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Praxis Special Ed

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1. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
a hearing aid
Emotional disturbance
IFSP
Non - discriminatory assessment

2. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
categorical approach
Program first placement second
hearing loss that was present at birth

3. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
hearing loss that was present at birth
Specific learning disability
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

4. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
learning disability
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
curriculum based assessment
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

5. ADHD criteria is defined by
social stories
the DSM- IV
Autism
student to student

6. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Traumatic brain injury

7. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
speech or language impairment
functional skills - social skills - career skills
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
Traumatic brain injury

8. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
contingency based self - management

9. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
21 or younger
45%
direct instruction

10. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Curriculum based assessment
ecological
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

11. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
yes
an individualized transition plan
Autism
Deaf - blindness

12. If a 5th grade student is getting frustrated in social studies because he still reads at a third grade level - what should the teacher do?
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
try to find appropriate content at grade level

13. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
mental retardation
no
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

14. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Council for Exceptional Children
Larry P vs. Riles

15. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
the DSM- IV
an audiometer
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

16. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
50%
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
compensatory education
executive functioning

17. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
Fourteen
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
ESEA Act
delayed language and echolalia

18. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
principles of IDEA
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
functional vision assessment

19. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
hearing loss that happened after birth
not legal
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
mental retardation

20. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
two to nine percent
How 504 defines a disability

21. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
Deaf - blindness
yes
Autism
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

22. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
augmentative communciation
an individualized transition plan
executive functioning
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

23. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
mental retardation
two to nine percent
principles of IDEA

24. What is conductive hearing loss?
10 per 10 - 100 children
ther health impairments
negative reinforcement
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

25. Birthplace of FAPE
negative reinforcement
PARC vs. State of Penn
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Learning disabilities

26. What are four types of data based decision making?
categorical approach
How 504 defines a disability
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
ESEA Act

27. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
life space analysis
10 per 10 - 100 children

28. Mental retardation originates before what age?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
life space analysis
General education classrooms
18

29. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
direct instruction
speech or language impairment

30. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
speech or language impairment
categorical approach
yes
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

31. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
students who are mentally retarded
zero reject
Learning disabilities
1%

32. Multiple and severe disabilties
functional vision assessment
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
ther health impairments
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

33. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
ther health impairments
an audiometer
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

34. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
visual impairment
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

35. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
mental retardation
45%
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
zero reject

36. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
developmental
Stanford 9
having them practice filing out job applications
Specific learning disability

37. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
yes
negative reinforcement
90%
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

38. A model used with ESL and deaf students
the Cummins model
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
hearing loss that happened after birth
functional skills - social skills - career skills

39. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
hearing loss that happened after birth
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
Deafness

40. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
try to find appropriate content at grade level
whole language
group contingency contracting

41. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
no
not legal
Sixty days
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

42. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
IFSP
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

43. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
they modify students thought patterns
50%

44. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
PARC vs. State of Penn
the Cummins model
LRE
no

45. 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
articulation
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
developmental
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

46. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
visual impairment
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
students who are mentally retarded
18

47. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
augmentative communciation

48. What causes autism?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
an individualized transition plan
where Section 504 comes from
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

49. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
PARC vs. State of Penn

50. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
Mental retardation
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Traumatic brain injury
student to student