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1. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
social stories
Fourteen

2. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
How 504 defines a disability
no
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

3. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
hearing loss that was present at birth
delayed language and echolalia
categorical approach
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

4. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
50%
curriculum based assessment
Sixty days
Council for Exceptional Children

5. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
visual impairment
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
executive functioning
90%

6. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
10 per 10 - 100 children
hearing loss that was present at birth
Traumatic brain injury

7. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
negative reinforcement
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Specific learning disability
whole language

8. What does a cochlear implant do?
45%
delayed language and echolalia
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

9. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
categorical approach
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

10. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
delayed language and echolalia
developmental
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

11. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
mental retardation
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
mental retardation

12. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
duration recording
principles of IDEA
they modify students thought patterns
21 or younger

13. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
1%
yes

14. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
medication and a behavior management intervention
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

15. In errorless learning SD stands for?
discriminatory stimulus
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Curriculum based assessment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

16. Mental retardation originates before what age?
learned helplessness
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
yes
18

17. 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
Curriculum based assessment
negative reinforcement
Larry P vs. Riles

18. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Mental retardation
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

19. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
life space analysis
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
hearing loss that happened after birth

20. What is conductive hearing loss?
ESEA Act
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

21. 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
group contingency contracting
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
a hearing aid

22. Spina bifida
medication and a behavior management intervention
Stanford 9
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

23. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
social stories
visual impairment
learned helplessness
an audiometer

24. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
duration recording
executive functioning
early traumatic experiences

25. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
IFSP
functional skills - social skills - career skills
mental retardation
Deafness

26. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
LRE
mental retardation
Fourteen
Program first placement second

27. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Hearing impairment
yes
Sixty days

28. Birthplace of FAPE
contingency based self - management
life space analysis
PARC vs. State of Penn
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

29. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
executive functioning
45%
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

30. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
1%
yes
two to nine percent

31. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
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
Mental retardation
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
a hearing aid

32. 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
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Council for Exceptional Children
ecological
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

33. A remedial approach
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Procedural safeguards

34. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Sixty days

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

36. Yes
duration recording
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Learning disabilities

37. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
articulation
Fourteen
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

38. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
speech or language impairment
hearing loss that was present at birth
visual impairment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

39. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Larry P vs. Riles
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

40. 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
whole language
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
the Cummins model
principles of IDEA

41. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
Deafness
learning disability
Procedural safeguards
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

42. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
hearing loss that happened after birth
mental retardation

43. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
a hearing aid
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

44. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
functional skills - social skills - career skills
learning disability
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
mental retardation

45. What is acquired hearing loss?
Specific learning disability
Deafness
hearing loss that happened after birth
18

46. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
learning disability
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Autism
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

47. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Sixty days
negative reinforcement
students who are mentally retarded

48. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
yes

49. 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
assistive technology
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
direct instruction
Multiple disabilities

50. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
hearing loss that happened after birth
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
IFSP
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?