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1. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
50%
direct instruction
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
speech or language impairment

2. 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
they modify students thought patterns
Curriculum based assessment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

3. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
Program first placement second
a hearing aid
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
life space analysis

4. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
90%
Fourteen
they modify students thought patterns
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

5. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Traumatic brain injury
Hearing impairment
Sixty days
45%

6. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
an audiometer
the Cummins model
functional skills - social skills - career skills
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

7. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Mental retardation
articulation
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

8. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
student to student
zero reject
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

9. What are four types of data based decision making?
Orthopedic impairment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

10. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Orthopedic impairment
Mental retardation

11. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
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
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
medication and a behavior management intervention

12. Name four areas of executive function
no
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Multiple disabilities
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

13. 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?
assistive technology
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Autism
functional vision assessment

14. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

15. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
mental retardation
Hearing impairment
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
learning disability

16. 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
assistive technology
visual impairment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
direct instruction

17. 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
they modify students thought patterns
45%
functional skills - social skills - career skills

18. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
learning disability
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
not legal
students who are mentally retarded

19. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
learning disability
Learning disabilities
they modify students thought patterns
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

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

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21. Multiple and severe disabilties
early traumatic experiences
90%
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

22. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
IFSP
direct instruction
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

23. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
Sixty days
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
duration recording
functional skills - social skills - career skills

24. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
categorical approach
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
contingency based self - management
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

25. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
having them practice filing out job applications
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
mental retardation

26. 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
Curriculum based assessment
executive functioning
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

27. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
contingency based self - management
students who are mentally retarded
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

28. What is acquired hearing loss?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
augmentative communciation
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
hearing loss that happened after birth

29. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Autism
learning disability
18
group contingency contracting

30. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
augmentative communciation
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
Curriculum based assessment
Procedural safeguards

31. Specific learning disability
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
functional vision assessment
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 makes effects language development through reading - writing

32. What does a cochlear implant do?
Emotional disturbance
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

33. What is the prevalence of autism?
10 per 10 - 100 children
yes
Non - discriminatory assessment
executive functioning

34. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
General education classrooms
try to find appropriate content at grade level
social stories

35. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
ESEA Act
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
zero reject

36. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
How 504 defines a disability
mental retardation
articulation
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

37. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
executive functioning
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
compensatory education

38. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
students who are mentally retarded
visual impairment
whole language
Curriculum based assessment

39. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Stanford 9
medication and a behavior management intervention
yes

40. What does outer - directedness mean?
ecological
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
functional vision assessment
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

41. 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
18
developmental
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
speech or language impairment

42. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
yes
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

43. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
21 or younger
Multiple disabilities
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
pervasive developmental disorders

44. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
Procedural safeguards
yes
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

45. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
ther health impairments
50%
discriminatory stimulus

46. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
medication and a behavior management intervention
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Non - discriminatory assessment
Sixty days

47. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
Emotional disturbance
Curriculum based assessment
mental retardation
learning disability

48. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
articulation
zero reject
functional skills - social skills - career skills
delayed language and echolalia

49. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
90%
45%
Multiple disabilities
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

50. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
yes
45%
Procedural safeguards