Special Relationship

When the term began, I had not critically thought about learning disabilities (LD) or its relationship to the DSM-5. I understood that LD was used as an umbrella that encompassed many different disorders that impacted academics. I believed that you needed to have difficulty learning to have an LD. However, the learning difficulties were not the result of lowered intelligence, a traumatic brain injury, deafness or other factors. It is often the case that persons with LD are not able to perform at…

Jeyaprahaban (2016) explained inclusive education is defined as accommodating all students in a school, irrespective of their strengths or functional need in any area, become part of the school community. Inclusion ends the isolation of special education placement for special education students by placing them in a general education setting with appropriate accommodations and supports within that classroom (Holmberg and Jeyaprahaban, 2016). Inclusive Education obligate teachers to educate a…

after or during an incident. However, the school psychiatrist does meet with small groups of students with special needs twice per month and Lina is a part of these group meetings. Lina has imaginary friends, has stated that dolls have spoken…

everyone was the same race. At the end of the project there were a lot of lessons learned and relationships built. The students were eager to learn and the teachers were just as excited for them to be able to carry out the project. I liked how the projected began by the student wanting to understand what…

Lane et al (2005) attempted to compare the outcomes of social skills between students with Emotional Behavior Disorders (EBD) who were placed in regular school with those who were integrated in special placement. The results of this comparison show that there was a drop of the level of social and behavioral achievements because this could be a result of the lack of teachers training, where the lack of skilled-teachers may negatively influence social…

law was to better the education of these learners and not allow them to be singled out. The students should be placed by their ABILITIES not their disabilities. (Wentz, 2012.) It is highly unfortunate that the main reason people raise a fuss over special education is because they feel pressured by the law (Pazey, Cole, 2013). This issue should be cared about because it means something, not because the administrators and staff are going to “get in trouble”. Learning disabilities is an area that…

educators, special educators, parents, and related service providers in order to deliver quality services to all students. 3. Professional development in the philosophy of inclusion and collaborative teaching methods. To determine if providing an inclusive education would improve learners’ achievement these major variables would be considered in a first grade general education classroom. The classroom would comprise of 27 students: eight ELL students, eight Title 1 students, four special…

for a few seconds. I then counted “1,2,3 my turn” and she began to tantrum when I took the IPad. I had to remove the IPad by putting it away for the rest of the day and did not give her what she wanted to stop the tantrum. I removed it because she displayed a negative behavior. I replaced the IPad with two other objects for her to work for. When an object is too reinforcing, it can become a distraction from completing tasks instead of an objective to work for. We need to explain to the…

For this assignment, I interviewed a general education second-grade teacher, and a special education teacher at Hammond elementary School. After completing the interviews I was able to understand more about inclusion. I was also able to observe the second grade classroom at two different times. The first observation was before the interviews. And the second observation was during instruction. At these times I was able to pay particular attention on how the teachers used their strategy for…

Mrs. Polli Mays who is one of the EC general curriculum resource teachers at Reedy Creek. Throughout the day, I observed her co-teaching in 3rd and 5th grade classrooms as well as teaching kindergarten and then 1st grade in the resource room. The special education classroom is separate from the school in a building behind the school. It is decorated like most classrooms with posters and letters on the wall. There are a lot of visual and very colorful stimuli located on the walls of the…