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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What is conductive hearing loss?
group contingency contracting
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

2. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Program first placement second
Autism
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

3. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Procedural safeguards
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
90%
student to student

4. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
yes
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
LRE

5. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
90%
18
yes
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

6. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
PARC vs. State of Penn
General education classrooms
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
contingency based self - management

7. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
1%
Hear and understand speech
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
medication and a behavior management intervention

8. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Mental retardation
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
hearing loss that was present at birth
yes

9. What is acquired hearing loss?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
hearing loss that happened after birth
Autism

10. Which perspective attributes emotional and behavioral disorders to poor interaction with the environment in which the student and environment affect each other reciprocally and advocates interventions using the entire social system
Fourteen
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
ecological

11. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Mental retardation
where Section 504 comes from

12. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
an audiometer
zero reject
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
categorical approach

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

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14. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
45%
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
90%
50%

15. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

16. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Non - discriminatory assessment
Learning disabilities
50%
Emotional disturbance

17. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Non - discriminatory assessment
Emotional disturbance
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Larry P vs. Riles

18. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
yes
articulation
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

19. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
Multiple disabilities
no
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
18

20. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
Larry P vs. Riles
General education classrooms
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

21. What does a cochlear implant do?
the DSM- IV
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

22. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
Autism
45%
contingency based self - management
articulation

23. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
augmentative communciation
no
18
learned helplessness

24. 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?
Non - discriminatory assessment
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Mental retardation
not legal

25. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
duration recording
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
speech or language impairment
a hearing aid

26. What is CLOZE procedure?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
direct instruction
zero reject
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

27. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two to nine percent
duration recording
an individualized transition plan
articulation

28. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
two to nine percent
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
not legal

29. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
where Section 504 comes from
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

30. 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
two to nine percent
having them practice filing out job applications
life space analysis
whole language

31. Yes
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
where Section 504 comes from
Deafness
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

32. Specific learning disability
Hearing impairment
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
Specific learning disability
learned helplessness

33. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Non - discriminatory assessment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Multiple disabilities
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

34. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

35. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
Orthopedic impairment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

36. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
functional vision assessment
discriminatory stimulus
1%
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

37. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Curriculum based assessment
yes
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

38. Metacognition is connected to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Program first placement second
18
executive functioning

39. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
functional skills - social skills - career skills
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
assistive technology

40. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
developmental
Council for Exceptional Children
45%

41. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
discriminatory stimulus
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
functional vision assessment
compensatory education

42. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Learning disabilities
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Specific learning disability

43. In errorless learning SD stands for?
ecological
executive functioning
discriminatory stimulus
assistive technology

44. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
LRE
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
mental retardation
yes

45. What does adaptive behavior mean?
student to student
direct instruction
yes
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

46. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
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
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

47. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
IFSP
compensatory education
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Procedural safeguards

48. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
negative reinforcement
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
visual impairment
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

49. 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
pervasive developmental disorders
Council for Exceptional Children
group contingency contracting
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

50. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Deaf - blindness
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
contingency based self - management