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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
ther health impairments
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Emotional disturbance

2. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Hearing impairment
discriminatory stimulus
ecological
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

3. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
group contingency contracting
mental retardation
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

4. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
Fourteen
Stanford 9
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
no

5. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
early traumatic experiences
10 per 10 - 100 children
mental retardation
21 or younger

6. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
yes
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

7. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Specific learning disability
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
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

8. What are four types of data based decision making?
Multiple disabilities
Mental retardation
Curriculum based assessment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

9. What does FVA stand for?
90%
functional vision assessment
hearing loss that happened after birth
18

10. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
functional vision assessment
whole language
learning disability
Stanford 9

11. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Deafness
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

12. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
pervasive developmental disorders
ESEA Act
delayed language and echolalia
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

13. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

14. Yes
General education classrooms
90%
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
an audiometer

15. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

16. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
the Cummins model
yes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

17. 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
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
10 per 10 - 100 children
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

18. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
ESEA Act
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

19. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Program first placement second
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
50%
45%

20. In errorless learning SD stands for?
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
discriminatory stimulus
Deafness

21. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
assistive technology
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Orthopedic impairment

22. 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
Fourteen
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
whole language
Traumatic brain injury

23. 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?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
categorical approach
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Procedural safeguards

24. 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
learning disability
developmental
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

25. Metacognition is connected to
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
ecological
executive functioning
Traumatic brain injury

26. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
try to find appropriate content at grade level
hearing loss that was present at birth
Emotional disturbance

27. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
learning disability
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
try to find appropriate content at grade level

28. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
ESEA Act
pervasive developmental disorders
Hear and understand speech
where Section 504 comes from

29. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Traumatic brain injury
duration recording

30. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

31. ADHD criteria is defined by
mental retardation
the DSM- IV
mental retardation
principles of IDEA

32. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
hearing loss that happened after birth
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
they modify students thought patterns
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

33. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
no
functional vision assessment
categorical approach

34. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
social stories
Orthopedic impairment
Mental retardation
45%

35. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
try to find appropriate content at grade level
zero reject
Procedural safeguards

36. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
compensatory education
executive functioning
not legal
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

37. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Autism
ther health impairments

38. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
delayed language and echolalia
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

39. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
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
whole language
functional skills - social skills - career skills
discriminatory stimulus

40. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
try to find appropriate content at grade level
speech or language impairment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

41. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Hear and understand speech
Emotional disturbance
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

42. Share the responsibility for the students education
delayed language and echolalia
21 or younger
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
early traumatic experiences

43. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

44. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
augmentative communciation
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

45. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
General education classrooms
Fourteen
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

46. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
where Section 504 comes from
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

47. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
mental retardation
an individualized transition plan
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

48. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
negative reinforcement
Sixty days
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

49. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Program first placement second
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

50. What does outer - directedness mean?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
articulation