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Praxis Special Ed

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1. 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
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
direct instruction
life space analysis

2. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
curriculum based assessment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
discriminatory stimulus
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

3. 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
Council for Exceptional Children
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
ecological
social stories

4. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
hearing loss that was present at birth
Council for Exceptional Children
executive functioning
delayed language and echolalia

5. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Orthopedic impairment

6. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
zero reject
18
functional skills - social skills - career skills
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

7. Yes
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
21 or younger

8. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
visual impairment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
yes

9. Mental retardation originates before what age?
Traumatic brain injury
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
18
direct instruction

10. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
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
yes
10 per 10 - 100 children

11. ADHD criteria is defined by
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
negative reinforcement
the DSM- IV
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

12. Spina bifida
curriculum based assessment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

13. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Specific learning disability
augmentative communciation
hearing loss that was present at birth

14. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
early traumatic experiences
student to student

15. What is acquired hearing loss?
Larry P vs. Riles
hearing loss that happened after birth
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
How 504 defines a disability

16. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
a hearing aid
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
1%
an audiometer

17. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
augmentative communciation
they modify students thought patterns
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

18. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
10 per 10 - 100 children
Traumatic brain injury

19. What percent of the population was ADHD?
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
discriminatory stimulus
two to nine percent

20. What does FVA stand for?
Specific learning disability
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
functional vision assessment
direct instruction

21. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
Specific learning disability
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
an individualized transition plan
direct instruction

22. Birthplace of FAPE
PARC vs. State of Penn
Curriculum based assessment
mental retardation
yes

23. In errorless learning SD stands for?
learned helplessness
Council for Exceptional Children
the Cummins model
discriminatory stimulus

24. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Fourteen
visual impairment
a hearing aid

25. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
ther health impairments
Procedural safeguards
Autism
principles of IDEA

26. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
Council for Exceptional Children
mental retardation
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

27. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
ESEA Act
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Orthopedic impairment

28. 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
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
two to nine percent
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

29. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
PARC vs. State of Penn
assistive technology
mental retardation
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

30. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
mental retardation
speech or language impairment
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

31. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
pervasive developmental disorders
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

32. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
articulation
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

33. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

34. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
not legal
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Hear and understand speech
learning disability

35. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
45%
where Section 504 comes from
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
having them practice filing out job applications

36. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
a hearing aid
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Curriculum based assessment
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

37. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
mental retardation
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
student to student
Deafness

38. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
augmentative communciation
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
functional skills - social skills - career skills
students who are mentally retarded

39. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Fourteen
Deafness
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
50%

40. 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
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
executive functioning
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
developmental

41. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
visual impairment
life space analysis
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
45%

42. What does a cochlear implant do?
How 504 defines a disability
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Multiple disabilities
General education classrooms

43. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
a hearing aid
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
yes
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

44. What is the prevalence of autism?
assistive technology
10 per 10 - 100 children
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

45. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
having them practice filing out job applications
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
90%
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

46. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
90%
negative reinforcement
mental retardation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

47. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Hear and understand speech
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

48. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
articulation
the DSM- IV
10 per 10 - 100 children
Sixty days

49. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
direct instruction
early traumatic experiences
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

50. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
augmentative communciation
hearing loss that happened after birth
Council for Exceptional Children