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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
Larry P vs. Riles
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
mental retardation
not legal

2. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
curriculum based assessment
45%
learning disability
delayed language and echolalia

3. What percent of the population was ADHD?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
principles of IDEA
two to nine percent

4. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
discriminatory stimulus
developmental

5. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
early traumatic experiences
functional skills - social skills - career skills
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

6. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
zero reject
having them practice filing out job applications
a hearing aid
ESEA Act

7. Mental retardation originates before what age?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
an audiometer
Curriculum based assessment
18

8. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
LRE
life space analysis
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Autism

9. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
How 504 defines a disability
student to student
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
hearing loss that happened after birth

10. What does adaptive behavior mean?
Mental retardation
speech or language impairment
social stories
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

11. Birthplace of FAPE
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
PARC vs. State of Penn
Hear and understand speech
direct instruction

12. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
assistive technology
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
where Section 504 comes from
hearing loss that happened after birth

13. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
a hearing aid
Multiple disabilities
pervasive developmental disorders
medication and a behavior management intervention

14. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
articulation
student to student
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

15. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
principles of IDEA
functional skills - social skills - career skills
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
functional vision assessment

16. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Learning disabilities
Orthopedic impairment

17. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Curriculum based assessment
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
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Deaf - blindness

18. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
yes
visual impairment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
principles of IDEA

19. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
delayed language and echolalia
duration recording
the Cummins model

20. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
group contingency contracting
Deafness
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

21. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
group contingency contracting
Traumatic brain injury
Larry P vs. Riles

22. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
learning disability
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
executive functioning
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

23. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Larry P vs. Riles
50%
negative reinforcement
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

24. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
compensatory education
contingency based self - management
45%
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

25. What causes autism?
Learning disabilities
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

26. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
having them practice filing out job applications
not legal
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

27. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
ecological
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

28. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
hearing loss that happened after birth
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
How 504 defines a disability
augmentative communciation

29. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
10 per 10 - 100 children
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Non - discriminatory assessment

30. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Hearing impairment
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

31. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
learned helplessness
90%

32. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
assistive technology
21 or younger
medication and a behavior management intervention
students who are mentally retarded

33. 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
Specific learning disability
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

34. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
visual impairment
curriculum based assessment

35. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Traumatic brain injury
Procedural safeguards
Stanford 9
an audiometer

36. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
zero reject
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
whole language
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

37. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Traumatic brain injury
speech or language impairment
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Non - discriminatory assessment

38. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
assistive technology
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
principles of IDEA
they modify students thought patterns

39. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
Program first placement second
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Stanford 9

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

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41. 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?
Deaf - blindness
try to find appropriate content at grade level
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
pervasive developmental disorders

42. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
learned helplessness
an audiometer
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

43. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
21 or younger
Multiple disabilities
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

44. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
duration recording
Curriculum based assessment
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
General education classrooms

45. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
executive functioning
no
curriculum based assessment
discriminatory stimulus

46. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
negative reinforcement
LRE
45%
IFSP

47. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
Larry P vs. Riles
PARC vs. State of Penn
General education classrooms
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

48. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
pervasive developmental disorders
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Curriculum based assessment

49. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
whole language
ecological
social stories
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

50. Specific learning disability
ESEA Act
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
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
categorical approach