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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
try to find appropriate content at grade level
having them practice filing out job applications
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

2. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
hearing loss that happened after birth
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

3. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
articulation
contingency based self - management
delayed language and echolalia

4. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
students who are mentally retarded
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

5. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
the Cummins model
not legal

6. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
General education classrooms
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
no
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

7. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
50%
Hearing impairment
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
having them practice filing out job applications

8. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Hear and understand speech
articulation

9. What does FVA stand for?
Hearing impairment
functional vision assessment
ESEA Act
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

10. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
the DSM- IV
direct instruction
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

11. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
learned helplessness
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

12. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
contingency based self - management
two to nine percent
no
1%

13. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
augmentative communciation
the Cummins model

14. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
assistive technology
How 504 defines a disability
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
early traumatic experiences

15. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
LRE
the DSM- IV
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Hearing impairment

16. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
Larry P vs. Riles
functional skills - social skills - career skills
a hearing aid

17. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
life space analysis

18. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
discriminatory stimulus
90%

19. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
learning disability
an audiometer
developmental
Traumatic brain injury

20. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
learning disability
1%
compensatory education
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

21. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Hear and understand speech

22. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
categorical approach
direct instruction
Traumatic brain injury

23. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Deaf - blindness
Larry P vs. Riles

24. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
functional vision assessment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Procedural safeguards
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

25. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
Learning disabilities
pervasive developmental disorders
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

26. 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
Autism
ecological
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Orthopedic impairment

27. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Mental retardation
developmental
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

28. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
PARC vs. State of Penn
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
18

29. 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
Traumatic brain injury
Non - discriminatory assessment
assistive technology
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

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

31. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

32. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
learned helplessness
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
ther health impairments
mental retardation

33. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
functional vision assessment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

34. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
functional skills - social skills - career skills
functional vision assessment
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
curriculum based assessment

35. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Stanford 9
the Cummins model
speech or language impairment

36. Name four areas of executive function
duration recording
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
the DSM- IV

37. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
hearing loss that happened after birth
an individualized transition plan
Larry P vs. Riles
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

38. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
10 per 10 - 100 children
compensatory education
they modify students thought patterns
life space analysis

39. A model used with ESL and deaf students
a hearing aid
Hearing impairment
the Cummins model
having them practice filing out job applications

40. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
LRE
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

41. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Fourteen
General education classrooms
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

42. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
categorical approach
hearing loss that was present at birth
Curriculum based assessment
Orthopedic impairment

43. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
Emotional disturbance
functional skills - social skills - career skills
curriculum based assessment

44. What are four types of data based decision making?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
discriminatory stimulus
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
hearing loss that was present at birth

45. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
yes
Non - discriminatory assessment
mental retardation
Hear and understand speech

46. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
negative reinforcement
45%
mental retardation
assistive technology

47. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
General education classrooms
principles of IDEA
Stanford 9

48. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Stanford 9
Learning disabilities
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
PARC vs. State of Penn

49. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
discriminatory stimulus
Specific learning disability
learning disability
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

50. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Hear and understand speech
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal