The Importance Of Financial Needs

I have heard it said and have even read in the book of Acts, “it is more blessed to give than to receive” (King James Version, Acts 20:35). I like to break this saying up into two stages. The first stage is where you only receive things because of a lack of maturity like a baby. During the beginning stages of one’s life, we spend most of our time in the receiving part of the phase because when you’re an infant, you can’t really give anything like knowledge or wisdom. The only thing that a baby can give is a smile and a dirty diaper. However, as we have grown older, we enter into the second phase. As we go through this phase, you still receive things like knowledge, but now you can also give your knowledge/skills back to the community and the …show more content…
The third need for families with a student with special educational needs is special education services. Some of the educational services that may be needed for the family and their child are occupational therapy, speech therapy, audiology, orientation and mobility services, academic special education services, inclusion in general education classroom, and much more or less depending on child’s needs. Some of these services can be provided at the child’s home and/or at the nearest school …show more content…
The trend that I notice is that if the child is capable to do more things independently; there is less of a need for financial services. On the flip side of that, as the severity of the disability increased, the more the financial services are needed. Some of the financial service needed by a family of a student with special educational needs include “…increased physician and emergency visits, hospitalizations, prescription medications, medical procedures, therapies and ancillary care…” (double cite on Parish introductions) which is not cheap for families or on government entities that help with these