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Praxis Special Ed

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1. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
students who are mentally retarded
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
having them practice filing out job applications

2. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
yes
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
ecological
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

3. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Learning disabilities
50%
Autism

4. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
having them practice filing out job applications
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
discriminatory stimulus
ecological

5. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
yes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
principles of IDEA
mental retardation

6. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
mental retardation
Fourteen
Procedural safeguards
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

7. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
augmentative communciation
discriminatory stimulus
PARC vs. State of Penn

8. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
developmental
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
learning disability
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

9. What does adaptive behavior mean?
social stories
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

10. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
yes
duration recording
where Section 504 comes from
social stories

11. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Multiple disabilities
Non - discriminatory assessment
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

12. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Mental retardation
IFSP
PARC vs. State of Penn

13. Metacognition is connected to
ecological
executive functioning
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Curriculum based assessment

14. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
Specific learning disability
functional skills - social skills - career skills
direct instruction
medication and a behavior management intervention

15. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
General education classrooms
curriculum based assessment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Emotional disturbance

16. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
the DSM- IV
Traumatic brain injury
they modify students thought patterns
Mental retardation

17. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
curriculum based assessment
an individualized transition plan

18. ADHD criteria is defined by
contingency based self - management
How 504 defines a disability
the DSM- IV
delayed language and echolalia

19. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
functional vision assessment
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Curriculum based assessment
social stories

20. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
the DSM- IV
Sixty days
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

21. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
Hearing impairment
not legal
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

22. In errorless learning SD stands for?
Mental retardation
Fourteen
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
discriminatory stimulus

23. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Fourteen
How 504 defines a disability
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

24. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
mental retardation
ESEA Act
Multiple disabilities
yes

25. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
curriculum based assessment
LRE
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

26. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
social stories
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
an individualized transition plan
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

27. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
the DSM- IV
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Deafness

28. What does outer - directedness mean?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Stanford 9
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
student to student

29. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
learned helplessness
zero reject
an audiometer

30. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
articulation

31. What is acquired hearing loss?
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
hearing loss that happened after birth
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
not legal

32. What is conductive hearing loss?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
having them practice filing out job applications

33. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
zero reject
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
General education classrooms

34. 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?
articulation
Learning disabilities
try to find appropriate content at grade level
1%

35. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
LRE
Autism
group contingency contracting
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

36. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
mental retardation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
negative reinforcement

37. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
ESEA Act
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
assistive technology

38. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
visual impairment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

39. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
categorical approach
negative reinforcement
21 or younger

40. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
Mental retardation
an individualized transition plan
principles of IDEA
compensatory education

41. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
contingency based self - management
whole language
principles of IDEA

42. Share the responsibility for the students education
early traumatic experiences
yes
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

43. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
yes
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
medication and a behavior management intervention

44. Learners with disabilities have opportunities to achieve commensurate with their peers

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45. Specific learning disability
executive functioning
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
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Fourteen

46. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
articulation
student to student

47. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
1%
90%
Hear and understand speech

48. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
assistive technology
early traumatic experiences
Multiple disabilities
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

49. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
compensatory education
pervasive developmental disorders
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Program first placement second

50. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
General education classrooms
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them