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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
group contingency contracting
having them practice filing out job applications
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
yes

2. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Larry P vs. Riles
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

3. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
ESEA Act
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
zero reject

4. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
PARC vs. State of Penn
mental retardation
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

5. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
articulation
assistive technology
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Larry P vs. Riles

6. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
ther health impairments
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
yes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

7. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
Multiple disabilities
90%
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

8. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
90%
try to find appropriate content at grade level
a hearing aid
augmentative communciation

9. What is acquired hearing loss?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
hearing loss that happened after birth
Program first placement second

10. 504
50%
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
1%
ESEA Act

11. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Hear and understand speech
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
early traumatic experiences

12. What does FVA stand for?
early traumatic experiences
functional vision assessment
Hearing impairment
10 per 10 - 100 children

13. Specific learning disability
duration recording
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
Deaf - blindness
zero reject

14. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
General education classrooms
medication and a behavior management intervention

15. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
ecological
delayed language and echolalia
Deafness
Procedural safeguards

16. ADHD criteria is defined by
Deaf - blindness
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
functional vision assessment
the DSM- IV

17. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
Larry P vs. Riles
contingency based self - management
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Mental retardation

18. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Learning disabilities
not legal

19. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
Non - discriminatory assessment
medication and a behavior management intervention
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

20. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
an audiometer
two to nine percent
group contingency contracting
social stories

21. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Stanford 9
where Section 504 comes from
try to find appropriate content at grade level
whole language

22. 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
Emotional disturbance
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Program first placement second

23. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
visual impairment
social stories
Traumatic brain injury
pervasive developmental disorders

24. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
speech or language impairment
How 504 defines a disability
social stories

25. Share the responsibility for the students education
Program first placement second
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
How 504 defines a disability
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

26. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Procedural safeguards
Deaf - blindness
ther health impairments
yes

27. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
21 or younger
Deaf - blindness
Procedural safeguards
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

28. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
developmental
two to nine percent

29. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
having them practice filing out job applications
50%
10 per 10 - 100 children
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

30. A remedial approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
social stories
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

31. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
LRE
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
life space analysis
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

32. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
contingency based self - management
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Hearing impairment

33. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Curriculum based assessment
hearing loss that was present at birth
Traumatic brain injury
Emotional disturbance

34. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Larry P vs. Riles
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Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Orthopedic impairment

35. Multiple and severe disabilties
LRE
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
ESEA Act

36. What does outer - directedness mean?
Sixty days
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
learning disability
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

37. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
medication and a behavior management intervention
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

38. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Sixty days
an audiometer
Council for Exceptional Children

39. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
LRE
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Non - discriminatory assessment

40. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
visual impairment
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
direct instruction

41. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
General education classrooms
mental retardation
a hearing aid

42. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
yes
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

43. In errorless learning SD stands for?
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
assistive technology
discriminatory stimulus
they modify students thought patterns

44. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
yes
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
speech or language impairment

45. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
not legal
Traumatic brain injury
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

46. Metacognition is connected to
functional vision assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
executive functioning

47. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
categorical approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
mental retardation

48. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
ESEA Act
learned helplessness
mental retardation

49. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
ecological
zero reject
principles of IDEA
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

50. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
zero reject
Non - discriminatory assessment
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
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