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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
categorical approach
not legal
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Learning disabilities

2. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
45%
visual impairment
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

3. 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
an audiometer
Multiple disabilities
no
group contingency contracting

4. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
curriculum based assessment
negative reinforcement
Deaf - blindness

5. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Sixty days
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
hearing loss that was present at birth

6. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Deafness
LRE
yes

7. What is conductive hearing loss?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

8. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
speech or language impairment
life space analysis

9. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Autism
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
1%
ecological

10. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
early traumatic experiences
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
an individualized transition plan

11. What is acquired hearing loss?
contingency based self - management
Deafness
LRE
hearing loss that happened after birth

12. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Multiple disabilities
an individualized transition plan
early traumatic experiences
hearing loss that was present at birth

13. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
Larry P vs. Riles
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
they modify students thought patterns
discriminatory stimulus

14. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
categorical approach
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
General education classrooms
Emotional disturbance

15. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
zero reject
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
General education classrooms
life space analysis

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

17. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
duration recording
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Curriculum based assessment
Fourteen

18. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
pervasive developmental disorders
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

19. 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
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
student to student

20. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
having them practice filing out job applications
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
early traumatic experiences
functional vision assessment

21. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
yes
duration recording
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

22. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Mental retardation
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

23. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Hearing impairment
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Orthopedic impairment

24. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
18
Emotional disturbance
Multiple disabilities

25. 504
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
learned helplessness

26. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
yes

27. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Stanford 9
Traumatic brain injury
early traumatic experiences
How 504 defines a disability

28. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
ESEA Act
Traumatic brain injury
Hear and understand speech

29. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
augmentative communciation
Program first placement second
How 504 defines a disability

30. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
ESEA Act

31. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
Curriculum based assessment
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
10 per 10 - 100 children
ESEA Act

32. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Non - discriminatory assessment
Specific learning disability
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

33. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
delayed language and echolalia
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
yes

34. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
Orthopedic impairment
Non - discriminatory assessment
Deaf - blindness

35. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
90%

36. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
they modify students thought patterns
Procedural safeguards
life space analysis
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

37. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
an audiometer
compensatory education
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

38. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Council for Exceptional Children
yes
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

39. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
Deaf - blindness
developmental
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
categorical approach

40. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
functional skills - social skills - career skills
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

41. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
PARC vs. State of Penn
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Sixty days
the DSM- IV

42. ADHD criteria is defined by
principles of IDEA
the DSM- IV
Hearing impairment
negative reinforcement

43. Spina bifida
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
yes
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
two to nine percent

44. Which perspective attributes emotional and behavioral disorders to poor interaction with the environment in which the student and environment affect each other reciprocally and advocates interventions using the entire social system
hearing loss that was present at birth
Multiple disabilities
ecological
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

45. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
executive functioning
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
21 or younger
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

46. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

47. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
hearing loss that was present at birth
IFSP

48. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
21 or younger
Council for Exceptional Children
mental retardation
90%

49. Yes
whole language
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
students who are mentally retarded

50. Mental retardation originates before what age?
Specific learning disability
18
50%
IFSP