Seizure and Unmet Emotional Needs

ETH306W

Inclusive Education B

Question 1:

1. A learner who rubs his eyes excessively, shuts or covers his eyes, experiences a hearing

problem

2. Learners suffering from albinism should sit in a darker place in the classroom, away from the windows - correct!

3. The type of eye condition & the amount of residual vision would not determine the

assistance given to a learner in class

Question 2:

1. Deafness is definitely not hereditary – it is caused by e.g. learners having forced strange

objects in their ears, which damaged the ear drum

2. Learners suffering from sensory neural hearing loss will be totally unable to hear in noisy

surroundings

3. A learner who cannot understand the teacher if the teacher’s head is turned away or the

teacher’s lips are covered, suffer from a visual impairment as he or she cannot lip read what

the teacher says

Question 3:

1. According to the DSMIV Manual, a learner with an IQ score of 50/55 to about 70, is regarded

as mildly intellectually disabled

2. Learners who experience intellectual barriers are inclined not to be anxious & stressed up,

as for most of the time, they live in their own world & they are not conscious of what happens

around them

3. It is a useless effort by the teacher to try & stimulate the learner who is intellectually

impaired, to overcome problems with short-term memory

###Question 4: here its right but in the marking sheet I’ve got 1 & its marked wrong!!

1. Paraplegia is an ability to move & an absence of sensation in the lower limbs

2. Cerebral palsy is caused by an underdevelopment of or damage to certain parts of the brain

concerned with movement

3. It is not generally accepted today that not all physically disabled learners necessarily require

special schools

Question 5:

1. In order to classify an epileptic seizure, it is not necessary to identify which part of the brain is

effected – it is