Essays on Inclusion

Chavet Breslin

A Research Project Presented in Partial Fulfillment Master of Education Regis University ABSTRACT Over the past decades, there has been a significant shift in the perceived best practices in the field of special education. While the paradigm for special education, at one time, involved removing students with special needs from the classroom to receive specialized instruction from specifically trained practitioners, the social stigma and lack of academic progress pushed administrators to move toward a more inclusive philosophy of education. A meta-synthesis was performed of past quantitative and qualitative studies to determine what type of structure will best benefit special ...

Inclusion

Inclusion is a concept which has developed in the education systems of several countries around the world in the last three decades. Inclusion is a concept which calls for an education approach whereby all students irrespective of their mental, social or physical abilities are placed together in a conventional classroom. The aim of inclusion is bringing about a togetherness feeling contrary to the divisive feel which was brought about by exclusion (Forest & Pearpoint 1). In such an approach, children with disabilities are given the chance of studying together with ‘normal’ children in the same classroom. Proponents of this concept ...

Background

The inclusion of learners with special needs is gradually becoming a major concern to various governments (Holt, 2004). With the enactment of the Disability Discrimination act of 1992 and changes in community perceptions towards individuals with disability in Australia, mainstream primary educational institutions have had to prioritize children with disabilities’ inclusion (Forbes, 2007). Holt (2004) gives a social model definition of disability as the disadvantage or restriction of activity resulting from contemporary social organization which takes either little or no account of individuals with physical impairments thereby excluding them from mainstream social activities. Generally, children are considered learning ...

Issues in Special Education: Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

Background In the world over, the concept of inclusion of people with disability, particularly inclusion in education, is increasingly becoming a vital issue of concern as several attempts are being made to offer people with disability similar opportunities that are available to people who do not have any impairment of any kind. Ideally, children are considered disabled in learning if, for some reasons, they are not able to learn normally as their counterparts with similar ages and as Holt (2004) documents, disabled are not able to use the same learning facilities as the ones used by their counterparts. Additionally, ...

Arguably, inclusion in special education continues to hoist many contests in the public arena. The concept relates to both social values, sense of personal worth, as well as education. Many scholar questions if inclusion in special schools gives children equal opportunity. Perhaps, legislation in most nations encourages inclusion of students with special needs to be in mainstream schools. In fact, the conception is propelled by arguments that inclusion will improve education performance, quality of life, as well as social development. As a matter of fact, little research has been conducted on inclusion of kids with Autism. Actually, autism is ...

Arguably, inclusion remains one of the controversial issue and concept in education. This is because it is related to social and educational values, as we as influencing individual worth. In most cases, inclusion has been the centre of debate, in which many people ask if children equality is valued, the real meaning of inclusion, as well as the existence of inappropriate groups to inclusion. As a matter of fact, the issue has advocates who are for, while others are against. Certainly, it is somehow realistic to oppose the inclusion in special education. Undoubtedly, those individuals against inclusion in special ...

The direction which the globe is heading mandates that social boundaries which existed in the past should be blurred progressively and finally, every bit of discrimination and categorization should be eliminated. The first was abolition of the slave trade to make all men equal and free. Next followed the emancipation of women to recognize their ability to contribute to society and build an identity for themselves. What followed next was the condemnation of racial segregation. Men of all types of color have equal access to all types of services, jobs and residential locations. This humanitarian wind has brought dignity ...

Analysis of education policy in the USA

Analysis of education policy in the USA Promoting diversity is one of most important issues in education worldwide. Complexity of elaborating on promotion of diversity in education lies in the fact that various types of diversity are singled out with respect to different criteria, namely language, cultural, epistemological and social diversity (Tchibozo, 2012, 3).Furthermore, supporting diversity requires comprehensive alignment of such strategic actions as establishing benchmark criteria and institutions for diversity, continuously improving institutional climate with regard to the needs of the students with different backgrounds and experiences, emphasizing diversity in institutional leadership, coordinating diversity-related projects, led by ...

Executive Summary

The Muslim society in the West and in America is quite small as compared to other groups of people. These groups often live under the close observation of the society which in a way sees them as potential trouble makers. Their religious orientation and the culture often make them sidelined since they cannot easily merge with the others. This essay seeks to explain how this social ice can be broken, thereby incorporating the Muslims fully into the society.

Introduction

In the current times, development in science and technology has seen to the improvement of many aspects of life. Transport ...

Introduction

Context and Thesis Statement Although Western countries have issued acts to support students with special needs to be taught in normal schools, as part of the inclusive education program, schools are still reluctant in receiving students with different types of disabilities, facing various challenges that refer to the prestige of the school, to meeting inclusion standards and regular examinations in this purpose or to installing increased bureaucratic educational demands (Konza, 2008). Schools’ attitudes towards the children with special educational needs vary between aiming for an inclusive education and between maintaining the elitist standards, where inclusive education is not an ...

Inclusion essentially refers to the concept in which students and learners are placed in the most non restrictive environment of learning. This would occur despite the differences in the students arising from disabilities in some of them. Inclusion, therefore, departs from the practice of exclusion in which disabled students are restricted and separated from the normal learning environment. The rationale behind inclusion is the argument that the students would be exposed to a non restrictive world ultimately. Consequently, it beats logic to educate them under restriction and then later release them into the free world. The inclusion advocates insist ...

Inclusion of children with special needs

Introduction Over the past two centuries, there has been an incredible growth and development in education, and this has, particularly, been the case in childhood education. This is due to the fact that the education stakeholders have been in good positions to not only develop the quality of education, but also the strategies through which education will be promoted. One of the most essential things to note in this case, for example, include the fact that education has incredibly advanced in the past two centuries, in terms of delivery and consideration. Children with special needs, for example, have been ...

Introduction

Demographic composition of unions has been changing in the past decades. More women now form part of the workforce. Women can be found in most, if not all, lines of work. Minority ethnic groups have also increased in numbers. Ethnic composition of workers continues to shift. Migrant workers have become a distinct minority group. New types of workers, such as freelancers, home workers and service workers are also emerging as distinct labor groups. Unions operate through the concept of agency. Unions represent their member employees to the employer and regulatory bodies. Effective representation requires the consideration of different interests, ...

Validation of Principal Efficacy Survey– Rationale for Adding New Questions to the

ABSTRACT In the process of validating principal self-efficacy connected to the corroborated Megan Tschannen-Moran Survey, important gaps in the questionnaire exist. The academic work presented here provides the essential and missing questions needing asked by principals in assessing the efficacy of his/her performance as an administrator, innovator, and advocate for quality educational practices in the 21st century. These suggested questions look at principal management abilities, consider the diversity of the demographics of public school learners and their families, professional development necessary for instructors' ability for enhancing teaching, and the critical acknowledgement educational technology. Key Words: principal, self-efficacy, survey, education, ...

The delivery of special education in today’s world presents a challenging environment for policy makers as well as implementers of education. Characterized by diversity and several emerging issues, special education has to be approached from an integrated perspective in order to achieve the best outcomes. The issues involved include inclusion, diversity of disability as well as diversity in teacher education, modes of carrying out assessment, identification of disabilities, instruction and intervention methodologies. Other issues include teacher and administrator preparation to meet various challenges. The texts for the annotated bibliography are drawn across these issues. Many of them are ...

Abstract

This paper consists of three reports from interviews conducted with service providers in the education sector. The interviewees have all dealt with special or exceptional students. They were subjected to a series of questions that sought to give more insight into the quality of service provision in the education sector with particular focus on exceptional students. The responses given by the interviewees were not altered in any way.

Introduction

The scope of education is getting wider and wider every day. The number of stakeholders involved in the education sector has increased and so has the scope of duties and responsibilities ...

Movements of inclusion aim to give rights to formerly disadvantaged or ignored groups. This is to help them acquire the same social or political status of the majority, without giving up their exceptionalities or their unique of differences. Social and national inclusion practices involve such groups as immigrants, religious or racial minorities, sexual minorities, people with disabilities and others. However, in contemporary America social and national inclusion practices do not have the promised effect; instead they help to produce forms of exclusion at the same time that they are trying to eliminate the factors that create exclusion. This is ...

International arbitration allows international business persons from different legal backgrounds to amicably solve their grievances. Parties to a contractual agreement or in an international relationship seek an impartial party who carries out the adjudicatory process. The resolution by the arbitrators is usually binding and carries a provision of arbitration in future contractual disputes. International Arbitration has over the last half century gained popularity because of the expeditious nature of the method. Businesses and international traders prefer international arbitration to the domestic legal process. A dispute would usually be handled under the judicial system under which the dispute occurred. Resolving ...

Arguably, understanding culture is crucial to educators in all fields of human life. An individual cultural orientation takes place in every aspect of human interaction. Due to globalization and diversity, culture and cultural concepts has been made more complex. Often, people make assumptions on individual belief and behaviors based on one cultural indicator, which is specifically ethnicity. In the real sense, global identities are complex and diverse weave of various cultural affiliations that individuals belongs influence our behaviors, beliefs, as well as values. Culture is a learned behavior, and it surrounds all activities of human nature. Its complexity includes ...

[Sacrificing Students’ Comfort for Full Inclusion] [Author] [Institutional Affiliation/University]

Summary

In the lesson entitled, “Is Full Inclusion the Least Restrictive Environment?” it compared two opposing cases on inclusion of persons with disabilities in regular schools. The first case tells a story of Ro who has successfully adapted in the education systems of inclusive schools since preparatory school to college. Her story reflects an empowered person despite her disability through the inclusive learning systems of schools she attended. She excelled in her schools especially in communication. She gained many friends from her classmates who learned life lessons from her story. Ro’ ...

Multicultural Australia

In his article “A Linguist’s Vision for Multicultural Australia”, Professor Michael Clyne comments upon the Australian Government’s social inclusion policies, observing that they are ambiguous and confuse when it comes to fairly representing the Australian minorities in the society. Clyne discusses about Howard’s and Rudd’s governmental plans for social inclusion, which did not contain a multicultural dimension, references to including the languages of minorities in schools and concrete plans of sharing the minorities’ values and traditions throughout Australian society. The author perceives the problem of social inclusion beyond its immediate meaning of supporting the vulnerable ...

The main theme for the book entitled “The Spirit Level: Why equal societies almost always do better” was about how inequality can affect even those who are not well off. This information is vital for someone in the planning profession because the economy and the labor force affects the job outlook as well as the other important factors in a certain area. The book was well written and was done with extensive years of research, not focusing on only one country, but doing a case study on many. When it comes to someone from the planning profession, it is ...

'Setting the Direction' Framework for Inclusive Education in Alberta The ‘Setting the Direction’ framework involves the construction of one inclusive system of education that caters for the educational needs of every student. This should be inclusive of children with various learning needs. It is a way of acting and thinking that shows universal acceptance of all students, regardless of their situations. In Alberta, it means the formulation of an approach based on values that will lead to the acceptance of responsibility for all students. Inclusive education is essential for the development of society as a whole. The starting point ...

General Information

The observation took place on 03/06/2012 at the Whitfield county school in Dalton for 3 hrs. The address was 6476 and the phone number (212) 401-61-81. The children are autistic and with an inclusive individualized education program. The class consists of twelve students with two autistic and with a teacher student ratio of twelve to one. The student’s ages varied from nine to eleven years. The classroom is well arranged with the Paraprofessional`s desk right next to the two autistic kid which seemed intentional,. (Lessey, 2004).

Physical Setting

The room arrangement is relatively clumsy ...

Introduction:

In this paper, the significance of good quality early childhood education has been discussed, along with the teaching strategies which encourage multicultural education. The relationship and interaction between the teacher and parents is shown to be of vital importance, in order to make a child’s learning successful and meaningful in every aspect. Some light is thrown on how a teacher can motivate children in the classroom and ignite their interest in various activities. Various assessment methods have now been developed and implemented which mainly focus on recognizing and nurturing a child’s strengths and strengthening the weaknesses or ...

Integrating Social Media in Education

Introduction This paper is a review of the article by Hadewijch Vanwynsberhe and Pieter Verdengem dubbed “Integrating Social Media in Education”. Essentially, the article proposes that education on social media is paramount for contemporary students based on the premise that they are social media users. Centrally, the inclusion of social media education in the curricula would be benched on four main objectives. First, so that the students can be capable of searching for information on social media sites and more importantly, they can be able to deal with the information that they encounter in such sites. Secondly, that students ...

Is the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance a violation of the 1st amendment or an acceptable traditional expression? The phrase “under God” in the pledge of allegiances has been embroiled by endless controversy over years. Some professionals and legal experts are opposed to this idea for various reasons, while others support the inclusion of the clause in the Pledge of Allegiance. Campaigns to alter the clause have also been live and vibrant ever since its introduction in 1892. The debate on the clause under God revolves around numerous controversial religion and royalty questions. Some religious leaders ...

Abstract

This paper presents an exhaustive review of data and literature pertaining to the music education of students with special needs. The paper will start by looking at the increasing number of special needs children within the education fraternity and the obvious implications of this. The paper will then delve into one subject of education that is music and focus on one major perspective, and that is the importance of adequately preparing music educators to teach students with special needs. In relation to this, a comprehensive literature review will be conducted ion some of the established facts and theories regarding ...

Introduction

Migraine is characterized by recurrent moderate to severe headaches and autonomic nervous system symptoms such as aura. The headache pulsates on one side of the head only. Additional symptoms of migraine include sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and vomiting. According to Robbins and Lipton, migraines are caused by both genetic and environmental factors and affect up to 15% of the global population at some point in life.1 Typically, the severe headache persist for over two hours but may last up to three days.

Pathophysiology of Migraines

Migraines are chronic neurovascular disorder. Goadsby asserts that the condition starts in the brain and ...

Management at Sprint

Management at SPRINT Introduction Sprint Nextel Corporation is a based in the United States and it is engaged in telecommunication business. Sprint Nextel Corporation was founded in the year 1899, by Jason Brown and Cleyson Brown. The corporation has been operating as Sprint Corporation until the year 2005when it underwent branding to Sprint Nextel Corporation. The corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and it mainly specialises in the provision of both wire line and wireless communications networks. Management comprises of the following various function, which include organising, directing, staffing, planning, controlling and leading. All the activities ...

When talking about diversity, people always tend to define it in terms of difference in race, sex, socioeconomic status, religion, etc. and the treatment of other people in relation to these differences. When taken merely from the context of society, diversity would only be viewed as discrimination by prototypes. Prototypes refer to the standardized mindset of people from other culture, race, religion, etc. towards particular people. For instance, black people are viewed as slaves and as bad people, even if they are not at all or maybe not every black person is. Making prototypes is a social issue that ...

Diversity and Inclusion

Cultural diversity refers to the existence of various kinds of people with different cultures within a given shared environment. Cultural diversity can be looked at from various points of references. This in most cases would come on the basis of interaction and sharing of common goals by people of different cultural backgrounds (Cooley & McEwan, 2004, p.37). Cultural diversity identifies differences based on behaviour and guided by ethnic based backgrounds, which gives individuals a sense of belonging to a given group. This means that my behaviour can be measured based on the group I identify with them all the time ...

The Birthright Lottery by Ayelet Shachar

The Canadian government has recently taken steps towards what they deem will make Canadian citizenship valuable. In 2009, a law was passed limiting or restricting people in obtaining Canadian citizenship. Children born abroad on the date 17 April 2009 and after would only obtain Canadian citizenship if at least one of the parents was a Canadian citizen by birth or by naturalisation. Canadian parents are therefore limited in passing citizenship to children born abroad after one generation. These restrictions have raised concern over which state children born abroad fall into and ...

Analysis of Wal-Mart’s Business Processes

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Introduction

Majority of organizations are governed by business practices that are distinctly designed according to their priorities and personal beliefs. Among these practices includes policy relating to privacy, diversity, worker’s rights, environmental responsibility, marketing plan, products issues and intellectual property rights. Wal-Mart is one of the largest retailing chains in the United States with revenues amounting to US$ 485.651 billion for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015 . For several consecutive years, Wal-Mart has been named as the first amongst the Top Performing Company by Fortune 500 . The organization’s lead executives assert that they owe their ...

Introduction

Diversity refers to the practice of understanding, acknowledging, accepting, celebrating and valuing differences among people with regard to class, ethnicity, age, physical and mental prowess, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and public assistance status (Green, López, Wysocki and Kepner, 2013). In the current global scenario when the driving forces of globalization like communication, transportation, advent of technologies, transnational companies and internet have diminished boundaries, the work place environment has become extremely diverse with people of various cultures, beliefs and backgrounds interacting with each other on a daily basis on account of work and business. The demography in USA ...

California Lutheran University

Rayan Azhari Chapter I

Introduction

Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty. Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. Effective ...

Hitchings (4) elucidate that the well-established dictionaries produced by lexicographers in English are within the inner circle depicting England, America, and Australia. The Oxford family, Cambridge family, and Collins family dictionaries are popular in Britain and Commonwealth countries. Recently, the American Heritage, Webster family, and Macquarie family of dictionaries from Australia appear to shelve the major bookstores in many countries. Currently, Lynch (7) observes that there is a global competition in the lexicographic market place where people embrace dictionaries and find it hard to work without them. The English dictionaries base on the traditional canon that helps in the ...

Chapter I

Introduction Succession planning is the process of identifying, recruiting, and training employees of an organization in order to equip them with skills necessary for enabling them to take up future top management positions. It entails training and evaluation processes to ensure that the respective employees are capable of effectively and efficiently handling all the management and leadership issues, they may face in the course of duty. Succession planning is an important part of everyday organization activities and, as a result, all organizations whether small; medium sized or even large must prepare for future succession possibilities. Effective succession planning ensures ...

Impact of Future Derivatives on Stock Market Volatility

Derivatives has been the talk of the financial world after it was accused as the primary reason for such a deep financial crisis that affected the global economy in 2007. Thus, the modelling of asset returns and judging the volatility of stock market and whether the derivatives have a substantial effect on stock market volatility, is still the key task for every finance professional as it provides much needed on risk patterns involved in investment process. The Finance Gurus propose that stock market normally exhibit high levels of price volatility and cause concerns to the investor regarding unpredictable outcomes, ...

Introduction

Data migration entails the procedures involved in the transfer of data between types of storage, format types as well as computer based systems as a major consideration in the implementation of systems, their upgrade or consolidation. Data migration is normally performed in a programmatic manner so as to attain automation in migration so as to free up human resources from taxing tasks (Sudipto. et al. 2010). Data migration may be undertaken for several reasons such as replacement of upgrade of server and storage equipment, consolidation of website platforms, maintaining of servers as well as relocation of data centers when ...

Historical Background

Healthcare institutions in United States and France have been encountering challenges of unprecedented scope. The increase in the number of elderly in the two countries has not only threatened to increase the cost of managing the healthcare sector, but has also led to the inflation rate. In reference to the current trend in the two countries healthcare systems, researchers and other healthcare professionals have raised their fear that the ever-increasing technologies and expensive medical treatment are likely to wreck havoc on public spending priorities. The increase in healthcare spending in United States of America is also likely to interfere ...

The education system is supposed to aid in various levels of child development. Of great importance is the expansion of the child’s intellectual capabilities. However, there are also other important aspects of development which the education system should achieve in children. Extra curricula activities are fundamental in the growth of the child just as the character development is also important. The character of the children is aimed to be positively influenced so as to produce better individuals who will run the country’s affairs. The character of an individual can be said to entail their attitudes, ethics and ...

Introduction

Corporate social responsibility refers to the ability of businesses doing well in terms of performance and at the same time doing well especially to in relation to the immediate environment (Campbell, Hollingsworth, & Lindberg, 1991, p. 5). CSR involves the process of aligning long term business strategies with operations to universally achieve sustainable and positive outcomes. The main beneficiaries of CSR practices by firms are clients, suppliers, shareholders, employees, and the environment with no particular meaning derived from the order. Practicing of CSR is an essential input by responsible firms. Firms all over the world are engaging in CSR ...

- Suzuki, N. (2014). The anthropology of aging and well-being. 1st ed. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology

The article titled “The Values Transmitted by Lifelong Education in Denmark: The Conditions of Social Inclusion”, is written by Nanami Suzuki, National Museum of Ethnology, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies. There are six sections – introduction, History of folk education in Denmark, Social and Adult education, Folk High school and Conclusion. Suzuki has given the details of the system of education in Denmark from the 0th grade, through primary school, high school and adult education. Suzuki has emphasized the goals and special ...

An individual needs to remember one of the most memorable quotes of Jan Peter Balk “The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalties are now taken for granted” in order to understand the great impact of cold war to the global community. In America, there was a need for democracy and equity amongst the citizens. During these times, there was a need for inclusion that was partly fulfilled by the responsible leaders. As ...

Abstract

The public sector corruption is an impediment to economic growth and advancement and a focal barrier to effective service delivery. This paper will provide the findings of a chronological review on micro level anti-corruption strategies’ effectiveness that receive implementation in some of the developing countries. The narrative synthesis approach will be employed to synthesize the extracted data. The review will focus on the significance between interventions that created a change in the system’s underlying rules and those that utilized incentives and monitoring mechanisms. Incentive based and monitoring interventions either non-financial or financial have a corruption reduction potential, even ...

Initial Intra-organizational Bargaining and Attitudinal Structuring Processes

Introduction Attitudinal structuring and intra-organizational bargaining are mainly applied in the determination and distribution of rewards. With an attitudinal structuring approach, the main goal is to influence the attitudes of the participants towards each other. The intra-organizational process seeks to increase the consensus among the participants. My own starting point tends to put additional emphasis on the rights of the immigrant workers. The team members’ starting point focuses on the management rights clause. Then this is followed by handling issues regarding the protection of immigration workers and wages increase. The wages increase is placed at 6% each year. My ...

Problem

What is the problem the study was conducted to research? Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global health issue. There is an increase in type 2 diabetes in African-Americans. Lack of knowledge in lifestyle and treatment interventions has led to the increase of T2DM in African-Americans. Type 2 Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, renal diseases and lower limb amputations. African-Americans having T2DM also suffer from high blood pressure and low glycemic levels in blood.

Why is the problem an important one for nursing to research?

Diabetes has become a serious health issue among the public. Registered nurses should have latest knowledge about different interventions for diabetes. The ...

Critique: Stiegelbauer, S. M. (1996) "What is an Elder ?What do Elders do?" (Insert Institute) Finding a basis in the need to understand “an elder” as a term and the depiction of the roles of an elderly person, Suzanne Stiegelbauer’s "What is an Elder? What do Elders do?" presents research into the term amongst one of the world’s surviving traditions. The paper originates from the views First Nation Elders in Toronto and their interaction with the people, at the local and state levels. Beginning with a brief abstract, the author provides a short outline to her findings ...

Application of Leadership Practice Concepts

Application of Leadership Practice Concepts

Introduction

Today’s global business social scientists and business experts alike examine organizational culture influencing institutional, factional, and personal behavior aligned to leadership practices. The growing body of literature available on this timely subject shows one conclusion that Hartnell, Ou, Yi, and Kinicki (2011), and Schein (2004) describe a company culture as a shared set of implicitly accepted assumptions binding each member in thought, perception, and reaction to various work related environments and how this effects production, company goals and development. The focus of this scholarly investigation as an application of leadership practice concepts through ...

The purpose of the findings in the paper is based on the emphasis of the strategic management of H&M with the main research problem being to undertake an in-depth analytical approach to the company's strategy of marketing and how it is being implemented. The paper will begin with a overall introduction with a measure of background information related to the research question with descriptions of the defined processes, benefits and challenges met in strategic management. The practical aspect will comprise of the exhausted analysis of the strength's of the company, its weaknesses, opportunity and strength.

Company Information

Hennes and Mauritz also ...

Introduction

The present problem is that nutrition and hydration are not considered priority nursing interventions and are performed in a suboptimal manner as shown in many studies (Begum & Johnson 2010; Godfrey et al 2012; Ross et al. 2011). Food and feeding times are institutionalized and fail to consider the preferences of the patient and other needs that may be linked with dining. In order to learn the most appropriate interventions in providing patients with nutrition and hydration, there is a need to perform a literature search and determine whether this topic has already been extensively studied or if further research ...

The main idea in regard to the article is an early childhood inclusion. The term definition doesn't have a concrete definition that clearly describes the inclusion in childhood, but it is used as a blueprint, to aid in the inclusion practice. Specifically, the term can be said to be the practice, process and value that support an infant and young child, both with and without disabilities in participation of broad activities in a societal and world framework. This is meant to involve the child as a full family member of the community. In this regard, there are three concepts ...

CHAPTER III

Introduction The high incidence of oil spills have led to the adoption of different clean up techniques that help in the remediation process. However, the adoption of a specific method for the remediation of oil spill requires the systematic reviewing of the different literatures available and meta-analysed by the researchers. According to Graham (2010), the range of the different clean-up efforts varies widely depending on a number of factors that include oil type and density, water temperature, the volume of spill, proximity to shorelines, waves, currents, weather and speed of response among others. The systematic reviewing of the research ...

Ever since the infamous September 11th attack, there has been serious and concerted efforts, to protect and reduce the likelihood of occurrence of a similar or any other form of attack on the U.S. The phrase Homeland Security arose in the year 2003. It refers to efforts put in place to ensure that all of America is safe from any form of attack. As a result of the establishment of Homeland Security, several infrastructure and assets were identified as critical to America’s existence. All the infrastructure and assets identified have the characteristic of being vital to America to the extent that the country would suffer grave loss if they were to be destroyed or incapacitated. ...

Background Information

Rayan is a three year old girl who was born with a hearing impairment. According to Zirpoli, (2008), a child with a hearing disability finds speech to be imprecise, and Rayan cannot understand any of the speech sounds that are used by people around her. The hearing problem was first discovered by her mother when she brought her from hospital after birth. According to the video ‘A Family Affair’ her mother discovered that she could not wake up after sleeping when disturbances such ...

Strategies and Models for Inclusive Education in Regular Classrooms

Ted is an elementary school student who suffers from autism and spina bifida. Although Ted requires a wheel chair and more efforts because of his difficulties in learning, his previous teachers have noted that Ted displays appropriate behavior, and he manages to perform his tasks with support from teachers and his family. On the other hand, Ted’s new teacher suggests that Ted would be better suited at a special school for children with disabilities than at a regular school. However, Ted’s social and academic integration are at stake once he joins a specialized school, so allowing Ted ...

The concepts of diversity and inclusion in the context of U.S. society and culture, as well as in the context of a global society In the context of U.S. society and culture, the concept of diversity and inclusion is generally used in relation to the country’s ethnic and racial diversity. American society is diverse in that, it has all sorts of individuals with different ethnic or racial classifications, color, religions, sexual orientations, physical abilities, national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, among others. The global society is equally diverse with all these differences among individuals. Inclusion emphasizes on the ...

Performance Appraisal

The company’s current evaluation process poses three concerns: employee personality as opposed to employee work results, measuring skills with uniformity and accuracy, and using the evaluation process to enhance professional growth (Bacal, 2007). In this regard, the company’s current evaluation process is concerned with employee personality rather than work results. For example, the engineer’s personality is given more weight during evaluation rather than the safety measures he/she introduced in the company. In addition, the evaluation process does not measure workers skills with accuracy and uniformity. For example, the engineer is rated poorly despite the expertise possessed. ...

Caring for children is integral to who I am; I thoroughly enjoy it. Small children are optimistic and have an incredible desire to learn constantly. Just as I strive to teach children and to encourage them to learn, they also teach me a great deal, every day. In developing my own philosophy, certain areas need to be taken into account. Among others, these include: quality childcare, inclusion, partnership with parents, and value of play. These four elements encompass much of what is central to the childcare profession. Quality child care should focus on the individuality of each child. Children ...