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Praxis Special Ed

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1. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
yes

2. Learners with disabilities have opportunities to achieve commensurate with their peers

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3. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Sixty days
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
visual impairment

4. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Curriculum based assessment
mental retardation
assistive technology
Orthopedic impairment

5. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
ther health impairments
Hear and understand speech
Deafness

6. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
articulation
Specific learning disability
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

7. Yes
ecological
Council for Exceptional Children
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

8. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
yes
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
where Section 504 comes from

9. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Autism
Non - discriminatory assessment
ESEA Act

10. 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
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
group contingency contracting

11. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
ESEA Act
Hear and understand speech

12. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Mental retardation
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Deaf - blindness
the Cummins model

13. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
students who are mentally retarded

14. ADHD criteria is defined by
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
21 or younger
an audiometer
the DSM- IV

15. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
18
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
mental retardation
an audiometer

16. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Traumatic brain injury
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

17. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
pervasive developmental disorders
Program first placement second
an audiometer
yes

18. 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
Non - discriminatory assessment
whole language
curriculum based assessment
developmental

19. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
an individualized transition plan
yes
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

20. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
hearing loss that was present at birth
Larry P vs. Riles
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

21. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
ecological
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
IFSP

22. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
mental retardation
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
categorical approach
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

23. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Deafness
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

24. Specific learning disability
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
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
not legal
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

25. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
contingency based self - management
IFSP
Emotional disturbance
negative reinforcement

26. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
50%
Council for Exceptional Children
Larry P vs. Riles

27. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
categorical approach
Learning disabilities
Stanford 9
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

28. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Hearing impairment
students who are mentally retarded
compensatory education
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

29. 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
90%
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
articulation

30. What percent of the population was ADHD?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Sixty days
21 or younger
two to nine percent

31. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
hearing loss that was present at birth

32. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
negative reinforcement
functional skills - social skills - career skills
principles of IDEA

33. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
social stories
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

34. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
having them practice filing out job applications
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
articulation

35. 504
1%
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

36. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
developmental
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

37. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
medication and a behavior management intervention
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
students who are mentally retarded

38. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Deaf - blindness
mental retardation
ecological

39. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
yes
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

40. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
1%
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

41. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
Procedural safeguards
learning disability
Fourteen
a hearing aid

42. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
contingency based self - management
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
delayed language and echolalia
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

43. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
Council for Exceptional Children
speech or language impairment
discriminatory stimulus

44. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
Council for Exceptional Children
principles of IDEA
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

45. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
where Section 504 comes from
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
student to student

46. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
PARC vs. State of Penn
delayed language and echolalia
medication and a behavior management intervention

47. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
LRE
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
zero reject
an audiometer

48. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Specific learning disability
life space analysis
an audiometer

49. What is conductive hearing loss?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
a hearing aid
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

50. 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
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
principles of IDEA
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
developmental