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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What are four types of data based decision making?
compensatory education
functional skills - social skills - career skills
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

2. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Hearing impairment
principles of IDEA
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

3. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
hearing loss that was present at birth
ESEA Act
ecological
Curriculum based assessment

4. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
ther health impairments
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

5. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
10 per 10 - 100 children
Orthopedic impairment
Multiple disabilities

6. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
life space analysis
Procedural safeguards

7. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
augmentative communciation
10 per 10 - 100 children
curriculum based assessment

8. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
hearing loss that happened after birth
student to student
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

9. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
an individualized transition plan
ther health impairments

10. What is conductive hearing loss?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
executive functioning
developmental
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

11. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
mental retardation
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
social stories
Deafness

12. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
where Section 504 comes from
students who are mentally retarded
Sixty days
the DSM- IV

13. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
Traumatic brain injury
student to student
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

14. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
50%
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
executive functioning
augmentative communciation

15. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
an audiometer
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Procedural safeguards

16. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
yes
Program first placement second
1%

17. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Autism

18. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
zero reject
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
compensatory education
having them practice filing out job applications

19. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Council for Exceptional Children
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
discriminatory stimulus
ESEA Act

20. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
visual impairment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Orthopedic impairment

21. Multiple and severe disabilties
Deafness
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
contingency based self - management

22. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
General education classrooms
categorical approach
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
ESEA Act

23. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
IFSP
ecological
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

24. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
speech or language impairment
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

25. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
an audiometer
categorical approach
Program first placement second
General education classrooms

26. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
categorical approach
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Program first placement second

27. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
21 or younger
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
where Section 504 comes from
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

28. What causes autism?
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
executive functioning
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

29. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Learning disabilities
hearing loss that was present at birth
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
delayed language and echolalia

30. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
45%

31. Yes
where Section 504 comes from
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
speech or language impairment
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

32. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Hear and understand speech
speech or language impairment
try to find appropriate content at grade level

33. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
assistive technology
yes
Orthopedic impairment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

34. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
two to nine percent
yes
categorical approach
21 or younger

35. 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
10 per 10 - 100 children
group contingency contracting
50%

36. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
yes
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Stanford 9
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

37. 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
LRE
direct instruction
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
18

38. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
Non - discriminatory assessment
learning disability
the DSM- IV
medication and a behavior management intervention

39. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
Hear and understand speech
curriculum based assessment
Larry P vs. Riles
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

40. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
pervasive developmental disorders
yes
Sixty days
Curriculum based assessment

41. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
hearing loss that happened after birth
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
18

42. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
Council for Exceptional Children
1%
Autism

43. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
contingency based self - management
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
pervasive developmental disorders

44. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
visual impairment
group contingency contracting

45. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Multiple disabilities
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

46. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
zero reject
a hearing aid
social stories

47. 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
zero reject
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
assistive technology
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

48. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
zero reject
executive functioning
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

49. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Non - discriminatory assessment
discriminatory stimulus
Learning disabilities

50. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
visual impairment
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
the Cummins model
no