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Praxis Special Ed

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning






2. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes






3. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?






4. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness






5. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment






6. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs






7. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?






8. What is an adventitious visual impairment?






9. Metacognition is connected to






10. Multiple and severe disabilties






11. How a child's life experiences effect his learning






12. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?






13. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a






14. What is sensorineural hearing loss?






15. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?






16. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness






17. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded






18. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...






19. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?






20. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?






21. What instrument do we use to test hearing?






22. What does a cochlear implant do?






23. What are the three sub types of ADHD?






24. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...






25. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?






26. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation






27. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...






28. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?






29. In errorless learning SD stands for?






30. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...






31. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...






32. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers






33. 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






34. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?






35. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...






36. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...






37. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness






38. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?






39. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation






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


41. 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






42. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students






43. What does FVA stand for?






44. If a college bound student has the accommodation that he uses a tape recorder in english and a calculator in algebra II this is an example of






45. How does deafness connect to IDEA?






46. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction






47. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?






48. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation






49. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing






50. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior