Northwestern University

College of Teacher Education

Laoag City
Foundation of Special and Inclusive Education. Prelim Exam 2nd Semester AY 2019-2020

Test I. True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if the statement is
incorrect.

1. Special education may be best describe as a purposeful intervention designed to overcome or

deliminate the obstacles that keep children with disabilities from learning.
2. Students with learning disabilities are taught in the least restrictive environment.
3. Many students with learning disabilities have problems with both visual and auditory short-
term memory.
4. A student who has been initially identified as having a possible learning disability
automatically qualifies to receive special education services.
5. Social and personal characteristics of individuals with intellectual disabilities refer to the
person having difficulty applying what is learned in one setting to another setting.
6. When a teacher assists students in retrieving the correct answer through providing an
additional stimulus or cue, he or she is using a suggestion.
7. More and more often, the general education classroom, with supports and modifications, has
been found to be the least restrictive environment for students with intellectual disabilities.
8. General education teachers play the most important role in identifying a student with AD/HD.
9. General education teachers can often diagnose AD/HD within the first couple of weeks of the
school year.
10. Self-advocacy and self-determination skills are generally included in transition plans and
taught to students with intellectual disabilities.

Test II. Identification. Identify the answers of the following statements.

11. Also known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, special ed.
or SPED.
12. Ensuring access to quality education for all students by effectively meeting their diverse
needs in a way that is responsive, accepting, respectful and supportive.
13. They are generally used to teach children with disabilities skills that allow them to function
successfully and independently.
14. Services that help address the nutritional needs of children that include identifying feeding
skills, feeding problems, food habits, and food preferences.
15. Identification of children with visual disorders or delays and providing services and training
to those children.
16. Includes designing learning environments and activities that promote the child’s
development, providing families with information, skills, and support to enhance the child’s
development.
17. Services provided by qualified personnel to assist the family in understanding the special
needs of the child and in promoting the child’s development.
18. Prevent or lessen movement difficulties and related functional problems.
19. Relate to self-help skills, adaptive behavior and play, and sensory, motor, and postural
development.
20. Services for children with delay in communication skills or with motor skills such as
weakness of muscles around the mouth or swallowing.
21. Mental health counseling for children, parents, and families.
22. Identifying and providing services for children with hearing loss and prevention of hearing
loss.
23. Assessment of health status of the child for the purpose of providing nursing care.
24. Preparing an assessment of the social and emotional strengths and needs of a child and
family, and providing individual or group services such as counseling or family training.
25. Equipment and services that are used to improve or maintain the abilities of a child to
participate in such activities as playing, communication, eating or moving.

Test III. Enumeration and Explanation

26-30. Who are the members of the team in identifying a child with disabilities? What is their
role?
31-35. Explain the process used to identify children with special needs.
36-40. Give at least 5 intervention services and explain what they can provide.
41-45. “Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their packages at different times.
46 – 50. “It shouldn’t matter how slowly some children learn as long as we encouraging them not
to stop.”

Prepared by:

MARIECRIS D. ABELA
Instructor