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Praxis Special Ed

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1. 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
principles of IDEA
direct instruction
executive functioning
Autism

2. A model used with ESL and deaf students
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
IFSP
the Cummins model
delayed language and echolalia

3. Specific learning disability
Procedural safeguards
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
two to nine percent
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

4. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
group contingency contracting
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Curriculum based assessment

5. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
How 504 defines a disability
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

6. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
two to nine percent
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
developmental

7. What does outer - directedness mean?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
duration recording
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
ecological

8. Multiple and severe disabilties
Larry P vs. Riles
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
learning disability

9. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
direct instruction
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Autism
delayed language and echolalia

10. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
medication and a behavior management intervention
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Fourteen
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

11. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
the DSM- IV
How 504 defines a disability
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

12. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
Program first placement second
21 or younger
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
contingency based self - management

13. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
delayed language and echolalia
medication and a behavior management intervention
Larry P vs. Riles
Hear and understand speech

14. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
mental retardation
yes
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Council for Exceptional Children

15. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
social stories
articulation
contingency based self - management

16. What is acquired hearing loss?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
hearing loss that happened after birth
LRE
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

17. Spina bifida
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
IFSP
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

18. 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
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
developmental
duration recording

19. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
Hear and understand speech
hearing loss that happened after birth
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

20. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
functional skills - social skills - career skills
compensatory education
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

21. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
compensatory education
speech or language impairment
duration recording
contingency based self - management

22. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
General education classrooms
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
no

23. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
the Cummins model
Stanford 9
duration recording
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

24. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Fourteen
Autism
pervasive developmental disorders
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

25. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
students who are mentally retarded
Council for Exceptional Children
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

26. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
students who are mentally retarded
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

27. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
duration recording
45%
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

28. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
Multiple disabilities
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
not legal
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

29. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
1%
duration recording
Stanford 9
Program first placement second

30. What percent of the population was ADHD?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
two to nine percent
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

31. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
life space analysis
mental retardation
Orthopedic impairment

32. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
speech or language impairment
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
pervasive developmental disorders
duration recording

33. Yes
Sixty days
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

34. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
ESEA Act
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
two to nine percent
Hear and understand speech

35. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
Curriculum based assessment
mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

36. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
having them practice filing out job applications
yes
18
compensatory education

37. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
an audiometer
contingency based self - management
Hear and understand speech
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

38. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
life space analysis
contingency based self - management
discriminatory stimulus

39. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
they modify students thought patterns
student to student
an individualized transition plan

40. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
no
Orthopedic impairment
yes
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

41. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
developmental

42. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
the DSM- IV
not legal
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
the Cummins model

43. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
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 hearing aid
Specific learning disability
they modify students thought patterns

44. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

45. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
45%
90%
21 or younger
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

46. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
PARC vs. State of Penn
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
they modify students thought patterns
Emotional disturbance

47. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
ther health impairments
functional vision assessment
the DSM- IV

48. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
visual impairment
IFSP
articulation

49. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
a hearing aid
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

50. ADHD criteria is defined by
90%
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
the DSM- IV
the Cummins model