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Praxis Special Ed

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1. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
whole language
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Council for Exceptional Children

2. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Traumatic brain injury
Hear and understand speech
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
whole language

3. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
90%
Deaf - blindness
not legal

4. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
yes
ecological
an individualized transition plan
pervasive developmental disorders

5. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
duration recording
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

6. What does outer - directedness mean?
10 per 10 - 100 children
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
social stories
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

7. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
duration recording
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
discriminatory stimulus

8. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
medication and a behavior management intervention
where Section 504 comes from

9. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Larry P vs. Riles
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
they modify students thought patterns
developmental

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
group contingency contracting
an audiometer
discriminatory stimulus

11. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
they modify students thought patterns
General education classrooms
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

12. 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
18
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

13. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
where Section 504 comes from
Hearing impairment
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
executive functioning

14. What causes autism?
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
How 504 defines a disability
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

15. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
General education classrooms
functional vision assessment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

16. What is acquired hearing loss?
students who are mentally retarded
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
hearing loss that happened after birth
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

17. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
direct instruction
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
compensatory education
principles of IDEA

18. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
Stanford 9
ther health impairments
curriculum based assessment
life space analysis

19. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
Fourteen
life space analysis
45%
duration recording

20. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
hearing loss that happened after birth
visual impairment
not legal
student to student

21. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
yes
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
visual impairment

22. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Traumatic brain injury
Emotional disturbance
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

23. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
the Cummins model
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Learning disabilities
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

24. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
1%
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
an audiometer
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

25. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Mental retardation
mental retardation
zero reject
augmentative communciation

26. Yes
Deafness
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
ESEA Act

27. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
learning disability
21 or younger
yes
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

28. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
medication and a behavior management intervention
delayed language and echolalia
PARC vs. State of Penn

29. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
delayed language and echolalia
Emotional disturbance

30. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
Traumatic brain injury
IFSP
LRE
discriminatory stimulus

31. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Program first placement second
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
social stories

32. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two to nine percent
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
duration recording
18

33. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Deaf - blindness
IFSP
articulation

34. What are four types of data based decision making?
Sixty days
yes
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
IFSP

35. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
yes
negative reinforcement
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

36. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
compensatory education
contingency based self - management
early traumatic experiences
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

37. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
articulation
principles of IDEA
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
How 504 defines a disability

38. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
mental retardation
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
medication and a behavior management intervention
Traumatic brain injury

39. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
the DSM- IV
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
visual impairment

40. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
no
negative reinforcement
Fourteen
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

41. 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
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Fourteen

42. Metacognition is connected to
yes
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
executive functioning
Procedural safeguards

43. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
group contingency contracting
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Deaf - blindness

44. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
ESEA Act
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
LRE
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

45. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Program first placement second
articulation
Mental retardation

46. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
discriminatory stimulus
social stories
group contingency contracting

47. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
mental retardation
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
zero reject
1%

48. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

49. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
10 per 10 - 100 children
the Cummins model

50. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Non - discriminatory assessment
Curriculum based assessment
zero reject