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1. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Non - discriminatory assessment
group contingency contracting
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

2. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Curriculum based assessment
categorical approach
life space analysis

3. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
pervasive developmental disorders
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
medication and a behavior management intervention

4. What is the prevalence of autism?
no
10 per 10 - 100 children
they modify students thought patterns
social stories

5. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
90%
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

6. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
Hearing impairment
the Cummins model
yes
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

7. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
mental retardation
functional vision assessment
Traumatic brain injury
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

8. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
Deaf - blindness
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
LRE
the Cummins model

9. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
ESEA Act
Procedural safeguards
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

10. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
curriculum based assessment
Fourteen
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

11. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
speech or language impairment
executive functioning
ecological

12. What are four types of data based decision making?
Autism
Traumatic brain injury
two to nine percent
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

13. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
yes
assistive technology

14. Share the responsibility for the students education
whole language
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
social stories
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

15. Name four areas of executive function
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
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
PARC vs. State of Penn
LRE

16. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
18

17. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
medication and a behavior management intervention
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
student to student
General education classrooms

18. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
pervasive developmental disorders
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

19. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
discriminatory stimulus
principles of IDEA
augmentative communciation
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

20. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Council for Exceptional Children

21. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
negative reinforcement
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
categorical approach
early traumatic experiences

22. 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
Deaf - blindness
group contingency contracting
Council for Exceptional Children
Procedural safeguards

23. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
where Section 504 comes from
50%
functional skills - social skills - career skills
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

24. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
life space analysis
the Cummins model

25. ADHD criteria is defined by
discriminatory stimulus
early traumatic experiences
the DSM- IV
where Section 504 comes from

26. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
principles of IDEA
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
contingency based self - management

27. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
mental retardation
augmentative communciation
an individualized transition plan

28. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
an individualized transition plan
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Procedural safeguards
21 or younger

29. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
assistive technology
Council for Exceptional Children
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Non - discriminatory assessment

30. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
Procedural safeguards
where Section 504 comes from
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
categorical approach

31. Yes
Council for Exceptional Children
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Larry P vs. Riles
Hearing impairment

32. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
Learning disabilities
ESEA Act
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

33. Birthplace of FAPE
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
an audiometer
PARC vs. State of Penn
where Section 504 comes from

34. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
principles of IDEA
Autism
they modify students thought patterns

35. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Autism
Fourteen
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

36. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
the Cummins model
augmentative communciation
an individualized transition plan
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

37. A remedial approach
Hear and understand speech
Program first placement second
student to student
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

38. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
where Section 504 comes from
mental retardation

39. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Sixty days
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

40. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
early traumatic experiences
no
yes
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

41. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
an audiometer
articulation
Program first placement second
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

42. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
Traumatic brain injury
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
duration recording

43. What percent of the population was ADHD?
ESEA Act
Multiple disabilities
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
two to nine percent

44. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
10 per 10 - 100 children
zero reject
learning disability
ecological

45. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Mental retardation
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

46. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
Hearing impairment
contingency based self - management
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

47. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
group contingency contracting
functional skills - social skills - career skills
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

48. What is acquired hearing loss?
early traumatic experiences
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Procedural safeguards
hearing loss that happened after birth

49. 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
developmental
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
negative reinforcement
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

50. What causes autism?
Orthopedic impairment
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Procedural safeguards
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors