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Praxis Special Ed

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
pervasive developmental disorders

2. Metacognition is connected to
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
executive functioning
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

3. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
Mental retardation
medication and a behavior management intervention
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Council for Exceptional Children

4. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
principles of IDEA
Learning disabilities
yes
Specific learning disability

5. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
Curriculum based assessment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

6. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
10 per 10 - 100 children
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Procedural safeguards
ecological

7. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
direct instruction
functional skills - social skills - career skills
visual impairment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

8. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
hearing loss that happened after birth
Deaf - blindness
yes
Deafness

9. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Emotional disturbance
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

10. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
social stories
no
pervasive developmental disorders
medication and a behavior management intervention

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

12. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
21 or younger
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
students who are mentally retarded

13. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
LRE
mental retardation
1%

14. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
two to nine percent
group contingency contracting
students who are mentally retarded
Sixty days

15. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
student to student
Autism
Mental retardation
18

16. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Specific learning disability
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

17. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
yes
having them practice filing out job applications
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

18. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Multiple disabilities
Fourteen
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
learned helplessness

19. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
discriminatory stimulus
Specific learning disability

20. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
learned helplessness
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
50%

21. Yes
not legal
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
mental retardation

22. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ESEA Act
Larry P vs. Riles
ther health impairments
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

23. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Hear and understand speech
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Program first placement second
the Cummins model

24. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Sixty days
executive functioning
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

25. Mental retardation originates before what age?
categorical approach
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
18
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

26. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Emotional disturbance
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
ESEA Act

27. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
45%
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
50%
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

28. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Orthopedic impairment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Traumatic brain injury
learned helplessness

29. Spina bifida
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
two to nine percent
group contingency contracting
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

30. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
where Section 504 comes from
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Program first placement second

31. 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
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
whole language
principles of IDEA
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

32. 504
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
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

33. If a 5th grade student is getting frustrated in social studies because he still reads at a third grade level - what should the teacher do?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Stanford 9
ther health impairments
Learning disabilities

34. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
the DSM- IV
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
50%

35. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
a hearing aid

36. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
mental retardation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
How 504 defines a disability
Emotional disturbance

37. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Autism
Multiple disabilities
developmental

38. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Hear and understand speech
the DSM- IV
45%

39. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
speech or language impairment
LRE

40. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
they modify students thought patterns
90%
Fourteen
Orthopedic impairment

41. Birthplace of FAPE
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
not legal
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
PARC vs. State of Penn

42. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Stanford 9

43. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
Fourteen
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
General education classrooms
1%

44. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
Stanford 9
hearing loss that happened after birth
developmental
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

45. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Multiple disabilities
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
two to nine percent

46. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
compensatory education
curriculum based assessment
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

47. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Program first placement second
yes
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

48. Multiple and severe disabilties
students who are mentally retarded
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
a hearing aid

49. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Council for Exceptional Children
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

50. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
LRE
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
a vision loss after a person had normal vision