Exam 14: Individuals with Physical Disabilities, Health Disabilities, and Related Low-Incidence Disabilities

The types of adaptations typically utilized by students with physical or health impairments are designed to

An asthma attack can be fatal.

What does the term limb deficiency refer to?

Discuss multiple ways an individual can acquire a traumatic brain injury.

An inherited disease that is characterized by progressive muscle weakness from the degeneration of the muscle fiber.

Infants born prematurely and with very low birth weight are at risk for having a disability.

Parents of children with degenerative diseases and parents of children with chronic diseases experience similar levels of stress.

A type of epileptic seizure whereby the person exhibits purposeless motor activity for a brief period of time; consciousness is impaired.

The first step in determining if a person qualifies for special education under one of the IDEA categories for physical disabilities and health disabilities is

Families from different cultures generally cope with and view disabilities similarly.

Which of the following is not true of all students with multiple disabilities?

Traumatic brain injury refers to permanent injury to the brain only from acquired causes.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a debilitating disease that strikes early but usually improves by the late teens or early 20s.

All of the following are examples of functional effects of a disability except this:

Teaching techniques specifically designed for a particular special education population to assist with learning specific material.

Paralysis that affects all four limbs is called

A word prediction program may be useful for a student who writes on the computer at a very slow rate.

Which of the following examples of assistive technology (AT)represent low-tech AT?

What is the most common pulmonary childhood disease?

The challenges facing this group of children are sometimes formidable and often include severe communication deficits,impaired mobility,and diminished social skills.