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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
learning disability
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
negative reinforcement
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

2. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Curriculum based assessment
Sixty days
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

3. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
medication and a behavior management intervention
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
delayed language and echolalia

4. 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
try to find appropriate content at grade level
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
developmental
not legal

5. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
yes
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
group contingency contracting
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

6. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
Fourteen
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Larry P vs. Riles
delayed language and echolalia

7. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
medication and a behavior management intervention
students who are mentally retarded
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

8. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
compensatory education
no
1%

9. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
hearing loss that was present at birth
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
the Cummins model

10. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
Stanford 9
they modify students thought patterns
45%

11. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
no
articulation
ESEA Act
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

12. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
50%
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
pervasive developmental disorders

13. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
50%
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

14. Mental retardation originates before what age?
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
ecological
18
student to student

15. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
principles of IDEA
Stanford 9
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

16. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
principles of IDEA
try to find appropriate content at grade level
IFSP
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

17. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
IFSP
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
speech or language impairment
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

18. 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
Council for Exceptional Children
ecological
discriminatory stimulus
student to student

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

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20. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Council for Exceptional Children
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

21. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
yes
LRE
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
yes

22. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
yes
visual impairment
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
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

23. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
categorical approach
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
contingency based self - management
learning disability

24. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
General education classrooms
student to student
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

25. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
contingency based self - management
Autism
they modify students thought patterns
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

26. In errorless learning SD stands for?
they modify students thought patterns
discriminatory stimulus
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
compensatory education

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
duration recording
assistive technology
speech or language impairment
LRE

28. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Procedural safeguards
How 504 defines a disability
Learning disabilities
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

29. Birthplace of FAPE
they modify students thought patterns
10 per 10 - 100 children
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
PARC vs. State of Penn

30. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
functional skills - social skills - career skills
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
mental retardation
yes

31. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
General education classrooms
90%
medication and a behavior management intervention
Procedural safeguards

32. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Stanford 9
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

33. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
a hearing aid
10 per 10 - 100 children
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
21 or younger

34. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
ESEA Act
they modify students thought patterns

35. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
medication and a behavior management intervention
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Curriculum based assessment

36. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Fourteen
where Section 504 comes from
compensatory education

37. What does adaptive behavior mean?
hearing loss that was present at birth
early traumatic experiences
IFSP
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

38. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
two to nine percent
LRE
try to find appropriate content at grade level

39. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
having them practice filing out job applications
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
categorical approach
where Section 504 comes from

40. ADHD criteria is defined by
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
the DSM- IV
Program first placement second
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

41. 504
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
students who are mentally retarded

42. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
Hear and understand speech
Program first placement second
learned helplessness
the Cummins model

43. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
curriculum based assessment
Stanford 9
medication and a behavior management intervention
hearing loss that happened after birth

44. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Program first placement second
Mental retardation
Hearing impairment

45. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Orthopedic impairment
Multiple disabilities
delayed language and echolalia
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

46. A model used with ESL and deaf students
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
the Cummins model

47. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
Sixty days
medication and a behavior management intervention
an audiometer
1%

48. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
yes
developmental
LRE
Autism

49. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
articulation
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Stanford 9
speech or language impairment

50. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
principles of IDEA
Hearing impairment
learned helplessness
General education classrooms