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Praxis Special Ed

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1. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Hearing impairment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
categorical approach
early traumatic experiences

2. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
not legal
discriminatory stimulus
developmental
the DSM- IV

3. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
negative reinforcement
Fourteen
Council for Exceptional Children

4. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Mental retardation
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
developmental

5. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Emotional disturbance
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

6. What are four types of data based decision making?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Procedural safeguards

7. 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
ecological
functional skills - social skills - career skills
not legal
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

8. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
90%

9. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
duration recording
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
articulation

10. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
1%
pervasive developmental disorders
articulation
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

11. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
discriminatory stimulus
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Procedural safeguards
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

12. 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
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
mental retardation
developmental
Council for Exceptional Children

13. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
executive functioning

14. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
where Section 504 comes from
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Fourteen
the Cummins model

15. What does a cochlear implant do?
principles of IDEA
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

16. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Emotional disturbance
yes
Hear and understand speech

17. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

18. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
LRE
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

19. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
compensatory education
21 or younger
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

20. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

21. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
principles of IDEA
an audiometer
yes
contingency based self - management

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?
categorical approach
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
try to find appropriate content at grade level
ther health impairments

23. If a college bound student has the accommodation that he uses a tape recorder in english and a calculator in algebra II this is an example of
assistive technology
Non - discriminatory assessment
Traumatic brain injury
compensatory education

24. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
yes
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
no

25. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
compensatory education
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
PARC vs. State of Penn
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

26. What is conductive hearing loss?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Autism
yes
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

27. Specific learning disability
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
students who are mentally retarded
Specific learning disability
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

28. What is acquired hearing loss?
Traumatic brain injury
hearing loss that was present at birth
18
hearing loss that happened after birth

29. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
pervasive developmental disorders
principles of IDEA

30. Share the responsibility for the students education
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
50%
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
executive functioning

31. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
ther health impairments
delayed language and echolalia

32. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
whole language
Curriculum based assessment
categorical approach
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

33. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
discriminatory stimulus
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

34. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
visual impairment
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

35. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Deafness
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

36. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Deaf - blindness
Stanford 9
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

37. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
Learning disabilities
group contingency contracting
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

38. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
General education classrooms
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
hearing loss that happened after birth
ther health impairments

39. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
PARC vs. State of Penn
50%
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

40. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
medication and a behavior management intervention
Sixty days
contingency based self - management
Program first placement second

41. Birthplace of FAPE
an individualized transition plan
General education classrooms
PARC vs. State of Penn
zero reject

42. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
Mental retardation
50%
assistive technology
life space analysis

43. ADHD criteria is defined by
21 or younger
the DSM- IV
direct instruction
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

44. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
life space analysis
students who are mentally retarded
they modify students thought patterns
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

45. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Autism
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Hear and understand speech

46. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
no
medication and a behavior management intervention

47. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
General education classrooms
1%
medication and a behavior management intervention

48. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
functional skills - social skills - career skills
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
speech or language impairment

49. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
an audiometer
the DSM- IV
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
yes

50. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
group contingency contracting
a hearing aid
Curriculum based assessment