Demographic Study Special education is beneficial to students who really have disabilities, but unfortunately students are being placed under special education curriculum most likely due to minority issues. ESE students face many challenges a day, school being the main part of this challenge. There are millions of students nationwide who are suffering from cultural bias which leads to disproportionate representation. This specifically targets CLD (culturally and linguistically diverse) students…
she was confined to a wheelchair. Beth was non- verbal and used technology to communicate. Her cognitive abilities were at a preschool level with Beth being unable to read or understand numbers. Up until the time of the case, Beth was receiving Special Education services and relied on a 1:1 aid to access an extremely modified curriculum within the general education classroom. In 1997, her IEP team recommended she be placed in an Educational Life Skills (ELS) program due to not making…
Equal instructional opportunities for all students are a focal point of our educational system. Special education programs, including gifted education, have improved the education for all students, however, some imbalance still exists. Attaining equal and equitable education for all students is still an important topic in our system. However, the underrepresentation of students in our gifted education programs is still present. Underrepresented students refer to African-American, Hispanic, and…
also the President of her Junior Class, and captain of the volleyball, basketball and lacrosse teams. (Chainkof). Like everyone else, deaf individuals have their rights as a human being and they need to be protected. In 1975 the individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was passed. “IDEA is a federal law which seeks to make sure that students with disabilities receive a free appropriate public education”(Illinois Legal Aid, 1). The child’s educational services and placement must be…
The Parish School The Parish School is a private school that assess and treats children who have communication delays and learning difficulties. The parish school provides beneficial support to the children in the school, who live throughout the Houston area. The placement and instructional techniques used within the classroom are designed to effectively maximize and improve Parish student’s progress in speech, language, academic, and social areas. The Parish School consist of eight buildings.…
Reading is the foundation of everything that is said, written and done in life. Therefore, it is essential that all students no matter their disability or not get support and instruction needed to succeed. Children need to learn that they have a learning disability, but their learning disability doesn’t have them. With hard work, they can learn to An article titled Identifying and helping the dyslexic writer by David Taylor was very insightful for teachers who had the challenge of accommodating…
The purpose of assessments The National Early Childhood Assessment Resource Group summarized the purposes for appropriate uses of assessment in the early childhood years as follows: Purpose 1: Assessing to promote children’s learning and development; Purpose 2: Identifying children for health and social services; Purpose 3: Monitoring trends and evaluating programs and services Purpose 4: Assessing academic achievement to hold individual students, teachers, and schools accountable” Source:…
for the attention of other people, extreme feelings of jealousy (e.g., When Jesse and Mike begin spending time together, as Mike is helping Jesse with his drug addiction, Walt assumes they are doing this to get to him) behaving as if they deserve special treatment, responding to criticism with anger, humiliation, and shame, etc. (Nordqvist,…
Reading instruction in special education and inclusion classrooms is an integral part of the daily education of students involved in such programs. As shown in research, a strong correlation has been found between limited reading ability and school failure, and…
Poor Communications Case Study Educating our parents and students on learning disabilities, for many years learning disabilities were unidentified and when things aren’t identified they automatically fall into the “not normal “category. “Once a students is categorized with intellectual disability, emotional disturbance, or learning disabilities, that information will be forwarded to every new teacher in the child’s cumulative folder” (Henley & Ramsey & Algozzine, 2010). Labeling a student’s can…