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ED226 Fall 2010 Final Exam

Answer the following questions: 1. What is a disability? What is a handicapped? How is the difference important to you as a teacher? 2. Give three examples of the way attitudes and values of a society or a time determine how people with disabilities are viewed and treated. 3. What are four purposes of assessment? 4. What does the term curriculum mean in the context of IDEA 2004? 5. What is the appropriate sequence of tasks in making programming and placement decisions for learners with disabilities? Why is this important? 6. How do we define mental retardation/intellectual disabilities? 7. What characteristics are commonly found in many students with learning disabilities? 8. What conditions appear to be related to emotional and behavioral disorders? 9. How do we identify students with ADHD? What are the defining characteristics of students with ADHD? 10. What can we learn from the work of the constructivists (Piaget and Vygotsky) to help us understand the cognitive functioning of learns with mild disabilities? 11. Describe the three components and five skills of language? 12. Identify the goal of each of the five stages of learning. 13. What emotional developmental indicators might suggest that a child is in need of help?