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Field 32: Special Education: Visually Impaired

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Subarea I–Understanding Students with Visual Impairments

Objective 0001: Understand learning processes and the significance of disabilities for learning.

1. A mild cognitive impairment would likely make which of the following daily living skills most difficult to learn for a student with a visual impairment?

  1. using comparison shopping to select foods
  2. cooking a meal involving various types of foods
  3. cleaning up after eating a meal
  4. storing food properly to protect freshness
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Correct Response: A.
Objective 0002: Understand the human visual system and types and characteristics of visual impairments.

2. Which of the following occurs first in the development of visual perception?

  1. response to light
  2. response to form
  3. ability to fixate
  4. ability to focus
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Correct Response: A.
Objective 0005: Understand environmental adaptations to enhance the use of vision, the use of low vision aids, and basic principles of optics.

3. For desk work, a student who has 20/40 vision but a visual field restricted to less than 5° would be most likely to benefit from the use of:

  1. convex spectacles.
  2. a microscope.
  3. a stand loupe.
  4. a reverse telescope.
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Correct Response: D.

 

Subarea II–Assessing Students and Developing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs)

Objective 0006: Understand types and characteristics of assessment instruments and methods.

4. During structured observation, a teacher would most appropriately use which of the following to record the frequency of a behavior such as eye poking?

  1. duration recording
  2. behavior rating scale
  3. event recording
  4. behavioral checklist
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Correct Response: C.
Objective 0007: Understand functional vision and learning media assessments for students with visual impairments.

5. The Diagnostic Assessment Procedure is an instrument designed primarily to assess an individual's:

  1. field of vision.
  2. aptitude for learning braille.
  3. visual efficiency.
  4. central acuity.
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Correct Response: C.
Objective 0010: Understand procedures for developing and implementing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with visual impairments.

6. The additional requirements on the IEP for a student with a visual impairment must include a detailed description of which of the following?

  1. specific adaptations to be made to regular instructional materials and methods to compensate for the student's visual loss
  2. the training and background of special education personnel who will be working with the student
  3. arrangements made to provide the student with special training and equipment to compensate for his or her visual loss
  4. procedures to be followed if the student fails to make satisfactory progress before the next annual review
  1. I and III only
  2. I and IV only
  3. II and III only
  4. II and IV only
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Correct Response: A.

 

Subarea III–Promoting Student Development and Learning

Objective 0012: Understand concepts and skills related to orientation and mobility and methods of preparing students for structured orientation and mobility instruction.

7. A five-year-old child who is legally blind with a full field of vision has explored a room and become familiar with the objects in it. The most useful orientation skill to teach next would be to have the child:

  1. make a model of the room that indicates where furniture is located.
  2. estimate distance traveled in a given time.
  3. count the number of footsteps it takes to get to the corners of the room from a given point.
  4. stand at the doorway and point to the location of objects in the room.
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Correct Response: D.
Objective 0013: Understand techniques for helping students make efficient and effective use of all their senses to interpret information from their environment.

8. Which of the following auditory training activities would be most appropriate to use in helping a student with a severe visual impairment improve his or her skills in the area of auditory figure-ground discrimination?

  1. following the path of a moving sound source
  2. focusing on one sound in the presence of other sounds
  3. indicating the location of a fixed auditory signal
  4. identifying the agent that has made a particular sound
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Correct Response: B.
Objective 0014: Understand strategies for promoting students’ communication and literacy skills.

9. Which of the following would be most effective for improving the nonverbal communication skills of adolescents with visual impairments?

  1. guided peer group activities that include both students with sight and students with visual impairments
  2. creative dance classes that emphasize movement as a means of creative expression
  3. school-sponsored sports activities that include students with sight and students with visual impairments
  4. challenge programs such as Outward Bound that seek to promote self-reliance
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Correct Response: A.
Objective 0016: Understand how to promote students’ academic achievement.

10. A Raised Line Drawing Kit (Sewell Kit) would most likely be useful in helping fourth- or fifth-grade students with visual impairments:

  1. represent the relationship between two- and three-dimensional objects.
  2. write on lines and in specified spaces.
  3. improve map-reading skills.
  4. produce various textures in tactual drawings.
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Correct Response: B.

 

Subarea IV–Working in a Collaborative Learning Community

Objective 0021: Understand how to promote strong school-home relationships.

11. A teacher has found several specific techniques useful in developing the communication skills of an adolescent with multiple disabilities, and the student's parents wish to reinforce these techniques at home. Which of the following approaches would be most appropriate and effective for coordinating the teacher's and parents' efforts?

  1. Provide the parents with a detailed written description of the techniques that have proven effective at school.
  2. Send weekly reports to the parents to communicate any progress the student may be making as a result of the techniques.
  3. Demonstrate the techniques to the parents and then provide the student with a home-school notebook for regular use by the parents and teacher.
  4. Hold parent-teacher conferences on an as-needed basis and encourage parents to call if they have any concerns or questions.
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Correct Response: C.
Objective 0023: Understand the history and philosophy of special education, key issues and trends, roles and responsibilities, and legal and ethical issues relevant to special education.

12. Federal laws guarantee that students who are eligible for special education services will be provided with:

  1. appropriate placements during a 12-month year.
  2. a special needs evaluation conducted in their primary language.
  3. vocational placement following graduation.
  4. a review of their IEP conducted by a multidisciplinary team once each semester.
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Correct Response: B.