NYSTCE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS
◉ CPSE (IEP Team). Answer: Committee on Preschool Special
Education: NYS multidisciplinary team that receives referrals for
children ages 3 to 5. Must meet within 30 days of special ed services
determination.
◉ Procedural Safguards. Answer: are required by IDEA to be made
clear to parents when their children are evaluated or re-evaluated,
parents are invited to CSE or CPSE committee meetings, when parents
file a complaint, or when parents request the procedural safeguards.:
- advanced notice of meetings, evaluations, services, placements, or
other activities involving their child.
- consent to services or any other actions affecting the child, or to before
sharing information about the child outside of the district.
- access to educational records with explanations and interpretations.
- mediation for parents with complaints or those who don't agree with
the plan or services. DOE appoints an impartial outside expert to hear
complaints if mediation does not work.
◉ FERPA. Answer: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: helps
ensure the privacy of educational records such as IEPs.
,◉ age majority. Answer: age at which a student is legally allowed
procedural safeguards which were previously reserved for their parents.
◉ Culturally Responsive Strategies. Answer: strategies to maintain
communication between parents and the school which take into account
the culture of the parents.
◉ Response to Intervention (RTI). Answer: A school based prereferral
process used before a student is recommended for special education
evaluation. Involves screening, monitoring, and responding
appropriately to individual students based on their academic progress
and how they respond to intensive individualized instruction.
◉ expanded core curriculum. Answer: includes skills such as orientation
and mobility, braille reading, independent living skills, and use of
assistive technology in addition to the general education
◉ anticipation guide. Answer: a series of statements used to preview and
activate prior knowledge before reading a text
◉ placement recommendation location. Answer: IEP states where plan
takes place: approved pre-school, public school, residential care facility
◉ IDEA federally defined disability classifications. Answer: thirteen
, ◉ IEP service delivery information. Answer: type of service, frequency,
duration, where the service will be provided, and the projected start date
◉ due process hearing. Answer: A procedure to resolve a conflict
between school and family over the evaluation, program, or placement
of a student with a disability.
◉ Pre-alphabetic phase. Answer: Students read words by memorizing
visual features or guessing words from context
◉ partial-alphabetic. Answer: Children know some letters and letter-
sound associations and can use them, along with contextual cues such as
visual appearance of words, to engage in decoding.
◉ full alphabetic phase. Answer: children apply alphabet knowledge
systematically when decoding and often decode words letter by letter
◉ onsets and rimes. Answer: The sound that initiates a word is the onset,
the vowel and any consonant after the vowel is the rime.
◉ developmental dyslexia/ alexia. Answer: Difficulty/inability to read
◉ symptoms of developmental dyslexia. Answer: - difficulty
recognizing familiar words
- inability to decode unfamiliar words
- difficulty segmenting words into phonemes
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS
◉ CPSE (IEP Team). Answer: Committee on Preschool Special
Education: NYS multidisciplinary team that receives referrals for
children ages 3 to 5. Must meet within 30 days of special ed services
determination.
◉ Procedural Safguards. Answer: are required by IDEA to be made
clear to parents when their children are evaluated or re-evaluated,
parents are invited to CSE or CPSE committee meetings, when parents
file a complaint, or when parents request the procedural safeguards.:
- advanced notice of meetings, evaluations, services, placements, or
other activities involving their child.
- consent to services or any other actions affecting the child, or to before
sharing information about the child outside of the district.
- access to educational records with explanations and interpretations.
- mediation for parents with complaints or those who don't agree with
the plan or services. DOE appoints an impartial outside expert to hear
complaints if mediation does not work.
◉ FERPA. Answer: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: helps
ensure the privacy of educational records such as IEPs.
,◉ age majority. Answer: age at which a student is legally allowed
procedural safeguards which were previously reserved for their parents.
◉ Culturally Responsive Strategies. Answer: strategies to maintain
communication between parents and the school which take into account
the culture of the parents.
◉ Response to Intervention (RTI). Answer: A school based prereferral
process used before a student is recommended for special education
evaluation. Involves screening, monitoring, and responding
appropriately to individual students based on their academic progress
and how they respond to intensive individualized instruction.
◉ expanded core curriculum. Answer: includes skills such as orientation
and mobility, braille reading, independent living skills, and use of
assistive technology in addition to the general education
◉ anticipation guide. Answer: a series of statements used to preview and
activate prior knowledge before reading a text
◉ placement recommendation location. Answer: IEP states where plan
takes place: approved pre-school, public school, residential care facility
◉ IDEA federally defined disability classifications. Answer: thirteen
, ◉ IEP service delivery information. Answer: type of service, frequency,
duration, where the service will be provided, and the projected start date
◉ due process hearing. Answer: A procedure to resolve a conflict
between school and family over the evaluation, program, or placement
of a student with a disability.
◉ Pre-alphabetic phase. Answer: Students read words by memorizing
visual features or guessing words from context
◉ partial-alphabetic. Answer: Children know some letters and letter-
sound associations and can use them, along with contextual cues such as
visual appearance of words, to engage in decoding.
◉ full alphabetic phase. Answer: children apply alphabet knowledge
systematically when decoding and often decode words letter by letter
◉ onsets and rimes. Answer: The sound that initiates a word is the onset,
the vowel and any consonant after the vowel is the rime.
◉ developmental dyslexia/ alexia. Answer: Difficulty/inability to read
◉ symptoms of developmental dyslexia. Answer: - difficulty
recognizing familiar words
- inability to decode unfamiliar words
- difficulty segmenting words into phonemes
