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1. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
an individualized transition plan
Fourteen
the Cummins model
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

2. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
contingency based self - management
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

3. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Multiple disabilities
contingency based self - management
delayed language and echolalia

4. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
Larry P vs. Riles
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

5. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
21 or younger
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
contingency based self - management

6. A remedial approach
Program first placement second
Autism
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

7. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
no
Stanford 9
contingency based self - management

8. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
General education classrooms
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
life space analysis

9. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
negative reinforcement
Hear and understand speech
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

10. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
Curriculum based assessment
General education classrooms
categorical approach
PARC vs. State of Penn

11. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

12. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Stanford 9
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
articulation

13. Metacognition is connected to
negative reinforcement
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
1%
executive functioning

14. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
no
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
direct instruction

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
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
group contingency contracting

16. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
contingency based self - management
Autism
Council for Exceptional Children
21 or younger

17. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
90%
yes

18. In errorless learning SD stands for?
Non - discriminatory assessment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
discriminatory stimulus
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

19. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
ecological
Learning disabilities
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
delayed language and echolalia

20. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
early traumatic experiences
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
having them practice filing out job applications

21. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
IFSP
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Procedural safeguards

22. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
Mental retardation
having them practice filing out job applications
yes
speech or language impairment

23. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Council for Exceptional Children
social stories
learned helplessness
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

24. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
learning disability
Stanford 9
1%

25. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
functional vision assessment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Deaf - blindness

26. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
where Section 504 comes from
Multiple disabilities
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
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

27. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
life space analysis
Fourteen
hearing loss that happened after birth
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

28. What is acquired hearing loss?
whole language
18
hearing loss that happened after birth
Procedural safeguards

29. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
the Cummins model
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
mental retardation

30. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
ESEA Act
Program first placement second
early traumatic experiences
21 or younger

31. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
medication and a behavior management intervention
learning disability

32. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss that happened after birth
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

33. What does FVA stand for?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
functional vision assessment
Hearing impairment

34. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
student to student
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

35. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
hearing loss that was present at birth
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
duration recording

36. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
1%
life space analysis
negative reinforcement

37. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
Hearing impairment
mental retardation
articulation

38. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
categorical approach
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
curriculum based assessment

39. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Learning disabilities
Deaf - blindness
yes

40. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Traumatic brain injury
yes
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
having them practice filing out job applications

41. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Learning disabilities
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
90%

42. What causes autism?
Orthopedic impairment
yes
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
where Section 504 comes from

43. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Procedural safeguards
a hearing aid
Non - discriminatory assessment
augmentative communciation

44. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
whole language

45. What percent of the population was ADHD?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
two to nine percent
an individualized transition plan

46. What does adaptive behavior mean?
yes
the Cummins model
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
50%

47. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

48. 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
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
articulation
early traumatic experiences

49. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
yes
Procedural safeguards
Autism

50. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
learned helplessness
Mental retardation
1%