THE CHILD OR ADOLESCENT WITH SPECIAL NEEDS / 200
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2024 ( A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED)
1. Who is the carrier and who is the active carrier of Duchenne MD?: female is the
carrier
male is the active carrier x linked recessive, hereditary, progressive, degenerative disease
of the muscles
2. Special Needs: term used to describe the circumstances of some individuals who may
need assistance due to intellectual, medical, and psychological disorders
3. Special needs and disabilities are usually interrelated to and include the
ability to succeed in the following areas: To learn new things
To succeed at a specific pace
To communicate with others and socialize in a group
To have a continuum of health
4. Intellectual disability: Refers to a problem for an individual who has cognitive
impairment, demonstrated by below-average ability to learn and to use knowledge
5. What is IQ?: A good predictor of academic achievement
6. What is the average IQ score?: 100
7. Borderline IQ: 70-85
8. Mild IQ: 50-70
9. Moderate IQ: 35-50
10. Severe IQ: 20-35
11. Profound IQ: falls below 20 or unable to taste
12. What can intellectual impairment can be related to?: Genetics
Maternal Complications
Brain injury during fetal development
Birth trauma
Low birth weight
Effects of hyperbilirubinemia
Teratogens
- ex Rubella
Shaken baby syndrome
13. Adaptive Behaviors: responses to everyday needs
-social skills
-jobs
-self-care
, .
-hygiene
-ability to manage money
14. Diagnostic adaptive behavior scale: provides comprehensive, standardized
observations of adaptive behaviors for individuals from 4 to 21 years old; determines
potential to function in a community
15 Acquired Intellectual Impairment: Fetal exposure to infections, drugs, and
chemicals or to maternal malnutrition plays a role in intellectual impairment
16. Who is a risk for cognitive impairment?: Preterm and small-for-gestational-age
newborns as are babies who have cranial defects or trauma
17. Developmental disability: term that includes intellectual disability but also involves
physical disabilities
18. Developmental disabilities are associated with an individual's failure to meet?:
Developmental milestones
19. Developmental disabilities are related to damage to the brain that resulted in?:
Chronic Physical Problems
20. Developmental disabilities include?: Developmental Intellectual
Language
Movement
21. Special learning disabilities: disorders in which one or more parts of the CNS do
not function normally
22. Factors to consider with special need clients: Parenteral caregiver diseases Set
achievable goals use positive reinforcement
Be patient with the child
Consider age, sex, developmental level, family environment, medical problems, and
prognosis
Meeting basic needs should be a priority
Some need to be taught how to eat, teach and remind by manipulating the jaw up and
down
23. Working with Special needs children: Use behavioral modification techniques
Build self esteem
Act as a role model
Consistent discipline
Establish and follow routines
Watch and listen
Be observant for depression
Only give one or two instructions at any particular time
Encourage parents to assign chores and responsibilities to their level
, .
Don't isolate child because of special needs
24. Visual Impairment: Genetic or congenitally acquired cataracts
- often caused by exposure to rubella during fetal developmental
Optic nerve atrophy, retrolental fibroplasia
- resulting from oxygen toxicity
25. Amblyopia: lazy eye
26 Retinitis pigmentosa: affects night blindness and peripheral vision
27. Refractory errors: general vision degeneration
28. Strabismus: cross eyed
29. Trauma to the eye: wound or injury occurring to the eye
30. Dyslexia: common disorder characterized by difficulty in reading, spelling, or
writing words; often reverses numbers or letters
31. Hearing Impairment: Fetal exposure to cytomegalovirus, herpes, rubella, or
syphilis
Meningitis, chronic ear infections, Down Syndrome, exposure to loud noises, and certain
medications
Impaired hearing leads to poor speech and development
Promotion of communication and safety are major issues for the hearing impaired
Can provide speech therapy and use of sign language
32. Speech Impairment: Hearing deficit, muscular disorders, or cleft lip or palate Lisp,
dysfluency, stuttering
Need speech therapy, surgical intervention, orthodontics psychologists can all be utilized
in restoring speech
33. Dysfluency: interruption in the natural flow of speaking
34. Teaching Plan for Special Needs Clients: Teams of professionals are often
necessary to cover all the needs of the child, family, and family unit
Social workers design community and financial resource plans for the family
Behavioral therapists help with learning deficits and day to day emotional needs Use of
adaptive care devices, such as hearing aids, glasses, vision enhancing equipment, braces,
and walkers help with mobility and ADLs.
35. Congenital disorder: exits at birth
36. Hereditary or genetic: it results from a defective gene
37. Acquired: it results from maternal factors or conditions during pregnancy or
childbirth
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2024 ( A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED)
1. Who is the carrier and who is the active carrier of Duchenne MD?: female is the
carrier
male is the active carrier x linked recessive, hereditary, progressive, degenerative disease
of the muscles
2. Special Needs: term used to describe the circumstances of some individuals who may
need assistance due to intellectual, medical, and psychological disorders
3. Special needs and disabilities are usually interrelated to and include the
ability to succeed in the following areas: To learn new things
To succeed at a specific pace
To communicate with others and socialize in a group
To have a continuum of health
4. Intellectual disability: Refers to a problem for an individual who has cognitive
impairment, demonstrated by below-average ability to learn and to use knowledge
5. What is IQ?: A good predictor of academic achievement
6. What is the average IQ score?: 100
7. Borderline IQ: 70-85
8. Mild IQ: 50-70
9. Moderate IQ: 35-50
10. Severe IQ: 20-35
11. Profound IQ: falls below 20 or unable to taste
12. What can intellectual impairment can be related to?: Genetics
Maternal Complications
Brain injury during fetal development
Birth trauma
Low birth weight
Effects of hyperbilirubinemia
Teratogens
- ex Rubella
Shaken baby syndrome
13. Adaptive Behaviors: responses to everyday needs
-social skills
-jobs
-self-care
, .
-hygiene
-ability to manage money
14. Diagnostic adaptive behavior scale: provides comprehensive, standardized
observations of adaptive behaviors for individuals from 4 to 21 years old; determines
potential to function in a community
15 Acquired Intellectual Impairment: Fetal exposure to infections, drugs, and
chemicals or to maternal malnutrition plays a role in intellectual impairment
16. Who is a risk for cognitive impairment?: Preterm and small-for-gestational-age
newborns as are babies who have cranial defects or trauma
17. Developmental disability: term that includes intellectual disability but also involves
physical disabilities
18. Developmental disabilities are associated with an individual's failure to meet?:
Developmental milestones
19. Developmental disabilities are related to damage to the brain that resulted in?:
Chronic Physical Problems
20. Developmental disabilities include?: Developmental Intellectual
Language
Movement
21. Special learning disabilities: disorders in which one or more parts of the CNS do
not function normally
22. Factors to consider with special need clients: Parenteral caregiver diseases Set
achievable goals use positive reinforcement
Be patient with the child
Consider age, sex, developmental level, family environment, medical problems, and
prognosis
Meeting basic needs should be a priority
Some need to be taught how to eat, teach and remind by manipulating the jaw up and
down
23. Working with Special needs children: Use behavioral modification techniques
Build self esteem
Act as a role model
Consistent discipline
Establish and follow routines
Watch and listen
Be observant for depression
Only give one or two instructions at any particular time
Encourage parents to assign chores and responsibilities to their level
, .
Don't isolate child because of special needs
24. Visual Impairment: Genetic or congenitally acquired cataracts
- often caused by exposure to rubella during fetal developmental
Optic nerve atrophy, retrolental fibroplasia
- resulting from oxygen toxicity
25. Amblyopia: lazy eye
26 Retinitis pigmentosa: affects night blindness and peripheral vision
27. Refractory errors: general vision degeneration
28. Strabismus: cross eyed
29. Trauma to the eye: wound or injury occurring to the eye
30. Dyslexia: common disorder characterized by difficulty in reading, spelling, or
writing words; often reverses numbers or letters
31. Hearing Impairment: Fetal exposure to cytomegalovirus, herpes, rubella, or
syphilis
Meningitis, chronic ear infections, Down Syndrome, exposure to loud noises, and certain
medications
Impaired hearing leads to poor speech and development
Promotion of communication and safety are major issues for the hearing impaired
Can provide speech therapy and use of sign language
32. Speech Impairment: Hearing deficit, muscular disorders, or cleft lip or palate Lisp,
dysfluency, stuttering
Need speech therapy, surgical intervention, orthodontics psychologists can all be utilized
in restoring speech
33. Dysfluency: interruption in the natural flow of speaking
34. Teaching Plan for Special Needs Clients: Teams of professionals are often
necessary to cover all the needs of the child, family, and family unit
Social workers design community and financial resource plans for the family
Behavioral therapists help with learning deficits and day to day emotional needs Use of
adaptive care devices, such as hearing aids, glasses, vision enhancing equipment, braces,
and walkers help with mobility and ADLs.
35. Congenital disorder: exits at birth
36. Hereditary or genetic: it results from a defective gene
37. Acquired: it results from maternal factors or conditions during pregnancy or
childbirth
