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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
learned helplessness
Stanford 9
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
discriminatory stimulus

2. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
delayed language and echolalia
pervasive developmental disorders
two to nine percent
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

3. 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
life space analysis
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
ecological

4. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
50%
mental retardation
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

5. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
duration recording

6. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
yes
augmentative communciation
General education classrooms
IFSP

7. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
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
augmentative communciation
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
delayed language and echolalia

8. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
augmentative communciation
early traumatic experiences
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

9. What does outer - directedness mean?
Curriculum based assessment
yes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

10. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
yes
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
zero reject
General education classrooms

11. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
yes
visual impairment
45%
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

12. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
duration recording
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Council for Exceptional Children

13. What is CLOZE procedure?
direct instruction
90%
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

14. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
delayed language and echolalia
no
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

15. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
Autism
articulation
assistive technology
Mental retardation

16. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
group contingency contracting
executive functioning
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

17. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
medication and a behavior management intervention
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

18. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
pervasive developmental disorders
augmentative communciation
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
direct instruction

19. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
speech or language impairment
hearing loss that happened after birth
Autism
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

20. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
ESEA Act
curriculum based assessment
an individualized transition plan

21. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
Autism
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

22. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
ecological
developmental
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

23. What is the prevalence of autism?
learning disability
Traumatic brain injury
zero reject
10 per 10 - 100 children

24. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
articulation
Hear and understand speech
Learning disabilities
90%

25. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Council for Exceptional Children
hearing loss that was present at birth
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

26. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
visual impairment
Fourteen
yes

27. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
LRE
an individualized transition plan
Hearing impairment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

28. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
speech or language impairment
mental retardation
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
visual impairment

29. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
Curriculum based assessment
learning disability
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

30. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Council for Exceptional Children
Specific learning disability

31. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
an audiometer
Specific learning disability

32. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
a hearing aid
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
students who are mentally retarded
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

33. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
student to student
learning disability
yes
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

34. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Emotional disturbance
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
delayed language and echolalia
discriminatory stimulus

35. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
an individualized transition plan
life space analysis
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
General education classrooms

36. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
students who are mentally retarded
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
1%
Traumatic brain injury

37. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
1%
not legal
where Section 504 comes from
yes

38. What is conductive hearing loss?
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
contingency based self - management
Hear and understand speech

39. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
LRE

40. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
the DSM- IV
Orthopedic impairment

41. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
learned helplessness
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
having them practice filing out job applications

42. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Mental retardation
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

43. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
speech or language impairment
augmentative communciation
developmental

44. A remedial approach
ecological
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
hearing loss that was present at birth

45. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Deafness
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

46. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
Traumatic brain injury
not legal
Orthopedic impairment
learned helplessness

47. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Council for Exceptional Children
50%
10 per 10 - 100 children

48. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Sixty days
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Procedural safeguards
articulation

49. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
they modify students thought patterns
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
IFSP

50. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
ESEA Act
50%
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Procedural safeguards