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1. A model used with ESL and deaf students
IFSP
Stanford 9
the Cummins model
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

2. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
1%
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Multiple disabilities
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

3. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
10 per 10 - 100 children
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
curriculum based assessment

4. What does adaptive behavior mean?
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

5. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
negative reinforcement
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
delayed language and echolalia

6. Name four areas of executive function
How 504 defines a disability
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
developmental
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

7. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Non - discriminatory assessment
21 or younger

8. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
LRE
Traumatic brain injury
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

9. Share the responsibility for the students education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
speech or language impairment
Sixty days
the DSM- IV

10. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Specific learning disability
Deaf - blindness
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Program first placement second

11. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
categorical approach
Learning disabilities
learning disability

12. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
45%
IFSP
contingency based self - management

13. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
Curriculum based assessment
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

14. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
categorical approach
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Sixty days
negative reinforcement

15. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
ther health impairments
compensatory education

16. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
visual impairment
pervasive developmental disorders
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

17. What does a cochlear implant do?
General education classrooms
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
students who are mentally retarded
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

18. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
the Cummins model
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

19. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
21 or younger
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
group contingency contracting
direct instruction

20. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
zero reject
functional skills - social skills - career skills
10 per 10 - 100 children
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

21. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
Curriculum based assessment
a hearing aid
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
hearing loss that was present at birth

22. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
ther health impairments
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
principles of IDEA

23. All the members of a group must achieve a certain goal before any member of the group receives a reward is an example of a
group contingency contracting
Procedural safeguards
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

24. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
early traumatic experiences
Emotional disturbance
a hearing aid
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

25. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
yes
try to find appropriate content at grade level
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

26. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Procedural safeguards
Deaf - blindness
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Fourteen

27. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
General education classrooms
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

28. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
PARC vs. State of Penn
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
augmentative communciation
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

29. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
18
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Multiple disabilities
Program first placement second

30. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Deaf - blindness
Program first placement second

31. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
hearing loss that was present at birth
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

32. 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
negative reinforcement
Council for Exceptional Children
assistive technology

33. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
negative reinforcement
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Learning disabilities
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

34. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
How 504 defines a disability
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
they modify students thought patterns

35. In errorless learning SD stands for?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
hearing loss that happened after birth
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
discriminatory stimulus

36. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
having them practice filing out job applications
articulation

37. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Program first placement second

38. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Program first placement second
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
How 504 defines a disability

39. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
learning disability
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
How 504 defines a disability
early traumatic experiences

40. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
social stories
ESEA Act
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Autism

41. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
compensatory education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Curriculum based assessment

42. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
18
IFSP
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
ecological

43. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
LRE
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

44. 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
articulation
LRE
principles of IDEA
ecological

45. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
having them practice filing out job applications
Procedural safeguards
student to student
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

46. 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
direct instruction
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
How 504 defines a disability

47. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
18
a hearing aid
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
principles of IDEA

48. What percent of the population was ADHD?
visual impairment
an audiometer
speech or language impairment
two to nine percent

49. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
ecological
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Larry P vs. Riles
Program first placement second

50. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
speech or language impairment
mental retardation
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain