SPED MR lifelong learning

What is a lifelong learner?

• One who chooses to prolong their formal studies throughout life.

• A person sho is engaged in learning when they're old or retired.

• A person who is self-motivated, curious about new things, and voluntarily engaged in learning.

• A person who is engaged in continuous compulsory short courses or professional development for work.

There"s a friendly tame cat that wanders in a daycare center. Children are familiar with it. But a new child is afraid of it. How can you help?

• Reassure the child by saying "This is a cat and you do not have to be afraid of it."

• Remove the cat each time it enters the center so that the child does not see it.

• Put up a poster in the class of different, animals, with four legs, including cats.

• Repeatedly show pictures of a cat, read stories, and allow the child to feel and smell the cat.

In which stage of learning is a child with severe to profound ID fully dependent on the caregiver for learning about being aware of self?

• active learning stage

• awareness stage

• acceptance stage

• engagement stage

What ways of working are essential to promote and support learning and development?

• Parents purchasing educational toys for their children.

• Working collaboratively with the child, parents, caregivers, therapists, family, & community

• The attitude of the community

• Providing teacher training workshops to caregivers.

Why is it important for parents of children with severe to profound disabilities to network with and support each other concerning their child?

• To primarily exchange equipment, clothing, toys, and other items that are no longer needed.

• To primarily listen and offer others emotional support regarding personal problems

• To primarily share different perspectives, strategies, examples, ideas of what is working best regarding their child

• To primarily discuss and plan events for the daycare center

What is the process that involves understanding others and expressing ourselves called?

• Collaboration

• Transformation

• Communication

• Creation

A family with a child with a severe to profound intellectual disability has requested that community therapists stop sending them information about their child’s disability as they believe that the only ‘cure’ for their child’s disability is performing sacrificial offerings and praying to ancestors.

What type of barrier does this relate to?

• Financial barrier

• Physical barrier

• Emotional barrier

• Cultural barrier

What communication strategy can be used to enable children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities, who are non-verbal, to indicate their own decisions?

• Notepad with pen

• Augmentative and alternative communication

• Picture drawing tools

• There are currently no communication tools available for decision-making

What is an example of how a child with a severe to profound intellectual disability responds or indicates his or her choice?

• Blank stares.

• Looking at or in the direction of the wanted object.

• Being quiet.

• Writing in a full sentence about the wanted object on a piece of paper.

Why is the caregiver of a child with a severe to profound intellectual disability considered an important link between parents, the center, and the community?

• Because the caregiver serves as an informant to parents, the center and community about what the needs are of the caregivers

• Because the caregiver serves as an informant to the parents, centers and community about what the support needs of the child are.

• Because the caregiver can help the parents, the center and community develop an appreciation for the work that caregivers do.

• Because the caregiver serves as an informant to the parents, center, and community about each others’ personal challenges and lives.