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1. What time frame must an evaluation happen after the parents give consent?
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
functional skills - social skills - career skills
Sixty days
Fourteen

2. Supreme Court Ruled that a deaf student did not need to have an interpreter to receive FAPE
General education classrooms
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Rawley vs. Henry Hudson School district
students who are mentally retarded

3. The process for assessing data regarding student environments for community based instruction is called a?
the Connors behavior scale & ADDES
group contingency contracting
life space analysis
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

4. What causes autism?
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
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
an audiometer
assistive technology

5. A girl who has long temper tantrums needs to have her behavior observed in what way for a baseline assessment
speech or language impairment
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
pervasive developmental disorders
duration recording

6. 504
articulation
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

7. Mobility training for students who are visually impaired can involve...
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
duration recording
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

8. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
ther health impairments
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
1%
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

9. 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
visual impairment
hearing loss that was present at birth
PARC vs. State of Penn

10. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
Name three traits of effective inclusive schools
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
Autism

11. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
45%
principles of IDEA
life space analysis
manipulating the antecedent stimulus

12. Is inviting every single teacher to an IEP meeting something that will put parents at ease
students who are mentally retarded
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
duration recording
yes

13. asmtha - add - adhd - diabetes - epilepsy
categorical approach
medication and a behavior management intervention
ther health impairments
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton

14. The Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales would most likely be an example of
mental retardation
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution
categorical approach
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

15. If a spanish student is tested in english for his WICS- VI his parents can contest the results on the basis of
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
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
mental retardation

16. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
articulation
LRE
pervasive developmental disorders
duration recording

17. What instrument do we use to test hearing?
functional skills - social skills - career skills
discriminatory stimulus
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs
an audiometer

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

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19. 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
IFSP
negative reinforcement
social stories
ecological

20. Do cochlear implants make sound louder?
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
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
no

21. What is conductive hearing loss?
speech or language impairment
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement
mental retardation
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

22. '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
not legal
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear

23. How does deafness connect to IDEA?
hearing loss makes effects language development through reading - writing
Learning disabilities
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
hearing loss that happened after birth

24. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
LRE
visual impairment
Program first placement second

25. What is CLOZE procedure?
IFSP
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
Orthopedic impairment
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

26. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
LRE
IFSP
curriculum based assessment
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide

27. Autism falls on the spectrum of...
early traumatic experiences
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them
pervasive developmental disorders
functional skills - social skills - career skills

28. A remedial approach
where Section 504 comes from
21 or younger
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?

29. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning
Council for Exceptional Children
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan
1%

30. Students with mild mental retardation make up what percentage of students with mental retardation
90%
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
try to find appropriate content at grade level
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

31. Yes
mental retardation
functional vision assessment
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

32. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Learning disabilities
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
The most frequently occurring permanently disabling birth defect - characterized by an abnormal opening in the spinal column - is called
Specific learning disability

33. A phenomena in which students with disabilities think they fail no harder they try is called
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
functional skills - social skills - career skills
learned helplessness
non - verbal working memory - internalization of speech - self - regulation of affect motivation and arousal - reconstitution

34. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
life space analysis
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...

35. If parents are considering that their 4th grade student may need special education services the first step would be to do a
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
Council for Exceptional Children
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
Hudson vs Rowley determined that 'appropriate education' means that

36. Asperger Syndrome is defined as
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
90%
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

37. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Deafness
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve

38. Two student who sat next to each other and distract one another then the teacher moves them and they stop talking...
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
General education classrooms
How 504 defines a disability

39. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
Stanford 9
Learning disabilities
Sixty days

40. According to IDEA 2004 can a student with a disability who brings drugs or weapons to school be expelled?
ESEA Act
yes
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

41. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Sixty days
the Cummins model
Learning disabilities
contingency based self - management

42. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
Program first placement second
contingency based self - management
yes
whole language

43. Birthplace of FAPE
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments
1%
PARC vs. State of Penn
life space analysis

44. How a child's life experiences effect his learning
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
compensatory education
50%
no

45. A student with mild conductive loss is most likely to make use of a
Larry P vs. Riles
a hearing aid
categorical approach
two to nine percent

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
pre - referral screening and an in class observation
no
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
whole language

47. Most people with severe and multiple disabilities have a primary condition of...
mental retardation
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
Emotional disturbance

48. What is the standard achievement test for deaf students?
contingency based self - management
abnormalities in brain development - neurochemistry - and genetic factors
Stanford 9
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

49. What is acquired hearing loss?
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
hearing loss that happened after birth
they modify students thought patterns
A curriculum focusing on augmentative communication and assistive technology is most likely used with

50. What comes first in the IEP -- placement or program?
where Section 504 comes from
group contingency contracting
yes
Program first placement second