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Praxis Special Ed
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praxis
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teaching
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
Deaf - blindness
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
21 or younger
2. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
Learning disabilities
Sixty days
having them practice filing out job applications
45%
3. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
mental retardation
discriminatory stimulus
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
4. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
life space analysis
Program first placement second
two to nine percent
principles of IDEA
5. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
LRE
How 504 defines a disability
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
6. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
Sixty days
categorical approach
learned helplessness
student to student
7. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
an audiometer
the Cummins model
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
8. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
life space analysis
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
LRE
medication and a behavior management intervention
9. Spina bifida
IFSP
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
not legal
10. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
a hearing aid
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
duration recording
11. What is the prevalence of autism?
developmental
10 per 10 - 100 children
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
pervasive developmental disorders
12. Which deals with removing aversives negative reinforcement of negative consequences
yes
students who are mentally retarded
negative reinforcement
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
13. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
Autism
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
medication and a behavior management intervention
14. Multiple and severe disabilties
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
an audiometer
Emotional disturbance
15. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
discriminatory stimulus
50%
16. Metacognition is connected to
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
social stories
executive functioning
17. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
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
Stanford 9
students who are mentally retarded
Curriculum based assessment
18. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
assistive technology
19. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
having them practice filing out job applications
ther health impairments
20. What percent of the population was ADHD?
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
two to nine percent
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
medication and a behavior management intervention
21. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
not legal
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
ecological
22. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
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
23. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
early traumatic experiences
try to find appropriate content at grade level
contingency based self - management
where Section 504 comes from
24. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
contingency based self - management
mental retardation
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
25. What does the Transition Planning Inventory assesses?
Specific learning disability
learned helplessness
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
26. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
mental retardation
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
27. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
discriminatory stimulus
learning disability
yes
Larry P vs. Riles
28. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Learning disabilities
Deaf - blindness
29. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
an audiometer
student to student
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
30. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Deafness
hearing loss that was present at birth
Traumatic brain injury
zero reject
31. In errorless learning SD stands for?
Orthopedic impairment
discriminatory stimulus
no
Hearing impairment
32. According to IDEA 2004 is ADD ADHD a separate disability catagory?
Mental retardation
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
33. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
an individualized transition plan
duration recording
34. 504
LRE
Program first placement second
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
35. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
developmental
curriculum based assessment
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
36. What does adaptive behavior mean?
assistive technology
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
37. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Program first placement second
Autism
no
yes
38. Name four areas of executive function
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
39. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
50%
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
40. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
social stories
41. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
mental retardation
Specific learning disability
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
42. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
student to student
compensatory education
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
speech or language impairment
43. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Traumatic brain injury
augmentative communciation
44. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
no
90%
hearing loss that was present at birth
Curriculum based assessment
45. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
18
no
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Mental retardation
46. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
45%
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
speech or language impairment
47. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
hearing loss that was present at birth
delayed language and echolalia
90%
48. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
direct instruction
Orthopedic impairment
they modify students thought patterns
49. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
try to find appropriate content at grade level
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
21 or younger
General education classrooms
50. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
yes
curriculum based assessment