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Praxis Special Ed

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
Deaf - blindness
try to find appropriate content at grade level
social stories
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

2. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Orthopedic impairment
Deafness
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
student to student

3. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
10 per 10 - 100 children
Curriculum based assessment
Mental retardation

4. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
Larry P vs. Riles
Specific learning disability
Emotional disturbance

5. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
Hear and understand speech
ESEA Act
Autism
Curriculum based assessment

6. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Non - discriminatory assessment
21 or younger
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

7. The approach to reading instruction which uses students language and experiences and in which reading is taught a meaning - oriented integrated activity rather than a collection of separate skills is known as a
augmentative communciation
Program first placement second
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
whole language

8. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Orthopedic impairment
augmentative communciation
learning disability

9. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
curriculum based assessment
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
whole language
mental retardation

10. ADHD criteria is defined by
no
the DSM- IV
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
assistive technology

11. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Procedural safeguards
where Section 504 comes from

12. Name four areas of executive function
Multiple disabilities
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

13. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Multiple disabilities
Council for Exceptional Children

14. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
10 per 10 - 100 children
pervasive developmental disorders
hearing loss that happened after birth
whole language

15. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
Hearing impairment
1%
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
PARC vs. State of Penn

16. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Deafness
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
visual impairment

17. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
whole language
social stories
45%

18. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
PARC vs. State of Penn
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
pervasive developmental disorders

19. 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
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
group contingency contracting

20. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Orthopedic impairment
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
18

21. If a college bound student has the accommodation that he uses a tape recorder in english and a calculator in algebra II this is an example of
assistive technology
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

22. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
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
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Curriculum based assessment

23. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
45%
principles of IDEA
visual impairment
group contingency contracting

24. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
no
yes
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Council for Exceptional Children

25. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
the DSM- IV
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
student to student
early traumatic experiences

26. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Mental retardation
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

27. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
functional vision assessment
Orthopedic impairment
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

28. Birthplace of FAPE
pervasive developmental disorders
IFSP
PARC vs. State of Penn
visual impairment

29. Students with learning disabilities account for what percent of children in special education
Curriculum based assessment
Council for Exceptional Children
LRE
50%

30. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
negative reinforcement
How 504 defines a disability
45%
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

31. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
articulation
Hearing impairment

32. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
life space analysis
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
45%
Larry P vs. Riles

33. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
curriculum based assessment
negative reinforcement
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

34. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Sixty days
learning disability
Hearing impairment
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

35. In making a decision about curriculum and instruction for a student with a disability what piece of information is most useful?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Curriculum based assessment
General education classrooms
an individualized transition plan

36. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
they modify students thought patterns
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
zero reject

37. Spina bifida
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Orthopedic impairment
Emotional disturbance
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

38. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
curriculum based assessment
visual impairment
90%
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

39. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
duration recording
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
having them practice filing out job applications
an individualized transition plan

40. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
early traumatic experiences
zero reject
categorical approach
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

41. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
delayed language and echolalia
Traumatic brain injury
zero reject

42. A remedial approach
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
visual impairment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

43. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
delayed language and echolalia
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

44. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
LRE
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
not legal
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

45. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
direct instruction
Autism
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

46. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
developmental
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Learning disabilities
articulation

47. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
LRE
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
delayed language and echolalia

48. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
hearing loss that happened after birth
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
two to nine percent
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

49. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
they modify students thought patterns
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

50. 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
Autism
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
hearing loss that happened after birth