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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
the Cummins model
an individualized transition plan
50%
ecological

2. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Stanford 9

3. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Emotional disturbance
pervasive developmental disorders
LRE
Multiple disabilities

4. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
students who are mentally retarded
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
two to nine percent
90%

5. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Multiple disabilities
group contingency contracting

6. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
speech or language impairment
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
visual impairment

7. Share the responsibility for the students education
Deafness
Orthopedic impairment
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Specific learning disability

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

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9. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
Emotional disturbance
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
1%

10. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
medication and a behavior management intervention
not legal
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
early traumatic experiences

11. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
duration recording
Hear and understand speech
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
10 per 10 - 100 children

12. Mental retardation originates before what age?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
having them practice filing out job applications
18
they modify students thought patterns

13. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
assistive technology
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
a hearing aid

14. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
Multiple disabilities
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
How 504 defines a disability
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

15. Yes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
having them practice filing out job applications
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

16. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
45%
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
the Cummins model

17. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Program first placement second
student to student
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

18. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

19. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
hearing loss that happened after birth
hearing loss that was present at birth
ther health impairments
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

20. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
categorical approach
negative reinforcement
whole language
augmentative communciation

21. What does adaptive behavior mean?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
the DSM- IV
Larry P vs. Riles

22. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
whole language
yes
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

23. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
an individualized transition plan
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Hearing impairment
10 per 10 - 100 children

24. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
categorical approach
learned helplessness
group contingency contracting
ESEA Act

25. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
21 or younger
Hearing impairment
1%

26. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Traumatic brain injury
yes
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

27. 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
Curriculum based assessment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
delayed language and echolalia

28. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
assistive technology
Deafness
learning disability

29. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
Emotional disturbance
categorical approach
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Council for Exceptional Children

30. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
Council for Exceptional Children
executive functioning
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
visual impairment

31. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
they modify students thought patterns
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
45%

32. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
21 or younger
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
mental retardation

33. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Fourteen
zero reject
mental retardation

34. 504
learned helplessness
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
early traumatic experiences
discriminatory stimulus

35. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
where Section 504 comes from
students who are mentally retarded
pervasive developmental disorders
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

36. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
discriminatory stimulus
Fourteen

37. ADHD criteria is defined by
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
PARC vs. State of Penn
the DSM- IV
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

38. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
50%
negative reinforcement
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

39. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
assistive technology
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
pervasive developmental disorders

40. Specific learning disability
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
hearing loss that happened after birth
ESEA Act
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

41. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
Fourteen
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
contingency based self - management
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

42. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
they modify students thought patterns
try to find appropriate content at grade level

43. What does FVA stand for?
Fourteen
a hearing aid
Deafness
functional vision assessment

44. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
life space analysis
social stories
Autism
50%

45. What percent of the population was ADHD?
principles of IDEA
two to nine percent
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

46. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Traumatic brain injury
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
General education classrooms
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

47. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
Emotional disturbance
early traumatic experiences
an audiometer

48. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
zero reject
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Curriculum based assessment

49. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Specific learning disability
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
zero reject

50. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
life space analysis
group contingency contracting
Stanford 9
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP