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Perceptual Impairments Question Paper

Perceptual Impairments

Course:Bachelor Of Special Needs Education

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
INSTITUTE OF OPEN LEARNING EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION)
PSE 413: PERCEPTUAL IMPAIRMENTS
DATE: Wednesday 21st July, 2010 TIME: 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS
Answer ALL questions in Section ONE and any TWO questions in Section TWO.

SECTION ONE (30 MARKS)
1. Distinguish between perception and sensory skills. [4 marks]

2. (a) Explain what you do understand by the term “Gestalt psychology’. [2 marks]

(b) Explain two ways Gestalt psychology is related to learning disabilities.
[4 marks]

3. Identify two examples of the concept “sensory receptors”. [2 marks]

4. Explain one process of sensory input. [2 marks]

5. Identify 4 activities you would use to stimulate infant’s language development.
[4 marks]

6. Explain with examples each of the following:
(a) Closure [3 marks]
(b) Sequential visual perceptual skills. [3 marks]

7. (a) Explain with an example, colour constancy. [2 marks]
(b) Give two strategies of teaching children with LD colour constancy.

8. Identify four sub-skills of auditory perceptual channel. [4 marks]

SECTION TWO (40 MARKS)
9. Discuss four characteristics of basic academic skills of children with learning disabilities. [20 marks]

10. (a) How does overloading of the perceptual system adversely affect a child
with Learning disabilities? [10 marks]
(b) Explain 5 activities you would put in place to assist a child who cannot use
all the sensory channels.
11. Describe four areas of perceptual principles by Gesalt and explain why children with LD would experience difficult in the same. [20 marks]

12. Describe with examples the following areas of learning in children with learning disabilities and show how each of the four is affected by inability to perceive.
[20 marks]
(a) Memory
(b) Cognitive
(c) Metacognitive
(d) Attention
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