Understanding Disabilities in Education

According to the image, autism in children is characterized by significant difficulties in which areas?

• Verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction

• Hearing and visual impairments

• Emotional disturbance and behavioral issues

• Motor skills and physical coordination

Which of the following is NOT included under the definition of emotional disturbance?

• An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.

• Schizophrenia.

• Social maladjustment, unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance.

• A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.

What does the term "intellectual disability" refer to?

• An impairment in hearing that affects a child's educational performance.

• Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing with deficits in adaptive behavior.

• A severe orthopedic impairment that affects a child's educational performance.

• Concomitant impairments such as intellectual disability-blindness.

Which of the following is true about multiple disabilities according to the text?

• It refers to a combination of impairments that causes severe educational needs that cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.

• It includes deaf-blindness.

• It is another term for intellectual disability.

• It means an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating.

What does a specific learning disability NOT include?

• Perceptual disabilities

• Brain injury

• Emotional disturbance

• Dyslexia

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of traumatic brain injury?

• Impairments in cognition

• Impairments in abstract thinking

• Impairments in physical functions

• Brain injuries induced by birth trauma

What does speech or language impairment include?

• Stuttering

• Language impairment

• Voice impairment

• All of the above

How is visual impairment including blindness defined in the context of educational performance?

• An impairment that does not affect educational performance

• An impairment that improves with correction

• An impairment that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance

• An impairment that only includes total blindness

What does IDEA stand for?

• International Development Education Association

• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

• Integrated Data for Educational Analysis

• Institute for Democratic Education in America

What is the purpose of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?

• To provide a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation

• To establish a national curriculum for special education

• To fund private education for children with disabilities

• To create a database of individuals with disabilities