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Praxis Special Ed
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praxis
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teaching
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Birthplace of FAPE
PARC vs. State of Penn
direct instruction
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
90%
2. What causes autism?
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
3. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
assistive technology
How 504 defines a disability
hearing loss that was present at birth
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
4. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Specific learning disability
mental retardation
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
5. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
Program first placement second
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Council for Exceptional Children
functional skills - social skills - career skills
6. What does FVA stand for?
1%
delayed language and echolalia
augmentative communciation
functional vision assessment
7. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
the DSM- IV
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
8. 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?
1%
Larry P vs. Riles
try to find appropriate content at grade level
not legal
9. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
discriminatory stimulus
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
visual impairment
Sixty days
10. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
students who are mentally retarded
an audiometer
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
ther health impairments
11. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
augmentative communciation
functional skills - social skills - career skills
12. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
delayed language and echolalia
they modify students thought patterns
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Mental retardation
13. 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
Deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
14. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
Council for Exceptional Children
not legal
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
contingency based self - management
15. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
an audiometer
executive functioning
16. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
curriculum based assessment
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
45%
17. 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
two to nine percent
functional skills - social skills - career skills
a hearing aid
developmental
18. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
Fourteen
students who are mentally retarded
Traumatic brain injury
yes
19. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
students who are mentally retarded
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
20. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Procedural safeguards
Sixty days
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
21. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
18
Multiple disabilities
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
22. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
10 per 10 - 100 children
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
23. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
medication and a behavior management intervention
students who are mentally retarded
Specific learning disability
24. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
LRE
yes
Curriculum based assessment
45%
25. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
principles of IDEA
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
10 per 10 - 100 children
categorical approach
26. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
where Section 504 comes from
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
27. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
mental retardation
Multiple disabilities
whole language
Specific learning disability
28. Metacognition is connected to
executive functioning
duration recording
visual impairment
Fourteen
29. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
medication and a behavior management intervention
21 or younger
Non - discriminatory assessment
Multiple disabilities
30. What is conductive hearing loss?
curriculum based assessment
PARC vs. State of Penn
Stanford 9
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
31. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
Fourteen
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
a hearing aid
32. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
curriculum based assessment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
learned helplessness
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
33. What is the prevalence of autism?
categorical approach
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
10 per 10 - 100 children
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
34. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
mental retardation
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Specific learning disability
35. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
functional vision assessment
How 504 defines a disability
students who are mentally retarded
Traumatic brain injury
36. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
social stories
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
yes
articulation
37. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
direct instruction
zero reject
38. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
discriminatory stimulus
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
39. What does adaptive behavior mean?
ther health impairments
Program first placement second
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
learning disability
40. 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
50%
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
whole language
41. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
they modify students thought patterns
10 per 10 - 100 children
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
42. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
speech or language impairment
18
1%
43. Mental retardation originates before what age?
Traumatic brain injury
18
Larry P vs. Riles
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
44. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
they modify students thought patterns
Sixty days
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
learned helplessness
45. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
hearing loss that was present at birth
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Deafness
life space analysis
46. A remedial approach
yes
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
1%
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
47. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
48. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
students who are mentally retarded
Traumatic brain injury
having them practice filing out job applications
49. 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
General education classrooms
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Fourteen
50. What percent of the population was ADHD?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
functional skills - social skills - career skills
two to nine percent
hearing loss that happened after birth