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1. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
compensatory education
IFSP
curriculum based assessment
negative reinforcement

2. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Procedural safeguards
visual impairment
no
mental retardation

3. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Traumatic brain injury
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

4. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
How 504 defines a disability
10 per 10 - 100 children
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

5. What are four types of data based decision making?
hearing loss that happened after birth
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
yes
Specific learning disability

6. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
Specific learning disability
learning disability
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
whole language

7. 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?
Stanford 9
try to find appropriate content at grade level
the DSM- IV
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

8. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Sixty days
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
whole language

9. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

10. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
delayed language and echolalia
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

11. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
18
where Section 504 comes from
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

12. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
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
life space analysis
social stories
Hear and understand speech

13. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Stanford 9
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

14. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
Multiple disabilities
a hearing aid
social stories
delayed language and echolalia

15. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
pervasive developmental disorders
group contingency contracting
Multiple disabilities

16. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
General education classrooms
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Multiple disabilities
Specific learning disability

17. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

18. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
How 504 defines a disability
ther health impairments
Multiple disabilities

19. 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 makes effects language development through reading - writing
10 per 10 - 100 children
assistive technology
LRE

20. ADHD criteria is defined by
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
the DSM- IV
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

21. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
1%
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
learned helplessness

22. Yes
no
an individualized transition plan
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
ecological

23. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
the DSM- IV
Traumatic brain injury
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

24. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
life space analysis
Non - discriminatory assessment
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

25. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
mental retardation
ESEA Act
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
hearing loss that was present at birth

26. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
an individualized transition plan
Emotional disturbance
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

27. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Program first placement second
ecological
whole language
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

28. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
two to nine percent
student to student
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

29. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
students who are mentally retarded
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
90%

30. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
Deaf - blindness
not legal
learned helplessness
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

31. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
ecological
Deaf - blindness
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

32. Multiple and severe disabilties
whole language
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Larry P vs. Riles
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

33. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
yes
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
90%
student to student

34. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
Mental retardation
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
categorical approach

35. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
Mental retardation
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
hearing loss that happened after birth
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

36. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
contingency based self - management
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
where Section 504 comes from
Fourteen

37. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
curriculum based assessment
Hear and understand speech
ESEA Act
hearing loss that happened after birth

38. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
learned helplessness
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
negative reinforcement

39. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
10 per 10 - 100 children
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Orthopedic impairment

40. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
mental retardation
Multiple disabilities
Orthopedic impairment

41. What does outer - directedness mean?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
the DSM- IV
ther health impairments

42. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
ther health impairments
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
principles of IDEA
having them practice filing out job applications

43. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Emotional disturbance
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Learning disabilities

44. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
an individualized transition plan
students who are mentally retarded

45. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

46. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Sixty days
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

47. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
the Cummins model
Program first placement second
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

48. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
executive functioning
pervasive developmental disorders
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
students who are mentally retarded

49. 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
whole language
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

50. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
Specific learning disability
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
zero reject