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Special Education

Notes • Social characteristics: Socially well mature, popular, responsible, quality of leadership honest
and great trust worthiness.
• Negative characteristics: (i) may be restless, inattentive, disturbing, may become outspoken,
and shows jealous behaviour, careless and poor in spellings and hand writing.

19.5 Keywords

• Autonomous : Able to govern itself or control its own affairs.
• Challenging : Difficult in an interesting way that tests your ability.
• Exclusive : Only to be used by one particular person or group.
• Underground : Under the surface of the ground.

19.6 Review Questions

1. What do you mean by 'gifted children'?
2. Write any 5 charactriistics of gifted children.
3. Give the types of gifted children.
4. What are the positive and negative characteristics?
Answers: Self Assessment

1. (i) True (ii) False (iii) True (iv) False
(v) True
2. (i) Superiority (ii) Giftedness, normal distribution
(iii) outstanding (iv) professional
(v) gifted children (vi) Terman
(vii) Personality characteristics (viii) Negative characteristics

19.7 Further Readings

1. Special Education : Laura Rothstein; Scott F.Johnson; Sage Publisher, Inc.
2. Special Education: Daniel P. Hallahan, James M. Kauffman, Paige C. Pullen; Pearson
Education, Inc.
3. Special Education: Linda Wilmshurst, Ph.D., ABPP, Alan W. Brue, Ph.D., NCSP

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