Special Education Final Jeopardy Review Game

What is the definition of speech and language disorder?

A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

What is the definition of autism spectrum disorder?

Developmental disability that significantly affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, is generally evident before the age of 3, and adversely affects a student’s educational performance.

What is the definition of learning disabilities?

A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or to do mathematical calculations.

What is the definition of intellectual disabilities?

Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior, and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

What is the definition of multiple disabilities?

The presence of concomitant impairments, the combination of which causes such intense educational needs that they cannot be accommodated by solely addressing one of the impairments.

Who is an audiologist?

A person trained to determine hearing loss.

What is an acquired brain injury?

Brain injury NOT present at birth, injury caused by trauma to the head AFTER birth.

What is self determination?

Making things happen in one’s own life

What is the functional vision assessment?

A process to determine how a student uses his remaining vision in a variety of environments.

What are adaptive behaviors?

The conceptual, social, and practical skills that people perform to function in everyday life.

What is speech?

The oral expression of language.

Spastic, dyskinetic, athetoid, ataxic, and mixed are all types of?

Cerebral palsy

What is an accommodation for a student with ADHD?

Allowing them to take breaks or giving them a preference to where they sit.

What is one reading challenge for students with dyslexia?

Word identification

What is the definition of anxiety disorder?

One of the most common childhood emotional disorders that is characterized by excessive fear, worry, or uneasiness

What is one disease/disorder that could be characterized as an Other Health Impairment?

Diabetes

The legal definition of blindness is based on the clinical measurement of visual?

Acuity

Eligibility criteria includes a review of medical records or a medical exam as part of the NDE process can be used for which disability/disabilities?

Physical Disabilities or Other Health Impairments or Traumatic Brain Injury

What is the definition of external behaviors?

Persistently disruptive or annoying behavior that are directed outwardly, or aggressive, acting out, and non-compliant behaviors.

What is an example of an external behavior?

Hitting

What is the definition of spina bifida?

A birth defect in which a baby’s spinal cord fails to develop properly.

What is the major cause of a traumatic brain injury?

Falls

What is the definition of an open head injury?

Kind of head injury where bones are exposed and/or skull is NOT left intact.

What is the definition of congenital hearing loss?

Hearing loss that is present at birth.

What is the definition of concomitant?

Occurring simultaneously or at the same time