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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
student to student
speech or language impairment

2. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
zero reject

3. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
articulation
functional skills - social skills - career skills

4. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
Mental retardation
compensatory education
having them practice filing out job applications
50%

5. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
an individualized transition plan
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
an audiometer

6. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
Procedural safeguards
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
LRE
Learning disabilities

7. What does outer - directedness mean?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
an audiometer
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

8. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
the Cummins model
PARC vs. State of Penn
where Section 504 comes from
speech or language impairment

9. Specific learning disability
IFSP
ther health impairments
45%
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

10. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
an individualized transition plan

11. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
students who are mentally retarded
How 504 defines a disability
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

12. A model used with ESL and deaf students
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
medication and a behavior management intervention
the Cummins model
the DSM- IV

13. What is conductive hearing loss?
General education classrooms
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
speech or language impairment
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

14. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
zero reject
Hearing impairment
How 504 defines a disability
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

15. Yes
ecological
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

16. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Deafness
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

17. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
ther health impairments
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Program first placement second

18. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Mental retardation
yes
Fourteen
augmentative communciation

19. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
group contingency contracting
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
the DSM- IV
students who are mentally retarded

20. 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
whole language
categorical approach
assistive technology

21. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
zero reject
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
contingency based self - management
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

22. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Fourteen

23. 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
student to student
try to find appropriate content at grade level
whole language
group contingency contracting

24. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
mental retardation
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
negative reinforcement
Council for Exceptional Children

25. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
they modify students thought patterns
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Hearing impairment

26. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Traumatic brain injury
50%

27. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
articulation
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

28. Mental retardation originates before what age?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
21 or younger
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
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29. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
contingency based self - management
Mental retardation
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Procedural safeguards

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
Learning disabilities
Hearing impairment
having them practice filing out job applications
ecological

31. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
mental retardation
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

32. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
yes
Traumatic brain injury
functional vision assessment

33. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
1%

34. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
a hearing aid
Learning disabilities
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

35. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
General education classrooms
Deafness
Fourteen
students who are mentally retarded

36. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Sixty days
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Procedural safeguards
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

37. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
not legal
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
45%

38. What percent of the population was ADHD?
50%
medication and a behavior management intervention
two to nine percent
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

39. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Deafness
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

40. 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
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
10 per 10 - 100 children

41. A remedial approach
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
speech or language impairment
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

42. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
augmentative communciation
curriculum based assessment
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

43. Multiple and severe disabilties
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Deaf - blindness
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

44. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Hearing impairment
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

45. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
Deafness
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

46. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
Traumatic brain injury
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Non - discriminatory assessment
an audiometer

47. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Curriculum based assessment
90%
executive functioning
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

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

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49. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
90%
PARC vs. State of Penn
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

50. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
learning disability
Autism
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Hearing impairment