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Praxis Special Ed

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1. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
negative reinforcement
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
social stories

2. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
Hear and understand speech
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
IFSP
zero reject

3. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
an audiometer
General education classrooms
Hearing impairment
50%

4. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
21 or younger
contingency based self - management
yes

5. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
no
Hearing impairment
Mental retardation
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

6. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
hearing loss that was present at birth
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
ecological

7. A model used with ESL and deaf students
the Cummins model
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
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

8. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
90%
pervasive developmental disorders

9. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
Learning disabilities
ther health impairments
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Non - discriminatory assessment

10. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
principles of IDEA

11. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
learning disability
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
augmentative communciation

12. What does outer - directedness mean?
Mental retardation
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
learning disability
zero reject

13. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
How 504 defines a disability
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

14. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Deafness
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

15. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
Hear and understand speech
ecological
hearing loss that happened after birth
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

16. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
50%
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
articulation
life space analysis

17. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
developmental
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
they modify students thought patterns
hearing loss that was present at birth

18. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
yes
speech or language impairment

19. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
delayed language and echolalia
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
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

20. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
speech or language impairment
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
visual impairment

21. Share the responsibility for the students education
student to student
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Learning disabilities
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

22. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Procedural safeguards
compensatory education
mental retardation

23. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
mental retardation
Curriculum based assessment
mental retardation
augmentative communciation

24. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
compensatory education
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
1%

25. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
compensatory education
Fourteen

26. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try 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
learned helplessness
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

27. What does adaptive behavior mean?
visual impairment
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

28. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
principles of IDEA
Larry P vs. Riles
90%
Program first placement second

29. Yes
Deafness
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
ecological

30. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

31. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
curriculum based assessment
yes
they modify students thought patterns
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

32. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
contingency based self - management
LRE

33. Name four areas of executive function
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
visual impairment

34. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
executive functioning
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

35. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
an audiometer
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Hearing impairment
life space analysis

36. Birthplace of FAPE
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
functional skills - social skills - career skills
not legal
PARC vs. State of Penn

37. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
functional skills - social skills - career skills
articulation

38. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
pervasive developmental disorders
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Non - discriminatory assessment
delayed language and echolalia

39. What causes autism?
Curriculum based assessment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
1%
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

40. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

41. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
contingency based self - management
having them practice filing out job applications
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Deafness

42. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
45%
the DSM- IV
General education classrooms
90%

43. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
learning disability
21 or younger
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
categorical approach

44. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
Traumatic brain injury
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Program first placement second
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

45. What is acquired hearing loss?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
hearing loss that happened after birth
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

46. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Curriculum based assessment
mental retardation
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Program first placement second

47. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
contingency based self - management

48. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
no
developmental
functional vision assessment
speech or language impairment

49. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Curriculum based assessment
Multiple disabilities
Fourteen

50. 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
hearing loss that was present at birth
50%
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
developmental