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1. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
social stories

2. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
negative reinforcement
duration recording
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
principles of IDEA

3. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
90%
no
students who are mentally retarded
categorical approach

4. What are four types of data based decision making?
General education classrooms
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Specific learning disability
whole language

5. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
executive functioning
Orthopedic impairment
delayed language and echolalia

6. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
the Cummins model
whole language
Mental retardation

7. Multiple and severe disabilties
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Traumatic brain injury
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Emotional disturbance

8. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
medication and a behavior management intervention
ecological
mental retardation

9. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
delayed language and echolalia
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
duration recording

10. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
10 per 10 - 100 children
whole language
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

11. A teacher who sets clear and explicit goals for each lesson - presents a logical sequence of tasks - gives clear directions on how to do eacht ask - engages the student in guided practice - asks frequent questions - gives feedback - and does not move
discriminatory stimulus
direct instruction
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

12. 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
where Section 504 comes from
ecological
early traumatic experiences
social stories

13. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
90%
articulation

14. Yes
compensatory education
principles of IDEA
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
social stories

15. A remedial approach
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
discriminatory stimulus
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

16. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
an individualized transition plan
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

17. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Orthopedic impairment
yes

18. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Autism
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Council for Exceptional Children

19. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Sixty days
Autism
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
ther health impairments

20. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
having them practice filing out job applications
learning disability
negative reinforcement

21. What does outer - directedness mean?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
compensatory education
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

22. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
IFSP
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
articulation

23. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
curriculum based assessment
21 or younger
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

24. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
General education classrooms
90%

25. In errorless learning SD stands for?
articulation
discriminatory stimulus
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
10 per 10 - 100 children

26. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
an individualized transition plan
Council for Exceptional Children
try to find appropriate content at grade level
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

27. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
How 504 defines a disability
compensatory education

28. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Larry P vs. Riles
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
a hearing aid

29. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
ther health impairments
Larry P vs. Riles
categorical approach
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

30. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
pervasive developmental disorders

31. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
Sixty days
try to find appropriate content at grade level
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

32. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
executive functioning
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Mental retardation
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

33. What does adaptive behavior mean?
assistive technology
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
functional vision assessment

34. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
functional skills - social skills - career skills
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Autism
discriminatory stimulus

35. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
45%

36. 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
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

37. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
speech or language impairment
How 504 defines a disability
assistive technology

38. Specific learning disability
hearing loss that happened after birth
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
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Program first placement second

39. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
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
Multiple disabilities
compensatory education

40. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
yes
two to nine percent
General education classrooms

41. Mental retardation originates before what age?
LRE
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
18

42. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
developmental
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Curriculum based assessment
1%

43. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
categorical approach
developmental
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

44. 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?
mental retardation
try to find appropriate content at grade level
10 per 10 - 100 children
whole language

45. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
yes
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

46. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
yes
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Procedural safeguards
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

47. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
life space analysis
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
not legal
pervasive developmental disorders

48. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Orthopedic impairment
augmentative communciation
not legal

49. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
hearing loss that was present at birth
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

50. What is conductive hearing loss?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Deaf - blindness
ESEA Act