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In the identification of the gifted children we must give priority to

• the parents' opinion

• the result of objective tests

• the teachers' opinion

• the community's viewpoint

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Dyslexia?

• Problems with reading accuracy, speed, and comprehension

• Certainty as to right or left-handedness

• Slow rate of writing

• Difficulty in learning and remembering printed words

Craft education be given to

• Retarded child

• Backward child

• Common child

• Gifted child

A teacher has a 'hearing impaired' child in her middle school class. It is important for her to

• keep pointing to what the child cannot do over and over again

• ridicule the child and make her sit separately so that she joins an institution for hearing impaired

• ask the school counsellor to talk to the child's parents and tell them to withdraw their child from school

• make the child sit at a place from where she can see the teacher's lips and facial expressions clearly

Children with learning disability

• cannot learn anything

• struggle with some aspects of learning

• are very active, but have a low IQ

• are very wise and mature

Which one of the following philosophical perspectives needs to be followed to deal with children with special needs?

• They should be segregated and put in separate educational institutions

• They should be given only vocational training

• They have a right to inclusive education and study in regular schools

• They do not need any education at all

In an inclusive classroom with diverse learners, cooperative learning and peer-tutoring

• should be actively discouraged and competition should be promoted

• should be used only sometimes, since it promotes comparison with classmates

• should be actively promoted to facilitate peer-acceptance

• should not be practiced and students should be segregated based on their abilities

A teacher asks her class to cover sharp edges of furniture with cotton and use 'Touch and Feel' notice boards and books. The needs of which category of special learners is she attempting to cater to?

• Hearing-impaired learners

• Visually-impaired learners

• Learning-impaired learners

• Socially disadvantaged learners

Gifted children are best catered to by educational programmes that

• emphasise mastery of knowledge by recall

• make use of gifts and rewards to motivate them to perform according to minimum standards of learning

• stimulate their thinking and give them opportunities to engage in divergent thinking

• control their aggressive behaviour

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is .

• dissociative disorder

• adjustment disorder

• anxiety disorder

• somatoform disorder