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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
yes
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Hear and understand speech

2. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

3. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
yes
articulation
curriculum based assessment
Learning disabilities

4. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
discriminatory stimulus
categorical approach
speech or language impairment
45%

5. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
contingency based self - management
mental retardation

6. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
where Section 504 comes from
mental retardation
ther health impairments
Learning disabilities

7. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
visual impairment
delayed language and echolalia
an individualized transition plan
they modify students thought patterns

8. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
How 504 defines a disability
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Program first placement second

9. Spina bifida
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
mental retardation
Hear and understand speech
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

10. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
whole language
PARC vs. State of Penn

11. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
Fourteen
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
students who are mentally retarded
an individualized transition plan

12. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
delayed language and echolalia
they modify students thought patterns
50%
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

13. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Non - discriminatory assessment
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

14. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
1%
yes

15. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Larry P vs. Riles
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
two to nine percent

16. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

17. Yes
Emotional disturbance
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Learning disabilities
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

18. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
ecological
Hearing impairment
pervasive developmental disorders
Program first placement second

19. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
functional vision assessment
90%
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
having them practice filing out job applications

20. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
delayed language and echolalia
Emotional disturbance
group contingency contracting
two to nine percent

21. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
executive functioning
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
yes
18

22. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
Emotional disturbance
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
compensatory education

23. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
mental retardation
Procedural safeguards
contingency based self - management
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

24. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
social stories
articulation
Autism

25. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
an individualized transition plan
zero reject
45%
hearing loss that was present at birth

26. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
whole language
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

27. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
1%
delayed language and echolalia
ESEA Act
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

28. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
negative reinforcement
Council for Exceptional Children
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

29. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Autism
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
social stories
Non - discriminatory assessment

30. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
developmental
hearing loss that happened after birth
discriminatory stimulus

31. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Deafness
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

32. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
whole language
Procedural safeguards
45%

33. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
yes
ESEA Act
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

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

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35. Birthplace of FAPE
whole language
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
PARC vs. State of Penn
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

36. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Learning disabilities
1%
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

37. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
hearing loss that was present at birth
early traumatic experiences
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
negative reinforcement

38. 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
assistive technology
categorical approach
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Traumatic brain injury

39. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
a hearing aid
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
the DSM- IV

40. Name four areas of executive function
learning disability
developmental
student to student
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

41. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
hearing loss that happened after birth
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Procedural safeguards
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

42. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
social stories
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
pervasive developmental disorders

43. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
21 or younger
18
visual impairment

44. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

45. Multiple and severe disabilties
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
LRE
compensatory education
learning disability

46. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
PARC vs. State of Penn
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Mental retardation

47. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
ESEA Act
ecological
Traumatic brain injury
General education classrooms

48. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
an individualized transition plan
speech or language impairment
medication and a behavior management intervention

49. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
two to nine percent
Council for Exceptional Children
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

50. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
developmental
Sixty days
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Procedural safeguards