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Praxis Special Ed

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1. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
18
visual impairment
mental retardation
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

2. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

3. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
1%
How 504 defines a disability
Multiple disabilities
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

4. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
early traumatic experiences
Mental retardation
Program first placement second
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

5. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
General education classrooms
Procedural safeguards
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

6. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
assistive technology
50%
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Larry P vs. Riles

7. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
21 or younger
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
PARC vs. State of Penn
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

8. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
45%
Learning disabilities
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

9. In errorless learning SD stands for?
discriminatory stimulus
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

10. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
negative reinforcement
ecological

11. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
learned helplessness
functional vision assessment
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

12. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
Fourteen
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
medication and a behavior management intervention
compensatory education

13. What is the prevalence of autism?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
discriminatory stimulus
10 per 10 - 100 children
ther health impairments

14. Share the responsibility for the students education
an audiometer
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

15. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
delayed language and echolalia
no
45%
early traumatic experiences

16. What are four types of data based decision making?
functional vision assessment
mental retardation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

17. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
Non - discriminatory assessment
executive functioning
an audiometer
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

18. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
yes
life space analysis
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Non - discriminatory assessment

19. 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
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
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
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
ecological

20. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
negative reinforcement
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Autism
Sixty days

21. A model used with ESL and deaf students
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
the Cummins model

22. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
an individualized transition plan

23. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
IFSP
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

24. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
augmentative communciation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Traumatic brain injury
early traumatic experiences

25. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
discriminatory stimulus
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
yes

26. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
functional skills - social skills - career skills
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
ther health impairments

27. What is CLOZE procedure?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Hear and understand speech
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

28. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
zero reject
General education classrooms
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

29. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
contingency based self - management
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
pervasive developmental disorders

30. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
ecological
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
compensatory education
delayed language and echolalia

31. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
hearing loss that was present at birth
Specific learning disability
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

32. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
whole language
articulation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

33. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
whole language
direct instruction
negative reinforcement
learning disability

34. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
Larry P vs. Riles
yes
How 504 defines a disability
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

35. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
executive functioning
visual impairment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

36. Name four areas of executive function
functional vision assessment
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

37. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
principles of IDEA
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
a hearing aid

38. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Stanford 9
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
principles of IDEA
Emotional disturbance

39. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
1%
developmental
direct instruction

40. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
zero reject
functional vision assessment

41. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
45%
student to student

42. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
learning disability

43. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
early traumatic experiences
PARC vs. State of Penn
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

44. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Autism
pervasive developmental disorders
learning disability
PARC vs. State of Penn

45. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
an individualized transition plan
Multiple disabilities
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

46. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
learned helplessness
Procedural safeguards
curriculum based assessment
50%

47. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Emotional disturbance
Learning disabilities
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

48. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
mental retardation
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

49. Birthplace of FAPE
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Non - discriminatory assessment
PARC vs. State of Penn
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

50. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
LRE