Special Educational Needs and Diversity

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What is the primary focus of a curricular adaptation?

Developing new methods for evaluating student performance

Enabling students with diverse needs to participate in regular classrooms (correct)

Modifying the curriculum to include new subjects

Streamlining the curriculum to reduce teaching time

What type of students are accessibility adaptations aimed at?

Students who are learning English as a second language

Students who are struggling with a particular subject

Gifted students who require more challenging content

Students with specific educational support needs (correct)

What changes are made in accessibility adaptations?

Changes to the curriculum content only

Changes to spatial, human, material or communication-related resources or school methodology and organisation (correct)

Changes to the teaching staff only

Changes to the school administration only

What is the purpose of curricular adaptations in education?

To help each student achieve their particular objectives Signup and view all the answers

What is an example of an accessibility adaptation that requires extraordinary resources?

Using alternative communication systems Signup and view all the answers

In what type of educational centres are curricular adaptations aimed to be implemented?

In all types of educational centres, including public, private, and subsidised schools Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for a subgroup of specific educational support needs in Spanish official educational regulations?

Special educational needs Signup and view all the answers

Which tier of the Multi-tiered System of Support is aimed at students requiring a personalised, individual educational response?

Tier/Level IV Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary goal of the educational response to diversity?

To promote inclusive education for all students Signup and view all the answers

What determines the objectives of education and an appropriate action plan?

The educational curriculum Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary focus of Tier/Level II of the Multi-tiered System of Support?

Class-level support for students with special needs Signup and view all the answers

What are the four broad areas of special educational needs support?

Communication, interaction, cognition, and learning Signup and view all the answers

What is the average number of words in the vocabulary of DHH children starting school at the age of four or five?

500 Signup and view all the answers

What is a challenge for DHH children in reading comprehension?

New vocabulary Signup and view all the answers

What has improved in the last generations of DHH children?

Decoding Signup and view all the answers

What is a characteristic of sign language?

It's an iconographic, non-alphabetic language Signup and view all the answers

What is a drawback of monolingual approaches for DHH children?

Difficulty in language development Signup and view all the answers

What has increased the efficiency of monolingual approaches?

Cochlear implants Signup and view all the answers

What is the main criterion for assessing visual disability?

Both visual capacity and functional skills Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for a person with some remaining visual capacity?

Residual vision Signup and view all the answers

What is the minimum visual acuity required to be considered legally blind in Spain?

0.1 (1/10) with the best optical correction Signup and view all the answers

What characterizes a person with multiple deficiencies in addition to blindness?

Multi-deficient Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary impact of visual disability on daily life?

Deficits in the ability to perform vision-related activities Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for a person with no visual capacity?

Totally blind Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the ability to establish the relative location of objects in space by hearing echoes from those objects?

Echolocation Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following motor milestones is not dependent on neurophysical maturation?

Grasping Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary motivator for motor development in sighted children?

Visual environment Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for repetitive, stereotypical movements that may interfere with proper motor development?

Blindisms Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of sensory compensation in visually impaired individuals?

To learn to use sensory information more effectively Signup and view all the answers

Why do visually impaired children require more stimulation to minimize their difficulties in motor development?

Because they lack visual motivation Signup and view all the answers