Chapter 7 and 8

Question 1

1. What are some common characteristics of students with high incidence disabilities?

Answer 1

They are often hard to distinguish from peers without disabilities(non schooling environment)
Combination of behavioral, social, and academic problems
They benefit from systematic, explicit, highly structured interventions

Question 2

2. Which disability category constitutes the largest group of individuals with high incidence disabilities?

Answer 2

learning disabilities

Question 3

3. A student who struggles with the correct pronunciation of sounds has difficulty with ___________________________.

Answer 3

speech articulation

Question 4

4. In what area do students with receptive language problems experience difficulty?

Answer 4

difficulty in understanding what their teahers and peers are saying. follow directions, may not be able to attain information

Question 5

5. What are the two key parts of language with which children may experience difficulty?

Answer 5

receptive and expressive

Question 6

6. True or False. To accommodate students with communication needs, teachers should supply words that are difficult to pronounce.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

7. What is a strategy that teachers can utilize to directly teach listening skills to students?

Answer 7

make oral material easier to understand and remember by simplifying vocabulary, sentence structure.
directions and predictions

Question 8

8. In general, why do students with learning disabilities achieve less academically than typical students?

Answer 8

trouble with processing, organizing, and applying academic information.

Question 9

9. True or False. Individuals with emotional disturbances have problems learning primarily because of external or internal behavioral adjustment problems.

Answer 9

true

Question 10

10. What are two major areas in which students with learning and/or behavioral disabilities experience difficulty in reading?

Answer 10

decoding and comprehension

Question 11

11. How can a teacher determine if a child is having a problem with decoding words?

Answer 11

mispronounce, substitute and ommitting words

Question 12

12. What is a term often used to describe serious difficulties with reading?

Answer 12

dyslexia

Question 13

13. For an LD student, how might a lack of alertness to visual detail affect their performance in Math?

Answer 13

misread math signs and facts

Question 14

14. What are academic survival skills?

Answer 14

attending school regularly, being organized, completing tasks in and out of school, being independent, taking an interest in school and displaying positive interpersonal skills with peers and adults

Question 15

15. True or False. Students with behavioral disorders frequently engage in aggressive or disruptive behaviors during class.

Answer 15

true

Question 16

16. Why do students with learning and behavioral disabilities sometimes experience social skills problems?

Answer 16

lack of knowledge because they do not learn naturally occurring models of social behavior

Question 17

17. What is learned helplessness?

Answer 17

characteristics of some students with disabilities in which they see little relationship between theri own efforts and school or social success, often resulting in a belief that they cannot perform challenging tasks

Question 18

18. What are three types of training that can address the social and emotional needs of students with learning and behavioral disabilities?

Answer 18

social skills training
self-control training
attribution retaining

Question 19

19. True or False. A strategy that will benefit students with significant conduct problems is to engage them in excessively challenging academic tasks.

Answer 19

false

Question 20

20. What type of training can specifically benefit student who demonstrate learned helplessness?

Answer 20

attribution retaining

Question 21

1. What are some key characteristics of ADHD?

Answer 21

inattentive, impulsivity, hyperactivity

Question 22

2. What are the three main categories of ADHD?

Answer 22

inattentive type
hyperactive-impulsive
combined type

Question 23

3. Please provide an example of an oral direction that is expressed in a manner that would be beneficial for a student with ADHD.

Answer 23

one direction or important key at a time
direct instruction
face to face

Question 24

4. True or False. Students with ADHD should always sit near the back of the room to avoid distracting other children.

Answer 24

false

Question 25

5. What is the most frequently prescribed medication for students with ADHD?

Answer 25

ritalin

Question 26

6. Which groups of students are likely to be under-identified as being gifted and talented?

Answer 26

young boys, teen girls, geniuses, those from diverse cultures, those with disabilities

Question 27

7. What is meant by the term acceleration?

Answer 27

educate students at a faster rate. skip grades

Question 28

8. What is meant by the term enrichment?

Answer 28

provides students with information, materials, and assignments that enable them to elaborate on concepts being presented as part of the standard curriculum and that usually require higher level thinking. add course and content

Question 29

9. What is a fundamental characteristic of multicultural education?

Answer 29

students are acknowledged and valued ELL, bilingual diversity of society

Question 30

10. What are two strategies for creating a school environment for collaborating with parents?

Answer 30

frequent communication invite to school activities ask to volunteer and input regarding what works best

Question 31

11. Which groups of students are considered to be at particular risk for school failure?

Answer 31

living in poverty living in abuse or neglect living with substance abuse or being substance abusers

Question 32

12. The term that refers to situations in which the primary caregivers inflict or allow others to cause injury on a child is ________________________________.

Answer 32

abuse

Question 33

13. The term that refers to situations in which the caregivers fail to provide the necessary support for a child’s well-being is ______________________________.

Answer 33

neglect

Question 34

14. Children who are born to mothers who drink heavily during pregnancy are at risk for a condition called __________________________________________________.

Answer 34

fetal alcohol syndrome

Question 35

15. Researchers estimate that nearly 1 in _________ children grows up in a home in which alcohol or drugs are abused.

Answer 35

4

Question 36

16. What are some interventions for students at risk?

Answer 36

set high but realistic expectations establish peers as teaching partners collaborate with professionals support family and community involvement

Question 37

17. What are some disadvantages of tracking?

Answer 37

set low expectations and achievement

Question 38

What are some benefits of collaborating with other professionals?

Answer 38

check your perspective problem solving skills added