Special Education and Accommodations Worksheet

Which of the following is an accurate statement about a student with a language-based learning disability?

• The student may engage in repetitive activities and movements when presented with challenging assignments.

• The student may find it difficult to pay attention and control impulsive behaviors during lessons.

• The student may experience difficulty in academic activities especially in reading comprehension and oral expressions.

• The student may lack problem-solving and other executive functioning skills required for academic success.

Jan is a child with a visual impairment. Which of the following is the best way for Jan’s parents to assess her recreation and leisure skills?

• A classroom visit

• A conversation with a school counselor

• A checklist from the Expanded Core Curriculum

• An evaluation by a trained specialist in visual disabilities

A student with an emotional and behavioral disturbance (EBD) will most likely have difficulty with which of the following?

• Reading and writing during independent activities

• Building and maintaining relationships with teachers and peers

• Maintaining focus during lessons for short periods of time

• Transitioning between activities throughout the day

Ms. Sanders teaches an eighth-grade English language arts inclusion class. She is developing a differentiated lesson plan for assessing her students’ comprehension of the book they have just finished reading. Which of the following activities should Ms. Sanders include as part of the differentiated lesson plan?

• Providing all students with a menu of assessment options to choose from

• Providing students, the opportunity to use a computer when answering open-ended questions

• Providing choices from a word bank for answers to test questions

• Providing additional time to students with IEPs as stated under their accommodations

Which of the following accommodations is most likely to appear on the IEP of a student whose only classification is for ADHD?

• Allowing unlimited visits to the bathroom and water fountain

• Providing for short and frequent refocusing breaks

• Having a school medical emergency plan in place

• Adjusting or waiving participation regulations in the classroom

In full inclusion settings, the most appropriate role for the special education teacher is to

• manage both content planning and behavior intervention while coteaching all students in the class with the general education teacher

• serve as an instructional assistant to the general education teacher and reinforce lessons as needed

• observe the general education teacher at least once a week in order to discuss teaching strategies that seem to work well

• manage the behavior of the students receiving special education while the general education teacher presents academic content

Which TWO of the following steps occur during the special education prereferral process?

• Identifying, developing, and implementing alternative education strategies for students who struggle in the general education classroom

• Monitoring progress frequently to make academic or behavioral decisions

• Conducting intelligence (IQ), behavioral, and achievement assessments

• Implementing a legal contract between the parents and the school district that describes the special education services to be provided by the school district

To promote the transfer of word-attack skills to digital newspaper reading, a middle school teacher of students with mild intellectual disabilities is most likely to

• prepare teacher-made newspaper articles for the students to read

• select articles from the local online newspaper for the students to read

• develop writing exercises using vocabulary from the curriculum

• prepare worksheet exercises based on single sentences from textbooks

Which of the following statements best defines the ecological perspective on emotional and behavioral disturbance (EBD)?

• Poisons in the physical environment cause EBD.

• EBD involves interactions between the child and the child’s social environment.

• Children with EBD need exposure to an ever-broadening social environment.

• Inclusion settings are less beneficial for students with EBD than for students with other types of disabilities.

Which of the following is a procedural safeguard according to IDEA?

• A) If a parent disagrees with the schools evaluation, the parent has the right to get an independent educational evaluation that the school must accept

• B) Parent can demand in writing that services be given to the child regardless of the child's disability

• C) The school must give a parent a written notice before making any changes to the child's placement

• D) parent has the right to request an IEP meeting at any time day or night so they can attend