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Praxis Special Ed

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1. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Learning disabilities
having them practice filing out job applications

2. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
curriculum based assessment
assistive technology
Traumatic brain injury
direct instruction

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

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4. What is CLOZE procedure?
an audiometer
a hearing aid
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Council for Exceptional Children

5. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
18
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
curriculum based assessment
Program first placement second

6. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
ecological
negative reinforcement
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Learning disabilities

7. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

8. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
IFSP
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

9. Spina bifida
functional vision assessment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Curriculum based assessment

10. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
articulation
not legal
Orthopedic impairment
early traumatic experiences

11. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
functional vision assessment
curriculum based assessment
18
duration recording

12. A teacher who sets clear and explicit goals for each lesson - presents a logical sequence of tasks - gives clear directions on how to do eacht ask - engages the student in guided practice - asks frequent questions - gives feedback - and does not move
speech or language impairment
direct instruction
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Larry P vs. Riles

13. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
social stories
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
visual impairment
Sixty days

14. Birthplace of FAPE
Curriculum based assessment
the Cummins model
PARC vs. State of Penn
General education classrooms

15. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
How 504 defines a disability
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

16. What are four types of data based decision making?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
yes
1%
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

17. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Curriculum based assessment
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

18. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
hearing loss that happened after birth
negative reinforcement
early traumatic experiences
Hearing impairment

19. What causes autism?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
90%
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

20. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
General education classrooms
speech or language impairment
zero reject

21. Name four areas of executive function
the Cummins model
yes
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

22. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
Specific learning disability
group contingency contracting
categorical approach

23. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
learning disability
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
student to student
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

24. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Procedural safeguards
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
IFSP

25. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
student to student
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
yes
developmental

26. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
the DSM- IV
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

27. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
visual impairment
medication and a behavior management intervention
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

28. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
compensatory education
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
visual impairment

29. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
pervasive developmental disorders
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
an individualized transition plan

30. 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
compensatory education
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

31. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
90%
Fourteen
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

32. ADHD criteria is defined by
early traumatic experiences
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Hearing impairment
the DSM- IV

33. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
zero reject
Curriculum based assessment
Larry P vs. Riles
principles of IDEA

34. 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
group contingency contracting
Council for Exceptional Children
visual impairment
Mental retardation

35. 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
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
yes
they modify students thought patterns
whole language

36. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
mental retardation
hearing loss that happened after birth

37. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
45%
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

38. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Stanford 9
mental retardation
duration recording
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

39. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Larry P vs. Riles
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Deaf - blindness
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

40. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
mental retardation
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

41. 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?
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
try to find appropriate content at grade level
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

42. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
curriculum based assessment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
discriminatory stimulus
21 or younger

43. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
Stanford 9
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
yes
speech or language impairment

44. What is conductive hearing loss?
executive functioning
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
two to nine percent

45. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
pervasive developmental disorders
functional skills - social skills - career skills

46. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
no
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

47. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
social stories

48. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
Hearing 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
augmentative communciation
learning disability

49. 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
PARC vs. State of Penn
Mental retardation
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

50. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
students who are mentally retarded
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Sixty days
inattentive - hyperactive - combination