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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
discriminatory stimulus
curriculum based assessment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Deaf - blindness

2. A remedial approach
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
medication and a behavior management intervention
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

3. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Sixty days
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

4. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
learned helplessness
early traumatic experiences
negative reinforcement

5. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
yes
principles of IDEA
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

6. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
ESEA Act
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
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

7. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
ESEA Act
mental retardation
yes

8. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
yes
try to find appropriate content at grade level
a hearing aid
Hear and understand speech

9. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
no
Stanford 9
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

10. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
LRE
discriminatory stimulus

11. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
learning disability
social stories
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

12. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
IFSP
Non - discriminatory assessment
no
Hear and understand speech

13. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
life space analysis
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
ecological
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

14. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
a hearing aid
Deaf - blindness
Traumatic brain injury

15. What is acquired hearing loss?
hearing loss that happened after birth
21 or younger
yes
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

16. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
mental retardation
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

17. What does a cochlear implant do?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
21 or younger
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
no

18. Yes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Council for Exceptional Children

19. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
discriminatory stimulus
learned helplessness
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

20. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
General education classrooms
IFSP
students who are mentally retarded

21. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
negative reinforcement

22. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
functional skills - social skills - career skills
mental retardation
developmental
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

23. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
yes
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

24. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
direct instruction
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Program first placement second
life space analysis

25. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
delayed language and echolalia
General education classrooms
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
visual impairment

26. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Emotional disturbance
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Deaf - blindness
Hearing impairment

27. Share the responsibility for the students education
categorical approach
Deafness
discriminatory stimulus
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

28. Mental retardation originates before what age?
articulation
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
18
Non - discriminatory assessment

29. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Stanford 9
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

30. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
functional vision assessment
executive functioning
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

31. 504
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
50%
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

32. 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
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
21 or younger
Orthopedic impairment
developmental

33. Multiple and severe disabilties
speech or language impairment
Learning disabilities
Mental retardation
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

34. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
21 or younger
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

35. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
Learning disabilities
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

36. 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
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
an individualized transition plan
ecological
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

37. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
Program first placement second
the DSM- IV
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

38. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Traumatic brain injury
the DSM- IV
Fourteen

39. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
21 or younger
yes
an audiometer
Program first placement second

40. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
an individualized transition plan

41. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
delayed language and echolalia
no

42. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Larry P vs. Riles
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Program first placement second

43. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
negative reinforcement
How 504 defines a disability
Hearing impairment
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

44. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
life space analysis
visual impairment
ther health impairments
duration recording

45. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
mental retardation
visual impairment
two to nine percent
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

46. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
they modify students thought patterns
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
whole language

47. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
principles of IDEA
learned helplessness
Autism
mental retardation

48. What does FVA stand for?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
functional vision assessment
1%

49. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
speech or language impairment
social stories
direct instruction
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

50. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Council for Exceptional Children
Hear and understand speech
a vision loss after a person had normal vision