AEPA Special Education: Speech and Language Impaired Exam

The Special Education: Speech and Language Impaired test measures your knowledge according to the Arizona Academic Standards. Success on the test indicates that you are qualified to teach this subject in Arizona public schools. The test content is drawn from four subareas based on AEPA learning objectives: Understanding Students with Communication Disorders (24% of the test); Assessing Students and Developing Individualized Education Programs (29%); Promoting Student Development and Learning (28%); and Working in a Collaborative Learning Community (19%). Test-takers should know about communication disorders involving language, voice, fluency, and speech, the significance of disabilities for learning, and how to assess and place students with communication disorders. They should know how to develop and implement education programs for such students, programs that promote communication skills, academic achievement, development, independence, and self-advocacy. Finally, the test covers establishing partnerships within school and outside it, as well as the history, philosophy, and legal and ethical issues relevant to special education.

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AEPA Special Education: Speech and Language Impaired Practice Questions

Special Education: Speech and Language Impaired

1. A monosyllabic word that begins with a consonant contains an onset and a ____.

A: rime
B: suffix
C: root
D: cognomen

2. Which Supreme Court decision asserted that schools must proactively try to meet the needs of non-English speaking students?

A: Marbury v. Madison
B: Lau v. Nichols
C: Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
D: Brown v. Board of Education

3. What is the term for the study of meaning in language?

A: syllogistics
B: semantics
C: dialectics
D: heuristics

4. A confusing mix of unrelated and nonsensical words or phrases is known as a _____.

A: word jumble
B: word search
C: word salad
D: word collision

5. What is the name of the pedagogical technique in which the teacher demonstrates to students how an action is to be performed?

A: scaffolding
B: modeling
C: chaining
D: mimicking

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Answer key

1. A. In a monosyllabic word that begins with a consonant, the onset is the initial consonant and the rime is the vowel and everything after.
2. B. The decision in Lau v. Nichols declared that identical education is not the same thing as equal education.
3. B. Semantic studies are not concerned with the forms of words, only their meanings.
4. C. The creation of word salads is also known as schizophasia; it is a common symptom of schizophrenia.
5. B. Modeling is a good technique for teaching physical processes and techniques.