Essays on Exceptional Children

Introduction

This essay will review the movie “Down in The Delta” that deals with the depiction of autism. It is an interesting movie that seeks to enlighten the viewer ON the plight of a young mother (Loretta) whose daughter is diagnosed with autism. Her struggles are explained in the difficulties she faces in raising her children, especially after her husband runs away upon learning about the condition of his daughter. The essay will be helpful in learning the stereotypes that are associated with autism by answering some questions that will guide this understanding. Does the movie support the current legislation ...

While Lightner Witmer has been largely credited with the conceptualization and creation of a separate field of study for school psychology (D’Amato et al., 2011), it has it’s true roots, in many ways, in the creation of the IQ test. The IQ test was pioneered by Alfred Binet who was specifically interested in the standards of the normal mind. Today, the Binet-Simon scale, first generated in 1905, is still used in schools to determine a child’s overall ability to perform certain tasks (Binet & Simon, 1905). Perhaps more significantly, however, it was significant that Binet recognized that ...

Intervention Plan

Intervention Plan Every educational establishment deals with pupils or students that have to acquire a certain amount of knowledge. That is why every educational establishment sooner or later will have such students that won't be able to accomplish a program for various reasons. It can deal not only with studying problems but also with behavior deviations. In order to help pupils to reach the standards of an institution, a pupil studies in an intervention plan has to be developed. An intervention is always used to avoid punishments like detention, suspension, etc. It is an alternative solution to a problem. ...

Reflection

Reflection

Article 1: “Considerations for Special Education Assessment Systems."

Special education involves students with some physical or mental complication that requires special attention from their teachers. Such students are given specific attention as compared to normal students because their conditions affect their understanding and performance in general.

Information Gathering

The article “Considerations for special education assessment systems” was published by the National Center of Educational Outcomes 2014. The article was presented as a clear assessment of student inventory for school districts by the school district leaders whereby they sought to deal with the concerns about the magnitude of student testing, which is conducted through the assessment inventory process. The ...

Overview

Balanced literacy involves language arts acquisition using a program consisting of word study, small strategy groups, and interactive read aloud, along with shared, independent, and guided reading. These essential components help a learner to understand written and spoken communication by emphasizing on reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing. Literacy is an important aspect everyday activities and modern social networks emphasize this, people cannot “Tweet” and comment if they do not write. Yet even with increasing trends in globalization some children are more advanced, and some need to learn solutions to their education challenges. Balanced literacy instruction supports students’ need by ...

BACKGROUND

The Individuals with disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the principle federal statute that has been mandated to authorize federal aid for the education of more than 6 million children with disabilities nationally (Huefner, 2008, p.371). IDEA guarantees eligible students a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), therefore, education becomes free to both the child and the parent in the sense that, the school, insurance company or any other specified state agency will incur the costs of education for the child. The IDEA statute is made up of two components: The due process provisions that detail parental rights and the permanently authorized ...

A lot of technologies, gadgets, and devices being introduced today require the use of an individual’s vision, among other things such as hand to eye coordination, a perfectly working sense of hearing, and of course, the ability to understand how the device works and to actually manipulate it. Thanks to the advancements in teaching education and lifestyle modification for the people with visual impairments, these particular segment of the population can still have experience to have a near normal life—same as those who do not have visual impairments. It is important to note early at this point, however, that ...

Individuality of Children

Individuality of Children Twice-exceptional children are children who are gifted, but also have special educational needs. These include, learning disabilities, Asperger Syndrome, among others. Because these students are gifted, this can mask their special needs and on the other hand their special needs can hide their giftedness (Besnoy, 2006).Twice exceptional students face a lot of challenges within the education system right from placement into schools. A student is identified as gifted by the identification and placement committee and hence is recommended to undertake educational options that would support performance at higher levels of complexity that the student has. ...

The court cases and the federal legislation are required for ensuring that the children with the disabilities receive free education, which is suitable for them. They are required in order to ensure that the disabled children get the proper education so that they at least become aware of their surroundings, and know about the way to lead their life. In this regard there are acts such as FAPE, i.e., Free and Appropriate Public Education, PL 94-142 or Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. FAPE has made it compulsory that the schools should provide an access to the general and ...

Introduction

Autism is a neurobehavioral, developmental disability that involves significant impairment of individuals’ verbal and nonverbal language and social interaction. Other characteristics of autism include markedly short attention span, repetitive activities and rigid behaviors, and inability to treat others as people, resistance to tamper on their daily routines, among others . It covers a variety of communicative skills impairment depending on the levels of symptoms. Generally, it is evident in children prior to age three and hampers their educational performance. The disorder ranges from a handicap that produces a normal life to a devastating disability that calls for institutional attention . Considering that autism is attached to ...

Introduction

People differ in their ability to cope with the conventional education system. Some students are unable to cope with not only the academic standards but also the behavioral standards in most of the conventional education institutions. The NOVA educational system was developed to meet the educational needs of such students. Most of the students in the NOVA schools have a form of disorder e.g. behavioral, psychosocial or even have some special needs (Project Achieve 1). However, some of the students are victims of bullying who find it hard to cope with the students in the conventional education system thus get ...

TASK ONE

In the world of special education, no task is more difficult than dealing with parents of special needs and mentally disabled children - reaching an appropriate level of communication is absolutely vital in creating the ideal atmosphere for a joint approach to their child's education. One of the most important goals for educators is to increase participation in IEP conferences; without the investment of the parents in their child's education initiatives, the child stands a much smaller chance of achieving a successful education (Goldstein & Turnbull, 1982).

Collaborative consultation is the key to successful individual education program (IEP) initiatives; the educational demands of ...

INTRODUCTION

For the purposes of this assignment, I interviewed a teacher of a student with intellectual disabilities, in order to assess her opinion on the changes to the family structure that such a student would have. I then attended an IEP meeting wherein parents met with the teacher and other education professionals who are creating an individualized education program for that child, in order to address their learning through the lens of their learning disability. These meetings are meant to keep the parents in the loop regarding what their children are doing, and how they are progressing in these particular courses. In this ...