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Praxis Special Ed

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1. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
yes
articulation
an audiometer
General education classrooms

2. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
speech or language impairment
mental retardation
student to student

3. What does adaptive behavior mean?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

4. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
PARC vs. State of Penn
Stanford 9
where Section 504 comes from

5. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Sixty days
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

6. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
augmentative communciation

7. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
Sixty days
LRE
an individualized transition plan
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

8. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Sixty days
PARC vs. State of Penn

9. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Fourteen
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

10. Plans that goals and objectives including future employment - independent living - and adult services for students 14 years and older are know as
the DSM- IV
Autism
an individualized transition plan
an audiometer

11. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
Council for Exceptional Children
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
How 504 defines a disability
Non - discriminatory assessment

12. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
categorical approach
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
learned helplessness

13. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Deaf - blindness
an audiometer
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

14. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
General education classrooms
group contingency contracting
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing

15. 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
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
medication and a behavior management intervention
Autism
group contingency contracting

16. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
direct instruction
45%
Non - discriminatory assessment
compensatory education

17. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
Learning disabilities
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
visual impairment

18. Spina bifida
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Deafness
Learning disabilities
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

19. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Specific learning disability
not legal
assistive technology
hearing loss that was present at birth

20. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
life space analysis
Procedural safeguards
visual impairment
try to find appropriate content at grade level

21. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
executive functioning
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

22. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
ESEA Act
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills

23. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
ther health impairments
Autism
functional vision assessment

24. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
having them practice filing out job applications
functional vision assessment
Emotional disturbance
no

25. What does congenital hearing loss mean?
Learning disabilities
hearing loss that was present at birth
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
principles of IDEA

26. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

27. ADHD criteria is defined by
the DSM- IV
Non - discriminatory assessment
hearing loss that happened after birth
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

28. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
Procedural safeguards
developmental
learned helplessness
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

29. 504
Deaf - blindness
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
delayed language and echolalia
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

30. 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?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
an audiometer
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
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31. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
delayed language and echolalia
articulation
IFSP

32. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
social stories
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

33. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
visual impairment
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
yes
Stanford 9

34. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
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
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

35. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
General education classrooms

36. 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
PARC vs. State of Penn
whole language
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Mental retardation

37. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
learning disability
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
yes
visual impairment

38. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
contingency based self - management
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Emotional disturbance
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

39. What are four types of data based decision making?
medication and a behavior management intervention
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
where Section 504 comes from

40. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
negative reinforcement
yes
learning disability

41. What is the prevalence of autism?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
PARC vs. State of Penn
functional vision assessment
10 per 10 - 100 children

42. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Non - discriminatory assessment

43. What is CLOZE procedure?
no
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
assistive technology
hearing loss that was present at birth

44. What is conductive hearing loss?
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
PARC vs. State of Penn
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

45. 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
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
functional vision assessment
developmental
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

46. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
Sixty days
General education classrooms
medication and a behavior management intervention
categorical approach

47. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
duration recording
mental retardation
two to nine percent
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

48. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
Sixty days
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

49. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
executive functioning
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
duration recording
LRE

50. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
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
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district