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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
delayed language and echolalia
General education classrooms
LRE

2. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
an individualized transition plan
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
compensatory education
Traumatic brain injury

3. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
PARC vs. State of Penn
whole language
where Section 504 comes from

4. 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
ESEA Act
Learning disabilities
group contingency contracting
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

5. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
an individualized transition plan
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
yes
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

6. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
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
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
the Cummins model

7. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Curriculum based assessment
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
45%
Hear and understand speech

8. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Deaf - blindness
speech or language impairment

9. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
learning disability
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

10. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
augmentative communciation
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
mental retardation

11. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
early traumatic experiences
an individualized transition plan
PARC vs. State of Penn

12. Specific learning disability
Specific learning disability
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
90%
a hearing aid

13. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
General education classrooms
10 per 10 - 100 children
90%
pervasive developmental disorders

14. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
visual impairment
Stanford 9
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
speech or language impairment

15. What is acquired hearing loss?
hearing loss that happened after birth
principles of IDEA
not legal
contingency based self - management

16. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
Stanford 9
medication and a behavior management intervention
21 or younger
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

17. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
no

18. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
10 per 10 - 100 children
they modify students thought patterns
duration recording
not legal

19. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
the DSM- IV
pervasive developmental disorders
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

20. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
functional vision assessment
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
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

21. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no
yes
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

22. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
speech or language impairment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
social stories
an audiometer

23. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
50%
Deafness
contingency based self - management
Multiple disabilities

24. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
principles of IDEA
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

25. Yes
augmentative communciation
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
they modify students thought patterns

26. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
having them practice filing out job applications
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Mental retardation

27. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
the DSM- IV
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

28. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
life space analysis
student to student
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
hearing loss that happened after birth

29. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Program first placement second
Curriculum based assessment
pervasive developmental disorders
they modify students thought patterns

30. Mental retardation originates before what age?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
18
Fourteen

31. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
two to nine percent
Non - discriminatory assessment
General education classrooms

32. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
the Cummins model
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Curriculum based assessment
Stanford 9

33. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
assistive technology
principles of IDEA
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

34. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
an audiometer
try to find appropriate content at grade level
LRE
functional skills - social skills - career skills

35. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
mental retardation
two to nine percent
Mental retardation

36. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
LRE
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

37. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
delayed language and echolalia
Hearing impairment
yes
yes

38. Metacognition is connected to
Curriculum based assessment
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
executive functioning

39. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
contingency based self - management
an audiometer
yes
Non - discriminatory assessment

40. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
curriculum based assessment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

41. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Multiple disabilities
Fourteen
Council for Exceptional Children

42. What causes autism?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
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
assistive technology

43. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
augmentative communciation
they modify students thought patterns
Larry P vs. Riles

44. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
two to nine percent
executive functioning
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

45. In errorless learning SD stands for?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
discriminatory stimulus
Hear and understand speech
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

46. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
visual impairment
duration recording
Procedural safeguards
How 504 defines a disability

47. 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
assistive technology
where Section 504 comes from
an audiometer
Council for Exceptional Children

48. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Sixty days
Orthopedic impairment
negative reinforcement
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

49. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
Emotional disturbance
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
life space analysis

50. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
Larry P vs. Riles
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
learning disability
manipulating the antecedent stimulus