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1. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
students who are mentally retarded
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
functional vision assessment

2. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Curriculum based assessment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
PARC vs. State of Penn

3. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
Learning disabilities
Larry P vs. Riles
having them practice filing out job applications
developmental

4. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Fourteen
Specific learning disability
students who are mentally retarded

5. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
learned helplessness
ESEA Act
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
90%

6. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
IFSP
Curriculum based assessment
medication and a behavior management intervention
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

7. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
Non - discriminatory assessment
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
PARC vs. State of Penn

8. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
medication and a behavior management intervention
mental retardation
Program first placement second
negative reinforcement

9. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
21 or younger
Stanford 9
visual impairment
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

10. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
not legal

11. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

12. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
try to find appropriate content at grade level
ecological
compensatory education
Multiple disabilities

13. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
pervasive developmental disorders
augmentative communciation
zero reject
Sixty days

14. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
visual impairment
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
duration recording

15. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
compensatory education
medication and a behavior management intervention
delayed language and echolalia

16. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
learning disability
mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Fourteen

17. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
zero reject
hearing loss that happened after birth
pervasive developmental disorders
developmental

18. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
contingency based self - management
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

19. 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
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

20. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
augmentative communciation
having them practice filing out job applications
10 per 10 - 100 children

21. 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
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
whole language
ther health impairments
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

22. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
Specific learning disability
duration recording
How 504 defines a disability
developmental

23. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
they modify students thought patterns
45%
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

24. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
hearing loss that happened after birth
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

25. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
Procedural safeguards
curriculum based assessment
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
ESEA Act

26. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
yes
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

27. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
compensatory education
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

28. Share the responsibility for the students education
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
18
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Larry P vs. Riles

29. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
zero reject
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
PARC vs. State of Penn

30. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
discriminatory stimulus
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Mental retardation

31. A model used with ESL and deaf students
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
the Cummins model
life space analysis

32. What are four types of data based decision making?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
the Cummins model
ESEA Act
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

33. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
functional vision assessment
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
visual impairment

34. A remedial approach
Larry P vs. Riles
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
yes

35. What causes autism?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
learned helplessness
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

36. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
ther health impairments
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
they modify students thought patterns

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

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38. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
delayed language and echolalia
Larry P vs. Riles
categorical approach

39. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
learned helplessness
duration recording
45%

40. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
LRE
student to student
Autism
learned helplessness

41. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
direct instruction
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Sixty days
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

42. Yes
Deafness
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
ther health impairments
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

43. Metacognition is connected to
principles of IDEA
Emotional disturbance
executive functioning
50%

44. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
a hearing aid
Stanford 9

45. What is the prevalence of autism?
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
categorical approach
10 per 10 - 100 children
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

46. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
negative reinforcement
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
social stories
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

47. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
hearing loss that happened after birth
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
developmental
ecological

48. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
yes
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
learning disability

49. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
an individualized transition plan
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
21 or younger

50. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
functional skills - social skills - career skills
10 per 10 - 100 children
yes