The following questions are meant to help you evaluate your understanding of the material covered in Chapter 6.

1		Mrs. Crain is conducting a workshop regarding placements for children with disabilities. She is creating an overhead listing a range of placements of children with disabilities. She is listing these placements from most restrictive to least restrictive. Based on this scenario, recreate Mrs. Crain's overhead.
2		Mr. Justin has just been hired as a special education teacher at Middlerow Elementary School. What will his duties include?
3		You have been informed that in the coming school year you will have several students with disabilities in your regular classroom. What strategies might you use in order to communicate effectively with the parents of these students?
4		The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that technology devices and services be provided to students with disabilities if such devices and services are necessary to ensure a free, appropriate education. Ms. Jones furnishes her students with videotapes, computer assisted instructional programs, videodisk technology and the Internet in order to accommodate their learning needs. Which type of technology is Ms. Jones providing for her students?
5		Tessa has an IQ above 130; she is in a program that pulls her out of her classes in the regular school. She also attends after school classes, Saturday classes, and summer classes. Why does Tessa participate in this educational program?
6		Experts have classified Megan as mentally retarded. She has an IQ of 46. What type of mental retardation does Megan have? How do you know?
7		Mr. Garcia is working with a hearing impaired child. Since this is the first time Mr. Garcia has had a child with a hearing impairment in his class, he keeps a list of appropriate teaching strategies handy so that he can refer to them if needed. According to "The teaching strategies for working with children who have a hearing impairment," what are Mr. Garcia's notes likely to illustrate?
8		Oliver stutters when he speaks. His speech has a spasmodic hesitation, prolongation, or repetition. When he is anxious or nervous about his speech, his stuttering worsens. What disorder does Oliver most likely have?
9		Mrs. Lowa, the assistant principal of Lewis Elementary, would like all of her new regular classroom teachers to be familiar with the variety of exceptional learners. She wants to stress that they are disabled children, rather than children with disabilities, in order to emphasize the person, not the disability. She constructs a handout that depicts the various exceptionalities as well as the most recent corresponding percentages (1998-1999) of children who received special education services during the school year. Reconstruct Mrs. Lowa's handout based on the information in this scenario.
10		Mr. Strauss wants to ensure that he meets the needs of his students with learning disabilities. Since he knows that learning disabilities can be difficult to diagnose, he asks you, his fellow teacher, for some help. Describe the general characteristics of learning disabled students in order to help Mr. Strauss feel better equipped.