Deck 2: Theoretical Foundations in Early Childhood Special Education

Question 1

The environment and materials are key components to Montessori's educational approach.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Greenspan's floortime/DIR model is often used to work with children who have:

Answer 2

Autism and/or developmental delays

Question 3

List our seven senses.

Answer 3

Olfactory/smell, gustatory/taste, tactile/touch, visual/sight, auditory/hearing, proprioceptive and vestibular

Question 4

What is play therapy?

Question 5

List a minimum of 4 constructivist assumptions about children and their development:

Question 6

What are the stages of Piaget's constructivist theory that occur during early childhood?

Question 7

The senses addressed in Sensory Processing Theory are:

A) Smell, taste, touch, and hearing
B) Proprioceptive and vestibular
C) Auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, visual, proprioceptive and vestibular
D) Auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, visual and extrasensory perception

Question 8

According to Piaget, children use ______ to make sense of new information.

A) assimilation and accommodation
B) guided participation and apprenticeship
C) the zone of proximal development
D) social problem solving

Question 9

High/Scope curriculum is based on the assumption that children…

A) learn best through books.
B) should be active participants in their leaning.
C) learn best through discrete trials.
D) learn best through interactions with an adult.

Question 10

What kind of therapist is responsible for addressing sensory processing disorders in young children?

A) Occupational
B) Speech
C) Physical
D) Play

Question 11

ABA is based on:

A) Constructivist theories
B) Modern Transactional Ecological Model
C) Rogoff's addition of apprenticeship and guided participation to constructivist theory.
D) Behavioral theories including Pavlov and Skinner.

Question 12

What is sensory modulation?