Praxis Flashcards
(27 cards)
Satiation
Decreasing or eliminating an unacceptable behavior as a result of continued and increased reinforcement.
Extinction
reinforcement that is provided for problem behavior (often unintentionally) is discontinued in order to decrease or eliminate occurrences of these types of negative (or problem) behaviors.
Desensitization
A technique used in reinforcement theory in which there is a weakening of response, usually an emotional response, used to change behavior.
Passive Aggressive behaviors
Pretending, performing poorly, damaging relationships.
Summative Assessment
Cumulative, independent activities that test students subject matter knowledge.
The information gained from functional behavior assessment
the cause of behavior
Alternative teaching
A co-teaching model where one teacher works with a small group of students, as the other teacher instructs the large group.
Station teaching
Teachers divide content and students. Each teacher then teaches the content to one group and subsequently repeats the instruction for the other group.
Cooperative Teaching
general and special educators work in a coactive and coordinated fashion to jointly teach.
Shared (team) teaching
both teachers are delivering the same instruction at the same time.
Traumatic Brain Injury Characteristics
Pronounced inconsistencies in performance, inappropriate responses to situations, and deficits in problem-solving and abstract thinking.
Assistive technology
Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially
off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals
with disabilities.
Blissymbols
a constructed language conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.
Synthesized Speech
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.
Augmentative communication
Augmentative and alternative communication encompasses the communication methods used to supplement or replace speech or writing for those with impairments in the production or comprehension of spoken or written language
Intellectual disability identification
below average intellectual functioning and related limitations in two or more areas of adaptive skills.
Phonological sequencing order
Listening and rhyming, syllable awareness, onset and rime, phoneme blending
IDEA procedural safeguards
Procedural safeguards notice, Parent participation, Access to educational records, Confidentiality of information, Informed consent (or parental consent), Prior written notice, Understandable language, Independent educational evaluation (IEE), “Stay put” rights, Dispute resolution options
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
a federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children’s education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the education records
Severe Intellectual Disability
IQ of 20 - 35
SPED Teachers are highly qualified in
core academic subjects, alternate achievement standards, and multiple subjects
Curriculum-Based Assessment
an evaluation process that makes use of academic content selected directly from the material taught. This is a form of criterion-referenced assessment that connects evaluation with instructional programs by informing teachers of both student progress and learning challenges.
Dysgraphia
a neurological disorder of written expression that impairs writing ability and fine motor skills
Receptive Language Disorder
People who have it often don’t understand what others say. They struggle with the meaning of language and may respond in ways that don’t make sense. But their challenges aren’t related to hearing loss or intelligence.
