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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
an individualized transition plan
speech or language impairment
principles of IDEA
Stanford 9

2. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
the Cummins model

3. A remedial approach
articulation
Procedural safeguards
categorical approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

4. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Procedural safeguards
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
categorical approach

5. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
principles of IDEA
compensatory education
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Specific learning disability

6. What is conductive hearing loss?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
early traumatic experiences
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Traumatic brain injury

7. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
General education classrooms
speech or language impairment
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
yes

8. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
Program first placement second
an individualized transition plan
social stories
General education classrooms

9. 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
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
the DSM- IV
direct instruction

10. Metacognition is connected to
Traumatic brain injury
executive functioning
ther health impairments
negative reinforcement

11. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

12. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Learning disabilities
Hear and understand speech
Curriculum based assessment

13. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
Emotional disturbance
18
articulation
life space analysis

14. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
ther health impairments
Larry P vs. Riles
a hearing aid

15. A model used with ESL and deaf students
the Cummins model
Hear and understand speech
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
an individualized transition plan

16. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Learning disabilities
Multiple disabilities
Curriculum based assessment
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

17. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
10 per 10 - 100 children
social stories
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
mental retardation

18. 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
hearing loss that was present at birth
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
ecological
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

19. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

20. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
life space analysis
Specific learning disability
zero reject
delayed language and echolalia

21. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Non - discriminatory assessment
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
learning disability

22. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
Curriculum based assessment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
where Section 504 comes from

23. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
the Cummins model
pervasive developmental disorders
learning disability
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

24. What is CLOZE procedure?
Hearing impairment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Stanford 9
General education classrooms

25. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

26. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Autism
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
early traumatic experiences

27. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
Procedural safeguards
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

28. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
a hearing aid
learned helplessness
functional vision assessment
IFSP

29. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
pervasive developmental disorders
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

30. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
learning disability
students who are mentally retarded
Orthopedic impairment
whole language

31. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
45%
no
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
students who are mentally retarded

32. 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
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
whole language
Multiple disabilities
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

33. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Sixty days
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
augmentative communciation
having them practice filing out job applications

34. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
General education classrooms
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
no
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

35. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
augmentative communciation

36. What is the prevalence of autism?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
yes
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
10 per 10 - 100 children

37. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
Autism
students who are mentally retarded
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

38. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
10 per 10 - 100 children
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
an audiometer

39. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Traumatic brain injury
21 or younger
Sixty days

40. In errorless learning SD stands for?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
discriminatory stimulus
Specific learning disability

41. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
curriculum based assessment
45%
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
students who are mentally retarded

42. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
not legal
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
principles of IDEA

43. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
learning disability
they modify students thought patterns
medication and a behavior management intervention
PARC vs. State of Penn

44. Multiple and severe disabilties
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
direct instruction
Curriculum based assessment
Orthopedic impairment

45. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Curriculum based assessment
21 or younger
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

46. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
functional vision assessment
having them practice filing out job applications
mental retardation
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

47. 504
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
the Cummins model
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Procedural safeguards

48. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
mental retardation
they modify students thought patterns
yes
How 504 defines a disability

49. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
early traumatic experiences
90%
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

50. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
mental retardation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
45%