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WorksheetsSpecial Education
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is Special Education?
Special Education is education designed to give students with a disability an advantage over other students without a disability.
Special Education is similar to general education with the difference that in special education, students are given easier assessments to help them perform better than others.
Special Education is specially designed education created to help meet the needs of students with a disability.
Students with a disability learn better outside the general education classroom.
True
False
Teaching students with a disability means that teachers must create different lesson plans and different assessments.
True
False
Which of the following is true about disabilities and special education?
A student who has a disability should automatically receive special education.
A student who has a disability and whose impairment hinders his/her academic performance should be eligible for special education.
A student who has a disability can not perform the same as other students in the general classroom.
What does ADHD stand for?
Attention Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention-Deficit Hyper-focused Disorder
Which of the following statements is true?
ADHD is a learning disability.
ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder.
Individuals with ADHD have an immature prefrontal lobe. The prefrontal lobe is responsible for the following EXCEPT:
Organization
Decision Making
Mood Regulation
Language processing
TRUE or FALSE: Students with ADHD are often forgetful and lack organization skills.
True
False
TRUE or False: Students with dyslexia see letters and numbers backwards.
True
False
A student who struggles to tell time and do mathematical calculations may be diagnosed with: __________
Dyscalculia
Dyslexia
Students who struggle with reading fluently, doing mathematical calculations, writing coherently, and frequently make spelling errors may be diagnosed with:
Dyslexia
Specific Learning Disability
Dyscalculia
TRUE or FALSE: A student may be diagnosed with more that one disability.
True
False
TRUE or FALSE: A child who stutters may have a communication disorder.
True
False
TRUE or False: Most students with a disability have behavioral problems at school.
True
False
A student who has a language barrier would be considered to have a communication disorder.
True
False
James struggles to regulate his moods and follow instructions from authority. He is often forgetful, and finds it difficult to adapt to unforeseen changes. In class, he is always talkative and is constantly late to class. For which of the following disabilities would you refer him?
Specific Learning Disability
Communication Disorder
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Dyslexia
You've assigned your class to complete their final projects and give a verbal presentation summarizing their main findings. Joe, who has been diagnosed with a communication disorder, stuttering, is reluctant to deliver his speech in front of his classmates. He is fearful of being embarrassed and has asked you to consider another form of assessment. Joe has suggested submitting his speech in paper for you to grade. How likely would you consider grading his speech this way?
I would have no problem reading his speech and grading it this way.
I would accept his paper and deduct points for not doing his speech.
I would explain to Joe that in the real world, people can not make accommodations all the time, and as so, he must do his speech if he wants a grade.
___________ are intended to help students work around their disability and demonstrate what they have learned. They are not intended to change assessments in significant ways to make them easier.
Accommodations
Modifications
