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Praxis Special Ed

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1. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
zero reject
Procedural safeguards
50%

2. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
having them practice filing out job applications
yes
Stanford 9
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

3. A model used with ESL and deaf students
medication and a behavior management intervention
45%
Autism
the Cummins model

4. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
yes
compensatory education

5. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
21 or younger
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

6. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
ther health impairments
learning disability

7. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
early traumatic experiences
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Hear and understand speech
Traumatic brain injury

8. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
social stories
mental retardation
Traumatic brain injury
an audiometer

9. What does adaptive behavior mean?
students who are mentally retarded
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Autism
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

10. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
hearing loss that was present at birth

11. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
group contingency contracting
Sixty days
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
pervasive developmental disorders

12. 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
Procedural safeguards
student to student
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
ecological

13. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Council for Exceptional Children
a hearing aid

14. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
a hearing aid
speech or language impairment
Emotional disturbance
Learning disabilities

15. 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
learning disability
learned helplessness
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

16. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
IFSP
contingency based self - management

17. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
where Section 504 comes from
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
contingency based self - management

18. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
categorical approach
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

19. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
learning disability
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
functional vision assessment
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

20. 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
the Cummins model
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
contingency based self - management

21. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

22. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
student to student
speech or language impairment
Curriculum based assessment

23. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
the Cummins model
no
Traumatic brain injury
augmentative communciation

24. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
50%
Hear and understand speech
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

25. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
ecological
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Mental retardation

26. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
1%
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

27. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
Hearing impairment
How 504 defines a disability
mental retardation

28. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
early traumatic experiences
an audiometer

29. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
speech or language impairment
Mental retardation
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

30. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Orthopedic impairment
zero reject
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

31. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

32. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

33. 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
duration recording
group contingency contracting
hearing loss that happened after birth
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

34. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
not legal
life space analysis
principles of IDEA
augmentative communciation

35. What does outer - directedness mean?
yes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Larry P vs. Riles
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

36. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
the Cummins model
Hearing impairment
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

37. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
student to student
Fourteen
Traumatic brain injury
articulation

38. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Multiple disabilities
a hearing aid
ther health impairments

39. What does a cochlear implant do?
duration recording
Non - discriminatory assessment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

40. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
the Cummins model
discriminatory stimulus
augmentative communciation

41. What is the prevalence of autism?
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Sixty days
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
10 per 10 - 100 children

42. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
no
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Fourteen
hearing loss that happened after birth

43. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
try to find appropriate content at grade level
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Curriculum based assessment

44. 504
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
an audiometer
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
medication and a behavior management intervention

45. What causes autism?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Multiple disabilities
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
social stories

46. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
compensatory education
Traumatic brain injury
two to nine percent
social stories

47. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
medication and a behavior management intervention
articulation
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

48. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
Autism
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

49. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
categorical approach
they modify students thought patterns
Emotional disturbance

50. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
45%
they modify students thought patterns