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1. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
How 504 defines a disability
90%
duration recording

2. 504
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
1%

3. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Sixty days
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
functional vision assessment
45%

4. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
curriculum based assessment
yes
where Section 504 comes from
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

5. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Curriculum based assessment
negative reinforcement
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

6. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
yes
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

7. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
General education classrooms
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Deafness

8. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
student to student
Larry P vs. Riles
two to nine percent

9. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
life space analysis
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

10. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
life space analysis
delayed language and echolalia
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
compensatory education

11. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
augmentative communciation
two to nine percent
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

12. Multiple and severe disabilties
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
functional skills - social skills - career skills
they modify students thought patterns
categorical approach

13. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
yes
learning disability
principles of IDEA

14. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
try to find appropriate content at grade level
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Mental retardation
Larry P vs. Riles

15. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Mental retardation
Multiple disabilities
developmental
1%

16. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
90%
Hear and understand speech
zero reject
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

17. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
student to student
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

18. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
early traumatic experiences
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

19. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
executive functioning
Larry P vs. Riles
try to find appropriate content at grade level

20. What does outer - directedness mean?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
executive functioning
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

21. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
augmentative communciation
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

22. A remedial approach
Deaf - blindness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
delayed language and echolalia

23. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
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
yes
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

24. 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?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
ecological
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
90%

25. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
student to student
Emotional disturbance
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
curriculum based assessment

26. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
medication and a behavior management intervention
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

27. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
an individualized transition plan
18
where Section 504 comes from

28. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
Larry P vs. Riles
categorical approach
LRE
zero reject

29. 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
ESEA Act
10 per 10 - 100 children
direct instruction
having them practice filing out job applications

30. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
1%
Larry P vs. Riles
augmentative communciation
they modify students thought patterns

31. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Mental retardation
Orthopedic impairment
90%

32. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
General education classrooms
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

33. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
learning disability
LRE
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
pervasive developmental disorders

34. Yes
early traumatic experiences
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
no
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

35. ADHD criteria is defined by
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
social stories
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
the DSM- IV

36. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
augmentative communciation
IFSP

37. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
learned helplessness
10 per 10 - 100 children
hearing loss that was present at birth

38. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
an individualized transition plan
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Sixty days

39. In errorless learning SD stands for?
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
articulation
discriminatory stimulus

40. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
ESEA Act
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

41. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Specific learning disability
mental retardation
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

42. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Deaf - blindness

43. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
Deaf - blindness
compensatory education
Hearing impairment
Procedural safeguards

44. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
executive functioning
Emotional disturbance
50%

45. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
discriminatory stimulus
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

46. What is the prevalence of autism?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
10 per 10 - 100 children
Autism

47. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Emotional disturbance
an audiometer
Multiple disabilities

48. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
articulation
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

49. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
45%
yes
Procedural safeguards
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

50. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
categorical approach
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Stanford 9