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1. 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
ecological
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
delayed language and echolalia
the DSM- IV

2. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
yes
whole language
Curriculum based assessment

3. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
speech or language impairment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

4. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Sixty days
no
Learning disabilities

5. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
90%
yes
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
students who are mentally retarded

6. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
executive functioning
speech or language impairment
curriculum based assessment
10 per 10 - 100 children

7. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
a hearing aid
the DSM- IV

8. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
Non - discriminatory assessment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
21 or younger

9. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
assistive technology
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Stanford 9

10. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
group contingency contracting
Learning disabilities
no
early traumatic experiences

11. In errorless learning SD stands for?
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
duration recording
discriminatory stimulus
early traumatic experiences

12. Mental retardation originates before what age?
PARC vs. State of Penn
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
18
Procedural safeguards

13. Spina bifida
augmentative communciation
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
yes
Specific learning disability

14. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
speech or language impairment
early traumatic experiences
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers

15. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
augmentative communciation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

16. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Hearing impairment
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Procedural safeguards

17. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
Stanford 9
ther health impairments
principles of IDEA
having them practice filing out job applications

18. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Multiple disabilities
hearing loss that was present at birth
Hearing impairment
not legal

19. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
1%
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

20. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Larry P vs. Riles
ecological
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

21. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
social stories
visual impairment
Traumatic brain injury
Hearing impairment

22. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
IFSP
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

23. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Curriculum based assessment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Traumatic brain injury

24. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
Autism
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
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
discriminatory stimulus

25. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
an audiometer
Deafness
yes
students who are mentally retarded

26. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
10 per 10 - 100 children
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
medication and a behavior management intervention
Deaf - blindness

27. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Curriculum based assessment
LRE
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

28. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
Orthopedic impairment
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
yes

29. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
Traumatic brain injury
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

30. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
an audiometer
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
90%

31. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
assistive technology
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

32. What is conductive hearing loss?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
yes
hearing loss that was present at birth
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

33. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
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
delayed language and echolalia
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors

34. 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
Learning disabilities
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

35. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
assistive technology
two to nine percent
life space analysis

36. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
PARC vs. State of Penn
principles of IDEA
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

37. Share the responsibility for the students education
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

38. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
where Section 504 comes from
contingency based self - management
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

39. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Procedural safeguards
life space analysis
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

40. 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?
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
try to find appropriate content at grade level
mental retardation
ESEA Act

41. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
Autism
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

42. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
Deaf - blindness
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

43. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
duration recording
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

44. 504
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Emotional disturbance
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

45. What is the prevalence of autism?
no
10 per 10 - 100 children
Larry P vs. Riles
Program first placement second

46. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
zero reject
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
45%
no

47. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
students who are mentally retarded
augmentative communciation
Orthopedic impairment
21 or younger

48. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
18
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

49. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
90%
21 or younger
zero reject
learned helplessness

50. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
45%
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

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