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Praxis Special Ed
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praxis
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teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
Procedural safeguards
Mental retardation
Council for Exceptional Children
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
2. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Mental retardation
Program first placement second
categorical approach
3. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Multiple disabilities
Traumatic brain injury
Emotional disturbance
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
4. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Curriculum based assessment
5. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
yes
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
6. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Fourteen
where Section 504 comes from
hearing loss that was present at birth
Orthopedic impairment
7. What is conductive hearing loss?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
yes
18
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
8. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Fourteen
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
9. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
life space analysis
Program first placement second
Council for Exceptional Children
learned helplessness
10. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
assistive technology
compensatory education
yes
11. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
hearing loss that happened after birth
speech or language impairment
12. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
13. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Stanford 9
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
discriminatory stimulus
not legal
14. A teacher who sets clear and explicit goals for each lesson - presents a logical sequence of tasks - gives clear directions on how to do eacht ask - engages the student in guided practice - asks frequent questions - gives feedback - and does not move
functional vision assessment
direct instruction
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
General education classrooms
15. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
students who are mentally retarded
where Section 504 comes from
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
16. What does outer - directedness mean?
21 or younger
Traumatic brain injury
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Autism
17. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
medication and a behavior management intervention
curriculum based assessment
18
18. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Fourteen
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
visual impairment
19. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
speech or language impairment
Fourteen
developmental
20. Share the responsibility for the students education
two to nine percent
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
articulation
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
21. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
they modify students thought patterns
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
learned helplessness
curriculum based assessment
22. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
duration recording
where Section 504 comes from
an individualized transition plan
discriminatory stimulus
23. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
24. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
mental retardation
students who are mentally retarded
where Section 504 comes from
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
25. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
21 or younger
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
yes
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
26. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
the Cummins model
pervasive developmental disorders
Autism
Non - discriminatory assessment
27. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
they modify students thought patterns
life space analysis
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
ecological
28. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
early traumatic experiences
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
50%
visual impairment
29. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
assistive technology
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Multiple disabilities
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
30. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Council for Exceptional Children
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
31. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
curriculum based assessment
having them practice filing out job applications
social stories
32. A remedial approach
not legal
hearing loss that happened after birth
Deafness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
33. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Hear and understand speech
they modify students thought patterns
34. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
18
assistive technology
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
35. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
not legal
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
LRE
Learning disabilities
36. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
an individualized transition plan
where Section 504 comes from
37. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
medication and a behavior management intervention
Deaf - blindness
zero reject
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
38. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
duration recording
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
having them practice filing out job applications
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
39. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
negative reinforcement
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
1%
yes
40. 504
whole language
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
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
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
41. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Larry P vs. Riles
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
42. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
having them practice filing out job applications
Deafness
students who are mentally retarded
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
43. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
no
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
1%
44. 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?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
try to find appropriate content at grade level
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
45. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Orthopedic impairment
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
functional vision assessment
46. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Fourteen
Learning disabilities
Sixty days
articulation
47. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
Procedural safeguards
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Orthopedic impairment
48. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
10 per 10 - 100 children
Hearing impairment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Emotional disturbance
49. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
students who are mentally retarded
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
PARC vs. State of Penn
Orthopedic impairment
50. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
90%