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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
augmentative communciation
LRE
Traumatic brain injury
having them practice filing out job applications

2. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Hearing impairment
Emotional disturbance

3. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
Multiple disabilities
students who are mentally retarded
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
1%

4. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Mental retardation
50%

5. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Curriculum based assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
compensatory education

6. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
mental retardation
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
How 504 defines a disability
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

7. 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
How 504 defines a disability
learning disability
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
ecological

8. What is acquired hearing loss?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Multiple disabilities
18
hearing loss that happened after birth

9. Name four areas of executive function
1%
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
assistive technology

10. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
IFSP
speech or language impairment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
life space analysis

11. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
pervasive developmental disorders

12. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
45%
group contingency contracting

13. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
18
developmental
50%
contingency based self - management

14. 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?
learned helplessness
life space analysis
General education classrooms
try to find appropriate content at grade level

15. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
executive functioning
21 or younger
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

16. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
Mental retardation
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
learning disability

17. 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
an individualized transition plan
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

18. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Autism
they modify students thought patterns
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

19. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
functional skills - social skills - career skills
not legal
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
assistive technology

20. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

21. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Fourteen
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

22. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
curriculum based assessment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Multiple disabilities

23. What is conductive hearing loss?
Stanford 9
Specific learning disability
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
hearing loss that happened after birth

24. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
not legal
the DSM- IV
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

25. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
hearing loss that was present at birth
Orthopedic impairment
Learning disabilities
speech or language impairment

26. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
curriculum based assessment
Multiple disabilities
Non - discriminatory assessment
a hearing aid

27. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
negative reinforcement
hearing loss that was present at birth
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

28. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
1%
hearing loss that happened after birth
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

29. Multiple and severe disabilties
Emotional disturbance
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
they modify students thought patterns

30. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
learned helplessness
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

31. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
not legal
Autism
Hear and understand speech
Emotional disturbance

32. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
contingency based self - management
PARC vs. State of Penn
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

33. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
not legal
principles of IDEA
Stanford 9

34. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
group contingency contracting
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
functional vision assessment
Council for Exceptional Children

35. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
90%
1%
General education classrooms

36. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Deaf - blindness
Traumatic brain injury
articulation

37. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
How 504 defines a disability
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
mental retardation
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

38. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
visual impairment
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Autism
they modify students thought patterns

39. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Larry P vs. Riles
mental retardation

40. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
curriculum based assessment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Deafness

41. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
curriculum based assessment
ESEA Act

42. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
45%
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
General education classrooms

43. What does outer - directedness mean?
Autism
yes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
an individualized transition plan

44. What is the prevalence of autism?
assistive technology
discriminatory stimulus
Deafness
10 per 10 - 100 children

45. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
social stories
21 or younger
yes
categorical approach

46. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Emotional disturbance
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
the Cummins model
ESEA Act

47. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
Multiple disabilities
whole language
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

48. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Larry P vs. Riles
Orthopedic impairment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

49. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Stanford 9
executive functioning
compensatory education

50. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
direct instruction
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain