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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
Council for Exceptional Children
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
21 or younger

2. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
curriculum based assessment
zero reject
learned helplessness

3. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
social stories
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
no
mental retardation

4. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Orthopedic impairment
the DSM- IV
mental retardation

5. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
yes
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
zero reject
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

6. Specific learning disability
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Traumatic brain injury
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
medication and a behavior management intervention

7. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
not legal
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

8. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Fourteen
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
they modify students thought patterns

9. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
not legal
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
hearing loss that happened after birth
learning disability

10. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Larry P vs. Riles
augmentative communciation
Autism
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

11. 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
Hearing impairment
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
ecological
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

12. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
ESEA Act

13. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
life space analysis
curriculum based assessment

14. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
an individualized transition plan
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Curriculum based assessment

15. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
How 504 defines a disability
speech or language impairment
Non - discriminatory assessment
Hearing impairment

16. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
having them practice filing out job applications
augmentative communciation
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

17. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Larry P vs. Riles
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

18. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
student to student
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Specific learning disability

19. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
21 or younger
whole language

20. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
the Cummins model
students who are mentally retarded
18
learning disability

21. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
augmentative communciation
an audiometer
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
21 or younger

22. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
assistive technology
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
contingency based self - management

23. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Traumatic brain injury
early traumatic experiences
assistive technology

24. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
two to nine percent
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

25. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
learned helplessness

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

27. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Sixty days
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

28. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
ther health impairments

29. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
an audiometer
pervasive developmental disorders
LRE
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

30. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
1%
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

31. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
yes
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
executive functioning

32. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
not legal
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
zero reject

33. What is the prevalence of autism?
compensatory education
10 per 10 - 100 children
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

34. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
medication and a behavior management intervention
Non - discriminatory assessment
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

35. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
50%
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

36. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
zero reject
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

37. ADHD criteria is defined by
1%
the DSM- IV
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

38. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
augmentative communciation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
How 504 defines a disability
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

39. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Curriculum based assessment
50%
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

40. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
visual impairment
ESEA Act

41. Yes
Hear and understand speech
articulation
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
group contingency contracting

42. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Sixty days

43. What percent of the population was ADHD?
Autism
two to nine percent
try to find appropriate content at grade level
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

44. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
medication and a behavior management intervention
Council for Exceptional Children
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
90%

45. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Stanford 9
PARC vs. State of Penn
developmental

46. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
functional skills - social skills - career skills
functional vision assessment
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

47. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
medication and a behavior management intervention
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
curriculum based assessment

48. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Hearing impairment
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
developmental
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

49. Multiple and severe disabilties
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
they modify students thought patterns
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
assistive technology

50. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
functional vision assessment
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board