with the individual with intellectual disabilities to rate overall adaptive skill abilities.

Identify an accurate statement about life skills.

These skills are learned through simple observation and participation in community activities.

According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, identify an accurate characteristic of students with intellectual disabilities.

They have an IQ of 70-75 or below.

Which of the following is true of individuals with intellectual disabilities?

They have problems specifically with working memory.

Identify a characteristic of self-determined people.

They make decisions in their own lives.

Identify an accurate statement about students with intellectual disabilities having problems attending to tasks.

They require direct training on all attention requirements of discrimination tasks.

Identify a true statement about the academic characteristics of students with intellectual disabilities.

They score in the lowest possible range on measures of passage comprehension and mathematical calculation.

Identify a true statement about the language development of students with intellectual disabilities.

They tend to experience delays in language development as a whole.

Identify transfer and generalization characteristics of students with intellectual disabilities.

They tend to have deficits in the ability to apply learning to new, yet similar situations effectively.

Why should the physical arrangement of the classroom let students with intellectual disabilities experience a "normalized" environment? (Check all that apply.)

To help them meet instructional goals. To develop age-appropriate social and communication behaviors.

True or false: According to the 2016 Annual Report to Congress, about 7% of students served in special education ages 6-21 years are classified as having intellectual disabilities.

True

According to the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), which of the following are the conditions of diagnosing intellectual disabilities? (Check all that apply.)

When an individual's IQ is approximately 70-75 or below. When the age of onset is below 18 years. When an individual displays significant limitations in adaptive skills.

Teachers commonly use direct observation and samples of a student's work to assess his or her ______.

academic skills

The use of intelligence tests depends upon the ______ of the individuals.

age

is the ability to support and promote one's own interests.

lank 1: Self Blank 2: advocacy

Students with intellectual disabilities need ______ than do their peers without disabilities.

more coaching and support in guided practice

In the context of environmental causes of intellectual disabilities, anoxia, the loss of oxygen, to the baby during childbirth is an example of a(n) ______.

perinatal cause

Which content and skill development is emphasized in students with intellectual disabilities should be decided through ______.

person-centered planning

In the context of direct instruction for students with intellectual disabilities, a(n) is an additional stimulus or cue that will increase the chances of a correct response being given.

prompt

The academic skills of a student with intellectual disabilities can be improved by ______.

providing inclusive educational settings

One of the major goals of teaching ______ with intellectual disabilities is to prepare them for life outside a classroom.

secondary-level students

Self-awareness, self-evaluation, choice making, decision making, problem solving, goal-setting, and goal attainment are essential components of a(n) ______ curriculum.

self-determination

Cooperative learning is a teaching method in which ______.

students of various abilities work together

True or false: Environmental causes of intellectual disabilities result in biological or medical problems that affect an individual's growth, development, and functioning.

t

Justin is an eighth-grade student with an intellectual disability. He gets compliments from his mathematics teacher for solving addition and subtraction questions in the classroom. But, he fails to use the skill while shopping in a supermarket. This example illustrates that Justin has ______ problems.

transfer and generalization

The attending skills of a student with intellectual disabilities can be enhanced by ______.

using teaching material and environments that are relevant to an individual's life