NYSTCE Students With Disabilities Exam Review Answered 100% Correct.
Principals - Primary responsibility is administrative. Implement building policy
p... [Show More] rocedures, and control designation of facilities, equipment and resources. Main
focus if following protocol, watching for liability, and managing the school team.
General Education Teacher - Role is to observe the student's learning process and
monitor the success of the IEP. Give feedback to the student and the IEP team.
Work with the students on a regular basis and contribute information to referrals.
Occupational Therapist - For older students, this person will work with self care
skills including vocational skills. Also will focus on fine motor skills.
Paraprofessional - An assistant to the Special Educator and works in the classroom
with the student with disabilities. A tutor for individual students or with small
groups. Creates the material to be used in class with the student and also gives
important feedback to both the student and the members of the IEP team
Physical Therapist - Work with students who have issues with disorders of
muscles, bones, joints, or nerves after the student has received medical assessment.
Usually relates to- cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy. This person will also be
familiar with assistive technologies and or adaptive equipment
School Psychologist - Role is to administer and interpret results of the standardized
test. Will also contribute to the assessment of the student and help create the IEP.
Observes the student in the classroom, provide testing and evaluation and
document a case history of the student.
Social Worker - provide resources and materials to the parents or caregivers of the
student. Specializes in knowing community and school services available. Can do
intake, interview, and home visits as needed.
Speech Pathologist - Works with students with speech or language disorders on an
ongoing basis. Offers support and feedback to the student and his or her parents
and or caregivers on an ongoing basis.
School Nurse - Provides information to the families about health related issues.
Responsible for medications, therapeutic services, and care for specific medical
conditions
Guidance Counselor - Responsible for counseling services for the family and
student.
Autism - Developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal
communication and social interaction, generally evident before the age of three,
that adversely affects a child's educational performance. Engagement in repetitive
activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or
change in daily routine, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
Cognitive Disability - Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning,
existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the
developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Deaf-Blindness - Concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of
which causes severe communication and other developmental and educational
needs that they cannot be accommodates in special education programs solely for
children with deafness or children with blindness
Deafness - A hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in
processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification,
that adversely affects a child's educational performance
Emotional Disability - Condition exhibiting one or more of the following
characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely
affects a child's education performance
- An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health
factors
- An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with
peers and teachers
- Inappropriate types of behavior or feeling under normal circumstances
- A general pervasive mood of anxiety or unhappiness or depression
- A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or
school problems
Hearing Impairment - an impairment in hearing, whether fluctuating or permanent,
that adversely affects a child's educational performance but that is not included
under the definition of deafness
Multiple Disabilities - Concomitant impairments (such as mental retardation blindness, mental retardation- orthopedic impairment, etc.) the combination of
which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in
special education programs solely for one of the impairments (does not include
deaf-blindness)
Orthopedic Impairment - Impairments caused by congenital anomaly (clubfoot,
absence of some member), impairment caused by biases (poliomyelitis, bone
tuberculosis), impairments from other causes (cerebral palsy, amputations, and
fractures or burns that cause contractures).
Other Health Impairment - Having limited strength, vitality, or alternates,
including heightened sensitivity to environmental stimuli, that results in limited
alertness with respect to the educational environment that is due to chronic or acute
health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead
poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, or sickle cell anemia; and
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