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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What does FVA stand for?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
General education classrooms
functional vision assessment

2. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
medication and a behavior management intervention
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

3. Multiple and severe disabilties
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Learning disabilities
IFSP

4. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
delayed language and echolalia
IFSP
Stanford 9
50%

5. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
curriculum based assessment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
compensatory education

6. In errorless learning SD stands for?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
functional vision assessment
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
discriminatory stimulus

7. 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
assistive technology
group contingency contracting
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
duration recording

8. A remedial approach
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
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
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

9. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
direct instruction
discriminatory stimulus
not legal

10. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Sixty days
two to nine percent

11. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
group contingency contracting
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
LRE

12. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
where Section 504 comes from

13. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
hearing loss that was present at birth
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Emotional disturbance

14. Learners with disabilities have opportunities to achieve commensurate with their peers

15. 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
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Curriculum based assessment
Stanford 9

16. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
contingency based self - management
group contingency contracting
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

17. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
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
Specific learning disability
group contingency contracting

18. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
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
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

19. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
45%
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
functional vision assessment

20. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
developmental
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

21. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
augmentative communciation
executive functioning
ther health impairments
Deaf - blindness

22. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
Stanford 9
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

23. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
contingency based self - management
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Sixty days
negative reinforcement

24. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
IFSP
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

25. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
50%
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

26. Specific learning disability
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
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
duration recording
50%

27. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
hearing loss that was present at birth
PARC vs. State of Penn
social stories

28. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
hearing loss that happened after birth
ecological
Fourteen
hearing loss that was present at birth

29. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
student to student
principles of IDEA

30. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
learning disability
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
45%
an individualized transition plan

31. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
50%
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

32. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
45%
principles of IDEA
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

33. What is CLOZE procedure?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
group contingency contracting
medication and a behavior management intervention
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

34. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Deafness

35. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
try to find appropriate content at grade level
medication and a behavior management intervention
50%

36. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
direct instruction
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
executive functioning
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

37. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Autism
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

38. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
Specific learning disability
an audiometer
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
not legal

39. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
LRE
Program first placement second
Fourteen
social stories

40. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Deafness

41. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
the Cummins model
Orthopedic impairment
compensatory education
learning disability

42. A model used with ESL and deaf students
contingency based self - management
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
an individualized transition plan
the Cummins model

43. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Program first placement second
duration recording
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Non - discriminatory assessment

44. Share the responsibility for the students education
Hear and understand speech
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

45. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
functional skills - social skills - career skills
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
students who are mentally retarded
Larry P vs. Riles

46. What causes autism?
Emotional disturbance
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

47. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
zero reject
visual impairment
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
the Cummins model

48. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
life space analysis
functional skills - social skills - career skills
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Non - discriminatory assessment

49. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
yes
Hear and understand speech
they modify students thought patterns

50. Spina bifida
two to nine percent
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan