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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
students who are mentally retarded
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

2. 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
ESEA Act
executive functioning
developmental
students who are mentally retarded

3. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
speech or language impairment
ther health impairments
assistive technology
functional vision assessment

4. Specific learning disability
Specific learning disability
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
Non - discriminatory assessment
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

5. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
45%
learned helplessness
mental retardation

6. What does a cochlear implant do?
medication and a behavior management intervention
contingency based self - management
Council for Exceptional Children
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

7. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
pervasive developmental disorders
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

8. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
21 or younger
having them practice filing out job applications
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

9. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
Larry P vs. Riles
90%
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
duration recording

10. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Orthopedic impairment
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
executive functioning
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

11. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
hearing loss that happened after birth
where Section 504 comes from
Learning disabilities
45%

12. Name four areas of executive function
a hearing aid
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
How 504 defines a disability
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

13. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
IFSP
augmentative communciation
50%
Multiple disabilities

14. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
45%
ESEA Act
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
a hearing aid

15. ADHD criteria is defined by
executive functioning
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
the DSM- IV
early traumatic experiences

16. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
General education classrooms
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

17. Birthplace of FAPE
no
Autism
categorical approach
PARC vs. State of Penn

18. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
whole language
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

19. Share the responsibility for the students education
delayed language and echolalia
Stanford 9
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

20. What is conductive hearing loss?
having them practice filing out job applications
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
learned helplessness

21. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
early traumatic experiences
speech or language impairment
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

22. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
articulation
Multiple disabilities
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Hearing impairment

23. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
ESEA Act
Orthopedic impairment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

24. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
ecological
learning disability
mental retardation
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

25. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
curriculum based assessment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
yes

26. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Specific learning disability
assistive technology
Hearing impairment
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

27. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
zero reject
10 per 10 - 100 children

28. Yes
Procedural safeguards
social stories
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

29. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Curriculum based assessment

30. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
functional vision assessment
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

31. What does adaptive behavior mean?
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Hear and understand speech
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

32. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Non - discriminatory assessment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

33. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
an audiometer
try to find appropriate content at grade level
learned helplessness

34. 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
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
hearing loss that was present at birth
functional vision assessment

35. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
mental retardation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

36. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Multiple disabilities
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
45%

37. 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
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
whole language
the Cummins model
How 504 defines a disability

38. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
Sixty days
they modify students thought patterns
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
principles of IDEA

39. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
having them practice filing out job applications
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

40. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
learned helplessness
90%
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

41. What does FVA stand for?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
functional vision assessment
IFSP
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

42. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
curriculum based assessment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

43. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
having them practice filing out job applications
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
yes
whole language

44. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
Traumatic brain injury
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

45. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Traumatic brain injury
Council for Exceptional Children
yes

46. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
mental retardation

47. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
18
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
social stories

48. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Council for Exceptional Children
Mental retardation
principles of IDEA
Emotional disturbance

49. 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
assistive technology
mental retardation
functional vision assessment
Hearing impairment

50. Metacognition is connected to
direct instruction
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
executive functioning
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should