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Praxis Special Ed

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1. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Emotional disturbance
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
IFSP

2. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
pervasive developmental disorders
executive functioning
no
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

3. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
life space analysis
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
pervasive developmental disorders
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

4. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
hearing loss that was present at birth
Hear and understand speech
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
student to student

5. Multiple and severe disabilties
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
a hearing aid
mental retardation

6. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
Non - discriminatory assessment
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
negative reinforcement

7. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
Deafness
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

8. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
zero reject
early traumatic experiences
yes
LRE

9. What causes autism?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Procedural safeguards

10. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
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
medication and a behavior management intervention
functional vision assessment
curriculum based assessment

11. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
an individualized transition plan
Traumatic brain injury
Hearing impairment
Deaf - blindness

12. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Program first placement second
ESEA Act
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

13. What is the prevalence of autism?
whole language
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
IFSP
10 per 10 - 100 children

14. The approach to reading instruction which uses students language and experiences and in which reading is taught a meaning - oriented integrated activity rather than a collection of separate skills is known as a
whole language
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
ESEA Act
a hearing aid

15. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
Deafness
LRE
try to find appropriate content at grade level
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

16. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
delayed language and echolalia
yes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

17. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
augmentative communciation
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
ecological

18. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
ther health impairments
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

19. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
no
Stanford 9
90%
delayed language and echolalia

20. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
1%
Hear and understand speech
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
a hearing aid

21. 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
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
pervasive developmental disorders
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
developmental

22. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Autism
10 per 10 - 100 children
ESEA Act
Curriculum based assessment

23. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
augmentative communciation
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Curriculum based assessment
ecological

24. Yes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
life space analysis
discriminatory stimulus
they modify students thought patterns

25. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
yes
developmental
Orthopedic impairment
Deaf - blindness

26. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Larry P vs. Riles
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
articulation

27. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Sixty days
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

28. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Hear and understand speech
1%
Multiple disabilities

29. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
life space analysis
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Program first placement second
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

30. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Deafness
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

31. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
learning disability
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

32. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
functional skills - social skills - career skills
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Mental retardation
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

33. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
speech or language impairment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Larry P vs. Riles

34. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
augmentative communciation
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
social stories
yes

35. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
How 504 defines a disability
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

36. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
duration recording
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

37. What does outer - directedness mean?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
ESEA Act
the DSM- IV
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

38. What are four types of data based decision making?
discriminatory stimulus
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
try to find appropriate content at grade level
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

39. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
learned helplessness
augmentative communciation
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
they modify students thought patterns

40. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
yes
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
augmentative communciation

41. A remedial approach
students who are mentally retarded
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Curriculum based assessment

42. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
zero reject
Program first placement second
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

43. Spina bifida
social stories
Learning disabilities
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

44. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
General education classrooms
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
speech or language impairment

45. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
life space analysis
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

46. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
mental retardation
articulation
principles of IDEA

47. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
Stanford 9
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
pervasive developmental disorders
Emotional disturbance

48. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
social stories
Mental retardation
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

49. Mental retardation originates before what age?
18
Emotional disturbance
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

50. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide