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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
IFSP
PARC vs. State of Penn
Curriculum based assessment
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

2. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Specific learning disability

3. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
speech or language impairment
they modify students thought patterns
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

4. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
90%
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
IFSP

5. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
delayed language and echolalia

6. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
articulation
Learning disabilities
assistive technology

7. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
direct instruction
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
curriculum based assessment
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

8. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Deaf - blindness
a hearing aid
45%

9. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
try to find appropriate content at grade level
contingency based self - management
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

10. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Traumatic brain injury
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Multiple disabilities
Curriculum based assessment

11. Share the responsibility for the students education
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

12. What is the prevalence of autism?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
an audiometer
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
10 per 10 - 100 children

13. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
90%
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Emotional disturbance

14. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Traumatic brain injury
augmentative communciation
medication and a behavior management intervention
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

15. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
group contingency contracting
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Mental retardation

16. 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
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
contingency based self - management

17. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
a hearing aid
students who are mentally retarded

18. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
Fourteen
Deaf - blindness
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

19. Yes
no
ESEA Act
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

20. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
zero reject
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
group contingency contracting
augmentative communciation

21. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
learning disability
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

22. Birthplace of FAPE
PARC vs. State of Penn
social stories
duration recording
10 per 10 - 100 children

23. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
whole language
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

24. In errorless learning SD stands for?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
18
discriminatory stimulus
Orthopedic impairment

25. A remedial approach
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Traumatic brain injury
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

26. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
students who are mentally retarded
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

27. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
executive functioning
Deaf - blindness
Curriculum based assessment

28. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
functional skills - social skills - career skills
a hearing aid
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
ESEA Act

29. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

30. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
no
General education classrooms
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Fourteen

31. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Hear and understand speech

32. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
having them practice filing out job applications
Fourteen
speech or language impairment

33. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two to nine percent
21 or younger
Program first placement second
Deaf - blindness

34. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
Larry P vs. Riles
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Mental retardation

35. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
delayed language and echolalia
IFSP
Autism
student to student

36. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
executive functioning
discriminatory stimulus
10 per 10 - 100 children

37. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Multiple disabilities
contingency based self - management

38. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
duration recording

39. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
direct instruction
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
executive functioning
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

40. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Program first placement second
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
compensatory education

41. 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
medication and a behavior management intervention
student to student
direct instruction
no

42. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
yes
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Traumatic brain injury
ecological

43. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
How 504 defines a disability
medication and a behavior management intervention
Autism
Curriculum based assessment

44. 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
50%
90%
45%

45. What does outer - directedness mean?
10 per 10 - 100 children
augmentative communciation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

46. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
compensatory education
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
ESEA Act

47. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
discriminatory stimulus
yes

48. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
Fourteen
yes
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

49. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
delayed language and echolalia
learned helplessness
How 504 defines a disability

50. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
18
LRE