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Praxis Special Ed

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
the Cummins model
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

2. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
functional skills - social skills - career skills
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Larry P vs. Riles

3. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Emotional disturbance

4. Birthplace of FAPE
speech or language impairment
the Cummins model
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
PARC vs. State of Penn

5. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
Deafness
whole language
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Fourteen

6. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
Fourteen
categorical approach
try to find appropriate content at grade level
negative reinforcement

7. What is the prevalence of autism?
learned helplessness
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
10 per 10 - 100 children
compensatory education

8. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
life space analysis
a hearing aid
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Non - discriminatory assessment

9. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Autism
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Learning disabilities

10. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
discriminatory stimulus
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Emotional disturbance
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

11. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
Program first placement second
categorical approach
45%

12. What percent of the population was ADHD?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
two to nine percent
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

13. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Specific learning disability
Stanford 9
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

14. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
hearing loss that happened after birth
duration recording
negative reinforcement
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

15. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Sixty days
students who are mentally retarded
Traumatic brain injury
50%

16. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Council for Exceptional Children
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

17. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
an individualized transition plan
pervasive developmental disorders
Mental retardation
Deaf - blindness

18. 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
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
delayed language and echolalia

19. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
contingency based self - management
IFSP
visual impairment
articulation

20. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
zero reject
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Procedural safeguards

21. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
Sixty days
Non - discriminatory assessment
learning disability
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

22. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
a hearing aid
mental retardation
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
categorical approach

23. What is acquired hearing loss?
learning disability
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
hearing loss that happened after birth

24. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
pervasive developmental disorders
LRE
contingency based self - management

25. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Sixty days
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
discriminatory stimulus

26. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
zero reject
try to find appropriate content at grade level

27. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
negative reinforcement
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Hearing impairment
hearing loss that was present at birth

28. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
General education classrooms
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
compensatory education
10 per 10 - 100 children

29. 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
PARC vs. State of Penn
assistive technology
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
not legal

30. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
Larry P vs. Riles
Multiple disabilities
21 or younger
an individualized transition plan

31. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
pervasive developmental disorders
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

32. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
articulation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
21 or younger
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

33. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
yes
Emotional disturbance

34. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
yes
duration recording
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

35. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
learned helplessness
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

36. Specific learning disability
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
having them practice filing out job applications
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
early traumatic experiences

37. What does FVA stand for?
developmental
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
functional vision assessment

38. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
a hearing aid
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Specific learning disability
Deaf - blindness

39. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
90%
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
compensatory education
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

40. Name four areas of executive function
zero reject
direct instruction
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
visual impairment

41. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
learned helplessness
where Section 504 comes from
students who are mentally retarded
negative reinforcement

42. ADHD criteria is defined by
categorical approach
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Autism
the DSM- IV

43. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Deaf - blindness
hearing loss that happened after birth
Orthopedic impairment

44. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
learning disability
delayed language and echolalia

45. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
functional vision assessment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
an audiometer
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

46. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
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
articulation
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

47. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
visual impairment
curriculum based assessment
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

48. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
Sixty days
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
zero reject
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

49. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
an audiometer
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
yes
learned helplessness

50. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Traumatic brain injury
curriculum based assessment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers