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Praxis Special Ed

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
no
50%
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
yes

2. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
an individualized transition plan
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

3. Share the responsibility for the students education
Traumatic brain injury
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
IFSP

4. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
discriminatory stimulus
10 per 10 - 100 children

5. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
50%
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
18
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

6. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
where Section 504 comes from
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
How 504 defines a disability

7. What does adaptive behavior mean?
45%
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

8. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
zero reject
Council for Exceptional Children
functional skills - social skills - career skills
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

9. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Deaf - blindness
try to find appropriate content at grade level

10. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
50%
discriminatory stimulus
direct instruction
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

11. What percent of the population was ADHD?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
direct instruction
two to nine percent
Hear and understand speech

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

13. What is the prevalence of autism?
Larry P vs. Riles
Sixty days
10 per 10 - 100 children
pervasive developmental disorders

14. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
visual impairment
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
having them practice filing out job applications

15. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
an audiometer
21 or younger
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
1%

16. Yes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

17. What is conductive hearing loss?
yes
Deafness
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

18. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
a hearing aid
Traumatic brain injury
ecological
Hearing impairment

19. 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
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
assistive technology
principles of IDEA

20. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
1%
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

21. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
having them practice filing out job applications
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

22. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
hearing loss that was present at birth
PARC vs. State of Penn
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

23. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
delayed language and echolalia
Deaf - blindness
General education classrooms
functional skills - social skills - career skills

24. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

25. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
social stories
compensatory education
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

26. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
an audiometer
they modify students thought patterns
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

27. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
they modify students thought patterns
Program first placement second
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
principles of IDEA

28. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Curriculum based assessment
10 per 10 - 100 children
Hear and understand speech
Autism

29. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
visual impairment
Deaf - blindness
General education classrooms
Procedural safeguards

30. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Larry P vs. Riles

31. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
assistive technology
Multiple disabilities
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

32. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
yes
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

33. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
social stories
learning disability
90%
mental retardation

34. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
speech or language impairment
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

35. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
50%
Sixty days
Emotional disturbance
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

36. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
ESEA Act
functional vision assessment
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
categorical approach

37. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
ESEA Act
45%
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
an individualized transition plan

38. 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?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Program first placement second
try to find appropriate content at grade level
1%

39. Specific learning disability
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
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
developmental

40. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
How 504 defines a disability
pervasive developmental disorders
mental retardation

41. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
90%
Fourteen
Mental retardation
speech or language impairment

42. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
where Section 504 comes from
mental retardation
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

43. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Procedural safeguards
50%
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
where Section 504 comes from

44. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
duration recording
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

45. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
contingency based self - management
the Cummins model

46. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
1%
articulation
an audiometer
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

47. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Orthopedic impairment
medication and a behavior management intervention
delayed language and echolalia

48. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
45%
Deaf - blindness
not legal

49. 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
yes
Deaf - blindness
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

50. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
ecological
yes
a hearing aid
mental retardation