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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
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
yes
Non - discriminatory assessment

2. A model used with ESL and deaf students
the Cummins model
student to student
Council for Exceptional Children
Hear and understand speech

3. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
LRE
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
principles of IDEA
Program first placement second

4. Yes
ecological
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
group contingency contracting
negative reinforcement

5. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
mental retardation
Deafness

6. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Deafness
compensatory education
direct instruction

7. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

8. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
two to nine percent
yes
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
students who are mentally retarded

9. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
functional skills - social skills - career skills
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

10. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
visual impairment
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

11. 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
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
direct instruction
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Emotional disturbance

12. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
ther health impairments
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
negative reinforcement

13. What does outer - directedness mean?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Stanford 9
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

14. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
articulation
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
where Section 504 comes from
PARC vs. State of Penn

15. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
they modify students thought patterns
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Deafness
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

16. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
hearing loss that was present at birth
Multiple disabilities
18

17. 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
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
an audiometer
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

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

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19. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
contingency based self - management
Hear and understand speech
direct instruction
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

20. What is the prevalence of autism?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
social stories
curriculum based assessment
10 per 10 - 100 children

21. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
augmentative communciation
ecological

22. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Non - discriminatory assessment
Hear and understand speech
yes
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

23. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Orthopedic impairment
an audiometer

24. What percent of the population was ADHD?
Hearing impairment
mental retardation
two to nine percent
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

25. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
they modify students thought patterns
Council for Exceptional Children
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
learned helplessness

26. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
early traumatic experiences
hearing loss that was present at birth
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

27. What causes autism?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
hearing loss that was present at birth
45%
Larry P vs. Riles

28. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
yes
two to nine percent
functional skills - social skills - career skills

29. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
they modify students thought patterns
Program first placement second
Emotional disturbance

30. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
Fourteen
duration recording
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

31. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
articulation
visual impairment
90%

32. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
no
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

33. 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
categorical approach
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

34. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
ther health impairments
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
yes

35. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
Autism
mental retardation
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

36. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
negative reinforcement
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

37. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
mental retardation
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
negative reinforcement

38. In errorless learning SD stands for?
delayed language and echolalia
discriminatory stimulus
an individualized transition plan
an audiometer

39. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
90%
executive functioning
functional skills - social skills - career skills

40. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
curriculum based assessment
Hearing impairment
assistive technology

41. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
ESEA Act
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

42. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
student to student
Council for Exceptional Children
a hearing aid
Stanford 9

43. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Deafness
pervasive developmental disorders

44. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

45. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
where Section 504 comes from
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Non - discriminatory assessment
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

46. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
executive functioning
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Fourteen

47. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
LRE
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
IFSP

48. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
try to find appropriate content at grade level
zero reject
ESEA Act
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

49. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
Learning disabilities
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Fourteen
developmental

50. 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
students who are mentally retarded
life space analysis
ecological
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution