Theories:
There are two theories which can be applied to the cultural context where family and society plays a significant role in the issues of how to tackle low esteem in adolescents.
The term accommodations as it applies to families of children with disabilities has been defined as “proactive efforts of a family to adapt, exploit, counterbalance, and react to the many competing and sometimes contradictory forces in their lives” (Bernheimer, Gallimore, & Weisner, 1990, p. 223). Making accommodations has to do with problem solving, with redesigning familial roles and relationships, and with marshalling whatever financial, social, and emotional resources a family might have to adjust to the challenge of raising a child with a disability. …show more content…
In a society where literacy is a highly valued skill or commodity, a perceived inability to acquire that skill is highly likely to have a negative effect upon any individual’s conception of themselves as competent. As a young person develops physically and intellectually, their feelings of competence and well-being will be shaped by the comparisons they make between themselves and others and by the ways in which they interpret others’ perceptions of them. It seems a reasonable assumption to make, therefore, that children who struggle at school with learning difficulties of a dyslexic nature may well have their feelings of self-esteem affected by this (Kozulin, 1998). A number of demographic factors may have a bearing on attitudes towards people with ID. Educational attainment has been found to have a positive correlation with attitudes in support of empowerment and integration (Lau,Cheung, 1999 & Yuker, 1994). Support from parents, classmates, and trained teachers in a private school environment may provide the ideal setting for the self-perceptions of students with LD to
There are two theories which can be applied to the cultural context where family and society plays a significant role in the issues of how to tackle low esteem in adolescents.
The term accommodations as it applies to families of children with disabilities has been defined as “proactive efforts of a family to adapt, exploit, counterbalance, and react to the many competing and sometimes contradictory forces in their lives” (Bernheimer, Gallimore, & Weisner, 1990, p. 223). Making accommodations has to do with problem solving, with redesigning familial roles and relationships, and with marshalling whatever financial, social, and emotional resources a family might have to adjust to the challenge of raising a child with a disability. …show more content…
In a society where literacy is a highly valued skill or commodity, a perceived inability to acquire that skill is highly likely to have a negative effect upon any individual’s conception of themselves as competent. As a young person develops physically and intellectually, their feelings of competence and well-being will be shaped by the comparisons they make between themselves and others and by the ways in which they interpret others’ perceptions of them. It seems a reasonable assumption to make, therefore, that children who struggle at school with learning difficulties of a dyslexic nature may well have their feelings of self-esteem affected by this (Kozulin, 1998). A number of demographic factors may have a bearing on attitudes towards people with ID. Educational attainment has been found to have a positive correlation with attitudes in support of empowerment and integration (Lau,Cheung, 1999 & Yuker, 1994). Support from parents, classmates, and trained teachers in a private school environment may provide the ideal setting for the self-perceptions of students with LD to