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Praxis Special Ed

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1. Diana vs. State Board of Education - Larry P.vs Riles - and Lau vs. Nichols all addressed the issue of?
zero reject
Non - discriminatory assessment
direct instruction
no

2. What are the three domains of adaptive behavior?
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
Mental retardation
conceptual skills(self - determination - reading - and writing - social skills - practical skills
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

3. What percentage of deaf students spend most of their time in the regular education classrom
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
Mental retardation
45%

4. What is CLOZE procedure?
student to student
early traumatic experiences
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word
executive functioning

5. A model used with ESL and deaf students
Fourteen
the Cummins model
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
mental retardation

6. What is conductive hearing loss?
Deaf - blindness
hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear
group contingency contracting
yes

7. Dealt with the language of assessment - must be administered in the students native language
categorical approach
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
mental retardation
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes

8. An organization that was founded in 1922 to advocate for all children with disabilities is called the
curriculum based assessment
Non - discriminatory assessment
Council for Exceptional Children
life space analysis

9. What is sensorineural hearing loss?
whole language
Fourteen
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain

10. What is the prevalence of autism?
manipulating the antecedent stimulus
having them practice filing out job applications
10 per 10 - 100 children
mental retardation

11. hearing and visual impariments causing severe communication and other developmental and educational needs
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should
intermittant - limited - extensive - and pervasive
Deaf - blindness
exploring the subenvironments within the restuarant

12. What is acquired hearing loss?
hearing loss that happened after birth
no
Stanford 9
ESEA Act

13. Name three components of the AAMR definition of mental retardation
21 or younger
Larry P vs. Riles
Stanford 9
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

14. About 80% of all speech disorders are characterized by difficulties with...
Hear and understand speech
learned helplessness
Fourteen
articulation

15. What are the two major characteristics of mental retardation?
limitations in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior
Autism
a hearing aid
Larry P vs. Riles

16. A resource room teacher would be most likely to contact an OT to
executive functioning
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
they modify students thought patterns
the DSM- IV

17. When a child with mild hearing loss cannot understand teacher directions the first step should be to
group contingency contracting
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
yes
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board

18. What is an adventitious visual impairment?
a vision loss after a person had normal vision
Deafness
try to find appropriate content at grade level
90%

19. Atypical language development manifests itself in these two ways?
developmental
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
delayed language and echolalia
Procedural safeguards

20. IEP - LRE - Student/parent participation - FAPE - procedural safeguards - appropriate evaluation
two to nine percent
principles of IDEA
they modify students thought patterns
low motivation and distrusting their own solutions and depending upon others to guide them

21. 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
Diana vs. the Board of Educaiton
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
developmental

22. co - occurring impairments causing severe educational needs; does not include deaf - blindness
Multiple disabilities
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...
IDEA 2004 non - discriminatory assessment
Does FAPE cover students who have been suspended or expelled?

23. Using objectives from the students work in class as a means to evaluate progress and adapt instruction is known as
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
curriculum based assessment
no it goes in through other health impairments or a 504 plan

24. The most likely reason to adminster a Woodcock Johnson would be to test for...
Learning disabilities
ther health impairments
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
PARC vs. State of Penn

25. subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior
where Section 504 comes from
Mental retardation
no
Procedural safeguards

26. Using a single IQ test to determine placement is...
response by response - instructional and test data - error data - anecdotal data
not legal
inattentive - hyperactive - combination
the DSM- IV

27. Under President Johnson in the 1960's basis for title one
speech or language impairment
90%
ESEA Act
yes

28. What does a cochlear implant do?
it directly stimulates the auditory nerve
Which law is more medically oriented IDEA or 504?
the DSM- IV
contingency based self - management

29. What are the three categories in the range of visual impairments?
an audiometer
low vision - functionally blind - totally blind
mental retardation
they modify students thought patterns

30. What are the seven characteristics of autism?
atypical language development - atypical social development - repetitive behavior - problem behavior - need for environmental predictability - sensory and movement disorders - differences in social and intellectual functioning
principles of IDEA
a hearing aid
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

31. Hearing loss is low- incidence disability that effects what percent of the population?
1%
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
developmental
21 or younger

32. What does adaptive behavior mean?
Curriculum based assessment
student to student
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
typical performance of individuals in meeting the various expectations of their environments

33. In a full - inclusion model services to students with disabilities are available in...
General education classrooms
two to nine percent
developmental
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

34. What are some examples of assistive technology for blind students?
Fourteen
A 10 th grader receiving direct instruction in decoding skills to facilitate the recognition of high - frequency words is getting?
negative reinforcement
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

35. impairment in hearing that affects educaitonal performance - but not included under the definition of deafness
Hearing impairment
biomedical - social - behavioral - and educational
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
modifying a passage and taking out every fifth word

36. severe orthopedic impairment - including impairments caused by congenital anomalies - disease - and other causes
50%
functional vision assessment
Orthopedic impairment
nine knowledge - skill - and behavior areas to provide a level of performance information related to transition needs

37. Reinforce an appropriate but incompatible behavior
Specific learning disability
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?
According to a behavioral classroom management model - if a student exhibits an inappropriate behavior - the teacher should

38. Direct instruction does not involve ____________ interaction
21 or younger
having them practice filing out job applications
student to student
direct instruction

39. 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
learning disability
IFSP
students who have significant challenges in social and emotional functioning without delays in language or intellectual functioning

40. ision impairment including partial sight and blindness
Procedural safeguards
no
zero reject
visual impairment

41. Is FBA a type of ecological assessment?
pervasive developmental disorders
yes
zero reject
CCTV - optical scanner - computers

42. A 14 year old boy with mild autism would have what in his curriculum
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
functional skills - social skills - career skills
teach a student with muscular dystrophy how to paint with a brush
yes

43. Social - emotional - physical - cognitive - adaptive - & communication
an audiometer
Developmental delay can occur in the areas of
student to student
Hearing impairment

44. Having students keeps track of their own behavior and then receive rewards for appropriate behavior is known as...
learned helplessness
contingency based self - management
two test that are often used to identify mental retardation
Sixty days

45. What would be an appropriate task for high school students with mild mental retardation?
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
hearing loss that is caused by a problem in the inner ear/nerve pathway to the brain
discriminatory stimulus
having them practice filing out job applications

46. In order to identify a student with a learning disability most examiners are concerned with a discrepancy between...
augmentative communciation
developmental
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
Ability and achievement with ability being higher than acheivement

47. What are three biological causes for ADHD?
heredity - structural differences in the brain - and other biological causes
CCTV - optical scanner - computers
whole language
Autism

48. What are the three types of timing that effect mental retardation
a hearing aid
IDEA 2004 requires this on an IEP
direct instruction
pre - natal - post - natal - and perinatal

49. In order to be identified as having mental retardation a child must demonstrate significantly sub average functioning and
Mowat sensor - laser cane - sonic guide
related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills
In a full - inclusion model the special education teacher & the general education teacher
subaverage intellectual functioning - deficits in two or more areas of adaptive behavior - and manifestation during the developmental period

50. Three examples of supplemental aides for death students
have the teacher never give instructions when facing the board
loop systems - closed - caption technology and computers
not legal
Many students with disabilities receive social skills instruction because...