Special Education

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Education VI Semester
Paper-XII Optional (C) Special Education

UNIT I – Introduction to Special Education
Multiple Choice
1. Special education is focused on
(a) To meet the unique needs of a child with a disability
(b) Individually planned arrangement of teaching procedures
(c) To provide additional services, support and programs
(d) All of the above

2. Special education is related to
(a) Educational for talented students
(b) Educational program for disabled
(c) Training program for Teachers
(d) Training programme for retarded

3. What type of evaluation identifies children with special needs?

(a) Placement

(b) Summative

(c)Continuous

(d) Diagnostic

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4. Which class of learners are not included under “Exceptional Category”?

(a) Slow

(b) Retarded

(c) Normal

(d) Gifted

5. Most special education takes place in the
(a) General education classroom
(b) Separated classroom
(c) Resources classroom
(d) Home tutoring

6. Most special students spend at least a portion of their day to receive individualized instruction
in
(a) A hospital
(b) At home
(c) A resource room
(d) At therapy

7. Remedial Interventions are designed to eliminate
(a) The causes of disability
(b) The effects of a disability
(c) The symptoms of disability
(d) None of the above

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8. Preventive interventions are designed to prevent potential or existing problems from
(a) Becoming a disability
(b) Becoming a problem
(c) Becoming an illness
(d) Becoming a diseases

9. Compensatory interventions involve teaching
(a) From easy to difficult
(b) With the same age group of children
(c) Special skills to improve functioning
(d) With breaking down the contents

10. Schools must educate all children with disabilities regardless of the
(a) Nature or severity of the disability.
(b) Gender and age
(c)Socio economic status
(d) Ethnic and race

11. Which of the following is not the objective of special education?
(a) Help in adjustment in environment
(b) Separation from mainstream education
(c) Bring educational opportunities at doorstep
(d) To make familiars with their capacities

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12. Principles of special education include
(a) Restrictive environment
(b) Least parents‟ participation and involvement
(c) Nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation
(d) Restraining public education

13. Special education dose not only encompass students with disabilities, it is also made up of
(a) Gifted and talented students
(b) Outstanding students in sports
(c) Substance abuse children
(d) Students from weaker sections of society

14. Special education is needed because
(a) Not all students learn the same way.
(b) Low achiever need to be separated
(c) Children with disability cannot study in normal school
(d) Special children are different

15. The service of special education aims to support and empower
(a) Parents and care takers
(b) School and therapist
(c) NGO‟s and teacher
(d)Parents and special children

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16. The major aim of special education is
(a) To develop a realistic self-concept in children with special needs.
(b) To develop vocational education
(c) To develop the spiritual side of an individual
(d) To develop fine motor movement skills

17. Which of the following is not included in the NPE 1986 and the Programme of Action
relating to Special Schools?
(a) Establishment of special school
(b) Modification of curriculum
(c) Students exchange program
(d) Flexibility in examinations

18. Special education programs facilitate
(a) Academic progress
(b) Socialization
(c) Modification of behavior
(d) All of the above

19. Integrated education is the learning of the disabled children with specialized service in
(a) Special school
(b) General schools
(c) Home bound education
(d) Recourses room
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20. Scope of Integrated Education include
(a) Cognitive development
(b) Interpersonal relationships
(c) Guidance and counselling
(d) All of the above

21. The nature of Integrated Education is to provide
(a) Free textbooks, stationeries and midday meal
(b) Broader scopes to the disabled to live in a social world
(c) Education at free of cost
(d) Hostel and residential facilities

22. Many children with disabilities are denied
(a) Right to education
(b) Right to freedom of expression
(c) Right to information
(d) Right to be born

23. Who is recognized as the founding father of special education?
(a) Seguin
(b) Itard
(c) Braille
(d) Kirk

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24. Seguin is known as the greatest teacher of the
(a) Mentally deficient
(b) Visually handicapped
(c) Hearing Impaired
(d) Speech defect

25. The first special school in the United States, the American Asylum for the Education and
Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb was established in
(a) 1718
(b) 1807
(c) 1817
(d)1880

26. Who was the most important figure in the history of education of the blind?
(a) Louis Braille
(b) Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
(c) Eglantyne Jebb
(d) Herbert Hoover

27. In India, the first school for the blind was established in 1883 by
(a) British government
(b) Christian missionary
(c) Indian Educationist
(d) Local people
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28. Seguin’s first private school in Paris set up around 1840, was meant for the education of
(a) The visually impaired children
(b) The hearing impaired children
(c) The mentally handicapped children
(d) Physically challenged children

29. Anne Sullivan, who served as Helen Keller‟s tutor suffered from
(a) Orthopedically handicapped
(b) Speech defective
(c) Mental retardation
(d) Visual impairment

30. The European enlightenment toward special education began in
(a) 18th century
(b) Mid 18th century
(c) Late 18th century
(d) Early 19th century

31. The term „exceptionality‟ refers to those children with
(a) Posttraumatic stress disorder
(b) Alcohol abuse or dependence
(c) Poverty and deficiency
(d) Difficulties in learning and whose performance is so superior

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32. On the Positive side of exceptional there are
(a) Gifted and creative children
(b) Deaf and dumb children
(c) Blind and socially disadvantages children
(d) Stammering and stuttering children

33. Children with special needs are mostly identified with
(a) Personality test
(b) Interest inventories
(c) Intelligence test
(d) Study habits inventories

34. Exceptional children differ markedly from
(a) Children within same age group
(b) Normal children
(c) Children of same sex
(d) One who possess high IQ

35. Who need special education?
(a) Children of weaker section of society
(b) Exceptional children
(c) Every children of school going age
(d) War refugee children

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36. Gifted and talented children are students who
(a) Perform high in some of the subjects
(b) Perform high if they prepared well
(c) Perform remarkably high in single subject
(d) Perform remarkably high levels of accomplishment

37. Which among the following is the characteristic of positive exceptional children?
(a) Excellent memory
(b) Reasons well
(c) Long attention span
(d) All of the above

38. A factor that contributes to Giftedness and Talent is
(a) Previous learning
(b) Heredity or genes
(c) Training of the senses
(d) Early schooling

39. Children who are on the positive dimension need
(a) Similar subject as their peers
(b) Advanced and inclusive curriculum
(c) A large amount leisure and free time
(d) Recreation and sports

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