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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
50%
How 504 defines a disability
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

2. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
45%
How 504 defines a disability
IFSP
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

3. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Council for Exceptional Children
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Sixty days
students who are mentally retarded

4. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

5. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
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
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Learning disabilities

6. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Mental retardation

7. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Stanford 9
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Specific learning disability
Traumatic brain injury

8. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
having them practice filing out job applications
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Program first placement second
mental retardation

9. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
where Section 504 comes from
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
contingency based self - management

10. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
augmentative communciation
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
21 or younger

11. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
augmentative communciation
Stanford 9
yes
Deafness

12. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
no
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

13. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
student to student
How 504 defines a disability
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

14. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
PARC vs. State of Penn

15. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
social stories
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
yes
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

16. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
student to student
Program first placement second
try to find appropriate content at grade level
21 or younger

17. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
early traumatic experiences
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
a hearing aid
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

18. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
ESEA Act
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

19. What are four types of data based decision making?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
early traumatic experiences
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

20. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
delayed language and echolalia
contingency based self - management
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

21. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
yes
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Hear and understand speech
ther health impairments

22. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
How 504 defines a disability
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
an individualized transition plan

23. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Procedural safeguards
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

24. Metacognition is connected to
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
executive functioning
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

25. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
mental retardation
learning disability
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
Multiple disabilities

26. 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
early traumatic experiences
not legal
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

27. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Sixty days
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
augmentative communciation
General education classrooms

28. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
pervasive developmental disorders
the DSM- IV
delayed language and echolalia
90%

29. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
negative reinforcement
developmental
Hear and understand speech
Emotional disturbance

30. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
an individualized transition plan
Non - discriminatory assessment
compensatory education
Curriculum based assessment

31. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
contingency based self - management
General education classrooms

32. What does FVA stand for?
mental retardation
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
functional vision assessment

33. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
medication and a behavior management intervention
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

34. The approach that categorizes exceptionality as the statistical degree to which an individual deviates from the average in terms of cognitive - social - emotional - and physical abilities is called
two to nine percent
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
developmental
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

35. What does outer - directedness mean?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
ther health impairments
50%
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

36. 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
50%
direct instruction
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
ecological

37. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

38. Name four areas of executive function
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
direct instruction
no

39. ADHD criteria is defined by
augmentative communciation
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
the DSM- IV
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

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

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41. 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
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
whole language
18
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

42. What percent of the population was ADHD?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
two to nine percent
ESEA Act

43. A model used with ESL and deaf students
contingency based self - management
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
the Cummins model
a hearing aid

44. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
Stanford 9
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Larry P vs. Riles
duration recording

45. Which perspective attributes emotional and behavioral disorders to poor interaction with the environment in which the student and environment affect each other reciprocally and advocates interventions using the entire social system
Procedural safeguards
ecological
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
functional vision assessment

46. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Autism
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Sixty days
Specific learning disability

47. Specific learning disability
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
whole language
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 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

48. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
learned helplessness
Council for Exceptional Children

49. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
having them practice filing out job applications
an audiometer
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

50. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Larry P vs. Riles
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
principles of IDEA