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Praxis Special Ed
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Learners with disabilities have opportunities to achieve commensurate with their peers
2. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Procedural safeguards
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
21 or younger
3. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Council for Exceptional Children
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
4. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
negative reinforcement
hearing loss that was present at birth
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
life space analysis
5. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
ther health impairments
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
pervasive developmental disorders
where Section 504 comes from
6. 504
Fourteen
medication and a behavior management intervention
Council for Exceptional Children
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
7. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
45%
categorical approach
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
8. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
9. What does FVA stand for?
two to nine percent
functional vision assessment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
10. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
the Cummins model
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
11. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
50%
articulation
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
12. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
they modify students thought patterns
a hearing aid
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
ESEA Act
13. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
learned helplessness
Stanford 9
14. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Emotional disturbance
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
General education classrooms
Program first placement second
15. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Traumatic brain injury
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
discriminatory stimulus
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
16. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
the DSM- IV
Fourteen
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
17. Birthplace of FAPE
categorical approach
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
yes
PARC vs. State of Penn
18. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
the DSM- IV
early traumatic experiences
Specific learning disability
life space analysis
19. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Specific learning disability
duration recording
student to student
IFSP
20. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Emotional disturbance
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Stanford 9
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
21. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
Sixty days
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
22. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
early traumatic experiences
learned helplessness
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
23. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
IFSP
contingency based self - management
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
24. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Curriculum based assessment
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
90%
25. 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
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
50%
PARC vs. State of Penn
26. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Hearing impairment
ecological
Curriculum based assessment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
27. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
speech or language impairment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Non - discriminatory assessment
compensatory education
28. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Emotional disturbance
yes
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Non - discriminatory assessment
29. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
social stories
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
General education classrooms
30. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
Sixty days
functional skills - social skills - career skills
learned helplessness
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
31. What is the prevalence of autism?
10 per 10 - 100 children
Council for Exceptional Children
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
32. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
50%
the DSM- IV
Emotional disturbance
33. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
hearing loss that was present at birth
Curriculum based assessment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
34. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
learned helplessness
whole language
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
35. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
General education classrooms
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
compensatory education
negative reinforcement
36. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
medication and a behavior management intervention
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Program first placement second
21 or younger
37. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Traumatic brain injury
Program first placement second
hearing loss that was present at birth
no
38. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
18
Sixty days
90%
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
39. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
social stories
Orthopedic impairment
yes
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
40. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
mental retardation
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
41. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
Larry P vs. Riles
assistive technology
compensatory education
curriculum based assessment
42. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
learning disability
yes
ESEA Act
articulation
43. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
General education classrooms
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
How 504 defines a disability
44. Yes
yes
a hearing aid
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
45. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
Larry P vs. Riles
Sixty days
duration recording
46. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
learned helplessness
mental retardation
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Autism
47. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
an audiometer
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Council for Exceptional Children
48. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
no
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
45%
Emotional disturbance
49. ADHD criteria is defined by
visual impairment
a hearing aid
the DSM- IV
articulation
50. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
augmentative communciation
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Learning disabilities