My Practice Exam Flashcards
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Which model of disability states that people become disabled when an environment or technology presents barriers?
Social model
Which model of disability considers disability as a health problem that affects individual people? This model does not focus on society’s responsibility for creating barriers.
Medical model
This model of disability recognizes that people with disabilities have fundamental human rights and should be free from discrimination.
Human rights model
Someone can express their thoughts well when they speak, but has difficulty when they write. Which disability does this characterize?
Dysgraphia
A child is struggling to keep score of a football game. They are having trouble counting and adding numbers. Which disability are they likely to have?
Dyscalculia
A child who has normal or above average intelligence but who struggles with reading most likely has which disability?
Dyslexia
Flickering or flashing content can cause a serious reaction in people with which type of disability?
Epilepsy
A daycare teacher notices that a child is extremely sensitive to sound, smell, and light, and shows little interest in classroom activities or other children. This child is displaying characteristics of which disability?
Autism Spectrum Disorder
A person whose sensory inputs are limited to touch, smell, and taste has which disability?
Deaf-blindness
Which assistive technology uses vibrations or other tactile sensations to support communication between people and computers, other electronic devices, and their environment?
Haptics
A workplace accommodation that would most benefit a person with a mobility, flexibility, or body structure disability would include ______ design of their workstation
Ergonomic design of their workstation
A webpage designer uses light blue text on a white background. This poor color contrast would most affect people with which disability?
Low vision
(NOT Color vision deficiency, Deaf-blindness, or blindness)
Using a microphone when presenting in a large room would most benefit people with which disability?
Hard of hearing
(not deaf)
A person’s first language is French Sign Language (LSF), but they have also learned how to read lips to help when communicating with people who can hear. Which disability do this person most likely have?
Deafness. For many people who are deaf, sign language is their native language. Some can also read lips.
A bar graph that only uses color to show data creates the greatest barrier to people with which disability?
Color vision deficiency
An example of a reasonable accommodation for a student with anxiety when they take a test is:
More time provided to complete a test
Which disability is characterized by the inability to grip objects and use fine motor skills?
Mobility
Cerebral palsy can create multiple disabilities such as visual, learning, hearing, speech, epilepsy, and intellectual disabilities. It is a:
Neurological disability
A person with obsessive compulsive disorder picks their skin and has scars that make them feel embarrassed. Their specially trained dog recognizes skin picking as a cue to bring them a dog brush. Being given the brush is a reminder that grooming the dog is a non-harmful alternative behavior to skin picking. Which type of animal does this person have?
Service dog
(not therapy dog nor emotional support dog)
A person with which disability type would be best served by haptic alerts (such as buzzing) on their iPhone?
Auditory. The features of the iPhone will convert auditory stimuli to visual and tactile stimuli for the deaf and hard of hearing.
(not visual)
A voice output communication aid with eye tracking is an example of which type of assistive technology?
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
(not screen reader)
This assistive technology is for computer users whose vision loss prevents them from seeing the screen or navigating with a mouse. It provides speech and braille output.
JAWS
In an online course, the instructor describes all the visual information on slides. This lets them avoid using which assistive technology or adaptive strategy?
Audio descriptions
A person with low vision needs to follow the cursor and enlarge the text and graphics on a computer screen. Which assistive technology would they use?
Screen magnifier