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Praxis Special Ed

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1. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
yes
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

2. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Specific learning disability
mental retardation
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

3. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
life space analysis
having them practice filing out job applications
Council for Exceptional Children
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

4. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
students who are mentally retarded

5. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
Orthopedic impairment
Hear and understand speech
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

6. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
45%
Procedural safeguards
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

7. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
How 504 defines a disability
Multiple disabilities

8. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Curriculum based assessment
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

9. In errorless learning SD stands for?
discriminatory stimulus
where Section 504 comes from
LRE
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

10. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
50%
1%
articulation

11. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
contingency based self - management
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
the Cummins model
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

12. A remedial approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
21 or younger
hearing loss that happened after birth
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

13. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
Orthopedic impairment
Larry P vs. Riles
having them practice filing out job applications
mental retardation

14. Which perspective attributes emotional and behavioral disorders to poor interaction with the environment in which the student and environment affect each other reciprocally and advocates interventions using the entire social system
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
zero reject
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
ecological

15. What does a cochlear implant do?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
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
IFSP
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

16. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
curriculum based assessment
speech or language impairment
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
principles of IDEA

17. What causes autism?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
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

18. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
21 or younger
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
two to nine percent

19. Multiple and severe disabilties
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
ther health impairments
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
negative reinforcement

20. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
18
whole language

21. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
yes
two to nine percent
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
hearing loss that happened after birth

22. 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
an individualized transition plan
assistive technology
negative reinforcement

23. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
zero reject
45%

24. 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
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
Program first placement second
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

25. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
How 504 defines a disability
LRE
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
two to nine percent

26. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
90%
functional vision assessment
try to find appropriate content at grade level
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

27. Share the responsibility for the students education
curriculum based assessment
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
medication and a behavior management intervention
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

28. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
Non - discriminatory assessment
pervasive developmental disorders
two to nine percent
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

29. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
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
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
the Cummins model

30. Yes
Stanford 9
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
mental retardation

31. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
PARC vs. State of Penn
learned helplessness

32. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Orthopedic impairment
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

33. A model used with ESL and deaf students
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Fourteen
the Cummins model
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

34. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
speech or language impairment

35. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Program first placement second
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
executive functioning

36. 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
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
direct instruction
PARC vs. State of Penn
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

37. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
functional skills - social skills - career skills
mental retardation
delayed language and echolalia

38. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
45%
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

39. Birthplace of FAPE
Hearing impairment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
PARC vs. State of Penn
developmental

40. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
articulation
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Traumatic brain injury

41. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
a hearing aid
augmentative communciation

42. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
social stories
no
direct instruction

43. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
yes
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Council for Exceptional Children
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

44. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
early traumatic experiences
ther health impairments
having them practice filing out job applications
ecological

45. What does FVA stand for?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
yes
functional vision assessment
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

46. ADHD criteria is defined by
discriminatory stimulus
the DSM- IV
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
social stories

47. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Fourteen
no
Hear and understand speech
How 504 defines a disability

48. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
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
IFSP
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Traumatic brain injury

49. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
group contingency contracting
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
an individualized transition plan

50. Mental retardation originates before what age?
direct instruction
18
having them practice filing out job applications
LRE