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Praxis Special Ed

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?






2. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness






3. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...






4. What are the three sub types of ADHD?






5. If a 5th grade student is getting frustrated in social studies because he still reads at a third grade level - what should the teacher do?






6. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both






7. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as






8. Multiple and severe disabilties






9. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974






10. What does adaptive behavior mean?






11. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences






12. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...






13. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...






14. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?






15. What is conductive hearing loss?






16. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes






17. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to






18. 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






19. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation






20. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom






21. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a






22. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...






23. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?






24. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of






25. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?






26. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?






27. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded






28. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation






29. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...






30. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students






31. 504






32. What causes autism?






33. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a






34. 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






35. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?






36. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?






37. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing






38. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...






39. What percent of the population was ADHD?






40. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as






41. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education






42. A teacher who sets clear and explicit goals for each lesson - presents a logical sequence of tasks - gives clear directions on how to do eacht ask - engages the student in guided practice - asks frequent questions - gives feedback - and does not move






43. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior






44. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities






45. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?






46. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and






47. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning






48. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?






49. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment






50. The approach to reading instruction which uses students language and experiences and in which reading is taught a meaning - oriented integrated activity rather than a collection of separate skills is known as a