Top Special Education Quizzes & Trivia

People often look down or disdainfully on schools that deal with special needs. Are you one of those, or do you know better? Either way, I think it's time to test that! These quizzes deal with the hardships that teachers, parents and children go through when they attend a special school. Answer questions about teaching manners. Have a look at the section on exams and quizzes.

Think deeply about those that use the logical parts of their brains to the determent of their emotional sides. Think you know about special education? Think you can compete with those that have lived it? Maybe, maybe not. There's only one way to find out...and that's on an even playing field. May the best man win!

Special Education Questions and Answers

What does the acronym IEP mean?

Intelligence Emotional Personality

Individualized Education Plan

Irate Educators Protesting

Independent Education Program

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This is a picture of:

Barbara Walters

Temple Grandin

Oprah Winfrey

Steve Buscemi

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This is an example of:

Self-talking behavior

"Zoning Out"

Self-Stimulatory Behavior

Saying "good bye"

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Miss Jones is a 6th grade math teacher. She will be teaching 2 co-taught inclusion classes this semester. Where should she look for information on how to provide an "appropriate" education for her students that have special needs?

a book about how to teach students with special needs

each individual student's IEP

student state testing scores

it is written in the stars

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Billy was the captain of the varsity football team. Two months into the school year, he and his buddies got into a bad car accident, and he was paralyzed from the waist down. When he returned to school a couple of months later, he had fallen behind in his schoolwork. To make matters worse, the bathroom stalls at his school are not wheelchair accessible, and his Trig class is on the second floor of a wing with no elevators. What law(s), if any, has the school violated?

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

both Section 504 and ADA

no laws have been broken

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Billy, from the previous question, wants to remain involved in team sports. Does the school have to honor his wishes?

They have to allow him to be on the team because he was the captain when the accident happened.

He has to be allowed to try out for the teams in which he is interested, but they do not have to let him on the team unless he is as qualified to play as his non-disabled peers.

They must find something he can do for the team, even if it just team manager.

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A student receiving services via an IEP receives the exact disciplinary consequences as a student not receiving services?

True

False

True only if cumulative days of suspension is less than 10

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Can a student with a disability be suspended longer than a student without a disability for the same or similar behavior?

Yes

No

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If administration plans to suspend a student with a disability who has already been suspended more than ten cumulative school days within the school year, it must first consider whether or not the cumulative days of suspension have amounted to a “change of placement.”?

True

False

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What is special education?

Specially designed instruction.

Services available at no cost to parents.

Instruction designed to meet the needs of a child with a disability.

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

All of the above

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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.

Child Find is the process of designating as many students as possible who are struggling academically as special education students for the purposes of securing federal reimbursement dollars.

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.

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What are pre-referral interventions?

Pre-referral interventions are a combinations of classroom day to day strategies and techniques that most teachers are doing already to solve academic and behavior problems in their classrooms.

Pre-referral interventions are documented communications with school staff and parents that a particular student needs special education services.

Pre-referral interventions are planned, systematic and documented efforts by a problem solving team to resolve apparent learning or behavioral problems within a regular education setting.

Pre-referral interventions are documented guidelines students are expected to follow when completing standardized tests.

All of the above

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