Welcome Holland Poem Analysis

Welcome Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley is a poem that describes the experience of having a child with disability. It uses tips to compare what you are expecting when having a child without a disability and they end up having a child with one. Emily uses planning a trip to Italy and planning things to do like you would with a non-disabled child. In the poem the trip to Italy turns into a trip to Holland, Holland being a child with a disability. In the poem Holland is just as nice as Italy. I think this poem does a good job at pointing out that any child with or without a disability is equally as rewarding as having a non-disabled child. You are not alone is a poem/letter about what to expect and feel when you have a child with a disability. It talks about how you and your child can still enjoy life whilst living with a disability. As a future educator the takeaway message from both of these readings is that every child is unique and they are all capable of learning and growing as human beings. Also not every child you teach will have perfect behavior and will all be different. Refrigerator mothers was a very interesting movie. The movie talks about autism diagnosis in the mothers of autistic children. Who were blamed for their children having autism. A man named Bruno …show more content…
Bruno ran a school for autistic children, one of the suggested treatments was isolation, they put the children in a room with no toys and nothing to distract them. The children were taken away from their parents for an extended period of time, in one example a woman was taken away from her son for two years. Refrigerator mothers was very shocking because how we know that autism is a neurological syndrome. I think that it is not fair to judge a mother or blame her for a neurological syndrome that they have no control over. As an educator it is not professional or acceptable to blame a parent for their child’s