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200+ Special Education Solved MCQs

These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Education (CBCS) .

Chapters

Chapter: Introduction to Special Education
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
Answer» 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
Answer» B. Educational program for disabled
3.

What type of evaluation identifies children with special needs?

A. Placement
B. Summative
C. Continuous
D. Diagnostic
Answer» D. Diagnostic
4.

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

A. Slow
B. Retarded
C. Normal
D. Gifted
Answer» C. Normal
5.

Most special education takes place in the

A. General education classroom
B. Separated classroom
C. Resources classroom
D. Home tutoring
Answer» A. General education classroom
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
Answer» C. A resource room
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
Answer» B. The effects of a disability
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
Answer» A. Becoming a disability
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
Answer» C. Special skills to improve functioning
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
Answer» A. Nature or severity of the disability.
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
Answer» B. Separation from mainstream education
12.

Principles of special education include

A. Restrictive environment
B. Least parents’ participation and involvement
C. Nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation
D. Restraining public education
Answer» C. Nondiscriminatory identification and evaluation
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
Answer» A. Gifted and talented students
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
Answer» A. Not all students learn the same way.
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
Answer» D. Parents and special children
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
Answer» A. To develop a realistic self-concept in children with special needs.
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
Answer» C. Students exchange program
18.

Special education programs facilitate

A. Academic progress
B. Socialization
C. Modification of behavior
D. All of the above
Answer» 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
Answer» B. General schools
20.

Scope of Integrated Education include

A. Cognitive development
B. Interpersonal relationships
C. Guidance and counselling
D. All of the above
Answer» 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
Answer» B. Broader scopes to the disabled to live in a social world
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
Answer» A. Right to education
23.

Who is recognized as the founding father of special education?

A. Seguin
B. Itard
C. Braille
D. Kirk
Answer» B. Itard
24.

Seguin is known as the greatest teacher of the

A. Mentally deficient
B. Visually handicapped
C. Hearing Impaired
D. Speech defect
Answer» A. Mentally deficient
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
Answer» C. 1817
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
Answer» A. Louis Braille
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
Answer» B. Christian missionary
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
Answer» C. The mentally handicapped 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
Answer» 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
Answer» B. Mid 18th 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
Answer» D. Difficulties in learning and whose performance is so superior
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
Answer» A. Gifted and creative children
33.

Children with special needs are mostly identified with

A. Personality test
B. Interest inventories
C. Intelligence test
D. Study habits inventories
Answer» C. Intelligence test
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
Answer» B. Normal children
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
Answer» B. Exceptional children
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
Answer» 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
Answer» 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
Answer» B. Heredity or genes
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
Answer» B. Advanced and inclusive curriculum
40.

The field of special education is concerned with children who deviate from

A. Superior children
B. Emotional disturbance children
C. Children in needs of humanitarian assistance
D. Average children
Answer» D. Average children
Chapter: Education for Physically Challenged Children
41.

Visual impairment is also known as

A. Vision defect
B. Visual defect
C. Visual disorder
D. All of the above
Answer» D. All of the above
42.

The partially blind are those who have a visual acuity of

A. 20/20
B. 20/60
C. 20/70
D. 20/90
Answer» C. 20/70
43.

Unable to see distant objects clearly, commonly called near-sighted or short-sighted is known as

A. Night blindness
B. Myopia
C. Tunnel vision
D. Colour blindness
Answer» B. Myopia
44.

The most common causes of blindness worldwide were:

A. Cataracts
B. Glaucoma
C. Age-related macular degeneration
D. All of the above
Answer» D. All of the above
45.

Unable to see close objects clearly, commonly called far-sighted or long-sighted is known as

A. Hyperopia
B. Retinitis Pigmentosa
C. Amblyopic
D. Cataract
Answer» A. Hyperopia
46.

One of the most prominent identification of Visual disorder is

A. Case history
B. Observation
C. Psychological test
D. Interview of the patient
Answer» B. Observation
47.

An eye chart that can be used to measure visual acuity is

A. Snellen chart
B. Sheller chart
C. Skellen chart
D. Snetter chart
Answer» A. Snellen chart
48.

Which of the following is a top cause of preventable childhood blindness

A. Iodine deficiency
B. Iron deficiency
C. Vitamin A deficiency
D. Protein deficiency
Answer» C. Vitamin A deficiency
49.

Blindness in children may be due to

A. Intellectual impairments and genetic mutations
B. Birth defects and nutritional deficiencies
C. Poor living condition and low socio-economic
D. High exposure to bright light
Answer» B. Birth defects and nutritional deficiencies
50.

Special educational arrangement for partially sighted children include the use of

A. Grey or green board instead of black
B. Ordinary pencils and paper
C. Glare and direct sunlight seating
D. Bright coloring of walls
Answer» A. Grey or green board instead of black

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