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1. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
10 per 10 - 100 children
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

2. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Multiple disabilities
Non - discriminatory assessment
having them practice filing out job applications

3. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
students who are mentally retarded
social stories
Stanford 9

4. Multiple and severe disabilties
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
categorical approach
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

5. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
hearing loss that was present at birth
mental retardation
yes
assistive technology

6. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
functional vision assessment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

7. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
Curriculum based assessment
IFSP
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

8. Specific learning disability
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
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
Curriculum based assessment
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

9. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
articulation
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

10. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
students who are mentally retarded
Fourteen

11. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
21 or younger
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
where Section 504 comes from

12. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
articulation
Deafness
LRE

13. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
developmental
medication and a behavior management intervention
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation

14. 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
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
an audiometer
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
whole language

15. What is an adventitious visual 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
an individualized transition plan
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

16. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
early traumatic experiences
student to student
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

17. What does a cochlear implant do?
Sixty days
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
PARC vs. State of Penn
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

18. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
IFSP
try to find appropriate content at grade level
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Emotional disturbance

19. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Program first placement second
life space analysis
Learning disabilities

20. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
a hearing aid
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
developmental

21. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
where Section 504 comes from
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
yes

22. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
mental retardation
Orthopedic impairment
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Traumatic brain injury

23. What is conductive hearing loss?
Traumatic brain injury
the Cummins model
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

24. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
Deafness
Multiple disabilities
student to student
mental retardation

25. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
Council for Exceptional Children
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
speech or language impairment
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

26. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
General education classrooms
Deafness
Larry P vs. Riles
developmental

27. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Traumatic brain injury
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

28. 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?
hearing loss that was present at birth
mental retardation
Orthopedic impairment
try to find appropriate content at grade level

29. What does FVA stand for?
hearing loss that was present at birth
functional vision assessment
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
compensatory education

30. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Specific learning disability
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Council for Exceptional Children
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

31. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Deafness
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Procedural safeguards
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

32. Metacognition is connected to
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
executive functioning
augmentative communciation
not legal

33. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
IFSP
10 per 10 - 100 children
categorical approach
early traumatic experiences

34. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
functional vision assessment
Fourteen

35. Name four areas of executive function
ther health impairments
articulation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Traumatic brain injury

36. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
speech or language impairment
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
try to find appropriate content at grade level
General education classrooms

37. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
contingency based self - management
augmentative communciation
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

38. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
ecological
curriculum based assessment
speech or language impairment
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

39. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Sixty days
hearing loss that happened after birth
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

40. What percent of the population was ADHD?
no
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
executive functioning
two to nine percent

41. 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
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
assistive technology
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

42. 504
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
principles of IDEA
Deaf - blindness

43. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
duration recording
having them practice filing out job applications
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
early traumatic experiences

44. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
compensatory education
Autism
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
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

45. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
early traumatic experiences

46. What are four types of data based decision making?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
visual impairment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

47. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
Multiple disabilities
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

48. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
mental retardation
a hearing aid
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
yes

49. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
delayed language and echolalia
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
an individualized transition plan
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

50. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
articulation
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
learned helplessness