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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
where Section 504 comes from
categorical approach
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

2. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
try to find appropriate content at grade level
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

3. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
How 504 defines a disability
augmentative communciation
Orthopedic impairment

4. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
speech or language impairment
Procedural safeguards
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Autism

5. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
Deafness
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
1%

6. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
Fourteen
Hearing impairment
learned helplessness
articulation

7. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
they modify students thought patterns
disorder in one or more psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language that may manifest itself in the ability to listen - think - write - spell - or do math
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

8. Yes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
they modify students thought patterns

9. A model used with ESL and deaf students
student to student
the Cummins model
a hearing aid
articulation

10. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Hear and understand speech
Council for Exceptional Children
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

11. What does a cochlear implant do?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
the Cummins model

12. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
functional vision assessment
Council for Exceptional Children
student to student
medication and a behavior management intervention

13. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
having them practice filing out job applications
Autism
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
yes

14. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
group contingency contracting
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

15. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Procedural safeguards
augmentative communciation
developmental
How 504 defines a disability

16. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
18
assistive technology
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
21 or younger

17. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
18
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Specific learning disability

18. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Curriculum based assessment
21 or younger
augmentative communciation
early traumatic experiences

19. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
developmental
assistive technology
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

20. What does FVA stand for?
Learning disabilities
Deafness
functional vision assessment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

21. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
How 504 defines a disability
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
assistive technology

22. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
zero reject
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Autism

23. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
10 per 10 - 100 children
Learning disabilities
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
yes

24. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
Fourteen
ecological
pervasive developmental disorders
90%

25. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
How 504 defines a disability
Learning disabilities
disorder in one or more psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language that may manifest itself in the ability to listen - think - write - spell - or do math

26. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
visual impairment
contingency based self - management
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

27. Specific learning disability
learning disability
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
disorder in one or more psychological processes involved in understanding or using spoken or written language that may manifest itself in the ability to listen - think - write - spell - or do math
developmental

28. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Specific learning disability
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

29. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
Deaf - blindness
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
having them practice filing out job applications
they modify students thought patterns

30. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
not legal
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Program first placement second
General education classrooms

31. 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
direct instruction
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
yes
50%

32. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
augmentative communciation
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
yes

33. Metacognition is connected to
50%
executive functioning
Specific learning disability
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

34. What is acquired hearing loss?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
an individualized transition plan
Specific learning disability
hearing loss that happened after birth

35. Birthplace of FAPE
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
PARC vs. State of Penn
the Cummins model
learned helplessness

36. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Emotional disturbance
Fourteen
Hear and understand speech
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

37. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Autism
yes

38. 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?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
try to find appropriate content at grade level
not legal

39. A remedial approach
principles of IDEA
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Council for Exceptional Children

40. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
the DSM- IV
no
learning disability
developmental

41. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
zero reject
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

42. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

43. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
Stanford 9
an audiometer
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

44. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
an individualized transition plan
executive functioning

45. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
executive functioning
assistive technology
learned helplessness
Hearing impairment

46. 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
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
ecological
functional skills - social skills - career skills

47. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
mental retardation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

48. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Deafness
not legal

49. In errorless learning SD stands for?
learning disability
discriminatory stimulus
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

50. 504
direct instruction
two to nine percent
45%
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?