Special Education MCQs

Special  Education MCQs

Unit 1: Basic Concepts in Special Education

  1. Concepts and Definitions
    • Disease, Disorder, Abnormal, At-Risk, Impairment, Disability, Handicap
    • Children, Special Education, Special Educational Needs
  2. Categories of Special Children
  3. Perspectives on Disabilities

Unit 2: Origins of Special Education (Historical Perspective)

  1. People and Ideas
  2. Growth of the Discipline
  3. Professional and Parent Organizations
  4. Legislation (USA, Japan, UK, India, and Pakistan)

Unit 3: Special Education System

  1. Screening
  2. Identification
  3. Assessment
  4. Placement
  5. Educational Planning
  6. Referral
  7. Resource Sharing
  8. Transitional Planning
  9. Parent Education

Unit 4: Current Trends and Issues

  1. Integration / Segregation
  2. Inclusive Education
  3. Early Intervention
  4. Transition from School to Work
  5. Labeling and Classification
  6. Assessment and Placement

Unit 5: Service Delivery Model

TEACHING STRATEGIES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION

Unit 1: Instructional Planning and Teaching

Foundations of Effective Instruction

Components of Effective Instruction

  • Planning Instruction
  • Managing Instruction
  • Delivering Instruction
  • Evaluating Instruction

Teaching Techniques

Unit 2: Instructional Environment

  1. Classroom Management and Organization
  2. Instructional Materials
  3. Instructional Methods
    • Direct Instruction
    • Cooperative Learning
    • Precision Teaching
    • Self-learning
    • Peer Tutoring

Unit 3: Instructional Adaptations

  1. Basic Skills Instruction
  2. Instruction of Subject-Area
  3. Content Adaptations
  4. Considering Special Needs

Unite 4 Assistive Devices

    1. Visual Impairment
      • Orientation and Mobility Aids
      • Listening Skills Training
      • Braille
      • Enhanced Image Devices
      • Audio Aids
      • Optical Character Recognition Devices
      • Computer Software
    2. Mental Retardation

Unit 5: Development at other Stages

  1. Development in Adolescence
    • Physical, Cognitive, and Language Development
    • Social and Emotional Development
    • Personality Development
    • The Social Context of Adolescence
  2. Development and Adulthood
  3. Developmental Changes and Old Age

INTRODUCTION TO EXCEPTIONALITIES

Unit 1: Classification System of Exceptionalities

  1. U.S. Department of Education’s Classification
  2. International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
  3. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
  4. World Health Organization Classification

Unit 2: Intellectual Exceptionalities

A. Mental Retardation

B. Gifted and Talented

Unit 3: Sensory and Motor Impairment

A. Sensory Impairment

  1. Hearing Impairment
  2. Visual Impairment
  3. Deaf-Blind

B. Motor Impairment

  1. Orthopedic Impairment

Unit 4: Other Health Impairments

  1. Chronic or acute health problems
  2. Asthma
  3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  4. Diabetes
  5. Epilepsy
  6. Haemophilia
  7. Lead poisoning
  8. Leukemia
  9. Nephritis fever
  10. Sickle cell anemia/Tourette syndrome

Unit 5: Emotional Disturbance and Pervasive Developmental Disorders

A. Emotional Disturbance

  • Definition, Concept, Prevalence, and Classification
  • Pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression
  • Difficulties in interpersonal relationships
  • Fear-associated problems

B. Autism and other Pervasive Developmental Disorders

  • Impairment in multiple nonverbal behaviors
  • Failure to develop peer relationships
  • Delay or lack of spoken language
  • Stereotyped and repetitive language or idiosyncratic language

TEACHING STRATEGIES IN SPECIAL EDUCATION

Unit 1: Instructional Planning and Teaching

  1. Foundations of Effective Instruction
  2. Components of Effective Instruction
    • Planning Instruction
    • Managing Instruction
    • Delivering Instruction
    • Evaluating Instruction
  3. Teaching Techniques
    • Micro Teaching
    • Mentoring
    • Peer Teaching
    • Competency Teaching

Unit 2: Instructional Environment

  1. Classroom Management and Organization
  2. Instructional Materials
  3. Instructional Methods
    • Direct Instruction
    • Cooperative Learning
    • Precision Teaching
    • Self-learning
    • Peer Tutoring

Unit 3: Instructional Adaptations

  1. Basic Skills Instruction
  2. Instruction of Subject-Area
  3. Content Adaptations
  4. Considering Special Needs

Unit 4: Assistive Devices

  1. Visual Impairment
    • Orientation and Mobility Aids
    • Listening Skills Training
    • Braille
    • Enhanced Image Devices
    • Audio Aids
    • Optical Character Recognition Devices
    • Computer Software
  2. Hearing Impairment
    • Total Communication
    • Cued Speech
    • Assistive Learning Devices
    • Oral/Aural Approach
    • Information Communication Technologies (ICTs Tools)
    • Sign Language
  3. Physical Disabilities
    • Wheelchair
    • Prosthesis
    • Artificial Limbs
    • Conductive Education
  4. Mental Retardation
    • Montessori Teaching Methods and Material
    • Behavior Modification
    • Functional Academic Skills
    • Self-help Skills
    • Teaching Kits
    • Computer Software
    • Psychotherapy
    • Psychiatric Support
    • Dietary Support

Unit 5: Collaboration and Parent-Professional Partnerships

  1. The Basics of Collaboration
  2. Special Education and Related Services
  3. Parent-Professional Collaboration
  4. Collaboration with Multi-Professional
  5. Team Teaching

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Unit 1: Educational Psychology: An Introduction

  1. Definition and Concept
  2. Scope of Educational Psychology
  3. Branches and Methods
  4. Key Concepts in Educational Psychology

Unit 2: Neo-cognitive Model

  1. Information Processing in Learning and Memory
  2. Associationist and Constructivist Views of Memory
  3. Information Processing Models
  4. Rote Learning
  5. Meaningful Verbal Learning

Unit 3: Individual Differences

  1. Q, Cognitive Style, and Creativity
    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Pattern Recognition
    • Attention
    • Memory
    • Imagery
    • Concepts and Categorization
    • Problem Solving
  2. Socio-economic Status, Cultural, and Gender Differences
    • Physiological Psychology
    • Brain and Nervous System and Behavior
    • Biological Basis of Psychopathology

Unit 4: Learning and Motivation

  1. The Psychology of Human Learning
    • Learning Typologies
      • Bloom’s Taxonomy
      • The Gagne and Briggs Typology
    • Learning Theories
      • Pavlov and Classical Conditioning
      • Thorndike and Instrumental Conditioning
      • Skinner and Operant Conditioning
      • Bandura and Social Learning Theory
      • Cognitive and Constructivist Views of Learning (Ausbel, Bruner, and Vygotsky)
    • Memory and Retention
  2. Basic Concepts of Motivation
    • Behavioristic Theory
    • Need Theories
    • Atkinson’s Achievement Motivation Theory
    • Attribution Theory
    • Intrinsic Motivation Theory

Unit 5: Child Psychopathology

  1. Forms of Typical Development in Childhood and Adolescence
  2. Disorders of Behavior
  3. Disorders of Emotions
  4. Developmental and Learning Problems
  5. Problems Related to Mental Health

TEACHING OF READING AND WRITING

Unit 1: Reading Difficulties: Definition and Concept

  1. The Classification of Reading Disability
    • Organic/Neurological Explanations
    • Functional Approach
    • Environmentalist Explanations
  2. Elements of Reading; Word Recognition and Reading Comprehension
  3. Remediation of Specific Reading Difficulties
    • Visual Motor
    • Auditory Verbal
    • Auditory Visual Integration
    • Higher Order Conceptual and Language Problems
  4. Approaches of Teaching Reading
    • Whole Language Instruction
    • Explicit Code Emphasis Instruction
    • Integrating Whole Language and Code-Emphasis Instruction

Unit 2: Writing Difficulties; Definition and Concept

  1. The Classification of Learning Difficulties in Writing
  2. The Development of Writing; Writing Process (Planning/Editing/Revising)
  3. Remediation of Writing and Spelling Difficulties
    • Writing Difficulties
      • Difficulties in Composition, Formulation, and Planning Grammatical Structure
      • Difficulties with Handwriting
    • Spelling and Other Difficulties
      • Spelling Difficulties
      • Problems with Punctuation and Space
  4. Assessment of Writing
    • Informal Monitoring
    • Process Measures
    • Product Measures

Unit 3: Visual Motor Problems and Activity Level

  1. Definition and Concept
  2. The Classification of Visual Motor Difficulties
  3. Remediation of Visual Motor Difficulties
    • Visual Perceptual Difficulties
    • Motor Difficulties (Clumsiness)
    • Difficulty with Attention and Activity Level

Unit 4: Difficulties in Mathematics

  1. Definition and Concept
  2. The Classification of Learning Difficulties in Mathematics
  3. Remediation of Difficulties in Mathematics
    • Specific Difficulties in Mathematics
      • Difficulty with Reading and Writing Numbers
      • Difficulty with Calculations
      • Spatial Difficulties
    • Higher Order Difficulties in Mathematics
      • Difficulty in Understanding Mathematics
      • Difficulty with the Language of Mathematics

Unit 5: Personal and Social Skills

  1. Definition and Concept
  2. The Classification of Social Skills Problems
  3. Remediation of Personal and Social Skills

VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Unit 1: Introduction to Visual Impairment

  1. Definition and Classification
    • Legal Definition
    • Low Vision/Legally Blind
    • Educational Definition
  2. Measurement of Vision and Low Vision
  3. Causes of Visual Impairment
  4. Prevalence and Prevention

Unit 2: Function of the Eye

  1. Anatomy
  2. Physiology
  3. Functions
  4. Diseases

Unit 3: Psychological and Behavioral Characteristics

  1. Language Development
  2. Intellectual Ability
  3. Mobility
  4. Academic Achievement
  5. Social Adjustment

Unit 4: Educational Considerations

  1. Braille
  2. Use of Remaining Sight
  3. Listening Skills and Verbalism
  4. Mobility Training
  5. Information Communication Tools (ICT’s Tools)
  6. Service Delivery Models

Unit 5: Transitional Planning

  1. Independent Living
  2. Vocational Training
  3. Resume Writing
  4. Employment Opportunities
  5. Understanding and Adjustment of Work Environment

Practical:

  • Assessment of Vision/Low Vision
  • Case Study Recording
  • Use of Residual Vision
  • Braille
  • Mobility Training
  • Observational Visit of Centers for Visual Handicap

HEARING IMPAIRMENT

Unit 1: Definition and Concept of Hearing Impairment

  1. Hard of Hearing
  2. Deaf
  3. Classification of Hearing Impairment
  4. Causes of Hearing Impairment
    • Conductive, Sensorineural, and Mixed Impairments
    • Impairments of the Outer Ear
    • Impairments of the Middle Ear
    • Impairments of the Inner Ear
  5. Prevalence and Prevention

Unit 2: Function of the Ear

  1. Anatomy
  2. Physiology
  3. Functions
  4. Diseases

Unit 3: Measurement of Hearing Ability

  1. Pure-Tone Audiometry
  2. Free Field Audiometry
  3. Speech Audiometry
  4. Test for Young and Hard-to-Test Children
  5. School Screening
  6. Bone Conduction Test
  7. Tympanometry
  8. Auto Acoustic Test
  9. Distraction Test

Unit 4: Psychological and Behavioral Characteristics

  1. Language and Speech
  2. Intelligence
  3. Academic Achievement
  4. Social Adjustment
  5. Behavior Problems

Unit 5: Educational Considerations for Remediation

  1. Oral Approach: Auditory-Verbal Approach and Speech Reading
  2. Hearing Appliances
  3. Sign Language
  4. Cued Speech
  5. Total Communication
  6. Augmentative Communication Devices
  7. Makaton
  8. Career Education

MENTAL RETARDATION

 

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