Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis Special Ed

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
student to student
General education classrooms
yes

2. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
group contingency contracting
Specific learning disability
Deaf - blindness
duration recording

3. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
life space analysis
assistive technology
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
duration recording

4. 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
ESEA Act
developmental
the DSM- IV
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

5. 504
Program first placement second
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

6. What are four types of data based decision making?
where Section 504 comes from
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

7. 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
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
whole language

8. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
learning disability
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

9. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
not legal
student to student
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

10. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Sixty days
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
an individualized transition plan
direct instruction

11. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two to nine percent
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
PARC vs. State of Penn
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

12. A remedial approach
an individualized transition plan
early traumatic experiences
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
speech or language impairment

13. What is the prevalence of autism?
50%
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
10 per 10 - 100 children

14. What is conductive hearing loss?
ther health impairments
life space analysis
the DSM- IV
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

15. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
PARC vs. State of Penn
discriminatory stimulus

16. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
45%

17. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
hearing loss that happened after birth
whole language
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
hearing loss that was present at birth

18. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
the Cummins model
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

19. Specific learning disability
medication and a behavior management intervention
Curriculum based assessment
an individualized transition plan
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. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Specific learning disability
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

21. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
pervasive developmental disorders
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

22. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Deaf - blindness
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
where Section 504 comes from

23. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
Mental retardation
hearing loss that happened after birth
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
negative reinforcement

24. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
direct instruction
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
mental retardation

25. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
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
social stories
discriminatory stimulus
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

26. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
two to nine percent
LRE
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Council for Exceptional Children

27. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Curriculum based assessment
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
students who are mentally retarded

28. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
How 504 defines a disability
Curriculum based assessment
yes
Council for Exceptional Children

29. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
student to student
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

30. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
IFSP
a hearing aid
ecological
Autism

31. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
mental retardation
zero reject
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
45%

32. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
yes
Non - discriminatory assessment

33. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
ESEA Act
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
pervasive developmental disorders

34. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
PARC vs. State of Penn
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Traumatic brain injury
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

35. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
augmentative communciation
duration recording
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
assistive technology

36. What is CLOZE procedure?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
General education classrooms
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

37. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
Stanford 9
life space analysis
General education classrooms
whole language

38. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Emotional disturbance
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Deaf - blindness
21 or younger

39. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
whole language
Stanford 9
Deafness

40. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
ecological
delayed language and echolalia
visual impairment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

41. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
categorical approach
mental retardation
life space analysis
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

42. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
speech or language impairment
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
discriminatory stimulus

43. What causes autism?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
10 per 10 - 100 children
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

44. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
medication and a behavior management intervention
yes
duration recording
Hear and understand speech

45. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
50%
hearing loss that happened after birth
Autism
no

46. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
augmentative communciation
mental retardation

47. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
pervasive developmental disorders
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
no

48. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
a hearing aid
two to nine percent
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
1%

49. Mental retardation originates before what age?
an individualized transition plan
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
18

50. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Sixty days
yes
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that