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Praxis Special Ed

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Yes
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
no
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

2. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
1%
pervasive developmental disorders
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

3. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
50%
Multiple disabilities
zero reject
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

4. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
compensatory education
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
principles of IDEA
Procedural safeguards

5. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
1%
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

6. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
student to student
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
categorical approach
early traumatic experiences

7. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
medication and a behavior management intervention
Learning disabilities
45%

8. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Sixty days
Council for Exceptional Children
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

9. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
50%
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
life space analysis

10. 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
duration recording
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
developmental
45%

11. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Procedural safeguards
Non - discriminatory assessment

12. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
pervasive developmental disorders
Multiple disabilities
try to find appropriate content at grade level

13. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
they modify students thought patterns
Stanford 9

14. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
an individualized transition plan
LRE
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

15. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Stanford 9
a hearing aid
Hear and understand speech

16. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
duration recording
augmentative communciation
the DSM- IV
General education classrooms

17. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Traumatic brain injury

18. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
whole language
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
augmentative communciation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

19. What is CLOZE procedure?
LRE
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
21 or younger
categorical approach

20. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
group contingency contracting
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
social stories

21. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

22. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
having them practice filing out job applications
45%

23. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
the DSM- IV
Mental retardation
early traumatic experiences

24. Share the responsibility for the students education
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
yes
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
PARC vs. State of Penn

25. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
life space analysis
hearing loss that was present at birth
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Curriculum based assessment

26. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
developmental
hearing loss that happened after birth
they modify students thought patterns
pervasive developmental disorders

27. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
medication and a behavior management intervention
articulation
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Traumatic brain injury

28. A remedial approach
How 504 defines a disability
group contingency contracting
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

29. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
assistive technology
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Fourteen

30. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
18
Autism
augmentative communciation
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

31. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
students who are mentally retarded
group contingency contracting
Mental retardation

32. What is conductive hearing loss?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

33. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
not legal
an individualized transition plan
delayed language and echolalia
Program first placement second

34. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
Traumatic brain injury
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

35. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
45%
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

36. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
functional skills - social skills - career skills
yes
an individualized transition plan
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

37. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
speech or language impairment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Autism

38. 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
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
life space analysis
Council for Exceptional Children
whole language

39. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
principles of IDEA
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
18

40. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
categorical approach
contingency based self - management
Larry P vs. Riles

41. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Larry P vs. Riles

42. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
ther health impairments
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

43. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
augmentative communciation
Specific learning disability
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
50%

44. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
executive functioning
functional skills - social skills - career skills

45. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
How 504 defines a disability
Learning disabilities
delayed language and echolalia
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

46. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
two to nine percent

47. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
executive functioning
Procedural safeguards
Autism
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

48. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

49. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
negative reinforcement
functional vision assessment
delayed language and echolalia
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

50. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
1%
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
an individualized transition plan