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1. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
medication and a behavior management intervention
21 or younger
having them practice filing out job applications
learning disability

2. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
student to student
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

3. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
an audiometer

4. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Traumatic brain injury
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

5. What percent of the population was ADHD?
delayed language and echolalia
two to nine percent
an audiometer
Emotional disturbance

6. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
an audiometer
curriculum based assessment
45%
delayed language and echolalia

7. A model used with ESL and deaf students
life space analysis
the Cummins model
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
pervasive developmental disorders

8. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
where Section 504 comes from
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

9. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
Fourteen
Deafness
50%
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

10. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Hearing impairment
yes
visual impairment
Program first placement second

11. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
augmentative communciation
pervasive developmental disorders
General education classrooms
Orthopedic impairment

12. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
ESEA Act
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
mental retardation

13. What is CLOZE procedure?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
life space analysis
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

14. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
21 or younger
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
pervasive developmental disorders

15. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Stanford 9
yes
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Orthopedic impairment

16. What does adaptive behavior mean?
students who are mentally retarded
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
1%

17. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
they modify students thought patterns
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Multiple disabilities

18. Yes
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
ecological
Orthopedic impairment

19. 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?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Multiple disabilities
an individualized transition plan
try to find appropriate content at grade level

20. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
group contingency contracting
students who are mentally retarded

21. '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
no
10 per 10 - 100 children
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

22. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
they modify students thought patterns
visual impairment
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

23. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
Larry P vs. Riles
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
try to find appropriate content at grade level
compensatory education

24. Learners with disabilities have opportunities to achieve commensurate with their peers

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25. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
principles of IDEA
negative reinforcement

26. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Fourteen
Deaf - blindness
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
medication and a behavior management intervention

27. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
ESEA Act

28. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
functional skills - social skills - career skills
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
duration recording

29. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Fourteen
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
contingency based self - management

30. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
Larry P vs. Riles
visual impairment
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
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

31. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
hearing loss that happened after birth
medication and a behavior management intervention
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

32. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
90%
visual impairment
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

33. What is conductive hearing loss?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
18

34. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Mental retardation
How 504 defines a disability
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

35. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
duration recording
Procedural safeguards
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

36. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
Program first placement second
Mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

37. Multiple and severe disabilties
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
compensatory education
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

38. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Sixty days
Traumatic brain injury

39. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
curriculum based assessment

40. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
pervasive developmental disorders
hearing loss that was present at birth
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
augmentative communciation

41. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Multiple disabilities
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Autism
Procedural safeguards

42. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Traumatic brain injury
50%
categorical approach

43. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
social stories
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
1%

44. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Learning disabilities
LRE
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

45. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
early traumatic experiences
social stories
yes

46. 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
two to nine percent
Autism
Deaf - blindness
assistive technology

47. What is acquired hearing loss?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
hearing loss that happened after birth
Hearing impairment
duration recording

48. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
IFSP
executive functioning

49. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
learned helplessness
ther health impairments
Learning disabilities
LRE

50. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
early traumatic experiences
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
compensatory education