special and inclusive education

A certain SPED Center offers opportunity for learners with disability, giftedness, and talents to learn side by side with their peers. What type of school service is described in this situation?

• Inclusive Education

• Special Education

• A & B

• None of these

Answer explanation

Rationalization: Special education provides mainstreamed education where students with special needs are not only in the same classroom as their normally developing peers, but also receiving the support of special education (Kargın, 2004)

An 8-year old girls is diagnosed with Down Syndrome. She is enrolled in a school where she learns with regular pupils in her classes. What type of school service is described in the situation?

• Inclusive Education

• Special Education

• Inclusive Education/Special Education

• None of these

Answer explanation

Rationalization: “Inclusive education allows students of all backgrounds to learn and grow with other regular pupils to the benefit of all.”

The statement that every child with special needs has a right to a educational program that is suitable to his needs, falls under in what basic philosophy?

• Inclusive Education

• Special Education

• Inclusive Education/Special Education

• None of these

Answer explanation

Rationalization: To develop the maximum potential of the child with special needs to enable him/her to become self-reliant and shall be geared towards providing them with the opportunities for a full and happy life is one of the objectives of special education.

She is an American teacher of Helen Keller, widely recognized for educating high level a person without sight, hearing, or normal speech.

• Itard

• Howe

• Macy

• Hall

Answer explanation

Rationalization: Anne Sullivan Macy was the first person to teach a child that was both deaf and blind.

He is regarded as the founder of child psychology and educational psychology

• Itard

• Hall

• Howe

• Dix

Answer explanation

Rationalization: Granville Stanley Hall (b. 1844–d. 1924) was arguably the father of developmental psychology in the United States. His scholarship, leadership, and vision enabled a new appreciation for the science and institutionalization of modern childhood and adolescence.

This type of education provides every child the right to quality education and learning.

• Inclusive Education

• Special Education

• Inclusive Education/Special Education

• None of These

During this period, individuals with disabilities were made fun of and mocked for their deformities and behaviors?

• Early beginnings of Special Education

• Era of Extermination

• Era of Ridicule

• Era of Asylum

Answer explanation

Rationalization: This was the era when there was a rigid caste system, when individuals were used as servants or fools.

During this era, disability was believed to be a punishment of the gods.

• Early beginnings of Special Education

• Era of Ridicule

• Era of Extermination

• Era of Asylum

Answer explanation

Rationalization: In the early period, disability is an impurity. A disabled person cannot approach sacred places.

He created the first documented experience about education of deaf children.

• Abbé Charles Michel de L’epée

• Pedro Ponce de Leon

• Louis Braille

• Maria Montessori

Answer explanation

Rationalization: Pedro Ponce De Leon is one of the pioneers of special education and was first to educate deaf people from noble families.

The preschool-aged child constructs a tower with the largest cube on the bottom and the smallest on top. From whom did this pioneered from?

• Itard

• Montessori

• Decroly

• Itard

Answer explanation

Rationalization: Montessori education uses didactic materials. The "prepared environment" is Maria Montessori's concept that the environment can be designed to facilitate maximum independent learning and exploration by the child.