WGU D002 OA Prep Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers
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What happens if the student is not on track to meet IEP goals? - Answer-• Call a meeting of the IEP team to make adjustments.
• This is called an IEP amendment.
What happens if adjustments are not made when a student is failing...
WGU D002 OA Prep Exam Questions
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What happens if the student is not on track to meet IEP goals? - Answer-• Call a
meeting of the IEP team to make adjustments.
• This is called an IEP amendment.
What happens if adjustments are not made when a student is failing to make progress?
- Answer-The student is being denied FAPE.
How often should parent receive progress reports? - Answer-• The IEP team determines
how often.
• Progress reports must be sent at least as often as general education students receive
their progress reports.
What happens at an Annual Review? - Answer-• At least once a year, the IEP team
meets to review the student's progress and develop the next year's IEP.
• The team decides if new goals should be written and if changes need to be made to
the special education and related services.
Why does IDEA include reevaluations? - Answer-To determine if the student continues
to meet the definition of a "child with a disability."
What is included in a reevaluation? - Answer-The same things as an initial evaluation.
Must every student have a reevaluation? - Answer-• No.
• If the district and parents agree a reevaluation is not needed.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) - Answer-First federal law to
specifically address the education of students with disabilities.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 - Answer-Increased federal funding
to ensure that students with disabilities had equal educational opportunities and
required that schools follow the laws to receive funding.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1990 (IDEA) - Answer-This is an
amendment to include all services to disabled infants and young children
Includes individuals transitioning from high school to college.
,504 Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Answer-No qualified handicapped person shall, on the
basis of handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or
otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity which receives or
benefits from Federal financial assistance.
Defines disabilities as impairments that significantly limit one or more major life
activities, including walking, seeing, hearing, and learning.
Protects all people with disabilities, not only children, from discrimination in programs
receiving federal funding, including all public schools.
American Disabilities Act of 1990 - Answer-Largely replaces 504
Directly addreses communication and so it requires that closed captioning be provided
to accommodate individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Brown VS Topeka Board of Education (1954) - Answer-Overview: Most impactful,
important, and famous court decisions in US history. Called for Topeka school districts
to end racial segregation in its schools.
Ruling: Unanimously ruled that segregation violates the 14th amendment Separate
educational are inherently unequal
Impact: Set the stage for future court decisions regarding students with disabilities. It
determined that ALL students should have an equal opportunity in education. It became
the basis for every SPED court case that would follow.
Hobson VS Hansen (1967) - Answer-Overview: Civil rights activist Julius Hobson
claimed that students were being assigned special tracks based on race and IQ testing.
Ruling: Federal Court ruled against a tracking system in which children are placed into
regular or special education classes according to intelligence tests. Tests are racially
biased.
Impact: Influenced IDEA part B which requires non-discriminatory testing and
classification requirements and safeguards against misclassification.
Diana VS California State Board of Education (1970) - Answer-Overview: Nine Mexican-
American students contested their placement in classes for students
with mild mental retardation based solely on IQ tests administered in English.
Ruling: Students must be assessed in their primary language or with tests that do not
require English fluency.
Impact: Paved the way for evaluation and assessment processes to be provided in the
student's primary language.
, PARC VS Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1971) - Answer-Overview: PARC sued the
state over a law that allowed officials to deny disabled children access to schools. Law
gave school districts the authority to deny services to children aged 8yrs "who had not
reached the mental age of 5," but had also been used to justify removal of students who
struggled to integrate into classrooms.
Ruling: In favor of PARC, the state can not determine educability and that the laws were
unconstitutional.
Impact:
1. Pivotal in development of SPED.
2. It affirms the rights established by Brown VS Topeka applied to children with
disabilities.
3. Schools must provide free and accessible education regardless of disability or
impairment.
4. Child cannot be suspended for more than 2 days without a hearing.
Mills VS The Board of Education of the District of Columbia (1972) - Answer-Overview:
Students who had been excluded from public schools because of learning and behavior
problems sued the DC school district. The district claimed that it did not have enough
money to provide SPED services.
Ruling: A lack of funds is not an excuse for failing to provide services to exceptional
children. If sufficient funds are not available then all programs should be cut back
proportionally.
Impact: Highlighted the rights of students to due process in education and helped lay
the foundation that eventually led to section 504 and IDEA.
Identification and referral to Special Education is also called what? - Answer-Pre-referral
Where does the pre-referral (identification and referral to Special Education) process
take place? - Answer-In the general education classroom.
What is the pre-referral process? - Answer-Helps general education teachers develop
effective strategies that improve success for struggling students. - Prevents over-
representation of students who are learning English as a New Language or students
who are at risk, but do not have a disability. - Encourages communication about how to
meet student needs. - A preventative process that helps eliminate inappropriate
referrals to special education Data collection that can support eligibility determination,
especially for suspected learning disabilities.
What is a referral? - Answer-Someone asking the school district to determine if the
student is a child with a disability as defined under IDEA.
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