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Praxis Special Ed

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1. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
Curriculum based assessment
they modify students thought patterns
Non - discriminatory assessment

2. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
yes
executive functioning
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Emotional disturbance

3. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
IFSP
no
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
speech or language impairment

4. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
duration recording
Non - discriminatory assessment
Hear and understand speech

5. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Larry P vs. Riles
social stories

6. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
Council for Exceptional Children
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
IFSP

7. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Non - discriminatory assessment
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
mental retardation
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

8. A remedial approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Orthopedic impairment
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

9. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
assistive technology
Learning disabilities
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

10. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
Fourteen
Hear and understand speech
pervasive developmental disorders
speech or language impairment

11. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
articulation
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

12. 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
categorical approach
they modify students thought patterns
ecological
Stanford 9

13. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
LRE

14. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
articulation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
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

15. 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?
Curriculum based assessment
mental retardation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
try to find appropriate content at grade level

16. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
learning disability
they modify students thought patterns

17. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
Hear and understand speech
an audiometer
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

18. What is CLOZE procedure?
group contingency contracting
not legal
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
mental retardation

19. Share the responsibility for the students education
whole language
Council for Exceptional Children
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

20. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
medication and a behavior management intervention
Sixty days

21. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
not legal
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

22. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
compensatory education
zero reject
yes
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

23. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
mental retardation
Traumatic brain injury
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
45%

24. Spina bifida
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
group contingency contracting
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

25. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
yes
an individualized transition plan
social stories

26. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
assistive technology
students who are mentally retarded
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

27. 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
Orthopedic impairment
two to nine percent
whole language
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

28. What does outer - directedness mean?
Multiple disabilities
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

29. What is conductive hearing loss?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
contingency based self - management
augmentative communciation

30. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
General education classrooms

31. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Non - discriminatory assessment
mental retardation
ecological

32. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
assistive technology
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

33. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

34. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Autism
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
yes
categorical approach

35. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
How 504 defines a disability
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Hearing impairment

36. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
life space analysis
hearing loss that was present at birth
speech or language impairment
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

37. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Sixty days
mental retardation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Orthopedic impairment

38. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
categorical approach
Procedural safeguards
Emotional disturbance

39. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
assistive technology
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Hearing impairment
group contingency contracting

40. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
mental retardation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

41. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
life space analysis
ecological
augmentative communciation
50%

42. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
two to nine percent
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
yes
18

43. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
developmental
articulation
learning disability

44. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
Deaf - blindness
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
executive functioning

45. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
IFSP
Specific learning disability

46. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
45%
Procedural safeguards
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

47. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
the Cummins model
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

48. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
social stories
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
having them practice filing out job applications
Learning disabilities

49. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
delayed language and echolalia
developmental
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

50. What is the prevalence of autism?
social stories
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
hearing loss that happened after birth
10 per 10 - 100 children