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Praxis Special Ed

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1. inability to learn not explained by sensory intellectual or health factors
no
Curriculum based assessment
Emotional disturbance
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

2. A remedial approach
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
try to find appropriate content at grade level
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
delayed language and echolalia

3. What does adaptive behavior mean?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
10 per 10 - 100 children
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

4. What is conductive hearing loss?
Hear and understand speech
ther health impairments
Traumatic brain injury
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

5. A model used with ESL and deaf students
articulation
Learning disabilities
the Cummins model
Procedural safeguards

6. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
curriculum based assessment
functional skills - social skills - career skills
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

7. What is the prevalence of autism?
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Deaf - blindness
10 per 10 - 100 children
inattentive - hyperactive - combination

8. Students must be involved in transition planning services starting at age...
Fourteen
functional vision assessment
Specific learning disability
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

9. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
General education classrooms
Program first placement second
1%

10. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
life space analysis
having them practice filing out job applications
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
discriminatory stimulus

11. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
Mental retardation

12. What is the broadest means of using technology for speech and language purposes?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
augmentative communciation

13. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
21 or younger
students who are mentally retarded

14. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
an individualized transition plan
where Section 504 comes from
early traumatic experiences
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing

15. What causes autism?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Multiple disabilities

16. ADHD criteria is defined by
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
no
students who are mentally retarded
the DSM- IV

17. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
a student looking at other students to see what they are doing
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
speech or language impairment

18. What percent of the population was ADHD?
two to nine percent
no
Sixty days
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

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

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20. What to cognitive behavioral therapists do?
they modify students thought patterns
an audiometer
not legal
Multiple disabilities

21. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
zero reject
Non - discriminatory assessment

22. Metacognition is connected to
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
executive functioning
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
90%

23. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
visual impairment
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
zero reject

24. 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
the DSM- IV
yes
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
ecological

25. In errorless learning SD stands for?
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
discriminatory stimulus
two to nine percent
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP

26. Randi has an average IQ score but scores far below grade in reading - writing - and math: this profile is most consistent with a...
Sixty days
21 or younger
developmental
Specific learning disability

27. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
pervasive developmental disorders
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
students who are mentally retarded

28. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
executive functioning
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

29. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
compensatory education

30. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
10 per 10 - 100 children
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Deaf - blindness

31. Prelinguistic mileau training allows teachers to teach language skills to...
students who are mentally retarded
principles of IDEA
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
discriminatory stimulus

32. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
early traumatic experiences
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Stanford 9

33. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
a hearing aid
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
Learning disabilities
yes

34. What are four types of data based decision making?
Curriculum based assessment
Deafness
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
articulation

35. Multiple and severe disabilties
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
where Section 504 comes from

36. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
18
they modify students thought patterns
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
Program first placement second

37. What would an example of a multimodal treatment for a child with ADD be?
Sixty days
two to nine percent
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?

38. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
compensatory education
students who are mentally retarded
direct instruction
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning

39. From a functional perspective deafness is related to difficulties with the ability to...
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
Hear and understand speech
student to student
18

40. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
they modify students thought patterns
General education classrooms
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
Multiple disabilities

41. 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
pervasive developmental disorders
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
developmental
90%

42. In order to meet the needs of an infant or toddler with disabilities
21 or younger
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
IFSP
90%

43. What are the four types of causes of mental retardation?
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
How 504 defines a disability

44. What behavior assessment scale is often used to rate students for ADHD?
student to student
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
Hearing impairment

45. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Mental retardation
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
How 504 defines a disability
speech or language impairment

46. Birthplace of FAPE
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
PARC vs. State of Penn
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

47. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
mental retardation
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
ecological
principles of IDEA

48. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
ecological
contingency based self - management
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
mental retardation

49. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
learned helplessness
executive functioning
articulation

50. IDEA 04 does not require IEP's for students...
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
learning disability
Program first placement second
21 or younger