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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Deafness
PARC vs. State of Penn
45%
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

2. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
students who are mentally retarded
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
functional skills - social skills - career skills
LRE

3. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
PARC vs. State of Penn
curriculum based assessment
categorical approach
student to student

4. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
1%
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

5. Spina bifida
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

6. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
Learning disabilities
they modify students thought patterns
whole language
yes

7. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Specific learning disability
negative reinforcement

8. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
compensatory education
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

9. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
Non - discriminatory assessment
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Fourteen
learned helplessness

10. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
discriminatory stimulus
Traumatic brain injury
not legal
contingency based self - management

11. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
group contingency contracting
50%
Larry P vs. Riles

12. 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
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
group contingency contracting
executive functioning
compensatory education

13. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
Fourteen
student to student
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

14. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
functional skills - social skills - career skills
duration recording
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

15. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Emotional disturbance
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
yes

16. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
learned helplessness
negative reinforcement
not legal
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

17. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
student to student
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
medication and a behavior management intervention

18. 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
Procedural safeguards
Multiple disabilities
whole language
50%

19. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
a hearing aid
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Learning disabilities

20. A remedial approach
Fourteen
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
an individualized transition plan
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

21. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
an individualized transition plan
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Hear and understand speech

22. ADHD criteria is defined by
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
the DSM- IV
ecological
90%

23. 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
How 504 defines a disability
45%
direct instruction
discriminatory stimulus

24. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
IFSP
General education classrooms
Traumatic brain injury

25. 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?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Fourteen
students who are mentally retarded

26. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
categorical approach
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

27. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
social stories
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
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

28. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
yes
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
direct instruction

29. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
pervasive developmental disorders
life space analysis
18

30. 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
developmental
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
assistive technology

31. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
discriminatory stimulus
How 504 defines a disability
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

32. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
an audiometer
direct instruction
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

33. 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
ecological
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Hearing impairment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

34. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

35. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
Program first placement second
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
try to find appropriate content at grade level

36. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
Deaf - blindness
pervasive developmental disorders
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

37. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
Fourteen
90%
curriculum based assessment
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

38. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
Specific learning disability
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

39. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
50%
executive functioning
direct instruction
45%

40. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
ESEA Act
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
life space analysis
developmental

41. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
ESEA Act
articulation
Larry P vs. Riles
pervasive developmental disorders

42. 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
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
10 per 10 - 100 children

43. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
no
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

44. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
social stories
Mental retardation
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
two to nine percent

45. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
LRE
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
contingency based self - management
45%

46. In errorless learning SD stands for?
Hear and understand speech
Mental retardation
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
discriminatory stimulus

47. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
Sixty days
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
they modify students thought patterns
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

48. Mental retardation originates before what age?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
yes
18
functional skills - social skills - career skills

49. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
two to nine percent
whole language
Deaf - blindness
50%

50. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
functional skills - social skills - career skills
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data