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Praxis Special Ed

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1. 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
Learning disabilities
life space analysis
Non - discriminatory assessment
whole language

2. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
curriculum based assessment
Deafness
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

3. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
Procedural safeguards
direct instruction
augmentative communciation
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

4. What does FVA stand for?
augmentative communciation
functional vision assessment
PARC vs. State of Penn
General education classrooms

5. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
1%
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Mental retardation

6. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Hearing impairment

7. Mental retardation originates before what age?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
18
General education classrooms

8. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
an individualized transition plan
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

9. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Hearing impairment
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Fourteen
Procedural safeguards

10. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
mental retardation
ESEA Act
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
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

11. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
the DSM- IV
Learning disabilities
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

12. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
speech or language impairment
discriminatory stimulus
Stanford 9
yes

13. 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
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
ESEA Act
ecological
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

14. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
students who are mentally retarded
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

15. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
ESEA Act
mental retardation
having them practice filing out job applications
functional skills - social skills - career skills

16. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Curriculum based assessment
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Deafness
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

17. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
How 504 defines a disability
Larry P vs. Riles

18. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Program first placement second
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
whole language
principles of IDEA

19. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
18
having them practice filing out job applications
hearing loss that happened after birth
student to student

20. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
21 or younger
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
principles of IDEA
medication and a behavior management intervention

21. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
yes
compensatory education

22. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Sixty days
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Hear and understand speech
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

23. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
yes
Specific learning disability
PARC vs. State of Penn
Stanford 9

24. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
principles of IDEA
How 504 defines a disability
social stories
no

25. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Stanford 9
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
not legal
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

26. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
General education classrooms

27. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
yes
Learning disabilities
Hear and understand speech
functional skills - social skills - career skills

28. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
yes
PARC vs. State of Penn
mental retardation

29. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
early traumatic experiences
learning disability
21 or younger
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

30. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
categorical approach
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

31. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
no
a hearing aid
IFSP
curriculum based assessment

32. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
ther health impairments
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
early traumatic experiences

33. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
Multiple disabilities
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

34. A remedial approach
curriculum based assessment
students who are mentally retarded
Program first placement second
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

35. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
augmentative communciation
Curriculum based assessment

36. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
two to nine percent

37. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
an audiometer
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
they modify students thought patterns

38. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Deafness
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
articulation
Larry P vs. Riles

39. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
an individualized transition plan
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Autism

40. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
yes
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Council for Exceptional Children
augmentative communciation

41. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

42. Multiple and severe disabilties
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Larry P vs. Riles
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

43. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
life space analysis
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
zero reject
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

44. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Traumatic brain injury
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
10 per 10 - 100 children
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

45. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
an audiometer
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
mental retardation

46. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
hearing loss that happened after birth
medication and a behavior management intervention
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

47. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
PARC vs. State of Penn
Autism
life space analysis
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

48. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Orthopedic impairment
functional vision assessment
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
the Cummins model

49. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
an individualized transition plan
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
mental retardation

50. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Hear and understand speech
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes