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Praxis Special Ed

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1. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
articulation
1%
visual impairment

2. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
medication and a behavior management intervention
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

3. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
medication and a behavior management intervention
Learning disabilities
the DSM- IV
21 or younger

4. Spina bifida
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

5. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
direct instruction
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

6. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Non - discriminatory assessment
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
General education classrooms

7. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
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

8. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
50%
Deaf - blindness
whole language
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

9. Specific learning disability
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
executive functioning
negative reinforcement
early traumatic experiences

10. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
yes

11. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
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
21 or younger
yes
LRE

12. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Program first placement second
hearing loss that was present at birth
Autism
LRE

13. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
Hearing impairment
having them practice filing out job applications
try to find appropriate content at grade level
negative reinforcement

14. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
articulation
duration recording
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
hearing loss that was present at birth

15. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
discriminatory stimulus
mental retardation
Traumatic brain injury

16. 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
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
where Section 504 comes from
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
group contingency contracting

17. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
1%
90%

18. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
contingency based self - management
How 504 defines a disability
Autism

19. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
pervasive developmental disorders
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Mental retardation

20. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
speech or language impairment
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

21. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Multiple disabilities

22. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
speech or language impairment
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
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Council for Exceptional Children

23. A remedial approach
mental retardation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
articulation

24. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
delayed language and echolalia
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
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

25. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Specific learning disability
learning disability
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Sixty days

26. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
student to student
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
hearing loss that was present at birth
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

27. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Autism
45%
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Deaf - blindness

28. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
Stanford 9
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
having them practice filing out job applications

29. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two to nine percent
curriculum based assessment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

30. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
an individualized transition plan
where Section 504 comes from
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Traumatic brain injury

31. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
21 or younger
ecological
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

32. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
How 504 defines a disability
assistive technology
Larry P vs. Riles
visual impairment

33. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
discriminatory stimulus
ESEA Act
Multiple disabilities
categorical approach

34. Yes
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
direct instruction
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

35. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
an individualized transition plan
Procedural safeguards
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

36. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
LRE
speech or language impairment
Orthopedic impairment
discriminatory stimulus

37. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
delayed language and echolalia
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
mental retardation
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

38. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
medication and a behavior management intervention
assistive technology

39. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
speech or language impairment
student to student
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

40. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
45%
learned helplessness

41. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
21 or younger
pervasive developmental disorders
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

42. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Multiple disabilities
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Hearing impairment

43. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
having them practice filing out job applications
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

44. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
contingency based self - management
negative reinforcement
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Larry P vs. Riles

45. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Curriculum based assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
augmentative communciation

46. What does outer - directedness mean?
Multiple disabilities
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
visual impairment
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

47. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
not legal
Hearing impairment
whole language
early traumatic experiences

48. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
1%
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Non - discriminatory assessment

49. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
Program first placement second
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
negative reinforcement
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

50. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
Autism
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive