Special Education

What is special education?

• Specially designed instruction

• Services available at no cost to parents.

• Instruction provided in the most typical and least restrictive setting appropriate for the child.

• All of the above

What is Child Find?

• Child find is reporting document title referring to the process of locating a previously missing student, e.g. on a field trip or hidden on school grounds, for whom a school district is responsible.

• Child Find is an on-going recruitment process comprised of public relations events and media applications designed to increase student enrollment.

• Child Find is a continuous process of public awareness activities, screening and evaluation designed to locate, identify, and refer as early as possible all young children with disabilities and their families who are in need Special Education services.

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  Child find is the process of locating a previously missing student, e.g. on a field trip or hidden on school grounds, for whom a school district is responsible.

Once a student has qualified for Special Education Service, the regular education has no responsibilities pertaining to the child’s special education needs and can choose parts of the IEP to attend to if it works out.

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  True

• False

• It depends on the age of the child

• It depends on the education model the school uses.

Kinesthetic learners learn best by

• hearing information spoken aloud.

• whole body movement and participation.

• focusing attention on one narrow topic.

• a slower-paced approach.

Which of the following is not a category of disability?

• Orthopedic impairment

• Traumatic brain injury

• Digestive disorder

• Autism

Changes made to how a student learns material are called

• accomodations

• modifications

• 504 plans

• strategies

Changes made to what a student is taught or expected to learn are

• accomodations

• modifications

• 504s

• strategies

Each week your students study 20 spelling words for the test. If you have a special education student only study 10 of those words, you are making a

• accomodation

• modification

• 504

• strategy

You have a dyslexic student listen to an audio version of the book your class is reading. This is an example of a(n)

• accomodation

• modification

• 504

• strategy

Students with a 504 are the responsibility of the regular education teacher while students with an IEP are the responsibility of the special education teacher.

• True

• False