Deck 14: Individuals With Physical Disabilities Health Disabilities and Related Lowincidence Disabilities

Question 1

About how many genetic causes of deaf-blindness have been identified?

A) 60
B) 25
C) 2
D) 12

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Students with spastic cerebral palsy have

A) Floppy muscle tone
B) Poor balance and equilibrium
C) Contorted and purposeless movements
D) Tight muscles and stiff movements

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Under the federal definition, when would a student be identified as having multiple disabilities?

A) When a student has an intellectual disability plus one or more other disabilities
B) When a student has a severe physical impairment plus one or more other disabilities
C) When a student has deafness and blindness
D) When a student has two or more disabilities whose combined effects cannot be accommodated in a program for one of the disabilities

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A 16-year-old student with traumatic brain injury is asked to count 20 pennies and tell the number of pennies on the table.After numerous attempts, she is unable to accurately count the pennies.This same student is asked to recall multiplication facts and is able to do so with no errors.Which of the following is the most accurate statement about this student?

A) She has splinter skills.
B) She has a severe cognitive disability.
C) She has a math learning disability.
D) She needs cues to improve her attention to the relevant information.

Question 5

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is categorized as a(n)

A) Infectious disease
B) Neuromotor impairment
C) Degenerative disease
D) Musculoskeletal disorder

Question 6

A child who receives an operation to insert a shunt to drain the excess spinal fluid from the brain to the abdominal area is being treated for

A) Muscular dystrophy
B) Microcephalus
C) Epilepsy
D) Hydrocephalus

Question 7

A student with a severe case of traumatic brain injury will typically

A) Have the most dramatic improvement in skills during the first 2 years following the trauma
B) Remain in a coma for the first year following the trauma
C) Continue to improve for 10 years following the trauma
D) Have the most dramatic improvement in skills during the first year following the trauma

Question 8

The most severe form of spina bifida, in which a baby is born with the spinal cord protruding into a sack on his or her back, is

A) Meningitis
B) Meningocele
C) Myelomeningocele
D) Mononucleosis

Question 9

Mrs.Jung has Marquis, a student with traumatic brain injury, in her classroom.Marquis is demonstrating impulsive responding in the class.What is the most appropriate strategy for Mrs.Jung to use with Marquis to help decrease his impulsivity?

A) Reduce the number of questions Marquis must answer on a quiz.
B) Tell Marquis to sit and think before he answers.
C) Tell Marquis the schedule of events that will happen that day.
D) Give Marquis rest breaks each hour.

Question 10

Students with cerebral palsy have an increased incidence of

A) Stuttering
B) Herpes simplex
C) Intellectual disability
D) Spina bifida

Question 11

A prosthetic device is used for students with

A) Hydrocephalus
B) A limb deficiency
C) Muscular dystrophy
D) None of the above

Question 12

During the perinatal period, the most common cause of brain injury is

A) Maternal age
B) Toxoplasmosis
C) Asphyxia
D) Premature birth

Question 13

What limbs are adversely affected with diplegia?

A) All four limbs but the arms are more affected than the legs
B) The limbs on the same side of the body
C) All four limbs but the legs are more affected than the arms
D) Only the legs are affected

Question 14

For a student with physical or health disabilities to qualify for special education services, the student's disability must

A) Be diagnosed by a physician who provides written documentation to the school system
B) Adversely affect the student's motor functioning
C) Be evident prior to the age of 3 years
D) Interfere with his or her educational performance

Question 15

An example of a teratogenic cause of physical or health disabilities is

A) Low birth weight
B) Parental neglect of the child
C) Maternal drug abuse during pregnancy
D) Brain trauma after birth

Question 16

Seunghun was born with normal hearing and vision, but at the age of 7 years, he contracted meningitis.As a result, he became legally blind and developed a moderate hearing loss.Seunghun can be said to have

A) Adventitious deaf-blindness
B) Congenital deaf-blindness
C) Teratogenic deaf-blindness
D) None of the above

Question 17

The acronym TORCH serves as a memory aid for what list?

A) Categories used in classifying persons with multiple disabilities
B) Prenatal infections that, if acquired by the mother, may adversely affect the fetus
C) The most common syndromes found in persons with low-incidence disabilities
D) Common characteristics found in persons with health impairments

Question 18

The term low-incidence disabilities refers to

A) Paraplegia
B) Students who have more than one disability
C) Disabilities that occur infrequently in the population
D) Disabilities that have declining incidence rates

Question 19

What goal should the teacher set for a student with Duchenne muscular dystrophy?

A) Maintain the student's motor function for as long as possible
B) Assist the family in obtaining surgery to cure the disease
C) Increase the student's motor function as much as possible
D) Decrease assistive technologies to move toward greater independence

Question 20

Which of the following is not true of all students with multiple disabilities?

A) They cannot receive adequate services in a program designed for just one of their disabilities.
B) They have concomitant disabilities.
C) The disabilities interact and the combined effects multiply.
D) They function cognitively in the range of intellectual disability.

Question 21

Which disease was originally known as "little disease"?

A) Muscular dystrophy
B) Spina bifida
C) Cerebral palsy
D) Asthma

Question 22

All of the following are examples of functional effects of a disability except

A) Motivation
B) Sensory loss
C) Fatigue and lack of endurance
D) Processing issues

Question 23

A communication breakdown occurs when

A) The communication between partners is misinterpreted or misunderstood
B) One or more communication partners has communication impairment
C) The augmentative and alternative communication device of a communication partner is broken
D) One communication partner wants to convey an idea to another person but does not have a communication system to do so

Question 24

For students with deaf/blindness, the priority subject area is typically

A) Self-help skills
B) Communication
C) Orientation and mobility
D) Learning Braille

Question 25

When is spinal bifida most likely to occur?

A) First trimester of pregnancy
B) Second trimester of pregnancy
C) Third trimester of pregnancy
D) During birth

Question 26

A child diagnosed with a serious heart, circulatory, and lung condition severely affecting his education would fall under which category for special education considerations?

A) Multiple disabilities
B) Orthopedic impairment
C) Developmental delay
D) Other health impairment

Question 27

The appropriate educational placement for a student is determined based on the

A) Professional judgment of the student's case manager or special education teacher
B) Diagnostic label that the student receives
C) Judgment of the student's parent or legal guardian
D) Results of the student's assessments and planned educational goals

Question 28

Most traumatic brain injuries occur in which age group?

A) 15- to 24-year-olds
B) 5- to 14-year-olds
C) 25- to 34-year-olds
D) During birth

Question 29

Most students with multiple disabilities are educated in a

A) Separate school
B) Separate classroom
C) Resource room
D) General education classroom

Question 30

What is the most common pulmonary childhood disease?

A) Pneumonia
B) Tuberculosis
C) Asthma
D) Cystic fibrosis

Question 31

Most students with orthopedic impairments are educated in a

A) Separate school
B) Separate classroom
C) Resource room
D) General education classroom

Question 32

The first schools for "crippled children" were established in the early 1900s in all of the following cities except

A) Chicago
B) Los Angeles
C) Cleveland
D) Philadelphia

Question 33

Which category would not fall under physical disabilities, health disabilities, and related low-incidence disabilities?

A) Traumatic brain injury
B) Orthopedic impairments
C) Intellectual disability
D) Other health impairments

Question 34

The HIV virus can be transmitted between persons through

A) The air
B) Saliva
C) Breast milk
D) None of the above

Question 35

The specialized expanded curriculum for a student requiring tube feeding for nutrition may include

A) Orientation and mobility skills
B) Learning to tube feed himself or herself
C) A functional curriculum
D) An advanced course in an academic area

Question 36

All of the following are cited in the text as types of cerebral palsy except

A) Spastic
B) Mixed
C) Athetoid
D) Multiple

Question 37

A student with epilepsy has been seen walking in circles and picking at his clothes on several occasions.What kind of seizure is this student experiencing?

A) Tonic-clonic seizure
B) Petit mal seizure
C) Complex-partial seizure
D) Absence seizure

Question 38

Which of the following is one of the reasons why these categories of exceptionality are so diverse?

A) Because of the wide range of diseases and disorders
B) Because there are 12 other categories of exceptionality
C) Because of ineffectual assessment measures
D) All of the above

Question 39

What should you not do when a student in your class has a tonic-clonic seizure?

A) Withhold liquids immediately following the seizure
B) Turn the student on his or her stomach
C) Time the duration of the seizure
D) Allow the student to sleep following the seizure

Question 40

The first step in determining if a person qualifies for special education under one of the IDEA categories for physical disabilities and health disabilities is

A) Standardized testing
B) Assistive technology assessment
C) Medical evaluation
D) Psychological evaluation

Question 41

Which of the following examples of assistive technology (AT)represent low-tech AT?

A) Sport wheelchair
B) Robotic arm
C) Graphing calculators
D) Spoon with built-up handle

Question 42

A type of cerebral palsy that is characterized by poor balance and equilibrium in addition to uncoordinated voluntary movement.

A) Mixed cerebral palsy
B) Ataxic cerebral palsy
C) Spastic cerebral palsy
D) Athetoid cerebral palsy

Question 43

Of the following, which is not an example of a health disability?

A) Seizure disorder
B) Asthma
C) AIDS
D) Spina bifida

Question 44

A word prediction program may be useful for a student who writes on the computer at a very slow rate.

Question 45

As a result of their experience living with a disability, adults with cerebral palsy tend to obtain routine medical checkups and dental care to prevent further medical problems.

Question 46

Students with Duchenne muscular dystrophy are often unable to walk beginning at the age of _____.

A) 5-6 years
B) 8-9 years
C) 10-12 years
D) 14-16 years

Question 47

Parents of children with degenerative diseases and parents of children with chronic diseases experience similar levels of stress.

Question 48

Cerebral palsy was originally named after which researcher for his pioneering efforts?

A) Little
B) Macmillan
C) Hendrick
D) Beattie

Question 49

A computer with alternative input (switch or voice recognition)is a high-tech solution for

A) Reading
B) Writing
C) Math
D) Leisure

Question 50

All of the following are examples of representative nonlinguistic communication systems for the deaf-blind except

A) Touch cues
B) Communication shelves
C) Sign language
D) Speech recognition software

Question 51

Students with ____________ will have problems with accessing materials.

A) Orthopedic impairments
B) Health impairments
C) Low-incidence disabilities
D) Asthma

Question 52

What percentage of school-age children with orthopedic impairments has educational placements in regular education?

A) 20%
B) 50.1%
C) 59.2%
D) 70.2%

Question 53

An inherited disorder that is one of the leading causes of deaf-blindness after childhood is

A) CHARGE syndrome
B) Usher syndrome
C) TORCH syndrome
D) Cockayne syndrome

Question 54

Several types of environmental modifications may be needed to accommodate a student with a physical or health impairment.In fact, fatigue or endurance issues may necessitate

A) Modified day
B) Rest breaks
C) Classrooms in close proximity
D) All of the above

Question 55

The goal of augmentative and alternative communication is to

A) Find a technological solution
B) To enable individuals to effectively communicate and engage in a variety of interactions
C) To optimize the student's instructional plan
D) None of the above

Question 56

Augmentative and alternative communication devices should be used with caution as they may inadvertently decrease a student's speech production.

Question 57

Children with cerebral palsy ___________.

A) Have no higher incidence of intellectual disability than students without cerebral palsy
B) Have a higher incidence of intellectual disability than students without cerebral palsy
C) Are more often boys than girls
D) Are more often girls than boys

Question 58

An individual who works in a regular work setting but receives training and continued support is involved in ____________.

A) Sheltered employment
B) Supported employment
C) Competitive employment
D) On-the-job training

Question 59

Paralysis that affects all four limbs is called

A) Hemiplegia
B) Paraplegia
C) Quadriplegia
D) Diplegia

Question 60

A ____________ identifies goals and objectives specific to meeting a student's needs after high school.

A) Postsecondary plan
B) Health plan
C) Individualized education plan
D) Transition plan

Question 61

Not every school-age child with a physical or health impairment requires special education services.

Question 62

Students with spina bifida are at risk for hydrocephalus.

Question 63

Traumatic brain injury refers to permanent injury to the brain only from acquired causes.

Question 64

Infants born prematurely and with very low birth weight are at risk for having a disability.

Question 65

Pupils with deaf-blindness were reported as making up only .02% of all individuals receiving special education.

Question 66

Augmentative communication is meant to replace speech.

Question 67

Families from different cultures generally cope with and view disabilities similarly.

Question 68

Children born with HIV have developmental delays, motor problems, nervous system damage, and additional infections.

Question 69

For pupils who are profoundly deaf and totally blind, their experience with and knowledge of the world is very narrow, often extending only as far as their fingertips can reach.

Question 70

Many individuals with spina bifida and hydrocephalus are at risk for deficits in executive function, which affects their learning.

Question 71

Cerebral palsy and spina bifida are examples of health disabilities.

Question 72

A person with cerebral palsy can develop additional disabilities as a result of receiving inadequate services.

Question 73

Norm-referenced assessments are of significant value when assessing pupils with deaf-blindness.

Question 74

Vocational education is important for some adolescents with physical or health disabilities.

Question 75

In students with traumatic brain injury, motor skills generally improve first and higher-order cognitive skills improve last.

Question 76

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a debilitating disease that strikes early but usually improves by the late teens or early 20s.

Question 77

The majority of students identified with deaf-blindness are completely unable to see and hear.

Question 78

According to the text, there are a total of four IDEA categories under which an individual may receive a special education for physical disabilities, health disabilities, and related low-incidence disabilities.

Question 79

Children with severe physical disabilities cannot have normal or gifted intelligence.

Question 80

When an individual has tonic-clinic seizures, he or she will suddenly lose consciousness, stop moving, and stare straight ahead.