Language Instruction for Individuals with Severe Disabilities Should

question 15

Multiple Choice

Language instruction for individuals with severe disabilities should

• A) occur in controlled classroom settings.
• B) avoid the complexities of nonverbal communication.
• C) have as its goal the reduction of the student's repertoire of communicative functions.
• D) promote generalized use of language.

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Definitions:

Allocative Efficiency

A state of the economy in which resources are allocated in a way that maximizes the overall benefit to society, with goods and services produced at their highest-valued uses.

Purely Competitive

A market format where numerous small companies offer an identical product with no barriers to entering or leaving the market, resulting in firms accepting the market price as given.

Marginal Benefit

The further utility or pleasure gained from consuming one additional unit of a good or service.

Creative Destruction

A concept in economics introduced by Joseph Schumpeter, describing the process by which old industries or technologies are destroyed and replaced by new ones.