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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Non - discriminatory assessment
zero reject
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

2. What are the two major characteristics of 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
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
student to student
Larry P vs. Riles

3. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
yes
delayed language and echolalia
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

4. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
having them practice filing out job applications
principles of IDEA
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

5. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Deafness
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
discriminatory stimulus

6. ADHD criteria is defined by
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
the DSM- IV
mental retardation
articulation

7. What does adaptive behavior mean?
How 504 defines a disability
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Non - discriminatory assessment

8. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
early traumatic experiences
Curriculum based assessment
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
Council for Exceptional Children

9. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Sixty days
hearing loss that was present at birth
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

10. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
yes
hearing loss that was present at birth

11. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

12. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
50%
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

13. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
having them practice filing out job applications
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

14. Metacognition is connected to
Program first placement second
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
executive functioning

15. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
pervasive developmental disorders
Fourteen
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
visual impairment

16. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
General education classrooms

17. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Deaf - blindness
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Specific learning disability

18. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
medication and a behavior management intervention
mental retardation
social stories

19. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
not legal
Hearing impairment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

20. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Fourteen
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

21. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Sixty days
medication and a behavior management intervention

22. Multiple and severe disabilties
Stanford 9
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

23. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
LRE
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
assistive technology

24. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
two to nine percent
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
an audiometer

25. 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?
no
18
try to find appropriate content at grade level
curriculum based assessment

26. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Program first placement second
Procedural safeguards
duration recording
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

27. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
zero reject
Emotional disturbance
ther health impairments

28. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
try to find appropriate content at grade level
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
yes
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

29. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
negative reinforcement
the Cummins model
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

30. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
functional skills - social skills - career skills
no
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

31. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
duration recording
How 504 defines a disability

32. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Deafness
Hearing impairment
zero reject

33. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
zero reject
students who are mentally retarded
categorical approach
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

34. What percent of the population was ADHD?
Multiple disabilities
two to nine percent
whole language
they modify students thought patterns

35. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
group contingency contracting
Procedural safeguards
medication and a behavior management intervention
hearing loss that was present at birth

36. 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
18
whole language
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
General education classrooms

37. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
Deaf - blindness
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
developmental
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

38. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Mental retardation
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

39. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
Hear and understand speech
student to student
students who are mentally retarded
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

40. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
45%
Non - discriminatory assessment
functional skills - social skills - career skills

41. What does FVA stand for?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Learning disabilities
functional vision assessment
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

42. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
Specific learning disability
learning disability
direct instruction
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

43. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
Sixty days
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

44. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
contingency based self - management
two to nine percent
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

45. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
contingency based self - management
they modify students thought patterns
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
speech or language impairment

46. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
visual impairment
two to nine percent
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Hearing impairment

47. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
augmentative communciation
yes
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

48. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

49. Name four areas of executive function
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
they modify students thought patterns

50. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Program first placement second
contingency based self - management
learning disability