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Praxis Special Ed

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Yes






2. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?






3. Metacognition is connected to






4. Name four areas of executive function






5. Specific learning disability






6. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers






7. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction






8. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness






9. Autism falls on the spectrum of...






10. 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






11. What is an adventitious visual impairment?






12. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness






13. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation






14. How a child's life experiences effect his learning






15. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?






16. What is CLOZE procedure?






17. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom






18. Share the responsibility for the students education






19. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing






20. A model used with ESL and deaf students






21. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...






22. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?






23. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from






24. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy






25. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests






26. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt






27. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation






28. A remedial approach






29. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...






30. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of






31. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience






32. The approach that categorizes exceptionality as the statistical degree to which an individual deviates from the average in terms of cognitive - social - emotional - and physical abilities is called






33. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?






34. 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






35. Mental retardation originates before what age?






36. What is conductive hearing loss?






37. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a






38. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes






39. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a






40. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as






41. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors






42. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of






43. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?






44. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum






45. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning






46. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language






47. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?






48. ADHD criteria is defined by






49. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness






50. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation