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Praxis Special Ed

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1. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
zero reject
Autism
speech or language impairment

2. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Stanford 9
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

3. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
21 or younger
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
duration recording

4. What causes autism?
students who are mentally retarded
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
categorical approach

5. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Larry P vs. Riles
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

6. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
an individualized transition plan
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

7. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
10 per 10 - 100 children
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

8. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
Deafness
group contingency contracting
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
yes

9. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
they modify students thought patterns
IFSP
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

10. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Program first placement second
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

11. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Curriculum based assessment
principles of IDEA
duration recording
discriminatory stimulus

12. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
an audiometer
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

13. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Learning disabilities
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Specific learning disability
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

14. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
How 504 defines a disability
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
try to find appropriate content at grade level

15. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
visual impairment
Learning disabilities
Autism
hearing loss that was present at birth

16. What percent of the population was ADHD?
yes
two to nine percent
life space analysis
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

17. What is the prevalence of autism?
10 per 10 - 100 children
yes
students who are mentally retarded
Multiple disabilities

18. 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?
Deafness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

19. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
1%
Multiple disabilities

20. ADHD criteria is defined by
PARC vs. State of Penn
Procedural safeguards
the DSM- IV
pervasive developmental disorders

21. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
categorical approach
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

22. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
Fourteen
medication and a behavior management intervention
learning disability
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

23. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
functional vision assessment
discriminatory stimulus
mental retardation
21 or younger

24. 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
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
direct instruction
learning disability
Sixty days

25. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
medication and a behavior management intervention
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
negative reinforcement

26. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
an audiometer
they modify students thought patterns
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

27. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
90%
where Section 504 comes from
yes

28. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
How 504 defines a disability
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

29. 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
not legal
ther health impairments
ecological
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

30. Share the responsibility for the students education
ther health impairments
an individualized transition plan
direct instruction
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

31. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
Emotional disturbance
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Deafness
articulation

32. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
ESEA Act
delayed language and echolalia
mental retardation

33. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
duration recording
learned helplessness
Deaf - blindness
Sixty days

34. What does outer - directedness mean?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
IFSP
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

35. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
PARC vs. State of Penn
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
students who are mentally retarded

36. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
ESEA Act
categorical approach
executive functioning
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

37. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
having them practice filing out job applications
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

38. 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
Deafness
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
whole language
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

39. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
hearing loss that was present at birth
an individualized transition plan
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
group contingency contracting

40. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
curriculum based assessment
ecological
pervasive developmental disorders
categorical approach

41. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

42. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
LRE
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Hearing impairment
pervasive developmental disorders

43. What is conductive hearing loss?
they modify students thought patterns
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Curriculum based assessment

44. 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
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
categorical approach
assistive technology

45. What does a cochlear implant do?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
an audiometer
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

46. Birthplace of FAPE
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
learning disability
PARC vs. State of Penn

47. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
whole language
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Non - discriminatory assessment
discriminatory stimulus

48. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
IFSP
90%
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

49. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
early traumatic experiences
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
life space analysis
assistive technology

50. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
duration recording
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
How 504 defines a disability
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain