Inclusive Education Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The most important challenge for a resource teacher, as the key puts it, is teaching combined with curricular activities. A resource teacher has to give specialised instruction to children with disabilities and also help them join the regular curricular activities of the school. Identification and assessment, public sensitisation and setting up the resource room are tasks of the programme but are not named as the greatest challenge in the key.

Answer: C

The correct matching is a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii. The International Year of the Disabled People was 1981. The World Conference on Education for All was held in 1990. The Persons with Disabilities Act is of 1995, and the Rehabilitation Council of India Act is of 1992. This is the code iv i iii ii. The other codes give 1986 or other years to the wrong events.

Answer: A

The incorrect statement is the first, that necessary advertisement is provided through the National Institute for Mentally Retarded Children. The preventive activities concern public education about prevention, spreading knowledge through the press, radio and television, bringing parents and interested persons together to raise funds and support, and strengthening national organisations to coordinate efforts. The first statement describes advertisement through the institute, which is not a preventive activity of the public in this list, so it is keyed as the incorrect one.

Answer: B

Children with disabilities studying along with normal children in a least restrictive environment, with a resource teacher to help, is the integrated education programme. In integration the child is placed in the regular school and receives extra support. A special school programme isolates the children, and inclusive education changes the whole school system to meet every child's needs. Since the question mentions a resource teacher helping a child placed in a regular class, the keyed answer is integrated education.

Answer: C

Legal blindness is defined as a visual acuity of 20/200 in the better eye after best correction. A person with this acuity sees at 20 feet what a person with normal sight sees at 200 feet. Acuity of 20/180, 20/70 or 20/100 is better than the legal limit and is called low vision, not legal blindness. So the third option is correct. Persons with a better acuity than this, but still poor, are described as having low vision.

Answer: D

The apex body for the hearing impaired in India is Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, in Mumbai. It is the national institute for training, research and services for persons with hearing impairment. The Rehabilitation Council of India regulates training for rehabilitation professionals in general, and the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing is at Mysore, so neither is the apex body for the hearing impaired.

Answer: A

The most important challenge in a rehabilitation intervention programme, as keyed, is maintaining the full mobility or range of movement of the joints. If joints become stiff, later training and muscle strengthening are hard. Improving muscle power, restoring function by training and providing splints or callipers are steps of the programme, but the key treats maintenance of mobility as the primary challenge.

Answer: B

The correct matching is a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii. Weakness of one half of the body is hemiplegia. Weakness of one limb is monoplegia. Weakness of all four limbs including the trunk is quadriplegia, and weakness of both lower limbs is paraplegia. This is the code iii i iv ii. Diabetic is not a type of paralysis. The other codes put paraplegia or hemiplegia against the wrong description.

Answer: D

Teachers working with children with disabilities must register their names with the Rehabilitation Council of India. The Council, set up under the RCI Act, keeps the Central Rehabilitation Register of professionals who are qualified to work in the field. NCTE, RIE and NCERT are not the registering bodies for special educators, so the answer is RCI.