Essays on Special Needs Child

Abstract

This essay covers the questions regarding accepting and raising a special needs child, such as adjustments, accommodations, challenges and strengths that parents of a child with special needs might have to deal with. During the course of writing this paper and the previously conducted interview with parents of one such child, I have gained an immense amount of experience, the results of which can be found in the following essay.

Parents with special needs children are like on a journey that takes them into a life, often filled with powerful emotions, difficult choices, interaction with professionals and specialists, and an ongoing need for ...

Attachment Theory as it relates to Growth and Development of young children with Developmental Disabilities

Understanding human psychology has played an important role not only for health professionals in diagnosing and treating people with health concerns, but also has helped parents among other people to detect and determine as early as possible any problem or issues that might affect those close to them. This paper has first presented an over view of attachment theory and later analyzed literature on the subject where it discusses four patterns of attachment that exist. It has also presented the stages that children undergo through in realization of a complete attachment in their infant lives. Finally it has presented discussion ...

Introduction

One of the most common sayings today is that every child born into the world is indeed very special. So what exactly do we mean when we talk about special needs children? A child with special needs is essentially one who requires extra help due to an emotional, learning, or a medical problem. They are called special needs children because they need the special therapy or medicine that those other children of the same age groups would not normally require. Examples of children who possess special needs are those suffering from illnesses such as diabetes, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, blindness, ...