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1. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
the Cummins model
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

2. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
zero reject
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

3. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
they modify students thought patterns
an audiometer
principles of IDEA
early traumatic experiences

4. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
not legal
Sixty days
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Procedural safeguards

5. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
LRE
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
try to find appropriate content at grade level

6. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
functional vision assessment
an audiometer
group contingency contracting

7. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Sixty days
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

8. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
mental retardation
Deaf - blindness
an individualized transition plan
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

9. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
Non - discriminatory assessment
ecological
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

10. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
Autism
an individualized transition plan
categorical approach
10 per 10 - 100 children

11. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
mental retardation
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
two to nine percent
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

12. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
delayed language and echolalia
ther health impairments
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
How 504 defines a disability

13. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
Sixty days
Hear and understand speech
PARC vs. State of Penn
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

14. 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
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Deaf - blindness
group contingency contracting
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

15. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
10 per 10 - 100 children
yes
21 or younger
visual impairment

16. 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
a hearing aid
developmental
visual impairment
no

17. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Stanford 9
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
functional vision assessment

18. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
zero reject
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

19. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
articulation
How 504 defines a disability
1%
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

20. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
zero reject
General education classrooms
hearing loss that happened after birth
discriminatory stimulus

21. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
delayed language and echolalia
Deaf - blindness

22. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

23. What are four types of data based decision making?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Stanford 9
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

24. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Hearing impairment
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
having them practice filing out job applications
50%

25. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
the Cummins model
General education classrooms

26. What does outer - directedness mean?
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
ecological
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

27. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
direct instruction
they modify students thought patterns
mental retardation
Deafness

28. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Emotional disturbance
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
21 or younger
executive functioning

29. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Multiple disabilities
Emotional disturbance

30. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
50%
Sixty days
the Cummins model

31. Mental retardation originates before what age?
18
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
LRE
1%

32. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
curriculum based assessment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

33. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Specific learning disability
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
How 504 defines a disability

34. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
mental retardation
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
contingency based self - management
Specific learning disability

35. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
ESEA Act
hearing loss that was present at birth
where Section 504 comes from
21 or younger

36. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
functional skills - social skills - career skills
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

37. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
two to nine percent
duration recording
90%

38. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Procedural safeguards

39. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
discriminatory stimulus
functional skills - social skills - career skills
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Hearing impairment

40. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
medication and a behavior management intervention
no
10 per 10 - 100 children

41. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
90%
Autism
medication and a behavior management intervention

42. What percent of the population was ADHD?
delayed language and echolalia
two to nine percent
18
yes

43. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Procedural safeguards
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

44. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
How 504 defines a disability
discriminatory stimulus
LRE

45. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
10 per 10 - 100 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
functional vision assessment
two to nine percent

46. 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
mental retardation
whole language
negative reinforcement
the DSM- IV

47. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
students who are mentally retarded
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

48. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Procedural safeguards
functional vision assessment
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Larry P vs. Riles

49. What does adaptive behavior mean?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
group contingency contracting
Hear and understand speech
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

50. In errorless learning SD stands for?
where Section 504 comes from
discriminatory stimulus
ther health impairments
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

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