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1. Multiple and severe disabilties
Hear and understand speech
curriculum based assessment
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
learned helplessness

2. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
pervasive developmental disorders
90%
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Traumatic brain injury

3. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
categorical approach
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
21 or younger
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

4. Birthplace of FAPE
Hear and understand speech
PARC vs. State of Penn
1%
the Cummins model

5. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
ther health impairments
Hear and understand speech
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

6. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
assistive technology
learned helplessness
medication and a behavior management intervention

7. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
where Section 504 comes from
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
learning disability

8. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
functional vision assessment
1%
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

9. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
IFSP
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Deaf - blindness
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

10. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
Stanford 9
contingency based self - management
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
a vision loss after a person had normal vision

11. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Learning disabilities
mental retardation
delayed language and echolalia

12. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
they modify students thought patterns
Procedural safeguards
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

13. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Learning disabilities
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

14. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
duration recording
Council for Exceptional Children
life space analysis
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES

15. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
medication and a behavior management intervention
Fourteen
LRE
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

16. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
principles of IDEA
ESEA Act
10 per 10 - 100 children
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

17. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
1%
they modify students thought patterns
mental retardation

18. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
an individualized transition plan
90%
Mental retardation
Deafness

19. 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
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
developmental
hearing loss that happened after birth
Sixty days

20. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
an audiometer
Specific learning disability
Hear and understand speech
discriminatory stimulus

21. Specific learning disability
not legal
Learning disabilities
assistive technology
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

22. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
students who are mentally retarded
contingency based self - management
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

23. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
try to find appropriate content at grade level

24. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
duration recording
where Section 504 comes from
Council for Exceptional Children

25. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
life space analysis
principles of IDEA
IFSP
Deaf - blindness

26. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
student to student
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
duration recording
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

27. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
visual impairment
learned helplessness
Learning disabilities

28. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
yes
zero reject
not legal
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

29. 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
functional vision assessment
Program first placement second
group contingency contracting
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

30. ADHD criteria is defined by
try to find appropriate content at grade level
direct instruction
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
the DSM- IV

31. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
10 per 10 - 100 children
the Cummins model
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind

32. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
LRE
Non - discriminatory assessment
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Multiple disabilities

33. What does FVA stand for?
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
LRE
functional vision assessment

34. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
an individualized transition plan
categorical approach
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush

35. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
PARC vs. State of Penn
ther health impairments
duration recording
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

36. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
contingency based self - management
Larry P vs. Riles
Procedural safeguards
life space analysis

37. 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
yes
50%
Emotional disturbance
assistive technology

38. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
Mental retardation
Emotional disturbance
categorical approach

39. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
Larry P vs. Riles
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
PARC vs. State of Penn
an individualized transition plan

40. What is the prevalence of autism?
LRE
10 per 10 - 100 children
an audiometer
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

41. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
1%
compensatory education
curriculum based assessment
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

42. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
General education classrooms
LRE
yes
21 or younger

43. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
life space analysis
Emotional disturbance
direct instruction
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

44. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
not legal
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
pre - referral screening and an in class observation

45. Learners with disabilities have opportunities to achieve commensurate with their peers
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
negative reinforcement
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher

46. 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
yes
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
whole language
Deafness

47. The principle of 2004 that will not let you suspend a student if his behavior is a function of his disability is known as
Autism
no
zero reject
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

48. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
an individualized transition plan
Multiple disabilities
discriminatory stimulus

49. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
a hearing aid
Non - discriminatory assessment
50%

50. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
try to find appropriate content at grade level
learned helplessness
50%
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

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