Deck 4: Families Are the Most Important of All

Question 1

Throughout history, physical disabilities carried less stigma than intellectual disabilities.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What is family centered practice?

Answer 2

Answer should include information about the focus on family goals and priorities and collaboration between families and professionals.

Question 3

Name three factors that impact a family's reaction to a disability diagnosis.

Answer 3

Any three of these: beliefs, child age, prognosis, timing, previous experience with disability, disability type.

Question 4

Name and briefly describe the four models of disability-

Question 5

List three factors that impact parenting practices

Question 6

Define family cohesion and family flexibility.

Question 7

Who of the following were British Prime Ministers?

A) Margaret Thatcher
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Winston Churchill
D) Nelson Mandela

Question 8

Under IDEA, parents' rights include:

A) The ability to choose their child's teachers, have input into the IEP process and right to due process.
B) Access an independent evaluation, access educational records, receive written notice of all meetings, right to due process.
C) Due process.
D) Ability to determine IEP goals, access records and due process.

Question 9

The macrosystem includes…

A) federal disability law.
B) models of disabilities.
C) societal expectations about when it's appropriate to make eye contact.
D) all of these.
E) none of these.

Question 10

The least significant family subsystem is…

A) marital.
B) parental.
C) sibling.
D) extended family.
E) each subsystem is unique and important to the family unit.

Question 11

Professionals working with families should:

A) Reflect on their own values and culture, avoid stereotypes, combine ideas from different value systems to arrive at solutions and communicate regularly with families.
B) Draw on generalizations to prepare to work with families from other cultures, explain why things are done a certain way at school and how the family can comply with that strategy at home.
C) Explain to families why they should not seek religious cures to disabilities, ask them to explain their religious views so that you can better understand another family in the same faith and communicate regularly.

Question 12

Which is an example of disengagement?

A) A mother works two jobs to pay the family bills but calls to say goodnight to her children and sends them text messages throughout the day.
B) A stay at home mother or father who busies him/herself with crafts, reading, cooking and cleaning and rarely interacts with their children.
C) A divorced father only sees his children on weekends because he travels for work during the week.
D) A mother with a premature infant in the NICU leaves her children at home with their grandmother and spends the night at the NICU several nights a week. She facetimes with her older children when they get home from school each day.

Question 13

The systems in Bronfenbrenner's ecological model include:

A) Microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, chronosystem
B) Marital subsystem, sibling subsystem, extended family subsystem, parental subsystem
C) Microsystem, macrosystem
D) Family, school, community

Question 14

A family is:

A) A child, her mother and father.
B) A child, her parents and her grandparents.
C) Any group of two or more people who consider themselves a family.

Question 15

Resilience is a trait that some people possess and others do not.

Question 16

Families who make a lot of money have a high quality of life

Question 17

Children with disabilities are the poorest population in the world.