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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
student to student
Curriculum based assessment
Sixty days
Autism

2. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
Emotional disturbance
augmentative communciation
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
learned helplessness

3. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
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
mental retardation
negative reinforcement
Specific learning disability

4. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
medication and a behavior management intervention
compensatory education
IFSP
developmental

5. What does FVA stand for?
visual impairment
functional vision assessment
early traumatic experiences
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

6. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
students who are mentally retarded
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
zero reject

7. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
delayed language and echolalia
Non - discriminatory assessment
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
executive functioning

8. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
try to find appropriate content at grade level
zero reject
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
early traumatic experiences

9. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
augmentative communciation
IFSP
learned helplessness

10. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
Procedural safeguards
Stanford 9
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
LRE

11. Birthplace of FAPE
Orthopedic impairment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
PARC vs. State of Penn

12. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
zero reject
yes

13. A remedial approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
duration recording
Non - discriminatory assessment
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

14. What percent of the population was ADHD?
Stanford 9
ecological
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
two to nine percent

15. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
whole language
the DSM- IV
Orthopedic impairment
try to find appropriate content at grade level

16. 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
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
principles of IDEA
ecological
two to nine percent

17. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
How 504 defines a disability
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Autism
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

18. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
ecological
they modify students thought patterns
an individualized transition plan

19. Multiple and severe disabilties
direct instruction
18
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

20. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
yes
Curriculum based assessment
developmental
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

21. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
the Cummins model
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

22. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
yes
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Curriculum based assessment

23. What is indicative of a receptive language disorder?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Sixty days
medication and a behavior management intervention
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

24. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
yes
an individualized transition plan
ecological
where Section 504 comes from

25. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
hearing loss that was present at birth
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
General education classrooms
curriculum based assessment

26. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
ther health impairments
functional skills - social skills - career skills
45%
1%

27. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
a hearing aid
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
assistive technology

28. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Larry P vs. Riles
visual impairment
functional skills - social skills - career skills

29. A ecological inventory for an MR student in a fast food environment would be...
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
articulation
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

30. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
ESEA Act
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
21 or younger
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

31. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
Larry P vs. Riles
categorical approach
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

32. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
delayed language and echolalia
zero reject
learning disability
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

33. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
learned helplessness
Deaf - blindness
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

34. Mental retardation originates before what age?
where Section 504 comes from
mental retardation
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
18

35. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
functional skills - social skills - career skills
student to student
an audiometer
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

36. In errorless learning SD stands for?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
Fourteen
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
discriminatory stimulus

37. 504
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
delayed language and echolalia
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

38. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
functional vision assessment
executive functioning
an audiometer

39. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
10 per 10 - 100 children
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
articulation

40. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
ecological
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
90%
Learning disabilities

41. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Deafness
Fourteen
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

42. What are four types of data based decision making?
augmentative communciation
10 per 10 - 100 children
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
direct instruction

43. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
How 504 defines a disability
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

44. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
learning disability
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Multiple disabilities

45. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
pervasive developmental disorders
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

46. Learners with disabilities have opportunities to achieve commensurate with their peers

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47. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
ther health impairments
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
delayed language and echolalia
students who are mentally retarded

48. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
life space analysis
21 or younger
an audiometer
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

49. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
ecological
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
categorical approach
Sixty days

50. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
yes
try to find appropriate content at grade level