NYSTCE Students with Disabilities (060) Book + Online.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About Our Authors -- About REA -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Passing the NYSTCE Students with Disabilities Test -- How to Use this Book + Online Prep -- Getting Started -- An Overview of the Test -- What Is Assessed on the NYSTCE Students with Disabilities Test? -- Scoring the NYSTCE Students with Disabilities Test -- Study Schedule -- Test-Taking Tips to Boost Your Score -- The Day of the Test -- Chapter 2: Competency 0001. Foundations of Special Education -- Historical Changes -- IDEA -- Referrals -- Assessment -- Confidentiality -- Procedural Safeguards -- Due Process -- Age of Majority -- Culturally Responsive Strategies -- The Team Approach -- Team Characteristics -- Self-Reflection -- Professional Development -- Characteristics of Scientifically Based Research -- Preferred Research Designs -- National Organizations -- Local Organizations -- Organizations in New York -- Practice Questions -- Chapter 3: Competency 0002. Knowledge of Students with Disabilities -- Receptive vs. Expressive Language -- Components of Language -- The Sequence of Language Development -- Reading -- Reading Development: The Example of Decoding -- Reading Difficulties -- Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities -- Children with Disabilities -- Learning and Instructional Strategies -- Cultural and Linguistic Differences -- Social Support -- Medication -- Practice Questions -- Chapter 4: Competency 0003. Assessment and Individual Program Planning -- Types of Assessment -- Alternative Assessments -- Alternative Assessment and Students with Disabilities -- Alternative Assessment and State-Mandated Testing -- Disproportionality -- Nonbiased Assessments -- Assessment Accommodations -- Norm-Referenced Assessment -- Criterion-Referenced Assessment. -- Individual-Referenced Assessment -- Performance-Based Assessment.

Technical Adequacy of Assessment -- Eligibility for Services -- The SETT Framework -- Progress Monitoring -- Continuum of Services -- Composition of IEP Team (CSE or CPSE) -- IEP Meeting -- IEP Content -- IFSPs -- Behavioral Intervention Plans -- Transition Planning -- Practice Questions -- Chapter 5: Competency 0004. Strategies for Planning and Managing the Learning Environment and for Providing Behavioral Interventions -- Safety -- Physical Environment -- Time Managment -- Student Behavior -- Teacher Impact -- Building Rapport -- Grouping Strategies -- Classroom Management and Students with Disabilities -- Traditional Approaches to Addressing Misbehavior -- Positive Behavior Support -- Processes of Learning and Behavioral Change -- Environmental Modifications -- Classroom Crises -- Practice Questions -- Chapter 6: Competency 0005. Instructional Planning and Delivery to Promote Students' Success in the General Curriculum -- New York State Learning Standards -- Accessing the General Education Classroom -- Differentiated Instruction -- Specific Strategies for Differentiation -- Instructional and Curricular Modifications -- Phonological and Phonemic Awareness -- Phonics -- Reading Fluency -- Reading Comprehension -- Comprehension Monitoring -- Writing -- Systematic Instruction in Mathematics -- Instructional Goals -- Systematic Instruction -- Scaffolding -- Modeling -- Integrating Across the General Curriculum -- Metacognition -- Assistive Technologies and Visual Impairments -- Practice Questions -- Chapter 7: Competency 0006. Strategies for Teaching Communication Skills, Social Skills, and Functional Living Skills -- Types of Communication Deficits -- Speech Impairments -- Language Impairments -- Prevention and Intervention -- Segregated vs. Integrated Instruction -- Content-Based vs. Task-Based Instruction.

Alternative and Augmentative Communication Systems -- Children with Speech or Language Impairments -- Adaptive Life Skills -- Social Skills -- Self-Determination -- Self-Advocacy -- Promoting Self-Advocacy -- Stages of Career Development -- Personal Management and Independent Living -- Transitions -- Transitions During the School Years -- IDEA and Transition -- Postsecondary Goals and IEP Goals -- Practice Questions -- Chapter 8: Competency 0007. Analysis, Synthesis, and Application -- Profile Analysis -- Areas of Need -- Skill Deficits vs. Performance Deficits -- Data Collection by Teachers -- Data Collection by the CSE and Others -- Functional Behavior Assessment -- FBA and Intervention -- Behavior Intervention Plan -- Success of BIP -- Reading Programs -- The Case of Jay -- The Case of Rhonda -- The Case of Pete -- Academic vs. Functional Skills -- Functional Skills -- Systematic Instructions and Functional Skills -- School-Based Support for Transition -- Individual Support for Transition -- Agency Support for Transition -- Supported Employment -- Coordination of Support -- Practice Questions -- Practice Test 1 -- Answer Key -- Detailed Explanations of Answers -- Practice Test 2 -- Answer Key -- Detailed Explanations of Answers -- Index -- Notes.

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