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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
pervasive developmental disorders
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
45%
yes

2. 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
direct instruction
21 or younger
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

3. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
contingency based self - management
augmentative communciation
Council for Exceptional Children
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

4. What percent of the population was ADHD?
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Mental retardation
two to nine percent
Traumatic brain injury

5. 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
developmental
Emotional disturbance
assistive technology
Non - discriminatory assessment

6. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
yes
whole language
Deafness

7. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
developmental
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

8. 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
whole language
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
90%
assistive technology

9. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
delayed language and echolalia
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
having them practice filing out job applications
a hearing aid

10. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
50%

11. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
yes
Deaf - blindness
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

12. 504
Council for Exceptional Children
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

13. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
Multiple disabilities
no
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

14. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
yes
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
augmentative communciation

15. 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
ther health impairments
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
group contingency contracting
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

16. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
categorical approach
the DSM- IV
try to find appropriate content at grade level

17. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
speech or language impairment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

18. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
Larry P vs. Riles
delayed language and echolalia
learned helplessness
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

19. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
whole language
a hearing aid
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

20. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
zero reject
delayed language and echolalia
50%
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

21. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
student to student
Procedural safeguards
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

22. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Deafness
not legal
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

23. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
they modify students thought patterns
Deaf - blindness
functional skills - social skills - career skills
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

24. What causes autism?
pervasive developmental disorders
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
18

25. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
mental retardation
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
functional vision assessment
articulation

26. A model used with ESL and deaf students
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
ther health impairments
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
the Cummins model

27. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
zero reject
Orthopedic impairment
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

28. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
functional vision assessment
group contingency contracting
students who are mentally retarded
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

29. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Specific learning disability
yes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
functional skills - social skills - career skills

30. 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
ecological
the Cummins model
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
developmental

31. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
Curriculum based assessment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Sixty days

32. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
21 or younger
learned helplessness
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

33. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
life space analysis
Learning disabilities
Fourteen
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

34. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
a hearing aid
Larry P vs. Riles
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

35. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

36. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Multiple disabilities
How 504 defines a disability
group contingency contracting
Sixty days

37. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
contingency based self - management
Sixty days
augmentative communciation

38. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
two to nine percent
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

39. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
principles of IDEA
zero reject
90%
student to student

40. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
articulation
the Cummins model
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
yes

41. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
try to find appropriate content at grade level
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

42. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
50%
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
where Section 504 comes from

43. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
no
Traumatic brain injury
delayed language and echolalia

44. Mental retardation originates before what age?
functional vision assessment
Learning disabilities
Council for Exceptional Children
18

45. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
yes
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

46. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
the Cummins model
Hear and understand speech

47. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Stanford 9
Fourteen
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
yes

48. Multiple and severe disabilties
mental retardation
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
principles of IDEA

49. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
an audiometer
Specific learning disability
Emotional disturbance
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

50. What is conductive hearing loss?
no
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve