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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
social stories
Deafness
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

2. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
two to nine percent
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

3. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
developmental

4. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
mental retardation
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

5. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
student to student
speech or language impairment

6. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
hearing loss that happened after birth
Autism
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

7. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
PARC vs. State of Penn
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

8. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
speech or language impairment
delayed language and echolalia

9. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Deaf - blindness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Traumatic brain injury

10. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Fourteen
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
whole language

11. What does FVA stand for?
categorical approach
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
mental retardation
functional vision assessment

12. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
21 or younger
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

13. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
articulation
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
augmentative communciation

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

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15. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
an individualized transition plan
direct instruction
Procedural safeguards
mental retardation

16. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

17. What is acquired hearing loss?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
hearing loss that happened after birth
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Orthopedic impairment

18. What causes autism?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Specific learning disability
Council for Exceptional Children
ecological

19. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Hearing impairment
Curriculum based assessment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

20. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
not legal
ther health impairments
learned helplessness
Sixty days

21. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
IFSP
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

22. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
LRE
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
yes

23. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Fourteen
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Sixty days
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

24. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
the DSM- IV
learning disability
How 504 defines a disability
Deaf - blindness

25. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Procedural safeguards
18
45%

26. In errorless learning SD stands for?
discriminatory stimulus
Sixty days
group contingency contracting
Fourteen

27. 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
Curriculum based assessment
Deaf - blindness
whole language
the Cummins model

28. A model used with ESL and deaf students
the Cummins model
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
1%
mental retardation

29. 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
contingency based self - management
mental retardation
delayed language and echolalia

30. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
the Cummins model
Sixty days
having them practice filing out job applications
Fourteen

31. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
yes
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
augmentative communciation

32. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
developmental
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
categorical approach
90%

33. Yes
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

34. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
no
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Emotional disturbance

35. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
Autism
duration recording
contingency based self - management
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

36. Name four areas of executive function
10 per 10 - 100 children
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
contingency based self - management
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

37. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
medication and a behavior management intervention
mental retardation
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

38. 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
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
direct instruction
an audiometer
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

39. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
IFSP
ther health impairments
Curriculum based assessment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

40. A remedial approach
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
principles of IDEA
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
assistive technology

41. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
speech or language impairment
learning disability
delayed language and echolalia

42. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Multiple disabilities
compensatory education
yes

43. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
an audiometer
contingency based self - management
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
a hearing aid

44. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
duration recording
social stories
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Multiple disabilities

45. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
curriculum based assessment
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

46. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
not legal
principles of IDEA
an audiometer

47. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
yes
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
contingency based self - management

48. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

49. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
no
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
a hearing aid

50. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Hearing impairment
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
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