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1. Which of the following sees special education as an individual problem?

(A) Social          (B) psychological          (C) medical         (D) education

2. Which of the following regards special education ?

(A) Social           (B) psychological           (C) medical         (D) education

3. Special education refers to teaching ………………….                            

(A) The deaf, the mentally retarded and the blind in a special school

(B) Exceptional children in a special school

(C) Exceptional children in special and/or regular school

(D) The gifted solely

4. Regular school can practice special education      True/False

5. One of the following practices can distinguish special education from regular education.

(A) Individual teaching    (B) group teaching    (C) class teaching  (D) use of sign language

6. You are practicing special education when you modify the regular school curriculum to meet the needs of all individual          True/False

7. In what two ways can special education be distinguished from regular education?

(A) ..............................................  (B) …………………………………………………………………………

Answers: Through Special Educators, Braille, Sign language, Special school

8. Children considered gifted and talented are eligible for special education        True/False

9. The aims of special education cannot be realized                    True/False

10. When an exceptional child learns to move part of his body for an activity it is called …………….

Answer: Fine Motor Skills

11. When an exceptional child learns to move the whole body for an activity it is called ……………….

Answer: Gross Motor Skills

12. Which of the following roles can the school play in the development of intellectual abilities?

(A) Making the school environment ‘rich’ with materials and human resources

(B) Using punishments to make children learn

(C) Repeating children who cannot perform

(D) Giving admission to children who are intellectually good

13. It is impossible to train a mentally retarded child to acquire self-help skills      True/False

14. Individuals with disabilities do not want to trained to acquire skills for independent living                     True/False

15. The following concepts carry the idea of movement of exceptional children to the mainstream education except (A) mainstreaming (B) Inclusion   (C) Integration  (D) Institutionalization

16. Which of the following best explains exceptional children?

(A) Children who are bright

(B) Children with disabilities

(C) Children who are gifted and talented and those with disabilities

(D) Children who are blind, deaf and mentally retarded

17. All individuals with impairment are handicapped         True/False

18. Labels are desirable because

(A) They cause students to acquire negative self-concept

(B) Exceptional children are readily accepted by peers

(C) Allow professionals to keep learners out of regular programmed

(D) They cause teachers to achieve self-fulfilling prophecy

19. Training people with disabilities in their most immediate communities in order to foster their integration is referred to as

(A) Community-Based Rehabilitation                         (B) Mainstreaming

(C) Normalization                                                                    (D) Inclusion

20. Which of the following terms means classification into categories?

(A) Mainstreaming        (B) Disability       (C) Labeling              (D) Impairment