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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
How 504 defines a disability
ecological
students who are mentally retarded
medication and a behavior management intervention

2. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Emotional disturbance
having them practice filing out job applications

3. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
discriminatory stimulus
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
articulation

4. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
duration recording
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

5. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
principles of IDEA
ecological
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

6. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
General education classrooms
visual impairment
having them practice filing out job applications

7. Spina bifida
ecological
PARC vs. State of Penn
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

8. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
hearing loss that was present at birth
Deafness
the Cummins model

9. Metacognition is connected to
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
articulation
Deaf - blindness
executive functioning

10. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

11. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
learned helplessness
Larry P vs. Riles
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
PARC vs. State of Penn

12. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Mental retardation

13. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
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
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Curriculum based assessment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

14. 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
hearing loss that happened after birth
Emotional disturbance
duration recording

15. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
they modify students thought patterns

16. Share the responsibility for the students education
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
ther health impairments
Procedural safeguards

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

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18. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Emotional disturbance
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

19. 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
Hearing impairment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Council for Exceptional Children
developmental

20. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
mental retardation
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

21. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
learned helplessness
direct instruction

22. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
speech or language impairment
they modify students thought patterns
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
where Section 504 comes from

23. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

24. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
1%
duration recording
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

25. 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
45%
whole language
Learning disabilities
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

26. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Sixty days
yes
not legal
Stanford 9

27. What is CLOZE procedure?
an audiometer
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Program first placement second
assistive technology

28. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Curriculum based assessment

29. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
How 504 defines a disability
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Specific learning disability

30. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
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
not legal
Fourteen

31. Specific learning disability
How 504 defines a disability
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
developmental
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

32. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
Multiple disabilities
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
18
early traumatic experiences

33. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Specific learning disability
group contingency contracting
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 per 10 - 100 children

34. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Hearing impairment
augmentative communciation
mental retardation
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

35. In errorless learning SD stands for?
articulation
discriminatory stimulus
ecological
Mental retardation

36. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
negative reinforcement
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
discriminatory stimulus
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

37. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
How 504 defines a disability
50%
pervasive developmental disorders

38. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Sixty days
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
early traumatic experiences
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

39. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
mental retardation
categorical approach
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
life space analysis

40. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
negative reinforcement
Program first placement second
Learning disabilities
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

41. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
yes
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Mental retardation
social stories

42. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
ecological
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

43. 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
direct instruction
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
ther health impairments
group contingency contracting

44. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
social stories
hearing loss that was present at birth
How 504 defines a disability

45. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
two to nine percent
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
an individualized transition plan
the DSM- IV

46. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
hearing loss that happened after birth
student to student
Autism
Sixty days

47. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
learning disability
Curriculum based assessment
1%
an individualized transition plan

48. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
1%
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Sixty days
compensatory education

49. A remedial approach
discriminatory stimulus
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

50. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
developmental
visual impairment
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes