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Praxis Special Ed
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
try to find appropriate content at grade level
the Cummins model
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
medication and a behavior management intervention
2. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
executive functioning
3. What is CLOZE procedure?
Non - discriminatory assessment
the Cummins model
learned helplessness
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
4. 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
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Procedural safeguards
assistive technology
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
5. Mental retardation originates before what age?
learned helplessness
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
18
90%
6. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
18
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
executive functioning
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
7. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
ESEA Act
whole language
8. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
an audiometer
mental retardation
10 per 10 - 100 children
Autism
9. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
medication and a behavior management intervention
hearing loss that happened after birth
10. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
zero reject
Hearing impairment
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
11. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Traumatic brain injury
18
12. What are four types of data based decision making?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Deafness
students who are mentally retarded
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
13. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
no
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
augmentative communciation
curriculum based assessment
14. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Hear and understand speech
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Non - discriminatory assessment
15. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
whole language
Sixty days
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
yes
16. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
How 504 defines a disability
21 or younger
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
17. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
18
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
no
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
18. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
pervasive developmental disorders
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
negative reinforcement
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
19. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
whole language
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
duration recording
21 or younger
20. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
speech or language impairment
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
they modify students thought patterns
the DSM- IV
21. Yes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
a hearing aid
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
functional skills - social skills - career skills
22. 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
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
try to find appropriate content at grade level
21 or younger
23. What is conductive hearing loss?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
24. 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
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
principles of IDEA
group contingency contracting
Hear and understand speech
25. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
PARC vs. State of Penn
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
not legal
26. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
not legal
negative reinforcement
Emotional disturbance
27. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Autism
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
28. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
developmental
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
life space analysis
29. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
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
45%
30. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
Deafness
Hearing impairment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
31. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
speech or language impairment
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
articulation
developmental
32. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
developmental
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
a hearing aid
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
33. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Curriculum based assessment
assistive technology
34. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Specific learning disability
direct instruction
a hearing aid
35. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
early traumatic experiences
life space analysis
36. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
PARC vs. State of Penn
Procedural safeguards
delayed language and echolalia
37. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
Non - discriminatory assessment
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
an individualized transition plan
38. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
1%
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
the DSM- IV
39. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Non - discriminatory assessment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Autism
40. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
executive functioning
Hear and understand speech
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
PARC vs. State of Penn
41. What does outer - directedness mean?
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
42. A remedial approach
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Larry P vs. Riles
10 per 10 - 100 children
43. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
direct instruction
functional vision assessment
ther health impairments
assistive technology
44. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
they modify students thought patterns
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
augmentative communciation
speech or language impairment
45. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
executive functioning
45%
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
46. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
principles of IDEA
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
47. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
social stories
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
ESEA Act
48. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Larry P vs. Riles
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
an audiometer
49. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
Learning disabilities
developmental
learned helplessness
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
50. What causes autism?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data