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1. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
Council for Exceptional 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
group contingency contracting
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

2. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
yes
the Cummins model
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
ESEA Act

3. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
no
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
life space analysis

4. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Curriculum based assessment
Learning disabilities
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

5. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
curriculum based assessment
executive functioning
medication and a behavior management intervention
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

6. 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
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

7. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
not legal
executive functioning
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

8. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
ther health impairments
Hear and understand speech

9. What does a cochlear implant do?
yes
Deaf - blindness
Traumatic brain injury
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

10. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
life space analysis
negative reinforcement

11. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Council for Exceptional Children

12. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
social stories
Fourteen
an audiometer
principles of IDEA

13. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
yes
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

14. 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?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
ther health impairments
try to find appropriate content at grade level

15. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
principles of IDEA
delayed language and echolalia
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

16. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
augmentative communciation
Deafness

17. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Learning disabilities
Orthopedic impairment

18. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Autism

19. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
mental retardation
Hear and understand speech
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

20. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
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
articulation
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
an individualized transition plan

21. 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
Fourteen
Traumatic brain injury
an individualized transition plan

22. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Stanford 9
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

23. Mental retardation originates before what age?
mental retardation
General education classrooms
an individualized transition plan
18

24. What is CLOZE procedure?
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
LRE
Deaf - blindness

25. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Sixty days
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

26. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
hearing loss that happened after birth
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

27. Specific learning disability
categorical approach
Curriculum based assessment
life space analysis
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

28. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
50%
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
ecological

29. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
10 per 10 - 100 children
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

30. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
no
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Deafness

31. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Hearing impairment
yes
yes
augmentative communciation

32. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
ecological
students who are mentally retarded
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

33. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Stanford 9
try to find appropriate content at grade level
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

34. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Council for Exceptional Children
augmentative communciation
negative reinforcement
General education classrooms

35. The approach that categorizes exceptionality as the statistical degree to which an individual deviates from the average in terms of cognitive - social - emotional - and physical abilities is called
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
delayed language and echolalia
developmental

36. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
delayed language and echolalia
whole language
21 or younger

37. 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
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Program first placement second
ecological

38. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
functional vision assessment
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
zero reject

39. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Deafness
functional vision assessment
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Learning disabilities

40. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
90%
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

41. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
How 504 defines a disability
Specific learning disability
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

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

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43. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
a hearing aid
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
curriculum based assessment
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

44. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
assistive technology
50%
hearing loss that happened after birth
LRE

45. What does FVA stand for?
Fourteen
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
functional vision assessment
negative reinforcement

46. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
hearing loss that was present at birth
Hearing impairment
pervasive developmental disorders

47. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
duration recording

48. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
Learning disabilities
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
principles of IDEA

49. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Stanford 9
curriculum based assessment
Sixty days

50. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
assistive technology
21 or younger
Procedural safeguards
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal