Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis Special Ed

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. 504
IFSP
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Mental retardation
Non - discriminatory assessment

2. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Hearing impairment
Learning disabilities

3. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
whole language
Sixty days
General education classrooms

4. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Deaf - blindness
duration recording
student to student

5. In errorless learning SD stands for?
1%
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
discriminatory stimulus
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

6. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Mental retardation
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
PARC vs. State of Penn
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

7. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Specific learning disability
50%

8. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
IFSP
10 per 10 - 100 children
Traumatic brain injury
they modify students thought patterns

9. What is the prevalence of autism?
18
10 per 10 - 100 children
mental retardation
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

10. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
executive functioning
two to nine percent
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

11. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Procedural safeguards
Council for Exceptional Children
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Mental retardation

12. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Council for Exceptional Children
visual impairment

13. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
executive functioning
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
contingency based self - management

14. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
Deafness
mental retardation
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
yes

15. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
1%
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
categorical approach

16. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
they modify students thought patterns
ther health impairments
students who are mentally retarded

17. Birthplace of FAPE
try to find appropriate content at grade level
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
no
PARC vs. State of Penn

18. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
the DSM- IV
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
yes
Multiple disabilities

19. What are four types of data based decision making?
pervasive developmental disorders
ther health impairments
yes
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data

20. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
categorical approach
speech or language impairment
not legal

21. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
visual impairment
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
a hearing aid
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

22. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
where Section 504 comes from
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
45%

23. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

24. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
yes
1%
delayed language and echolalia
Mental retardation

25. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
How 504 defines a disability
Autism
10 per 10 - 100 children

26. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
compensatory education
Hear and understand speech
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

27. ADHD criteria is defined by
social stories
delayed language and echolalia
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
the DSM- IV

28. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
whole language
early traumatic experiences
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
functional vision assessment

29. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
negative reinforcement
Autism

30. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
Learning disabilities
ESEA Act
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
augmentative communciation

31. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
45%
student to student
delayed language and echolalia

32. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
learned helplessness
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
10 per 10 - 100 children
21 or younger

33. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
duration recording
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

34. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
IFSP
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Orthopedic impairment

35. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Hearing impairment

36. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
How 504 defines a disability
pervasive developmental disorders
where Section 504 comes from
hearing loss that happened after birth

37. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
no
yes
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
an audiometer

38. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
18
LRE
Stanford 9

39. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
articulation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

40. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
negative reinforcement

41. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
mental retardation
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

42. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
social stories
principles of IDEA
Deaf - blindness
an individualized transition plan

43. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
PARC vs. State of Penn
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
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

44. Mental retardation originates before what age?
Deaf - blindness
18
Hearing impairment
Mental retardation

45. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
assistive technology
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
PARC vs. State of Penn
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

46. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
Deafness
having them practice filing out job applications
PARC vs. State of Penn
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

47. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
developmental
yes
Hear and understand speech

48. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
pervasive developmental disorders
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
where Section 504 comes from
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

49. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
Sixty days
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
18

50. 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
where Section 504 comes from
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
CCTV - optical scanner - computers