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1. What causes autism?
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Council for Exceptional Children
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Emotional disturbance

2. Metacognition is connected to
zero reject
executive functioning
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
90%

3. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
students who are mentally retarded
Orthopedic impairment
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

4. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

5. What are four types of data based decision making?
Non - discriminatory assessment
learning disability
speech or language impairment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

6. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
90%
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
IFSP

7. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
whole language
learned helplessness
augmentative communciation

8. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
21 or younger
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
45%
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

9. What is CLOZE procedure?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
two to nine percent
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

10. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Program first placement second
Non - discriminatory assessment
21 or younger

11. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
executive functioning
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
early traumatic experiences
Stanford 9

12. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
90%
the Cummins model

13. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
yes
How 504 defines a disability
IFSP
Larry P vs. Riles

14. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
categorical approach
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
90%

15. Specific learning disability
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
learning disability
functional skills - social skills - career skills
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

16. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
LRE
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

17. In errorless learning SD stands for?
learning disability
delayed language and echolalia
discriminatory stimulus
Specific learning disability

18. Name four areas of executive function
articulation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
no
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

19. The approach that categorizes exceptionality as the statistical degree to which an individual deviates from the average in terms of cognitive - social - emotional - and physical abilities is called
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
ESEA Act
developmental
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

20. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
mental retardation

21. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Stanford 9
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
yes
speech or language impairment

22. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
negative reinforcement
hearing loss that happened after birth
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

23. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
discriminatory stimulus
Traumatic brain injury
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
pervasive developmental disorders

24. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
duration recording
no
an audiometer
medication and a behavior management intervention

25. What is conductive hearing loss?
hearing loss that happened after birth
delayed language and echolalia
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
mental retardation

26. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
augmentative communciation
student to student
assistive technology
learning disability

27. Multiple and severe disabilties
augmentative communciation
Traumatic brain injury
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

28. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
having them practice filing out job applications
a hearing aid

29. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
contingency based self - management
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

30. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Multiple disabilities

31. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
Sixty days
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
visual impairment
life space analysis

32. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
they modify students thought patterns
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

33. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
the DSM- IV
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Traumatic brain injury
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

34. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
ther health impairments
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
executive functioning

35. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
18
ESEA Act

36. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
ecological
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

37. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
LRE

38. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
the Cummins model
yes

39. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
General education classrooms
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
whole language
Stanford 9

40. Share the responsibility for the students education
direct instruction
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Fourteen
Deafness

41. Spina bifida
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
1%
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

42. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
an individualized transition plan
the Cummins model
90%
Deaf - blindness

43. 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
1%
Stanford 9
principles of IDEA
assistive technology

44. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
50%
articulation
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

45. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
the Cummins model
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
zero reject

46. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Traumatic brain injury
How 504 defines a disability
Mental retardation
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

47. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
the Cummins model
principles of IDEA
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
no

48. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
yes
compensatory education
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Autism

49. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
learned helplessness
Procedural safeguards
augmentative communciation

50. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
mental retardation
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should