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Praxis Special Ed
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praxis
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teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
two to nine percent
Hear and understand speech
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
speech or language impairment
2. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
3. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
yes
Emotional disturbance
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
curriculum based assessment
4. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
group contingency contracting
yes
Specific learning disability
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
5. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
articulation
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Emotional disturbance
6. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
ther health impairments
Learning disabilities
Multiple disabilities
developmental
7. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
compensatory education
Larry P vs. Riles
Fourteen
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
8. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Curriculum based assessment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Hear and understand speech
9. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
having them practice filing out job applications
Stanford 9
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
10. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
21 or younger
visual impairment
Deafness
duration recording
11. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two to nine percent
1%
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
try to find appropriate content at grade level
12. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
PARC vs. State of Penn
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
zero reject
two to nine percent
13. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Deafness
Stanford 9
they modify students thought patterns
14. What are four types of data based decision making?
hearing loss that was present at birth
negative reinforcement
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
15. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Traumatic brain injury
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
16. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
Traumatic brain injury
social stories
Autism
17. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
LRE
zero reject
social stories
18. If a college bound student has the accommodation that he uses a tape recorder in english and a calculator in algebra II this is an example of
Emotional disturbance
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
assistive technology
executive functioning
19. Which perspective attributes emotional and behavioral disorders to poor interaction with the environment in which the student and environment affect each other reciprocally and advocates interventions using the entire social system
ecological
General education classrooms
learned helplessness
ther health impairments
20. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
an audiometer
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
life space analysis
21. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
compensatory education
delayed language and echolalia
Orthopedic impairment
22. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
10 per 10 - 100 children
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
life space analysis
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
23. What does outer - directedness mean?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
an audiometer
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
compensatory education
24. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Deaf - blindness
medication and a behavior management intervention
25. Learners with disabilities have opportunities to achieve commensurate with their peers
26. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
90%
pervasive developmental disorders
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
27. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
45%
Multiple disabilities
ESEA Act
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
28. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
Fourteen
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
categorical approach
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
29. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
hearing loss that was present at birth
Procedural safeguards
General education classrooms
30. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
the DSM- IV
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
31. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
they modify students thought patterns
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
augmentative communciation
32. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
discriminatory stimulus
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
two to nine percent
33. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
Mental retardation
social stories
life space analysis
IFSP
34. In errorless learning SD stands for?
an audiometer
Curriculum based assessment
discriminatory stimulus
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
35. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
contingency based self - management
Traumatic brain injury
36. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
mental retardation
contingency based self - management
try to find appropriate content at grade level
visual impairment
37. Mental retardation originates before what age?
Deaf - blindness
the DSM- IV
18
21 or younger
38. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
ther health impairments
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
principles of IDEA
39. What causes autism?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Curriculum based assessment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
life space analysis
40. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
General education classrooms
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
41. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
PARC vs. State of Penn
yes
Orthopedic impairment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
42. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
not legal
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Sixty days
43. 504
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
hearing loss that was present at birth
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
44. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
ESEA Act
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Sixty days
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
45. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
zero reject
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
a hearing aid
46. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Autism
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
yes
47. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
visual impairment
Autism
45%
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
48. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
Procedural safeguards
categorical approach
principles of IDEA
49. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
try to find appropriate content at grade level
developmental
articulation
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
50. The approach that categorizes exceptionality as the statistical degree to which an individual deviates from the average in terms of cognitive - social - emotional - and physical abilities is called
developmental
Council for Exceptional Children
yes
hearing loss that happened after birth