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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
medication and a behavior management intervention
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
speech or language impairment
delayed language and echolalia
2. Spina bifida
principles of IDEA
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
social stories
functional skills - social skills - career skills
3. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
IFSP
categorical approach
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
4. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
Specific learning disability
not legal
21 or younger
compensatory education
5. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
negative reinforcement
speech or language impairment
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
they modify students thought patterns
6. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Learning disabilities
50%
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
zero reject
7. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
Autism
zero reject
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
curriculum based assessment
8. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Hear and understand speech
an audiometer
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
9. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
early traumatic experiences
10. Mental retardation originates before what age?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
18
11. What does FVA stand for?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
functional vision assessment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
12. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
45%
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
negative reinforcement
13. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
50%
ESEA Act
assistive technology
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
14. Metacognition is connected to
early traumatic experiences
executive functioning
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
How 504 defines a disability
15. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
ESEA Act
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
16. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
an individualized transition plan
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
ecological
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
17. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
curriculum based assessment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
no
18. What is CLOZE procedure?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
not legal
developmental
19. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
principles of IDEA
Autism
Procedural safeguards
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
20. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Procedural safeguards
Deafness
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
21. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
LRE
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
pervasive developmental disorders
mental retardation
22. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Learning disabilities
10 per 10 - 100 children
23. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
no
Emotional disturbance
duration recording
24. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
Multiple disabilities
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
where Section 504 comes from
Council for Exceptional Children
25. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
1%
duration recording
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
26. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
they modify students thought patterns
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
learning disability
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
27. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
LRE
an individualized transition plan
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
21 or younger
28. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Hear and understand speech
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
29. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
functional vision assessment
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
30. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
learned helplessness
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Mental retardation
not legal
31. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
visual impairment
a hearing aid
two to nine percent
32. What are four types of data based decision making?
Multiple disabilities
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
General education classrooms
Program first placement second
33. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
hearing loss that happened after birth
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Multiple disabilities
34. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
a hearing aid
life space analysis
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
35. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
zero reject
Orthopedic impairment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
36. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Hearing impairment
Procedural safeguards
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
37. 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
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
developmental
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
38. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
39. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
1%
Mental retardation
40. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
early traumatic experiences
Orthopedic impairment
Stanford 9
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
41. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
principles of IDEA
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
augmentative communciation
42. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
speech or language impairment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
a hearing aid
43. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
visual impairment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
10 per 10 - 100 children
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
44. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
45. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
General education classrooms
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
90%
46. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
90%
contingency based self - management
principles of IDEA
Non - discriminatory assessment
47. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
the DSM- IV
group contingency contracting
functional skills - social skills - career skills
48. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
PARC vs. State of Penn
discriminatory stimulus
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
49. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
hearing loss that was present at birth
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
yes
50. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
functional vision assessment
articulation
1%
augmentative communciation