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Praxis Special Ed

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1. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
speech or language impairment
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

2. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
student to student
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
zero reject
Mental retardation

3. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
functional vision assessment
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
an individualized transition plan

4. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
two to nine percent
speech or language impairment
Orthopedic impairment
they modify students thought patterns

5. What is the prevalence of autism?
Procedural safeguards
10 per 10 - 100 children
medication and a behavior management intervention
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

6. If a college bound student has the accommodation that he uses a tape recorder in english and a calculator in algebra II this is an example of
assistive technology
Program first placement second
an audiometer
ecological

7. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
zero reject
students who are mentally retarded

8. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
mental retardation
not legal

9. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
45%
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
an individualized transition plan
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

10. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
discriminatory stimulus
Procedural safeguards
Deafness
life space analysis

11. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
having them practice filing out job applications
Larry P vs. Riles
functional skills - social skills - career skills
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

12. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
student to student
negative reinforcement

13. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
social stories
Deafness
compensatory education
duration recording

14. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
no
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
General education classrooms
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

15. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
hearing loss that was present at birth
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
18
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

16. What is CLOZE procedure?
mental retardation
Multiple disabilities
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

17. Yes
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
discriminatory stimulus
contingency based self - management

18. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
developmental
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Learning disabilities

19. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
zero reject
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Autism
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

20. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
contingency based self - management
IFSP
50%
hearing loss that happened after birth

21. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
executive functioning
mental retardation

22. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
compensatory education
Stanford 9
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

23. Share the responsibility for the students education
visual impairment
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
compensatory education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

24. Spina bifida
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
10 per 10 - 100 children
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

25. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
direct instruction
Larry P vs. Riles
mental retardation

26. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
social stories
Autism
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
yes

27. A model used with ESL and deaf students
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
pervasive developmental disorders
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
the Cummins model

28. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
student to student
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
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

29. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
they modify students thought patterns
an audiometer
learning disability
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

30. ADHD criteria is defined by
18
Program first placement second
the DSM- IV
medication and a behavior management intervention

31. 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
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
whole language
Program first placement second

32. 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
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
ecological
the Cummins model
IFSP

33. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
hearing loss that was present at birth
Multiple disabilities
duration recording

34. What causes autism?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
General education classrooms
ESEA Act
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

35. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
students who are mentally retarded
an individualized transition plan
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

36. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
Procedural safeguards
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Council for Exceptional Children

37. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
students who are mentally retarded
Mental retardation
Hearing impairment
ther health impairments

38. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
21 or younger
How 504 defines a disability
early traumatic experiences
where Section 504 comes from

39. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
Sixty days
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

40. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
How 504 defines a disability
PARC vs. State of Penn

41. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
IFSP
mental retardation
having them practice filing out job applications
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

42. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Stanford 9
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
direct instruction
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

43. 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?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
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
an individualized transition plan

44. 504
Stanford 9
having them practice filing out job applications
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Non - discriminatory assessment

45. Mental retardation originates before what age?
learned helplessness
18
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
an individualized transition plan

46. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
medication and a behavior management intervention
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
having them practice filing out job applications

47. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
ESEA Act
Larry P vs. Riles

48. 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
direct instruction
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
PARC vs. State of Penn
Procedural safeguards

49. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
speech or language impairment
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
ESEA Act
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

50. Specific learning disability
Hearing impairment
10 per 10 - 100 children
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
social stories