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Praxis Special Ed
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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. 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
pervasive developmental disorders
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
whole language
2. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
social stories
student to student
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
3. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
learning disability
yes
categorical approach
4. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
45%
learning disability
mental retardation
5. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Learning disabilities
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
ecological
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
6. 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
assistive technology
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
yes
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
7. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
45%
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
augmentative communciation
Sixty days
8. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
duration recording
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
9. Birthplace of FAPE
PARC vs. State of Penn
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
an individualized transition plan
learning disability
10. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
no
Emotional disturbance
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
How 504 defines a disability
11. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
yes
12. What does outer - directedness mean?
visual impairment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
13. 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
yes
50%
Fourteen
14. What is conductive hearing loss?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
speech or language impairment
15. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
life space analysis
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
16. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
principles of IDEA
speech or language impairment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
17. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
an audiometer
zero reject
18. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
the DSM- IV
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
hearing loss that happened after birth
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
19. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
20. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
the DSM- IV
duration recording
contingency based self - management
direct instruction
21. A model used with ESL and deaf students
the DSM- IV
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
the Cummins model
22. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
90%
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
functional skills - social skills - career skills
23. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Deaf - blindness
having them practice filing out job applications
no
Council for Exceptional Children
24. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
zero reject
Program first placement second
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
25. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
an audiometer
Council for Exceptional Children
negative reinforcement
Larry P vs. Riles
26. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
augmentative communciation
Sixty days
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
27. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
compensatory education
10 per 10 - 100 children
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
an individualized transition plan
28. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
developmental
speech or language impairment
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
a hearing aid
29. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
where Section 504 comes from
functional skills - social skills - career skills
10 per 10 - 100 children
30. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
Non - discriminatory assessment
Hear and understand speech
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
31. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
duration recording
a hearing aid
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
students who are mentally retarded
32. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
direct instruction
Non - discriminatory assessment
Curriculum based assessment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
33. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
IFSP
45%
PARC vs. State of Penn
34. In errorless learning SD stands for?
discriminatory stimulus
executive functioning
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Larry P vs. Riles
35. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
they modify students thought patterns
36. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
90%
Learning disabilities
yes
General education classrooms
37. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
speech or language impairment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
having them practice filing out job applications
38. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
Procedural safeguards
try to find appropriate content at grade level
visual impairment
39. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
PARC vs. State of Penn
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
1%
functional skills - social skills - career skills
40. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
try to find appropriate content at grade level
visual impairment
pervasive developmental disorders
curriculum based assessment
41. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
no
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Hear and understand speech
42. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
life space analysis
Non - discriminatory assessment
43. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Hear and understand speech
discriminatory stimulus
44. 504
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
not legal
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
45. Learners with disabilities have opportunities to achieve commensurate with their peers
46. What percent of the population was ADHD?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
the Cummins model
90%
two to nine percent
47. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
social stories
group contingency contracting
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
48. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
ther health impairments
Curriculum based assessment
49. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
assistive technology
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
50. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
no
the DSM- IV
visual impairment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation