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51.When a youngster’s home and school environments value nonconformity and : 1245367
51.When a youngster’s home and school environments value nonconformity and curiosity, that child is more likely to be ________.
a.giftedc.convergent
b.creatived.intelligent
52.Significant limitations in cognitive skills that are accompanied by difficulties in adapting to one’s environment define ________, provided that these symptoms emerge prior to 18 years of age.
a.giftednessc.Down syndrome
b.intellectual disabilityd.Savant syndrome
53.Intellectual disability used to be called ________, and many federal and state laws in the United States still use that term.
a.mental retardationc.cognitive delay
b.emotional impairmentd.autistic disorder
54.By traditional definition, how many of the following 16-year-old children could potentially qualify for a diagnosis of intellectual disability? Kirk, IQ -120; McCoy, IQ – 100; Chekhov, IQ – 80; Sulu, IQ – 60?
a.1c.3
b.2d.4
55.Eddie is a child who has an IQ of 55, and he has difficulty adapting to his surroundings. His pediatrician and other mental health experts have diagnosed him as suffering from intellectual disability. His parents believe that the primary problem for Eddie is inadequate special education services at his school. On which of the four risk factors that place children at risk for intellectual disability are his parents focused?
a.sociocultural factorsc.educational factors
b.biomedical factorsd.behavioral factors
56.A child who is diagnosed with a learning disability must meet all but which of the following criteria?
a.The child has difficulty mastering an academic subject.
b.The child has normal intelligence.
c.The child is not suffering from any other condition that would explain the poor performance.
d.The child has an absence of adaptive skills and has difficulties adjusting to their surroundings.
57.In the United States, approximately ____ percent of children are classified as learning disabled.
a.onec.five
b.threed.nine
58.Louanne suffers from the most common type of learning disability. From your reading, you know that she has ________.
a.developmental dyslexiac.developmental dyscalculia
b.impaired reading comprehensiond.impairment of executive functioning
59.What is the primary reason why understanding learning disabilities is so complicated?
a.Each type of learning disability has its own causes and thus its own treatments.
b.The biological precursors of all learning disabilities are identical, so determining why different symptoms emerge is the emphasis.
c.The research indicates that in a majority of cases intervening actually increases the problem, so parents are advised to let the disability resolve itself. This, of course, often meets with extreme parental resistance.
d.Because there is no common thread that connects learning disabilities, and thus it is impossible to craft one treatment based on what we know about past successful treatments for other cases.
60.According to a research study discussed by your authors (Bruno, Keating, Sperling, Nakamoto, & Seidenberg, 2007), children with a reading disability had the easiest time recognizing words that ended with a
a.nasal consonant.c.stop consonant.
b.lateral consonant.d.vowel.
