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1. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
duration recording
How 504 defines a disability
Curriculum based assessment
the Cummins model

2. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
executive functioning
Procedural safeguards
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Specific learning disability

3. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
functional skills - social skills - career skills
student to student
yes
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

4. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
an individualized transition plan
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
21 or younger
PARC vs. State of Penn

5. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
Learning disabilities
they modify students thought patterns
an audiometer

6. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
executive functioning
LRE
50%

7. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
yes
Learning disabilities
life space analysis
medication and a behavior management intervention

8. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Curriculum based assessment

9. What percent of the population was ADHD?
Program first placement second
two to nine percent
45%
executive functioning

10. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
articulation
Autism
developmental

11. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
Autism
life space analysis
Fourteen

12. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
two to nine percent
no
LRE

13. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Curriculum based assessment
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Deafness

14. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
10 per 10 - 100 children
students who are mentally retarded
try to find appropriate content at grade level
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

15. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Hear and understand speech

16. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
pervasive developmental disorders
Non - discriminatory assessment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

17. Which perspective attributes emotional and behavioral disorders to poor interaction with the environment in which the student and environment affect each other reciprocally and advocates interventions using the entire social system
ecological
no
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

18. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
How 504 defines a disability
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Procedural safeguards

19. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
assistive technology
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Traumatic brain injury

20. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
augmentative communciation
negative reinforcement
life space analysis
they modify students thought patterns

21. What is the prevalence of autism?
Traumatic brain injury
10 per 10 - 100 children
General education classrooms
group contingency contracting

22. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Curriculum based assessment

23. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
group contingency contracting
whole language
visual impairment
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

24. 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
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
negative reinforcement
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
developmental

25. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Emotional disturbance
life space analysis
Sixty days
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

26. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
not legal
Mental retardation
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Orthopedic impairment

27. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
social stories
they modify students thought patterns
pervasive developmental disorders
mental retardation

28. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
social stories
two to nine percent

29. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
Larry P vs. Riles
where Section 504 comes from
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
General education classrooms

30. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
negative reinforcement
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
General education classrooms

31. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
early traumatic experiences
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
discriminatory stimulus

32. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Sixty days
learning disability
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

33. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
speech or language impairment
ther health impairments
the DSM- IV

34. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
Specific learning disability
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
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
compensatory education

35. 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
ecological
articulation
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
direct instruction

36. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
Autism
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Specific learning disability

37. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
where Section 504 comes from
Deaf - blindness
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

38. In errorless learning SD stands for?
discriminatory stimulus
Curriculum based assessment
General education classrooms
Sixty days

39. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
visual impairment
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
life space analysis
Multiple disabilities

40. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
Learning disabilities
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
categorical approach

41. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Orthopedic impairment
50%

42. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
early traumatic experiences
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

43. 504
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Hearing impairment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

44. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
mental retardation
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
an individualized transition plan
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

45. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
contingency based self - management
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

46. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
yes
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

47. 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
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Deaf - blindness
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

48. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
Sixty days
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
group contingency contracting
50%

49. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
yes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
contingency based self - management
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

50. ADHD criteria is defined by
45%
Autism
pervasive developmental disorders
the DSM- IV

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