Why is it important to understand special education as a "family affair?" What principles regarding families are important to consider?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer should acknowledge: families are systems - what impacts one family member affects all family members; families include any person who is directly involved in the child's life; intervention that includes families is more likely to have positive outcomes than intervention focused just on the child; family members should have choice and autonomy in decision making regarding their engagement in a child's interventions; professionals should be attentive to family priorities for goals and services, even if they differ from their professional opinion; a family's cultural background is important to consider and influences a family's response to their child's situation and suggested interventions; family strengths should be at the center of any intervention plan

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Research on the big-fish–little-pond effect tends to show which of the following?

a. Being a high achiever tends to make you feel like the school is small. b. The achievement level of fellow students has little effect on one’s academic self-concept. c. Being in a high achieving school tends to increase one’s academic self-concept. d. Being in a high achieving school tends to lower one’s academic self-concept.

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To be an effective advocate for young children and their families, you must believe that "just one person can make a difference."

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following is TRUE of referential and expressive language?

A) Children learning sign language are more likely to use referentiallanguage than B) Children learning spoken language C) Children who use primarily referential language are more likely to beable to name household objects than children using expressivelanguage D) Children who use primarily referential language are more likely to use idiomorphs than children who use expressive language E) All of the above are true

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Describe the four ways that are used to determine the suggested time allocations for topics within the curriculum.

What will be an ideal response?

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