Inclusive Education Questions and Answers

Answer: C

Both the resource model and the itinerant model are implemented on a large scale.

In the resource model a child with a disability studies in the regular class and spends part of the day with a trained resource teacher. In the itinerant model a trained teacher travels between several schools to help such children. Government and non-government agencies in India use both.

The dual teaching model is not the one named by the key, and naming only one of the two would leave the other, which is also in wide use, out.

Answer: A

The correct code is a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3.

Mild mental retardation matches 75% and the moderate, severe and profound forms match 25%. These two shares add to the whole, 100%. Associated medical conditions go with 10% and multiple handicaps with 4%, as in option (A) and the official key.

The other codes break this complementary pair: option (B) pairs mild retardation with 75% but the other group with 4%, which gives 79% in all, and options (C) and (D) give totals that do not make 100% either.

Answer: A

The incorrect pattern is using both Braille and sign language.

The three emerging patterns of technology for teaching the mentally retarded are assistive technologies, technologies used in therapy and education, and standard technologies in the workplace, community and home.

Braille and sign language together serve people who have visual and hearing handicaps and not those with mental retardation, so this is the item that is not one of the patterns.

Answer: D

The RCI and NCTE signed the MOU.

The Rehabilitation Council of India recognises special education training and NCTE recognises teacher education. An agreement between the two was made so that teacher education in special education has recognition from both and the courses are brought together.

NAAC, NCERT and NCDS are not the two partners named in this agreement, so the other pairs are wrong.

Answer: C

The correct code is a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3.

The Expanded Programme of Immunisation began in India in 1978 (a with 2), and the National Nutrition Policy came in 1993 (d with 3). Option (C) is the only code with both of these pairings, and it is the official key. It then has b with 1986 and c with 1992-93.

Options (A), (B) and (D) each pair the immunisation programme or the nutrition policy with a different year, so they cannot be right.

Answer: D

Glaucoma results from raised pressure inside the eyeball.

In glaucoma the pressure of the fluid in the eye rises and damages the optic nerve. It can gradually cause loss of sight if it is not treated.

Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness and xerophthalmia, and malnutrition is a general cause of ill health. Ageing may increase the risk, but the immediate cause is the raised intraocular pressure.

Answer: A

Identification and assessment of hearing impaired children is the item the key marks as not belonging.

Measures for the employment of the hearing impaired are about jobs: setting up special employment exchanges and special cells, and creating vocational rehabilitation centres. Identification and assessment of children is an educational step taken in early years and is not itself a measure of employment, so the key marks it as the item that does not belong.

The option on restrictions of jobs in the public sector is also out of place, but the key takes the first item, so the explanation follows the key.

Answer: D

The correct code is a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1.

Cerebral palsy is a persistent disorder of movement and posture from a non-progressive brain disorder of development (4). Muscular dystrophies are inherited disorders with gradual degeneration of muscle fibres (3). Arthritis is joint inflammation (2), and amputation is the absence of all or part of a limb (1).

Each of the other codes pairs at least one condition with the wrong statement, for example cerebral palsy with limb absence, so only option (D) is correct.

Answer: C

The correct code is a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3.

A school for the blind teaches by Braille (a with 2), a school for the deaf by sign language (b with 1), and a school for the mentally retarded follows an Individualised Educational Programme (c with 4). The remaining item, for the deaf-dumb, goes with 3 in the key. That is option (C).

Options (A), (B) and (D) each pair the school for the blind or the deaf with the wrong programme, so they are wrong. Lip reading (5) is an extra item that the key does not use.

Answer: B

When the counsellor enhances school-based services for children with disabilities, he takes on the role of collaborator. He works together with teachers, parents and specialists to improve the services rather than acting alone. An investigator gathers information, a psychologist assesses and treats, and a coordinator arranges and links the services, but the question stresses enhancing the services by working with others, which is the key's collaborator. The role of collaborator fits best because the question speaks of working with the school to improve what it provides.