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Praxis Special Ed

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1. A model used with ESL and deaf students
the Cummins model
students who are mentally retarded
Deafness
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

2. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
early traumatic experiences
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Multiple disabilities

3. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
try to find appropriate content at grade level
LRE

4. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Non - discriminatory assessment
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

5. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Procedural safeguards
whole language
Multiple disabilities
early traumatic experiences

6. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
student to student
an audiometer
contingency based self - management

7. 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
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
they modify students thought patterns
students who are mentally retarded

8. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
augmentative communciation
zero reject
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

9. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Procedural safeguards
learning disability
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Council for Exceptional Children

10. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
Orthopedic impairment
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
not legal

11. What does a cochlear implant do?
45%
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
ther health impairments
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

12. 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
10 per 10 - 100 children
two to nine percent
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

13. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
where Section 504 comes from
Hear and understand speech
student to student
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

14. Multiple and severe disabilties
student to student
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
1%

15. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Emotional disturbance
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Program first placement second

16. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
having them practice filing out job applications
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

17. What is acquired hearing loss?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
hearing loss that happened after birth
pervasive developmental disorders

18. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
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
a hearing aid
10 per 10 - 100 children
speech or language impairment

19. A remedial approach
assistive technology
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Hear and understand speech
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

20. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
developmental
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Program first placement second
PARC vs. State of Penn

21. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Curriculum based assessment
Learning disabilities
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

22. 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?
compensatory education
pervasive developmental disorders
try to find appropriate content at grade level
categorical approach

23. 504
Hear and understand speech
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
How 504 defines a disability
Orthopedic impairment

24. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
How 504 defines a disability
pervasive developmental disorders
students who are mentally retarded

25. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
articulation
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

26. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
90%
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

27. Mental retardation originates before what age?
discriminatory stimulus
18
Larry P vs. Riles
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

28. What does outer - directedness mean?
yes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
How 504 defines a disability

29. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Deafness

30. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
LRE
Council for Exceptional Children
compensatory education
Larry P vs. Riles

31. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
an individualized transition plan
having them practice filing out job applications
visual impairment

32. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
principles of IDEA
social stories
21 or younger
Orthopedic impairment

33. 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
students who are mentally retarded
two to nine percent
medication and a behavior management intervention
ecological

34. 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
21 or younger
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

35. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
students who are mentally retarded
categorical approach
Fourteen

36. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Hearing impairment
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

37. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
Non - discriminatory assessment
not legal
Fourteen
life space analysis

38. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
yes
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

39. 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
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
learning disability
developmental
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

40. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
Procedural safeguards
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

41. 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
21 or younger
delayed language and echolalia
Learning disabilities

42. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
LRE
discriminatory stimulus
yes
21 or younger

43. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
Curriculum based assessment
life space analysis
contingency based self - management

44. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Multiple disabilities
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
speech or language impairment
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

45. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
whole language
Stanford 9

46. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
contingency based self - management
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Orthopedic impairment
10 per 10 - 100 children

47. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
zero reject
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

48. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Specific learning disability
students who are mentally retarded

49. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
yes
compensatory education
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

50. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Sixty days
How 504 defines a disability
LRE