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Praxis Special Ed

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1. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
General education classrooms
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Multiple disabilities

2. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
not legal
assistive technology
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

3. What is the prevalence of autism?
10 per 10 - 100 children
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

4. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
mental retardation
a hearing aid
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

5. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
early traumatic experiences
Program first placement second
augmentative communciation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

6. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
where Section 504 comes from
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
students who are mentally retarded
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

7. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
ESEA Act
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

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

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9. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Sixty days
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

10. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
yes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

11. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
10 per 10 - 100 children
yes
Larry P vs. Riles
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

12. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
augmentative communciation
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Hearing impairment
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

13. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
Mental retardation
yes
speech or language impairment
functional skills - social skills - career skills

14. Share the responsibility for the students education
executive functioning
Council for Exceptional Children
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
not legal

15. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
45%
medication and a behavior management intervention
social stories

16. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
compensatory education
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

17. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
yes
Sixty days
they modify students thought patterns
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

18. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
yes
45%

19. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
zero reject
speech or language impairment
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
compensatory education

20. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Traumatic brain injury
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
PARC vs. State of Penn

21. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
an individualized transition plan
Sixty days
the DSM- IV
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

22. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
21 or younger
they modify students thought patterns

23. A model used with ESL and deaf students
developmental
the Cummins model
visual impairment
try to find appropriate content at grade level

24. Birthplace of FAPE
PARC vs. State of Penn
90%
assistive technology
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

25. The approach to reading instruction which uses students language and experiences and in which reading is taught a meaning - oriented integrated activity rather than a collection of separate skills is known as a
whole language
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
hearing loss that happened after birth

26. 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
they modify students thought patterns
Stanford 9
student to student

27. What causes autism?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Deafness
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
yes

28. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
a hearing aid
students who are mentally retarded
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

29. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Orthopedic impairment
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

30. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
whole language
not legal
pervasive developmental disorders
hearing loss that happened after birth

31. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
developmental
Procedural safeguards
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

32. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
negative reinforcement
How 504 defines a disability
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
duration recording

33. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
Sixty days
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Curriculum based assessment
duration recording

34. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
pervasive developmental disorders
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
visual impairment
compensatory education

35. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
life space analysis
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
50%
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

36. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
augmentative communciation
curriculum based assessment
mental retardation
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

37. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
learned helplessness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
LRE

38. Yes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
categorical approach
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

39. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
the Cummins model
augmentative communciation
categorical approach
Deafness

40. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Deaf - blindness
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

41. Which perspective attributes emotional and behavioral disorders to poor interaction with the environment in which the student and environment affect each other reciprocally and advocates interventions using the entire social system
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
ecological
assistive technology

42. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
contingency based self - management
principles of IDEA
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

43. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
developmental
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
having them practice filing out job applications
early traumatic experiences

44. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
they modify students thought patterns
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
45%

45. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
90%
Mental retardation
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

46. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
not legal
Curriculum based assessment
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
principles of IDEA

47. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
1%
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
hearing loss that was present at birth
having them practice filing out job applications

48. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
Specific learning disability
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

49. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Emotional disturbance
ESEA Act
Stanford 9

50. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
hearing loss that happened after birth
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Deaf - blindness
whole language