Introduction to Special Education Set 1

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This set of Special Education Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Introduction to Special Education Set 1

Q1 | Special education is focused on
  • To meet the unique needs of a child with a disability
  • Individually planned arrangement of teaching procedures
  • To provide additional services, support and programs
  • All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Q2 | Special education is related to
  • Educational for talented students
  • Educational program for disabled
  • Training program for Teachers
  • Training programme for retarded
Answer: Educational program for disabled
Q3 | What type of evaluation identifies children with special needs?
  • Placement
  • Summative
  • Continuous
  • Diagnostic
Answer: Diagnostic
Q4 | Which class of learners are not included under “Exceptional Category”?
  • Slow
  • Retarded
  • Normal
  • Gifted
Answer: Normal
Q5 | Most special education takes place in the
  • General education classroom
  • Separated classroom
  • Resources classroom
  • Home tutoring
Answer: General education classroom
Q6 | Most special students spend at least a portion of their day to receive individualized instruction in
  • A hospital
  • At home
  • A resource room
  • At therapy
Answer: A resource room
Q7 | Remedial Interventions are designed to eliminate
  • The causes of disability
  • The effects of a disability
  • The symptoms of disability
  • None of the above
Answer: The effects of a disability
Q8 | Preventive interventions are designed to prevent potential or existing problems from
  • Becoming a disability
  • Becoming a problem
  • Becoming an illness
  • Becoming a diseases
Answer: Becoming a disability
Q9 | Compensatory interventions involve teaching
  • From easy to difficult
  • With the same age group of children
  • Special skills to improve functioning
  • With breaking down the contents
Answer: Special skills to improve functioning
Q10 | Schools must educate all children with disabilities regardless of the
  • Nature or severity of the disability.
  • Gender and age
  • Socio economic status
  • Ethnic and race
Answer: Nature or severity of the disability.
Q11 | Which of the following is not the objective of special education?
  • Help in adjustment in environment
  • Separation from mainstream education
  • Bring educational opportunities at doorstep
  • To make familiars with their capacities
Answer: Separation from mainstream education
Q12 | Principles of special education include
  • Restrictive environment
  • Least parents’ participation and involvement
  • Nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation
  • Restraining public education
Answer: Nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation
Q13 | Special education dose not only encompass students with disabilities, it is also made up of
  • Gifted and talented students
  • Outstanding students in sports
  • Substance abuse children
  • Students from weaker sections of society
Answer: Gifted and talented students
Q14 | Special education is needed because
  • Not all students learn the same way.
  • Low achiever need to be separated
  • Children with disability cannot study in normal school
  • Special children are different
Answer: Not all students learn the same way.
Q15 | The service of special education aims to support and empower
  • Parents and care takers
  • School and therapist
  • NGO’s and teacher
  • Parents and special children
Answer: Parents and special children
Q16 | The major aim of special education is
  • To develop a realistic self-concept in children with special needs.
  • To develop vocational education
  • To develop the spiritual side of an individual
  • To develop fine motor movement skills
Answer: To develop a realistic self-concept in children with special needs.
Q17 | Which of the following is not included in the NPE 1986 and the Programme of Action relating to Special Schools?
  • Establishment of special school
  • Modification of curriculum
  • Students exchange program
  • Flexibility in examinations
Answer: Students exchange program
Q18 | Special education programs facilitate
  • Academic progress
  • Socialization
  • Modification of behavior
  • All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Q19 | Integrated education is the learning of the disabled children with specialized service in
  • Special school
  • General schools
  • Home bound education
  • Recourses room
Answer: General schools
Q20 | Scope of Integrated Education include
  • Cognitive development
  • Interpersonal relationships
  • Guidance and counselling
  • All of the above
Answer: All of the above
Q21 | The nature of Integrated Education is to provide
  • Free textbooks, stationeries and midday meal
  • Broader scopes to the disabled to live in a social world
  • Education at free of cost
  • Hostel and residential facilities
Answer: Broader scopes to the disabled to live in a social world
Q22 | Many children with disabilities are denied
  • Right to education
  • Right to freedom of expression
  • Right to information
  • Right to be born
Answer: Right to education
Q23 | Who is recognized as the founding father of special education?
  • Seguin
  • Itard
  • Braille
  • Kirk
Answer: Itard
Q24 | Seguin is known as the greatest teacher of the
  • Mentally deficient
  • Visually handicapped
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Speech defect
Answer: Mentally deficient
Q25 | The first special school in the United States, the American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb was established in
  • 1718
  • 1807
  • 1817
  • 1880
Answer: 1817
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