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Praxis Special Ed
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praxis
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teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mental retardation originates before what age?
18
Program first placement second
1%
the Cummins model
2. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
students who are mentally retarded
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
LRE
Specific learning disability
3. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
1%
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
4. 504
no
yes
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
5. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
pervasive developmental disorders
Hear and understand speech
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
augmentative communciation
6. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
10 per 10 - 100 children
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
functional skills - social skills - career skills
principles of IDEA
7. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
curriculum based assessment
Non - discriminatory assessment
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
8. 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
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
compensatory education
9. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
hearing loss that happened after birth
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
where Section 504 comes from
Learning disabilities
10. 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
student to student
ecological
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
11. In errorless learning SD stands for?
Stanford 9
discriminatory stimulus
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
executive functioning
12. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Council for Exceptional Children
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
the Cummins model
PARC vs. State of Penn
13. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Autism
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
curriculum based assessment
14. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Hear and understand speech
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
developmental
15. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
zero reject
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
16. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
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
no
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
17. What is the prevalence of autism?
10 per 10 - 100 children
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Traumatic brain injury
visual impairment
18. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
ESEA Act
19. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Autism
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Sixty days
20. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
no
Fourteen
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
21. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
principles of IDEA
an individualized transition plan
curriculum based assessment
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
22. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
hearing loss that was present at birth
1%
life space analysis
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
23. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
early traumatic experiences
categorical approach
24. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
duration recording
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
a hearing aid
Deaf - blindness
25. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
PARC vs. State of Penn
augmentative communciation
26. Multiple and severe disabilties
early traumatic experiences
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
group contingency contracting
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
27. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Deaf - blindness
discriminatory stimulus
articulation
28. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
learning disability
hearing loss that was present at birth
an individualized transition plan
29. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
pervasive developmental disorders
the DSM- IV
life space analysis
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
30. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
50%
speech or language impairment
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
ecological
31. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
articulation
student to student
IFSP
life space analysis
32. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
whole language
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
33. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
discriminatory stimulus
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
34. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
50%
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
ESEA Act
35. What does outer - directedness mean?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
visual impairment
student to student
speech or language impairment
36. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
37. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
learned helplessness
not legal
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
38. Metacognition is connected to
the Cummins model
executive functioning
Learning disabilities
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
39. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
visual impairment
try to find appropriate content at grade level
delayed language and echolalia
40. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
group contingency contracting
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
students who are mentally retarded
41. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
50%
Mental retardation
functional vision assessment
42. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
IFSP
a hearing aid
43. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
yes
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
ecological
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
44. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
contingency based self - management
How 504 defines a disability
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
45. What is acquired hearing loss?
hearing loss that happened after birth
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
delayed language and echolalia
IFSP
46. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
the DSM- IV
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
47. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
90%
Curriculum based assessment
48. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
an individualized transition plan
Curriculum based assessment
visual impairment
49. 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
Non - discriminatory assessment
IFSP
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
50. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
augmentative communciation
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
yes