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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Multiple and severe disabilties
How 504 defines a disability
contingency based self - management
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
50%

2. A remedial approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
mental retardation
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
pervasive developmental disorders

3. Yes
yes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
try to find appropriate content at grade level

4. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
functional skills - social skills - career skills
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

5. 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
50%
categorical approach
early traumatic experiences

6. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
principles of IDEA
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
a hearing aid
zero reject

7. 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
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
having them practice filing out job applications
ecological
assistive technology

8. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
LRE
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
no

9. 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
Hear and understand speech
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
assistive technology
zero reject

10. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
Specific learning disability
no
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Stanford 9

11. Mental retardation originates before what age?
student to student
Deaf - blindness
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
18

12. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
curriculum based assessment
a hearing aid
they modify students thought patterns
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

13. Name four areas of executive function
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Council for Exceptional Children
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

14. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
the DSM- IV
negative reinforcement
Autism
delayed language and echolalia

15. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
the Cummins model
students who are mentally retarded
Deafness
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

16. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
an individualized transition plan
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

17. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
group contingency contracting
pervasive developmental disorders
Procedural safeguards
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

18. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Deaf - blindness
students who are mentally retarded
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

19. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
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
ESEA Act
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
21 or younger

20. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
ecological
direct instruction
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

21. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
assistive technology
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
students who are mentally retarded

22. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
Council for Exceptional Children
mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

23. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
hearing loss that was present at birth
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Larry P vs. Riles
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

24. What is CLOZE procedure?
ESEA Act
yes
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

25. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Mental retardation
duration recording
Learning disabilities
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

26. 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
group contingency contracting
Multiple disabilities
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
How 504 defines a disability

27. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
ther health impairments
delayed language and echolalia
an audiometer
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

28. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
having them practice filing out job applications
90%
a hearing aid

29. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
articulation
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

30. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
Council for Exceptional Children
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Autism
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

31. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
two to nine percent
try to find appropriate content at grade level
mental retardation

32. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
ESEA Act

33. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
Hearing impairment
Procedural safeguards
LRE
students who are mentally retarded

34. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
hearing loss that happened after birth
direct instruction
Hear and understand speech

35. What are four types of data based decision making?
augmentative communciation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Hearing impairment
developmental

36. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
General education classrooms
no
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
mental retardation

37. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
an individualized transition plan
student to student
they modify students thought patterns
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

38. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
life space analysis
90%
the Cummins model

39. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Stanford 9
Specific learning disability
hearing loss that was present at birth
early traumatic experiences

40. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
Sixty days
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
1%
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

41. Metacognition is connected to
hearing loss that happened after birth
executive functioning
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
18

42. Specific learning disability
an audiometer
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
delayed language and echolalia
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

43. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
compensatory education
contingency based self - management
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

44. What is acquired hearing loss?
Specific learning disability
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
hearing loss that happened after birth
Council for Exceptional Children

45. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Deaf - blindness
learning disability
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

46. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Specific learning disability
functional skills - social skills - career skills
learning disability
Deafness

47. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Procedural safeguards
90%

48. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Orthopedic impairment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

49. Spina bifida
student to student
IFSP
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

50. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
they modify students thought patterns