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1. 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
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
discriminatory stimulus
whole language
ecological

2. What is CLOZE procedure?
the DSM- IV
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

3. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
principles of IDEA
How 504 defines a disability
try to find appropriate content at grade level

4. If a 5th grade student is getting frustrated in social studies because he still reads at a third grade level - what should the teacher do?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
yes
life space analysis

5. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Larry P vs. Riles
ESEA Act
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

6. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Traumatic brain injury
executive functioning
not legal
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

7. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
Learning disabilities
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
ESEA Act

8. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Program first placement second
Deafness
Non - discriminatory assessment
learning disability

9. 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
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
developmental
they modify students thought patterns
the Cummins model

10. What does adaptive behavior mean?
the Cummins model
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Multiple disabilities
Traumatic brain injury

11. What causes autism?
an individualized transition plan
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Procedural safeguards
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

12. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
assistive technology
categorical approach
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

13. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Emotional disturbance
students who are mentally retarded
social stories

14. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
hearing loss that was present at birth
Traumatic brain injury
assistive technology
Larry P vs. Riles

15. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
not legal
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

16. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
Specific learning disability
ecological
Curriculum based assessment

17. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
an individualized transition plan
speech or language impairment

18. 504
try to find appropriate content at grade level
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

19. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
learning disability
an audiometer
Procedural safeguards
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

20. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
50%
learning disability
hearing loss that was present at birth
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

21. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
1%
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
medication and a behavior management intervention
Deaf - blindness

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

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23. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
Hearing impairment
zero reject
10 per 10 - 100 children
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

24. Yes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
life space analysis
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
direct instruction

25. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
zero reject
contingency based self - management
a hearing aid
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

26. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
discriminatory stimulus
functional skills - social skills - career skills

27. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
discriminatory stimulus
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
18
Deaf - blindness

28. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
45%
Program first placement second
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
mental retardation

29. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
curriculum based assessment
social stories
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
try to find appropriate content at grade level

30. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
10 per 10 - 100 children
contingency based self - management
Emotional disturbance
1%

31. Name four areas of executive function
the Cummins model
mental retardation
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

32. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
General education classrooms
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
a hearing aid

33. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
an audiometer
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

34. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
curriculum based assessment
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
two to nine percent

35. What is the prevalence of autism?
negative reinforcement
Orthopedic impairment
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
10 per 10 - 100 children

36. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
LRE
early traumatic experiences
Fourteen
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

37. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
visual impairment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
ecological
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

38. 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
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
executive functioning

39. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
90%
social stories
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

40. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
yes
speech or language impairment
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

41. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
50%
hearing loss that was present at birth
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
PARC vs. State of Penn

42. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Deafness
Autism
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
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

43. Multiple and severe disabilties
early traumatic experiences
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

44. Metacognition is connected to
principles of IDEA
executive functioning
direct instruction
1%

45. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

46. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
principles of IDEA
learning disability
an individualized transition plan

47. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
21 or younger
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
categorical approach
Hearing impairment

48. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
50%
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

49. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
medication and a behavior management intervention
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Stanford 9
an audiometer

50. The approach to reading instruction which uses students language and experiences and in which reading is taught a meaning - oriented integrated activity rather than a collection of separate skills is known as a
Deaf - blindness
whole language
Learning disabilities
ESEA Act