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Praxis Special Ed

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1. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
10 per 10 - 100 children
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Multiple disabilities
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

2. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
not legal
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
two to nine percent
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

3. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
a hearing aid
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
yes

4. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
Deafness
hearing loss that happened after birth
45%
no

5. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
zero reject
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
18

6. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

7. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
Procedural safeguards
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Autism
mental retardation

8. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
General education classrooms
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
IFSP
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

9. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Curriculum based assessment
negative reinforcement
duration recording
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

10. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Fourteen
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

11. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
General education classrooms

12. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Stanford 9
hearing loss that was present at birth
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

13. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
principles of IDEA
learned helplessness
they modify students thought patterns
whole language

14. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
Procedural safeguards
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
ESEA Act

15. What is conductive hearing loss?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
early traumatic experiences
yes
categorical approach

16. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
categorical approach
where Section 504 comes from
learning disability
yes

17. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
Deaf - blindness
contingency based self - management
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

18. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
90%
having them practice filing out job applications
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

19. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
assistive technology
Non - discriminatory assessment
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Mental retardation

20. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
augmentative communciation
negative reinforcement
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

21. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Procedural safeguards
Council for Exceptional Children
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
50%

22. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
augmentative communciation
Autism
visual impairment
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

23. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Learning disabilities
Council for Exceptional Children
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

24. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
mental retardation
Non - discriminatory assessment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

25. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
18
duration recording
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
mental retardation

26. What is CLOZE procedure?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
a hearing aid

27. 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?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
the Cummins model
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
try to find appropriate content at grade level

28. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
ther health impairments
compensatory education

29. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
Deaf - blindness
Curriculum based assessment
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
hearing loss that happened after birth

30. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
functional vision assessment
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Procedural safeguards

31. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
articulation
an audiometer
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
yes

32. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
pervasive developmental disorders
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
having them practice filing out job applications

33. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Multiple disabilities
an audiometer
yes

34. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
Hear and understand speech
delayed language and echolalia
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
executive functioning

35. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
social stories
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

36. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Program first placement second
Specific learning disability
developmental
categorical approach

37. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
executive functioning
yes
an audiometer
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

38. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
not legal
life space analysis

39. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
an individualized transition plan
Hearing impairment
categorical approach
pervasive developmental disorders

40. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
yes
zero reject
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

41. ADHD criteria is defined by
Stanford 9
the DSM- IV
zero reject
Deafness

42. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
mental retardation
Orthopedic impairment

43. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Sixty days
Fourteen

44. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
student to student
Stanford 9
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
learned helplessness

45. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Traumatic brain injury

46. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
developmental
life space analysis
Non - discriminatory assessment
group contingency contracting

47. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
mental retardation
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
21 or younger

48. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
functional vision assessment
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

49. 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
negative reinforcement
Traumatic brain injury
Program first placement second

50. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
social stories
LRE
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district