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1. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
mental retardation
student to student
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

2. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Learning disabilities
social stories
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

3. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
PARC vs. State of Penn
Hear and understand speech
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

4. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
1%
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Deaf - blindness

5. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
PARC vs. State of Penn
Autism

6. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
the DSM- IV
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

7. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
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
functional skills - social skills - career skills

8. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
General education classrooms
augmentative communciation
IFSP
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

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

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10. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Fourteen
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

11. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Council for Exceptional Children
a hearing aid
zero reject

12. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
Council for Exceptional Children
PARC vs. State of Penn
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

13. Name four areas of executive function
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
pervasive developmental disorders
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

14. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
negative reinforcement
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
direct instruction
assistive technology

15. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
Autism
not legal
18
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

16. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Larry P vs. Riles
Non - discriminatory assessment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Learning disabilities

17. 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
direct instruction
assistive technology
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Curriculum based assessment

18. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
21 or younger
Autism

19. What is acquired hearing loss?
Specific learning disability
Mental retardation
Traumatic brain injury
hearing loss that happened after birth

20. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
1%
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

21. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
Fourteen
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

22. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
ther health impairments
categorical approach
discriminatory stimulus
contingency based self - management

23. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Sixty days
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

24. Specific learning disability
21 or younger
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
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
curriculum based assessment

25. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
pervasive developmental disorders
Multiple disabilities

26. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
Curriculum based assessment
social stories
Emotional disturbance
principles of IDEA

27. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Multiple disabilities
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Larry P vs. Riles

28. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Stanford 9
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
early traumatic experiences

29. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
50%
developmental
whole language
visual impairment

30. What are four types of data based decision making?
Mental retardation
45%
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

31. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Learning disabilities
try to find appropriate content at grade level
the Cummins model
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

32. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Program first placement second
mental retardation
medication and a behavior management intervention
Specific learning disability

33. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
students who are mentally retarded
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

34. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
two to nine percent
45%
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
LRE

35. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
life space analysis
90%
yes

36. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
executive functioning
an audiometer
Mental retardation
articulation

37. What causes autism?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
90%
Traumatic brain injury

38. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
PARC vs. State of Penn
Hearing impairment
curriculum based assessment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

39. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Larry P vs. Riles
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Emotional disturbance

40. What is CLOZE procedure?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Deaf - blindness
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
compensatory education

41. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Curriculum based assessment
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Deafness
Council for Exceptional Children

42. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
Mental retardation
the DSM- IV
they modify students thought patterns
augmentative communciation

43. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
student to student
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
duration recording
PARC vs. State of Penn

44. What does a cochlear implant do?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
learning disability
curriculum based assessment

45. All the members of a group must achieve a certain goal before any member of the group receives a reward is an example of a
group contingency contracting
Fourteen
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

46. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
developmental
direct instruction
Larry P vs. Riles
ther health impairments

47. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
learning disability
students who are mentally retarded
having them practice filing out job applications

48. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
mental retardation
an audiometer
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
they modify students thought patterns

49. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
Specific learning disability
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
categorical approach
they modify students thought patterns

50. 504
21 or younger
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Mental retardation
functional vision assessment