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1. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
45%
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
ESEA Act

2. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
augmentative communciation
speech or language impairment
PARC vs. State of Penn
Multiple disabilities

3. What are the three sub types of ADHD?
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Traumatic brain injury
Deafness
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

4. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
not legal

5. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
learning disability
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

6. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
a hearing aid
two to nine percent
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

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

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8. Yes
General education classrooms
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Traumatic brain injury

9. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

10. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
yes
Hear and understand speech
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

11. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
categorical approach
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
student to student
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

12. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
medication and a behavior management intervention
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Procedural safeguards

13. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
social stories
ther health impairments
an audiometer
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

14. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Mental retardation
the Cummins model
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment

15. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
45%
Autism
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
an audiometer

16. What does outer - directedness mean?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
direct instruction
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

17. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
an individualized transition plan
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
ther health impairments
not legal

18. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
the DSM- IV
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students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

19. 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
How 504 defines a disability
assistive technology
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

20. acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment of both
a hearing aid
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Traumatic brain injury
principles of IDEA

21. What is conductive hearing loss?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
learning disability
where Section 504 comes from
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

22. How you teach young children with autism social interaction?
social stories
principles of IDEA
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior

23. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
LRE
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

24. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
categorical approach
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
where Section 504 comes from

25. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
no
hearing loss that was present at birth
Deafness

26. What is CLOZE procedure?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational

27. Misclassification of African Americans as mentally retarded because of unfair IQ tests
Larry P vs. Riles
Hearing impairment
45%
Learning disabilities

28. 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
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atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
learning disability

29. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Orthopedic impairment
Emotional disturbance
Deafness

30. Least Restrictive Environment; students with disabilities must have the same access to curriculum as their non - disabled peers
LRE
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functional vision assessment
1%

31. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
zero reject
developmental

32. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
functional vision assessment
Larry P vs. Riles
mental retardation
PARC vs. State of Penn

33. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
assistive technology
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

34. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
medication and a behavior management intervention
ther health impairments
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
Non - discriminatory assessment

35. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
direct instruction
life space analysis
mental retardation

36. Multiple and severe disabilties
21 or younger
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
learning disability
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

37. 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
whole language
ecological
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

38. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
Procedural safeguards
learned helplessness
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

39. What does FVA stand for?
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
yes
functional vision assessment
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?

40. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Hear and understand speech
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
curriculum based assessment
medication and a behavior management intervention

41. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
principles of IDEA
life space analysis
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
Hear and understand speech

42. 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
an audiometer
PARC vs. State of Penn
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

43. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
21 or younger
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
duration recording
learned helplessness

44. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Non - discriminatory assessment
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment

45. ADHD criteria is defined by
hearing loss that was present at birth
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
the DSM- IV
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

46. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
try to find appropriate content at grade level
principles of IDEA

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
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
zero reject

48. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
Curriculum based assessment
Autism
45%
Mental retardation

49. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

50. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
contingency based self - management
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Council for Exceptional Children
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing