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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Traumatic brain injury
LRE
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

2. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
hearing loss that was present at birth
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Non - discriminatory assessment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

3. Mental retardation originates before what age?
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
Learning disabilities
an audiometer
18

4. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
yes
Procedural safeguards
mental retardation
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

5. Multiple and severe disabilties
they modify students thought patterns
Mental retardation
General education classrooms
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

6. What does outer - directedness mean?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
no
articulation
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

7. What does adaptive behavior mean?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
90%
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Council for Exceptional Children

8. 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?
Fourteen
Orthopedic impairment
try to find appropriate content at grade level
a hearing aid

9. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
no
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

10. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
early traumatic experiences
Sixty days
contingency based self - management
mental retardation

11. What is conductive hearing loss?
Sixty days
Orthopedic impairment
General education classrooms
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

12. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
contingency based self - management
50%
delayed language and echolalia

13. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
categorical approach
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
yes

14. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
compensatory education
45%
negative reinforcement
ESEA Act

15. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
Specific learning disability
45%
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
no

16. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
pervasive developmental disorders
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

17. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
How 504 defines a disability
45%
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

18. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
ecological
functional skills - social skills - career skills
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

19. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Autism
yes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

20. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Mental retardation
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

21. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
try to find appropriate content at grade level
delayed language and echolalia
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

22. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
group contingency contracting
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

23. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
Curriculum based assessment
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
LRE

24. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
Sixty days
90%
a hearing aid
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

25. What is the prevalence of autism?
10 per 10 - 100 children
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
social stories
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

26. 504
Fourteen
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
LRE
ecological

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

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28. 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
mental retardation
direct instruction
Multiple disabilities
developmental

29. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Curriculum based assessment
90%

30. A model used with ESL and deaf students
the Cummins model
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

31. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
the Cummins model
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
social stories

32. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
contingency based self - management
Deaf - blindness

33. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Program first placement second
articulation
negative reinforcement

34. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
Larry P vs. Riles
not legal
Mental retardation
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

35. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
an individualized transition plan
whole language

36. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Deaf - blindness
augmentative communciation
functional vision assessment
negative reinforcement

37. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
Stanford 9
Procedural safeguards
whole language

38. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Stanford 9
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Deafness

39. ADHD criteria is defined by
compensatory education
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
hearing loss that happened after birth
the DSM- IV

40. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
45%
learning disability
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

41. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
21 or younger
1%
50%

42. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
90%
executive functioning
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

43. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
the Cummins model
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
the DSM- IV

44. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
curriculum based assessment
PARC vs. State of Penn
developmental
executive functioning

45. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Program first placement second
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
they modify students thought patterns
Procedural safeguards

46. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Council for Exceptional Children
developmental
students who are mentally retarded
the DSM- IV

47. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
10 per 10 - 100 children
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

48. What does a cochlear implant do?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Hearing impairment
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

49. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
they modify students thought patterns
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
an individualized transition plan

50. What does FVA stand for?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
augmentative communciation
an individualized transition plan
functional vision assessment