Exam 5: Individual Differences: Exceptional Children

In most cases, ADHD does not continue into adulthood.

About ________ times as many boys as girls are diagnosed with behavioral disorders.

Individuals with moderate intellectual disabilities have IQs in the 35 to 50 range.

According to the text, what is the first step in referring a student for special education?

Which of the following IQ scores serves as the cutoff for intellectual disabilities?

Characterized by repetitions, prolongations, or hesitations in articulation that disrupt the flow of speech.

Involves substituting one sound for another, distorting sounds, adding sounds, or subtracting sounds.

Mary Jane is a gifted sixth-grade student, and at the beginning of the school year she was given a pre-test to determine what she already knew about sixth-grade math. Now Mary Jane's curriculum is composed of only those items in sixth-grade math that Mary Jane didn't know. In other words, Mary Jane gets to skip the review material. Mary Jane's school is using which of the following gifted programs?

Difference theories state that individuals with intellectual disabilities are not merely slower in development than are other individuals but different in some way.

To improve Jody's academic achievement, Jody's sixth-grade teacher, the school psychologist, the guidance counselor and Jody's parents get together each year to work as a team to decide on the goals and objectives for Jody's next academic year. Jody has a disability and this provision of the special education laws is in use.

ADHD is the most commonly recognized kind of learning disability.

Mike sometimes appears to be daydreaming, but is very disoriented afterward. He also has no memory of having been daydreaming. His teacher is aware of a medical condition Mike has and he is experiencing the following condition.

Characterized by hoarseness, inappropriate pitch, loudness, or intonation.

Susanna has a learning disability, and her teachers are working with her to correct her areas of weakness. Susanna's school is using which of the following education plans for students with learning disabilities?

A genetically caused disease characterized by the production of abnormally dense mucus in the affected glands, and usually resulting in chronically impaired respiratory and pancreatic functioning.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three attributes of Renzulli's three-ring model?

Scott is disruptive, disobeys rules, and is openly defiant of his teachers. Scott displays which of the following categories of behavioral disorders?

People with intellectual disabilities have particular trouble in higher order processes such as planning, monitoring, and evaluating their cognitive strategies. In other words, they have difficulty with which of the following?

Abnormal discharges of electrical energy in parts of the brain.

IDEA replaced the term "handicapped" with the term "disabled."