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Praxis Special Ed

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. What are three biological causes for ADHD?






2. 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






3. What are four types of data based decision making?






4. What does adaptive behavior mean?






5. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded






6. Spina bifida






7. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences






8. communication disorders or language or voice impairments






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






10. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?






11. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?






12. How does deafness connect to IDEA?






13. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication






14. 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






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






16. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...






17. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...






18. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the






19. 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?






20. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education






21. Name four areas of executive function






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






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






24. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease






25. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?






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






27. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students






28. What does congenital hearing loss mean?






29. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to






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






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






32. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education






33. What are the three sub types of ADHD?






34. Metacognition is connected to






35. What instrument do we use to test hearing?






36. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both






37. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs






38. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation






39. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment






40. 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






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






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






43. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?






44. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...






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






46. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?






47. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...






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






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






50. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...