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Praxis Special Ed
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Subjects
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praxis
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teaching
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What causes autism?
Hearing impairment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
whole language
2. What are four types of data based decision making?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
pervasive developmental disorders
3. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Learning disabilities
categorical approach
4. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
compensatory education
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
group contingency contracting
5. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
student to student
1%
6. What is the prevalence of autism?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
yes
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
10 per 10 - 100 children
7. Name four areas of executive function
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
medication and a behavior management intervention
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
8. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Mental retardation
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
learning disability
9. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
curriculum based assessment
pervasive developmental disorders
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
10. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Council for Exceptional Children
mental retardation
Hearing impairment
11. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
pervasive developmental disorders
curriculum based assessment
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
ecological
12. Metacognition is connected to
assistive technology
life space analysis
mental retardation
executive functioning
13. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
LRE
yes
an audiometer
14. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
Mental retardation
medication and a behavior management intervention
where Section 504 comes from
an individualized transition plan
15. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
direct instruction
no
categorical approach
16. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Orthopedic impairment
group contingency contracting
Specific learning disability
17. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
two to nine percent
How 504 defines a disability
18. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Autism
the Cummins model
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
19. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
50%
ecological
speech or language impairment
Larry P vs. Riles
20. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
delayed language and echolalia
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
learned helplessness
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
21. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
developmental
functional skills - social skills - career skills
augmentative communciation
22. What is acquired hearing loss?
hearing loss that happened after birth
the Cummins model
where Section 504 comes from
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
23. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Sixty days
ESEA Act
24. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Mental retardation
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
ther health impairments
25. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Program first placement second
Autism
yes
mental retardation
26. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
assistive technology
functional skills - social skills - career skills
27. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
two to nine percent
Autism
where Section 504 comes from
duration recording
28. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
Fourteen
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
functional skills - social skills - career skills
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
29. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
a hearing aid
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
1%
30. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
try to find appropriate content at grade level
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
group contingency contracting
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
31. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
life space analysis
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
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
18
32. All the members of a group must achieve a certain goal before any member of the group receives a reward is an example of a
ecological
articulation
group contingency contracting
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
33. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
medication and a behavior management intervention
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
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
34. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
pervasive developmental disorders
General education classrooms
35. What does outer - directedness mean?
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
executive functioning
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
36. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
Deafness
Multiple disabilities
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
articulation
37. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
yes
assistive technology
developmental
Deafness
38. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Sixty days
try to find appropriate content at grade level
early traumatic experiences
39. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
the Cummins model
40. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Non - discriminatory assessment
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
90%
41. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
augmentative communciation
Curriculum based assessment
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
42. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
Procedural safeguards
Mental retardation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
90%
43. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
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
a hearing aid
pervasive developmental disorders
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
44. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Council for Exceptional Children
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
45. What percent of the population was ADHD?
a hearing aid
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
two to nine percent
46. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
student to student
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Traumatic brain injury
Autism
47. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
not legal
hearing loss that was present at birth
Fourteen
48. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
not legal
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
contingency based self - management
Fourteen
49. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Procedural safeguards
not legal
ESEA Act
50. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Fourteen
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain