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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
General education classrooms
no
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
where Section 504 comes from

2. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
they modify students thought patterns
Program first placement second
mental retardation

3. What is acquired hearing loss?
Deafness
hearing loss that happened after birth
45%
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

4. Spina bifida
10 per 10 - 100 children
no
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
principles of IDEA

5. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Larry P vs. Riles
yes
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

6. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
two to nine percent
General education classrooms
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

7. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
direct instruction
Hearing impairment
having them practice filing out job applications
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

8. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
students who are mentally retarded
50%
developmental

9. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
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
21 or younger

10. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
not legal
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
an individualized transition plan

11. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
functional skills - social skills - career skills
the DSM- IV
contingency based self - management
Fourteen

12. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
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
group contingency contracting
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Specific learning disability

13. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
Stanford 9
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

14. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
student to student
functional vision assessment
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

15. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
two to nine percent
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

16. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
the DSM- IV
augmentative communciation
contingency based self - management
delayed language and echolalia

17. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Procedural safeguards
Traumatic brain injury
45%

18. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
not legal
students who are mentally retarded
negative reinforcement
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

19. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
45%
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Specific learning disability
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

20. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
18
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
ther health impairments

21. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Program first placement second
ther health impairments
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

22. In errorless learning SD stands for?
18
discriminatory stimulus
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

23. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
visual impairment
Stanford 9
hearing loss that was present at birth
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

24. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
General education classrooms
learned helplessness
mental retardation
compensatory education

25. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Sixty days
Mental retardation
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

26. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
an audiometer
learned helplessness
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

27. If a college bound student has the accommodation that he uses a tape recorder in english and a calculator in algebra II this is an example of
assistive technology
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Larry P vs. Riles
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

28. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
the Cummins model
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
zero reject
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

29. What is conductive hearing loss?
no
90%
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
hearing loss that was present at birth

30. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Orthopedic impairment

31. 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
learned helplessness
developmental
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
hearing loss that happened after birth

32. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
categorical approach
they modify students thought patterns
ther health impairments

33. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
two to nine percent
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

34. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
zero reject
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Council for Exceptional Children

35. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
ESEA Act
50%

36. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
having them practice filing out job applications
social stories
an individualized transition plan
learning disability

37. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
Learning disabilities
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
having them practice filing out job applications
categorical approach

38. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
ecological
50%
Learning disabilities
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

39. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
hearing loss that was present at birth
curriculum based assessment
an audiometer
Procedural safeguards

40. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Fourteen

41. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
visual impairment
10 per 10 - 100 children
functional vision assessment
learned helplessness

42. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
ESEA Act
developmental
visual impairment
Deaf - blindness

43. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
discriminatory stimulus
principles of IDEA
compensatory education
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

44. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Council for Exceptional Children
student to student

45. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Non - discriminatory assessment
where Section 504 comes from
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

46. A remedial approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
learned helplessness
Council for Exceptional Children
the Cummins model

47. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
students who are mentally retarded
Program first placement second
social stories
compensatory education

48. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Emotional disturbance
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
duration recording
having them practice filing out job applications

49. What does a cochlear implant do?
developmental
Fourteen
yes
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

50. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Sixty days
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period