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1. 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
learning disability
ESEA Act
they modify students thought patterns

2. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
Hearing impairment
Multiple disabilities
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
two to nine percent

3. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

4. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
student to student
life space analysis
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Learning disabilities

5. Metacognition is connected to
Fourteen
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
executive functioning
two to nine percent

6. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
social stories
Learning disabilities
functional skills - social skills - career skills
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

7. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Program first placement second
pervasive developmental disorders
they modify students thought patterns
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

8. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
articulation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
mental retardation

9. What is CLOZE procedure?
social stories
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

10. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Council for Exceptional Children
Sixty days
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
the Cummins model

11. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Curriculum based assessment
Non - discriminatory assessment
the DSM- IV
functional skills - social skills - career skills

12. ADHD criteria is defined by
Mental retardation
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
the DSM- IV
Stanford 9

13. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Procedural safeguards
contingency based self - management
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

14. What does adaptive behavior mean?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
hearing loss that happened after birth
Traumatic brain injury

15. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

16. Multiple and severe disabilties
discriminatory stimulus
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Emotional disturbance

17. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Emotional disturbance
life space analysis
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

18. What causes autism?
speech or language impairment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

19. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
augmentative communciation
student to student

20. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
categorical approach
90%
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

21. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
learned helplessness
try to find appropriate content at grade level
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
yes

22. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
Emotional disturbance
negative reinforcement
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
whole language

23. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Deaf - blindness
speech or language impairment
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

24. 504
students who are mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

25. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
an audiometer
hearing loss that was present at birth
assistive technology
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

26. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
ESEA Act
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Hear and understand speech
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

27. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
1%
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
PARC vs. State of Penn

28. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
functional vision assessment
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Traumatic brain injury
yes

29. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
augmentative communciation
learned helplessness

30. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
18
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Multiple disabilities
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

31. A remedial approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
discriminatory stimulus
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

32. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Traumatic brain injury
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

33. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
negative reinforcement
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
compensatory education
executive functioning

34. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Emotional disturbance

35. 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
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
whole language

36. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
early traumatic experiences
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Sixty days
they modify students thought patterns

37. 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
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

38. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
45%
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

39. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
zero reject
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
not legal

40. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
functional skills - social skills - career 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
General education classrooms

41. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two to nine percent
Fourteen
Orthopedic impairment
principles of IDEA

42. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
duration recording
hearing loss that happened after birth
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

43. Spina bifida
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
LRE
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

44. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
principles of IDEA
where Section 504 comes from
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Mental retardation

45. 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
Fourteen
direct instruction
delayed language and echolalia
mental retardation

46. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
50%
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Deafness
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

47. 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
the Cummins model
group contingency contracting
How 504 defines a disability
a hearing aid

48. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
yes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Sixty days

49. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
students who are mentally retarded
learned helplessness
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
hearing loss that was present at birth

50. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
principles of IDEA
direct instruction
How 504 defines a disability

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