Question 1

What were the sources of pressure that resulted in substantial legal changes in the 1970s?

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Question 2

A school system that meets appropriate timelines and follows all state and federal regulations is said to be in _____.

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Question 3

Initially, the federal law that mandated a free and appropriate public education for all children with disabilities was called the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. In 1990, this was renamed _____.

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Question 4

The 2004 Amendments encourage parents and educational personnel to participate in a _____ to resolve disagreements.

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Question 5

During the screening by educational professionals, it is determined that a student has significant educational needs and is therefore referred for a(n) _____.

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Question 6

Mary, a student receiving special education services, also needs the _____ of occupational therapy and speech therapy in order to benefit from her appropriate educational plan.

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Question 7

In December 2004, President Bush signed the _____.

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Question 8

A major principle of IDEA is that all evaluation measures used during the assessment process should yield similar results for children regardless of their ethnicity. This principle is known as _____.

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Question 9

Parents who have a preschool-aged child with special needs may find assistance in obtaining educational services for their child through the federal regulations of _____.

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Question 10

A second-grade student recently enrolled in your school. The student is a recent immigrant from Mexico. Your school determines that the child had not previously been enrolled in school in Mexico due to his parents' lack of funds and due to a lack of transportation to school. The student's mother has recently obtained citizenship. Once the child began to attend your school, it was determined that the child could not read in English or Spanish. Can the student be referred for an evaluation for special education services?

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Question 11

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 requires that IEPs include what type of information regarding statewide assessments?

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Question 12

States are now mandated to collect data on ______________ as a method of determining when disproportionality may be problematic.

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Question 13

Discuss the practices that may contribute to bias in assessment.

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Question 14

Mrs. Lorenzo met with her son's teacher. They determined that her son might require an additional session of support time in the resource room, which would increase the amount of time from two thirty-minute sessions per week to three thirty-minute sessions. In order to make this change to the IEP, will the Team need to be convened?

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Question 15

During a meeting of the child study team, the members determined that the prereferral intervention strategies employed with a third-grade student were not successful in remediating reading difficulties. The members must now obtain _____ in order to begin the assessment process.

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Question 16

In a specific school system, the ethnicity of the population was determined to include 17% of persons of Hispanic origin, yet more than 22% of the students receiving services for learning disabilities were of Hispanic origin. This system may have _____ of persons of Hispanic origin within the category of learning disabilities.

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Question 17

A fifth-grade student was recently assessed and was found not eligible to receive special education support. His parents decided that they disagreed with the assessment and therefore requested information to obtain a(n) _____.

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Question 18

Traditional assessment practices may inadvertently contribute to bias in assessment. What changes in the revised IDEA 2004 may decrease the probability that this will occur?

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Question 19

Is it possible that a professional from an outside agency can determine that a child has a disability and the child should subsequently receive special education support?

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Question 20

When a student from an ethnically diverse background begins to have difficulty meeting educational needs, the teacher may contact the child study team to request _________ as a method of preventing the student from a special educational referral as the first plan of action to address the student's difficulties.

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Quiz 2: Laws, Ethics, and Issues