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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
discriminatory stimulus
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

2. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Deaf - blindness
pervasive developmental disorders
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Orthopedic impairment

3. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
group contingency contracting

4. 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
where Section 504 comes from
Multiple disabilities
Autism

5. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
duration recording

6. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
group contingency contracting
Deaf - blindness
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
50%

7. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
Deaf - blindness
yes
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Sixty days

8. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

9. Metacognition is connected to
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
the DSM- IV
executive functioning
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

10. Multiple and severe disabilties
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
ecological
learning disability

11. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
1%
a hearing aid
duration recording
compensatory education

12. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
executive functioning
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

13. 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
learned helplessness
an individualized transition plan
Council for Exceptional Children

14. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
duration recording
50%
LRE

15. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
they modify students thought patterns
discriminatory stimulus
the Cummins model

16. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
visual impairment
an individualized transition plan
90%
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

17. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
90%
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
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
Orthopedic impairment

18. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Learning disabilities
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
students who are mentally retarded

19. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
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
1%
10 per 10 - 100 children
How 504 defines a disability

20. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Sixty days

21. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
an audiometer
student to student

22. What does a cochlear implant do?
they modify students thought patterns
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
augmentative communciation

23. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
life space analysis
Curriculum based assessment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

24. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
IFSP
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
45%
contingency based self - management

25. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
life space analysis
Fourteen
having them practice filing out job applications

26. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
developmental
assistive technology
principles of IDEA
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

27. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
a hearing aid
Fourteen
Specific learning disability
hearing loss that was present at birth

28. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
ESEA Act
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

29. In errorless learning SD stands for?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
IFSP
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
discriminatory stimulus

30. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
the Cummins model
mental retardation
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Council for Exceptional Children

31. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Autism
10 per 10 - 100 children
articulation

32. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Deaf - blindness
LRE
delayed language and echolalia

33. A teacher who sets clear and explicit goals for each lesson - presents a logical sequence of tasks - gives clear directions on how to do eacht ask - engages the student in guided practice - asks frequent questions - gives feedback - and does not move
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
learned helplessness
yes
direct instruction

34. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
executive functioning
Procedural safeguards
Curriculum based assessment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

35. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
1%

36. 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
Orthopedic impairment
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
where Section 504 comes from

37. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Sixty days
augmentative communciation
Hearing impairment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

38. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Hearing impairment
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
articulation

39. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
discriminatory stimulus
executive functioning
Hear and understand speech

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

41. 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
negative reinforcement
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
learning disability
group contingency contracting

42. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
learning disability
ther health impairments
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

43. What does FVA stand for?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
functional vision assessment

44. 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
Council for Exceptional Children
hearing loss that was present at birth
assistive technology
Specific learning disability

45. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
ecological
group contingency contracting
negative reinforcement

46. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
student to student
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Specific learning disability
Learning disabilities

47. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Mental retardation
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Program first placement second

48. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

49. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
whole language
Specific learning disability
Deafness
hearing loss that happened after birth

50. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
compensatory education
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Mental retardation
50%