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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What percent of the population was ADHD?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
two to nine percent

2. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
How 504 defines a disability
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
executive functioning
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

3. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
group contingency contracting
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

4. 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
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
50%

5. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
duration recording
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
social stories

6. 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
group contingency contracting
Multiple disabilities
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Deafness

7. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
mental retardation
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
45%
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

8. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
LRE
categorical approach
18
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

9. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Deafness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
early traumatic experiences
Learning disabilities

10. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
yes
How 504 defines a disability
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

11. What is the prevalence of autism?
Specific learning disability
Procedural safeguards
10 per 10 - 100 children
ther health impairments

12. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Mental retardation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

13. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
categorical approach
developmental
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Learning disabilities

14. Yes
no
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
duration recording

15. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Autism
duration recording
General education classrooms

16. 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
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
early traumatic experiences
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

17. What is acquired hearing loss?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
hearing loss that happened after birth
Hear and understand speech

18. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
Larry P vs. Riles
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Council for Exceptional Children

19. What does a cochlear implant do?
Deafness
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Specific learning disability
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

20. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
students who are mentally retarded
Non - discriminatory assessment
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
assistive technology

21. 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
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
whole language
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
compensatory education

22. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
delayed language and echolalia
duration recording
Procedural safeguards
ther health impairments

23. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
no
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
yes
Hear and understand speech

24. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Sixty days
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
try to find appropriate content at grade level
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

25. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
functional vision assessment
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

26. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Deaf - blindness
the Cummins model
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

27. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
mental retardation
Hearing impairment
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Stanford 9

28. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Stanford 9
ecological
not legal

29. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
yes
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
Program first placement second
curriculum based assessment

30. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Mental retardation
Traumatic brain injury
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Multiple disabilities

31. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Mental retardation
functional vision assessment

32. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Hearing impairment
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Mental retardation

33. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
delayed language and echolalia
Hearing impairment
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

34. In errorless learning SD stands for?
zero reject
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
discriminatory stimulus
two to nine percent

35. 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
10 per 10 - 100 children
direct instruction
ecological
1%

36. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
IFSP
learning disability
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
LRE

37. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
they modify students thought patterns
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

38. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
50%
functional vision assessment
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
medication and a behavior management intervention

39. What does outer - directedness mean?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Orthopedic impairment
functional vision assessment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

40. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
developmental
Program first placement second
pervasive developmental disorders

41. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Non - discriminatory assessment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Fourteen

42. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Curriculum based assessment
Stanford 9
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

43. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
LRE
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
zero reject
an audiometer

44. 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
Non - discriminatory assessment
not legal
assistive technology
Specific learning disability

45. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
yes
group contingency contracting
Hear and understand speech

46. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
ther health impairments
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Hear and understand speech
early traumatic experiences

47. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
an audiometer
yes
Traumatic brain injury
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

48. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
principles of IDEA
augmentative communciation
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
student to student

49. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
a hearing aid
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

50. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
yes
LRE
ther health impairments