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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
early traumatic experiences
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

2. Birthplace of FAPE
PARC vs. State of Penn
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
negative reinforcement
augmentative communciation

3. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Mental retardation
Traumatic brain injury
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

4. 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
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
duration recording
assistive technology
visual impairment

5. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
students who are mentally retarded
pervasive developmental disorders
yes

6. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
medication and a behavior management intervention
where Section 504 comes from
delayed language and echolalia

7. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
not legal
21 or younger
categorical approach
delayed language and echolalia

8. What is conductive hearing loss?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

9. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Deaf - blindness
compensatory education
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

10. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
mental retardation
21 or younger
Council for Exceptional Children

11. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
an individualized transition plan
pervasive developmental disorders
not legal

12. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Sixty days
Autism
ther health impairments
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

13. What percent of the population was ADHD?
Mental retardation
students who are mentally retarded
developmental
two to nine percent

14. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Orthopedic impairment
Procedural safeguards
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

15. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
hearing loss that was present at birth
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
yes
Hearing impairment

16. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
assistive technology

17. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
no
hearing loss that happened after birth
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Procedural safeguards

18. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
functional vision assessment
ESEA Act
Hear and understand speech
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

19. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
negative reinforcement
categorical approach
50%

20. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
articulation
21 or younger
discriminatory stimulus

21. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
1%
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

22. What causes autism?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

23. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Procedural safeguards
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

24. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
direct instruction
executive functioning
Deafness
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

25. What is acquired hearing loss?
yes
medication and a behavior management intervention
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
hearing loss that happened after birth

26. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Autism
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Emotional disturbance
medication and a behavior management intervention

27. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
discriminatory stimulus
where Section 504 comes from
Multiple disabilities
not legal

28. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
yes
articulation
an individualized transition plan
where Section 504 comes from

29. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
whole language
Learning disabilities

30. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
augmentative communciation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
students who are mentally retarded
yes

31. What does a cochlear implant do?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
discriminatory stimulus
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
ecological

32. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
duration recording
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
ther health impairments
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

33. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
pervasive developmental disorders
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
50%
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

34. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
categorical approach
mental retardation
the Cummins model
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

35. What does adaptive behavior mean?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

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

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37. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
Council for Exceptional Children
medication and a behavior management intervention
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

38. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
mental retardation
LRE
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

39. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
whole language
Multiple disabilities
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

40. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
the Cummins model
visual impairment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

41. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
learning disability
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

42. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Larry P vs. Riles
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
assistive technology

43. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
18
curriculum based assessment
1%
learning disability

44. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
yes
45%
life space analysis
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

45. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
50%
an individualized transition plan
Mental retardation
augmentative communciation

46. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
yes
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
an audiometer
ecological

47. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Stanford 9
try to find appropriate content at grade level
students who are mentally retarded

48. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
delayed language and echolalia
principles of IDEA
IFSP

49. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
where Section 504 comes from
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

50. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
Non - discriminatory assessment
Program first placement second
articulation