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1. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
General education classrooms

2. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
mental retardation
Non - discriminatory assessment
1%

3. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Hear and understand speech
Mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

4. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
yes
executive functioning

5. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
life space analysis
learned helplessness
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

6. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Emotional disturbance
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
negative reinforcement
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

7. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
21 or younger
Mental retardation
Autism

8. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
How 504 defines a disability
social stories
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

9. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
compensatory education
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
articulation

10. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Larry P vs. Riles
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
a hearing aid

11. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Sixty days
early traumatic experiences
functional vision assessment
Council for Exceptional Children

12. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
50%
mental retardation
a hearing aid
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

13. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
zero reject
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
visual impairment

14. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
an individualized transition plan
they modify students thought patterns
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

15. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
early traumatic experiences
Deaf - blindness
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
developmental

16. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
General education classrooms
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Autism

17. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
not legal
mental retardation
Council for Exceptional Children

18. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
IFSP
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
curriculum based assessment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

19. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
21 or younger
assistive technology

20. What is CLOZE procedure?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
curriculum based assessment
student to student

21. 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
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
whole language
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

22. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
duration recording
Larry P vs. Riles

23. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
functional vision assessment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
articulation
an audiometer

24. Mental retardation originates before what age?
18
categorical approach
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
yes

25. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Non - discriminatory assessment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
no

26. ADHD criteria is defined by
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
no
duration recording
the DSM- IV

27. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
a hearing aid
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
student to student
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

28. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
medication and a behavior management intervention
functional vision assessment
delayed language and echolalia
ther health impairments

29. 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
functional vision assessment
ecological
compensatory education

30. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
they modify students thought patterns
45%
21 or younger
How 504 defines a disability

31. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
ecological
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

32. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

33. What is the prevalence of autism?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
yes
a hearing aid
10 per 10 - 100 children

34. Specific learning disability
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
two test that are often used to identify 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
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

35. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
no
compensatory education
Fourteen
contingency based self - management

36. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Program first placement second
Multiple disabilities
Mental retardation
mental retardation

37. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
contingency based self - management
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Emotional disturbance

38. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
10 per 10 - 100 children
Deafness
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
hearing loss that happened after birth

39. 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
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
principles of IDEA
direct instruction
augmentative communciation

40. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Orthopedic impairment
negative reinforcement
the Cummins model
categorical approach

41. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
visual impairment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Hear and understand speech
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

42. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
Larry P vs. Riles
a hearing aid
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
1%

43. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
Hear and understand speech
hearing loss that was present at birth
PARC vs. State of Penn

44. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two to nine percent
ther health impairments
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
21 or younger

45. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
duration recording
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
ther health impairments
early traumatic experiences

46. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
no
curriculum based assessment
functional skills - social skills - career skills
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

47. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
whole language
Hear and understand speech
negative reinforcement

48. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
group contingency contracting
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

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

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50. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
not legal
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Traumatic brain injury
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes