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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Share the responsibility for the students education
How 504 defines a disability
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Fourteen
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

2. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
categorical approach
yes
functional vision assessment
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

3. 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
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
assistive technology
visual impairment

4. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
learned helplessness
Mental retardation
two to nine percent
assistive technology

5. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
1%
augmentative communciation
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Larry P vs. Riles

6. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
visual impairment
an individualized transition plan
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
life space analysis

7. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
mental retardation
negative reinforcement
Autism
Hearing impairment

8. 504
Council for Exceptional Children
General education classrooms
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

9. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
students who are mentally retarded
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

10. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
group contingency contracting
Hearing impairment
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

11. 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
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
augmentative communciation
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
ecological

12. ADHD criteria is defined by
LRE
the DSM- IV
speech or language impairment
10 per 10 - 100 children

13. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
General education classrooms
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

14. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
Procedural safeguards
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
functional skills - social skills - career skills

15. Birthplace of FAPE
PARC vs. State of Penn
developmental
Larry P vs. Riles
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

16. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
augmentative communciation
Learning disabilities
Deafness
duration recording

17. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
whole language

18. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Deaf - blindness

19. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
executive functioning
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

20. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
where Section 504 comes from
Sixty days

21. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
pervasive developmental disorders
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
having them practice filing out job applications

22. Multiple and severe disabilties
Sixty days
articulation
Hearing impairment
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

23. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
student to student
articulation
early traumatic experiences

24. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
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
a hearing aid
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

25. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
visual impairment
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
direct instruction

26. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Traumatic brain injury
45%
whole language

27. What does FVA stand for?
Hearing impairment
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
functional vision assessment
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

28. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
assistive technology
pervasive developmental disorders
21 or younger

29. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
a hearing aid
discriminatory stimulus
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

30. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
Deafness
social stories
21 or younger
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

31. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
life space analysis
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
delayed language and echolalia
an audiometer

32. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
1%
assistive technology

33. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
Curriculum based assessment
duration recording
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Autism

34. What does a cochlear implant do?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
principles of IDEA
student to student

35. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Deaf - blindness
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
no

36. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
Deaf - blindness
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Council for Exceptional Children

37. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
visual impairment
50%
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

38. What percent of the population was ADHD?
an audiometer
two to nine percent
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
executive functioning

39. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
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
Program first placement second
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Deafness

40. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Orthopedic impairment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
categorical approach

41. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
Sixty days
life space analysis
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
principles of IDEA

42. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
50%
developmental
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

43. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
ther health impairments
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

44. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
categorical approach
delayed language and echolalia

45. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
the DSM- IV
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

46. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
negative reinforcement
yes
Hear and understand speech
executive functioning

47. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
they modify students thought patterns
Larry P vs. Riles

48. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
medication and a behavior management intervention
students who are mentally retarded
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

49. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
contingency based self - management
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
yes

50. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
learned helplessness
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
early traumatic experiences
Mental retardation