Exam 5: Individual Differences: Exceptional Children

Intellectual disabilities are noted as severe when an individual scores below this number on an IQ test.

Jonathan is a gifted fourth-grade student. He will complete both the fourth-grade and most of the fifth- grade curriculum this year. Jonathan's school is using which of the following gifted programs?

Which of the following was NOT included in the text as a reason that teachers must be sensitive to the needs of all students, including those students with exceptionalities that place them at risk for being underserved?

Any group of progressive and chronic muscle disorders caused by a genetic abnormality and resulting in gradual and irreversible wasting of skeletal muscles.

Students with intellectual disabilities of this level may eventually (with considerable educational assistance) master academic skills at the fourth-grade level, but not above.

In this approach to teaching gifted students, gifted children are placed in a normal classroom but are taken out of the classroom at regular intervals for special instruction by a teacher.

What did the 1972 Marland Report emphasize?

A significant problem with attention, impulsivity of behavior, and hyperactivity.

Sternberg and Spear proposed that children with intellectual disabilities show deficits not only in executive processing, but also in coping with novelty and in adaptive competence in everyday life.

Typified by uncontrolled jerking movements that can last from two to five minutes, followed by deep sleep, or in rarer cases, coma.

Sarah is a third-grade student who has severe disabilities. She has been placed into a regular class for the entire day, and has a special teacher in the classroom to assist with her needs. Sarah attends a school that uses which of the following methods of least restrictive placement?

Which of the following components to giftedness offered by the Marland Report was dropped soon after the report was published?

Some schools today identify giftedness based on exceptionally high levels of linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, or intrapersonal intelligence. These schools have adapted which of the following?

Shyness, withdrawal, or depression can be categorized into this category of behavioral disorders.

Which of the following would NOT be an implication for teaching based on the characterizations of intellectual disabilities?

Which of the following is NOT one of the problems concerning the definition of learning disabilities as discussed in your text?

A motor impairment caused by damage to the brain; typically due to oxygen deprivation before, during, or shortly after birth. It is not progressive.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three attributes of Sternberg's triarchic theory?

What recent trend in education forces every teacher to have an understanding of education for exceptional children?

Passed in 1986, IDEA extended the educational rights of children ages 3 to 5, regardless of state laws, and added programs addressing the needs of infants with serious disabilities.