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Praxis Special Ed

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What causes autism?
zero reject
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
augmentative communciation
an audiometer

2. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Sixty days
Procedural safeguards
contingency based self - management
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

3. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
hearing loss that was present at birth
ESEA Act
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

4. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
Deafness
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
duration recording
Non - discriminatory assessment

5. 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
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
learning disability
the DSM- IV
whole language

6. In errorless learning SD stands for?
discriminatory stimulus
Larry P vs. Riles
IFSP
compensatory education

7. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
General education classrooms
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
assistive technology
50%

8. 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
medication and a behavior management intervention
Sixty days
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
group contingency contracting

9. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
articulation
Sixty days
assistive technology

10. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Deaf - blindness
life space analysis
articulation

11. What percent of the population was ADHD?
executive functioning
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
two to nine percent
they modify students thought patterns

12. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
life space analysis
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

13. Name four areas of executive function
principles of IDEA
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Program first placement second

14. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Traumatic brain injury
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Mental retardation

15. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Procedural safeguards
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

16. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
not legal
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

17. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
early traumatic experiences
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
negative reinforcement

18. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

19. What does FVA stand for?
IFSP
functional vision assessment
life space analysis
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

20. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
10 per 10 - 100 children
where Section 504 comes from
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

21. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
student to student
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Sixty days
ther health impairments

22. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
student to student
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Procedural safeguards
Council for Exceptional Children

23. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
direct instruction
Procedural safeguards
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
categorical approach

24. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss that happened after birth
a hearing aid
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

25. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
categorical approach
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
social stories
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

26. A remedial approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Procedural safeguards
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

27. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
18
negative reinforcement
General education classrooms
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

28. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
General education classrooms
Mental retardation
Curriculum based assessment

29. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
where Section 504 comes from
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
yes

30. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
no
principles of IDEA

31. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Emotional disturbance
try to find appropriate content at grade level
developmental
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

32. Yes
Program first placement second
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
yes
life space analysis

33. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
functional skills - social skills - career skills
mental retardation
18
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

34. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

35. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
Multiple disabilities
21 or younger
Learning disabilities

36. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
no
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Deafness

37. A model used with ESL and deaf students
LRE
contingency based self - management
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
the Cummins model

38. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Hearing impairment
ecological
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

39. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
early traumatic experiences
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

40. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
Fourteen
yes
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

41. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Hearing impairment
hearing loss that was present at birth
Council for Exceptional Children

42. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
articulation
Sixty days
1%
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

43. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
zero reject
negative reinforcement
50%
Procedural safeguards

44. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
whole language
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
45%

45. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
IFSP
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

46. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

47. 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?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
try to find appropriate content at grade level
executive functioning
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

48. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
1%
not legal
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

49. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
they modify students thought patterns
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Traumatic brain injury
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

50. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
LRE
medication and a behavior management intervention