LBS 1 UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
IDEA - Correct Answer- Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004: The main U.S. Federal
Law for special education, which mandates schools to find, evaluate, and provide a free,
appropriate program of education for each child with a disability
FAPE - Correct Answer- Free, appropriate program of education, legally required under
IDEA
IEP - Correct Answer- Individualized Educational Plan (Requirement of IDEA): A written
document with special instructions detailing related services designed for students with a
diagnosed disability
Accomidation - Correct Answer- Changes in the setting or task that are made by the teacher
to bring out optimal responding from the child
Intervention - Correct Answer- Treatments used to change a child with disabilities
(medications, skill training in weak areas, remedial phonics training for reading)
Assistive Technology - Correct Answer- An item or piece of equipment or product system
acquired commercially, off the shelf, modified, or customized, and used to increase, maintain,
or improve functional capability for an individual with a disability
LRE - Correct Answer- Least Restrictive Environment: The LRE for a child is typically the
general education classroom, in contrast to, for example, a self-contained classroom for
students with disabilities
ADHD - Correct Answer- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Manifest Determination - Correct Answer- The determination of whether a child's
"misconduct" is an outcome of the child's disability (Phone Example)
LEA - Correct Answer- Local educational agency, such as a local school
,DSM-IV-TR - Correct Answer- The fourth edition, text revised, of the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which presents the most widely used
medical/psychological classification system (APA, 2000)
14 IDEA Disability Categories - Correct Answer- 1. Autism
2. Deaf-Blindness
3. Deafness
4. Developmental Delay
5. Emotional Disturbance (ED)
6. Hearing Impairment
7. Intellectual Disability
8. Multiple Disabilities
9. Orthopedic Disability
10. Other Heath Impairment (OHI)
11. Specific Learning Disability (SLD/LD)
12. Speech for Language Impairment
13. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
14. Visual Impairment including Blindness
SLD - Correct Answer- Specific Learning Disability (In math, reading)
LD - Correct Answer- Learning Disability, also termed specific learning disability
ID and MID - Correct Answer- Intellectual Disability and mild Intellectual Disability
Differential Diagnosis - Correct Answer- The ability to identify a child at risk for a disability
as different from related disabilities with similar or overlapping characteristics
Norm - Correct Answer- A statistical average or the most frequent occurring score or
responce in a setting or during the performance of a tast
, Traits - Correct Answer- Habitual pattern of behavior that is associated with personality
characteristics (extroversion) and is relatively enduring over time. Traits can be physical,
such as height and eye color
Impairment - Correct Answer- The outcome of a disability in terms of reduced functioning
Introversion - Correct Answer- Demonstration of internalizing behavior (shyness, anxieties)
Extroversion - Correct Answer- Demonstration of active, talkative, and acting out types of
behavior (hyperactive)
Expressive Language - Correct Answer- Talking (Spoken Language) and
composition/spelling (written language)
Learning Processes - Correct Answer- Psychological processes or abilities that contribute to
the learning of academic skills; these learning processes are intelligence, memory,
perception/discrimination, and attention
WM - Correct Answer- Working Memory: Memory that involves holding information in
mind to bring to hindsight and forethought into decision making, to consider personal history
and possible future consequences for the purpose of planning, sequencing, summarizing,
reorganizing, problem solving, and the like.
Visual Perception - Correct Answer- The ability to take what they eyes see (color, form, and
size) and give these visual sensations meaning (to identify objects and words)
Auditory perception - Correct Answer- The ability to identify words/sentences from the
sensations of sound. Perception can also require a synthesis or blending of sounds and an
analysis or breaking of words into syllables
Short Term Memory - Correct Answer- Immediate recall (within seconds when rehearsal is
prevented) of from 3 to 9 elements (words, digits, letters)
Long Term Memory - Correct Answer- The ability to recall information, such as math facts,
learning last week, last month, or years earlier
