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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
delayed language and echolalia
Program first placement second

2. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
50%
1%
articulation
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

3. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
augmentative communciation
principles of IDEA
social stories
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

4. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
not legal
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
learned helplessness

5. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Learning disabilities
speech or language impairment
early traumatic experiences

6. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
not legal
learning disability
yes
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

7. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
student to student
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
50%

8. 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
direct instruction
Non - discriminatory assessment
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

9. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
no
hearing loss that happened after birth
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
an audiometer

10. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
How 504 defines a disability
Deafness
Larry P vs. Riles
an audiometer

11. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
ecological
visual impairment
Orthopedic impairment
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

12. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Emotional disturbance
Hearing impairment
1%

13. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
yes
Procedural safeguards
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

14. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
student to student
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Multiple disabilities
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

15. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
hearing loss that was present at birth
21 or younger
Curriculum based assessment
Hearing impairment

16. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
yes
General education classrooms
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

17. A remedial approach
whole language
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
yes

18. 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
speech or language impairment
two to nine percent
not legal

19. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
yes
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
1%
where Section 504 comes from

20. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
the Cummins model
negative reinforcement
yes
Larry P vs. Riles

21. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Sixty days
21 or younger

22. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
direct instruction
1%
Learning disabilities
yes

23. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Deafness
functional skills - social skills - career skills

24. 504
negative reinforcement
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
principles of IDEA

25. Multiple and severe disabilties
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Hear and understand speech
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

26. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
direct instruction
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
IFSP

27. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
no
Mental retardation
a hearing aid

28. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
executive functioning
learning disability
yes

29. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
duration recording
not legal
Specific learning disability
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

30. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
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

31. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Curriculum based assessment
whole language
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

32. In errorless learning SD stands for?
discriminatory stimulus
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

33. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
mental retardation
categorical approach
students who are mentally retarded
delayed language and echolalia

34. What percent of the population was ADHD?
not legal
two to nine percent
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
the DSM- IV

35. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
medication and a behavior management intervention
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

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

37. Mental retardation originates before what age?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
learned helplessness
developmental
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38. Birthplace of FAPE
Orthopedic impairment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
PARC vs. State of Penn

39. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
students who are mentally retarded
ESEA Act
assistive technology

40. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Traumatic brain injury
early traumatic experiences
Deafness
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

41. Metacognition is connected to
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Council for Exceptional Children
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
executive functioning

42. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
mental retardation
Autism
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

43. What does adaptive behavior mean?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
students who are mentally retarded
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
learning disability

44. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
How 504 defines a disability
executive functioning
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

45. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
functional skills - social skills - career skills
hearing loss that was present at birth
ESEA Act

46. What does outer - directedness mean?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

47. What are four types of data based decision making?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
General education classrooms
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

48. What is conductive hearing loss?
Stanford 9
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
LRE

49. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
negative reinforcement
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
two to nine percent

50. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
they modify students thought patterns
yes
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