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1. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
student to student
try to find appropriate content at grade level
mental retardation
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

2. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
the DSM- IV
group contingency contracting
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

3. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
Emotional disturbance
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
medication and a behavior management intervention

4. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
medication and a behavior management intervention
Hearing impairment
Emotional disturbance
where Section 504 comes from

5. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
students who are mentally retarded
yes
How 504 defines a disability
ther health impairments

6. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Program first placement second
categorical approach
Sixty days
students who are mentally retarded

7. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Larry P vs. Riles
duration recording
Procedural safeguards
group contingency contracting

8. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
an individualized transition plan
1%
not legal
medication and a behavior management intervention

9. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
ther health impairments
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
try to find appropriate content at grade level
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

10. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
group contingency contracting
Curriculum based assessment
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Deaf - blindness

11. Birthplace of FAPE
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Hear and understand speech
direct instruction
PARC vs. State of Penn

12. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
yes
Program first placement second
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

13. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Specific learning disability
the Cummins model

14. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
1%
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
mental retardation

15. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
Orthopedic impairment
Deafness
they modify students thought patterns

16. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
pervasive developmental disorders
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

17. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
principles of IDEA
Fourteen
speech or language impairment
hearing loss that happened after birth

18. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
an audiometer
pervasive developmental disorders
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

19. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
visual impairment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Non - discriminatory assessment

20. 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
early traumatic experiences
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
direct instruction
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

21. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
principles of IDEA
the Cummins model
delayed language and echolalia

22. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
45%
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
ecological

23. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Larry P vs. Riles
they modify students thought patterns
yes

24. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
speech or language impairment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
medication and a behavior management intervention
life space analysis

25. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Mental retardation
curriculum based assessment
hearing loss that happened after birth
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

26. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
the Cummins model
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
negative reinforcement
direct instruction

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

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28. What does outer - directedness mean?
ESEA Act
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
executive functioning
How 504 defines a disability

29. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
duration recording

30. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
ther health impairments
Sixty days
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

31. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Orthopedic impairment
Deaf - blindness
Sixty days
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

32. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Procedural safeguards
General education classrooms
Autism
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

33. 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
90%
21 or younger
developmental
social stories

34. What does FVA stand for?
mental retardation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
18
functional vision assessment

35. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Emotional disturbance

36. 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
pervasive developmental disorders
LRE
group contingency contracting
hearing loss that happened after birth

37. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
developmental
principles of IDEA
a hearing aid
Council for Exceptional Children

38. Share the responsibility for the students education
IFSP
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
speech or language impairment
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

39. What percent of the population was ADHD?
medication and a behavior management intervention
developmental
two to nine percent
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

40. What are four types of data based decision making?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
mental retardation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
compensatory education

41. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
curriculum based assessment
direct instruction
50%

42. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Orthopedic impairment
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

43. Specific learning disability
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
duration recording
90%
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

44. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
executive functioning

45. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
no
delayed language and echolalia
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
curriculum based assessment

46. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
mental retardation
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
developmental
Deafness

47. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
functional skills - social skills - career skills

48. Mental retardation originates before what age?
18
life space analysis
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
1%

49. What is acquired hearing loss?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Stanford 9
yes
hearing loss that happened after birth

50. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
medication and a behavior management intervention
assistive technology