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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
discriminatory stimulus
developmental

2. 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
articulation
Deaf - blindness
medication and a behavior management intervention

3. What are four types of data based decision making?
whole language
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
discriminatory stimulus

4. What does adaptive behavior mean?
PARC vs. State of Penn
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

5. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
not legal
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

6. Spina bifida
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
mental retardation
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

7. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
50%
Sixty days
negative reinforcement
Non - discriminatory assessment

8. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
early traumatic experiences
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

9. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
50%
a hearing aid
Mental retardation
Program first placement second

10. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Autism
having them practice filing out job applications
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

11. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
whole language
delayed language and echolalia
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

12. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Emotional disturbance
principles of IDEA

13. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
life space analysis
Sixty days
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
visual impairment

14. 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
Traumatic brain injury
learned helplessness
curriculum based assessment
developmental

15. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
learned helplessness
augmentative communciation
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

16. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
General education classrooms
two to nine percent
ecological
45%

17. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
contingency based self - management
Learning disabilities
ther health impairments
where Section 504 comes from

18. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
General education classrooms
Council for Exceptional Children
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

19. 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?
General education classrooms
group contingency contracting
try to find appropriate content at grade level
they modify students thought patterns

20. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Hearing impairment
50%
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
no

21. Name four areas of executive function
developmental
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
the DSM- IV

22. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
direct instruction
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

23. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Larry P vs. Riles
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

24. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
yes
whole language

25. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
functional vision assessment
learned helplessness
Stanford 9

26. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Multiple disabilities
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
early traumatic experiences
social stories

27. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Traumatic brain injury
Sixty days

28. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Stanford 9
hearing loss that was present at birth
augmentative communciation
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

29. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
duration recording
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
50%
pervasive developmental disorders

30. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Hearing impairment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Deafness
contingency based self - management

31. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
visual impairment
21 or younger
group contingency contracting
functional skills - social skills - career skills

32. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
21 or younger
hearing loss that happened after birth
45%

33. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
General education classrooms
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Council for Exceptional Children

34. Metacognition is connected to
General education classrooms
executive functioning
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

35. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
categorical approach
45%
an audiometer
Orthopedic impairment

36. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Council for Exceptional Children
Autism
early traumatic experiences
Traumatic brain injury

37. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
functional skills - social skills - career skills
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Deaf - blindness
Autism

38. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
visual impairment
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
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
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

39. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
duration recording
categorical approach
Traumatic brain injury

40. 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
whole language
life space analysis
functional vision assessment
curriculum based assessment

41. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
learning disability
90%
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
ther health impairments

42. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
How 504 defines a disability
Hearing impairment
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

43. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
functional skills - social skills - career skills
assistive technology
an audiometer

44. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
curriculum based assessment
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Deaf - blindness
Specific learning disability

45. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Emotional disturbance
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Fourteen

46. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
where Section 504 comes from
Larry P vs. Riles
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

47. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Larry P vs. Riles
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Autism

48. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
PARC vs. State of Penn
augmentative communciation
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
45%

49. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
early traumatic experiences
the Cummins model
1%
curriculum based assessment

50. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
Program first placement second
visual impairment
Hearing impairment
manipulating the antecedent stimulus