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Praxis Special Ed

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1. What is acquired hearing loss?
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
hearing loss that happened after birth
group contingency contracting
discriminatory stimulus

2. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
a hearing aid
hearing loss that happened after birth
PARC vs. State of Penn
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

3. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
pervasive developmental disorders
yes
social stories
LRE

4. Which principle of IDEA involves due process?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
ther health impairments
Procedural safeguards
PARC vs. State of Penn

5. 'Filing out job application and after school work with an electrician' are listed on Jeff's ITP his long term goal is to...
Obtain skilled or semi - skilled employment
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
21 or younger

6. 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
assistive technology
ESEA Act
Multiple disabilities
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

7. Placing students with same disabilities together for instruction purposes represents a
categorical approach
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
having them practice filing out job applications
Traumatic brain injury

8. developmental delay that effects verbal and non - verbal communication and social interaction is called...
General education classrooms
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
Procedural safeguards
Autism

9. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
not legal
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
Council for Exceptional Children
Traumatic brain injury

10. Professional collaboration - philosophy of diversity - use of cooperative learning
General education classrooms
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
compensatory education

11. A psychoanalytic approach would explain behavior disorders as resulting from
Traumatic brain injury
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
early traumatic experiences
Curriculum based assessment

12. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
having them practice filing out job applications
18
zero reject
Orthopedic impairment

13. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
Emotional disturbance
21 or younger
having them practice filing out job applications
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

14. Multiple and severe disabilties
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
Hear and understand speech
Traumatic brain injury
18

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

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16. Almost 2/3rds of children with ADD or ADHD also have some kind of
learning disability
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
functional vision assessment

17. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
student to student
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
Stanford 9
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

18. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
Deaf - blindness
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Mental retardation
Program first placement second

19. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Hearing impairment

20. A statement that explains why the placement is the least restrictive environemnt
Fourteen
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills

21. 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
ecological
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
PARC vs. State of Penn
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

22. earing impairment that is so severe to cause impaired processing of linguistic information through hearing
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
Autism
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Deafness

23. communication disorders or language or voice impairments
speech or language impairment
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
hearing loss that was present at birth
hearing loss that happened after birth

24. The Vocational and Rehabilitation Act of 1974
Orthopedic impairment
no
where Section 504 comes from
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation

25. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
Hearing impairment
50%
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that
yes

26. Four varying degrees of support for the mentally retarded
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
pervasive developmental disorders
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive

27. 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
learning disability
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

28. What does outer - directedness mean?
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
where Section 504 comes from
General education classrooms
principles of IDEA

29. 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
no
direct instruction
Sixty days
developmental

30. What are four types of data based decision making?
executive functioning
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
try to find appropriate content at grade level

31. Much broader than IDEA disabilities that effect a life experience
PARC vs. State of Penn
How 504 defines a disability
two to nine percent
Specific learning disability

32. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
no
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
yes

33. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
visual impairment
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of

34. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
an audiometer
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
negative reinforcement
life space analysis

35. Standord Binet and Scales of Independent Behavior
augmentative communciation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools

36. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
ecological
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

37. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
duration recording
life space analysis
assistive technology

38. Social skills are crucial to success in inclusive education
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
ther health impairments
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

39. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
no
Multiple disabilities
functional vision assessment

40. What percent of the population was ADHD?
speech or language impairment
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
two to nine percent
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called

41. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
Larry P vs. Riles
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Procedural safeguards

42. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Emotional disturbance
Council for Exceptional Children
group contingency contracting

43. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Program first placement second
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
negative reinforcement
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

44. 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
ESEA Act
whole language
Multiple disabilities

45. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
IFSP
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
delayed language and echolalia
How 504 defines a disability

46. What does FVA stand for?
functional vision assessment
students who are mentally retarded
contingency based self - management
the DSM- IV

47. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
Hear and understand speech
an individualized transition plan
visual impairment
Program first placement second

48. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
life space analysis
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
Sixty days
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

49. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
having them practice filing out job applications
45%
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district

50. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
Non - discriminatory assessment
90%
categorical approach
50%