Luckily, I have had the opportunity to work with children with special needs, learning disabilities and have worked with in an interning classroom setting. This experience has provided me with useful information and a unique perspective on how these types of children learn, socialize, and develop. On pages 78-79 of our textbook, the Potential Signs of Learning Disabilities, which is an excellent resource for educators to use. One early intervention program that was discussed in this chapter was the RTI model, Response to Intervention. This section was a review because I have learned about the importance of the RTI model in previous teacher preparation courses at Arizona State University. The RTI model helps to determine students with learning disabilities and enables teachers to provide students with the necessary resources and assistance to provide success in the classroom.
The last half of the chapter provided as a good review of SPE 303 pertaining to children with mild disabilities; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism, Other Health Impairments, and the other disabilities within the 13 categories. "Intervention and educational programs can help expand these children's capacity to communicate, to learn, and to relate to others, while reducing the severity and frequency of disruptive behaviors" (Meece, p. 90). It is important to remember that intervention and educational programs can be a good resource for parents and students to utilize in order to promote success.
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Katie, you have covered the most important information in your blog. We have always learned in our special education classes that it is important to understand what disability each of our students have. Even though they are the same disability does not mean they should be treated the same way. Every individual learns differently, every child has a different life, different situation at home and they may handle things differently. We should understand the needs of the child and make sure we as teachers try our best to do what it takes to make that child successful in the world today. Talking to the parents and getting support from them usually beneficial and helful to the child.
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ReplyDeleteThe second half of Chapter 2 was a bout disabilities. Growing up I had a learning disability and I have learned how to get through college with my learning disability. A learning disability can be in one subject, a couple or all subjects. Learning disabilities also vary in how severe they are. A learning disability in one subject can affect another subject. For example and learning disability in reading comprehension can affect mathematics because there are word problems in that subject. A learning disability is a student with at least an average intelligence, measured through intelligence test but they are preforming below average in the classroom. Learning disabilities can affect balance, uncoordinated movement, affecting handwriting and cutting. A learning disability also affects social and emotional areas of their life.
There are three different developmental disabilities. First there is developmental reading disability is also known as dyslexia. Reading disabilities affect 2 to 8 percent of elementary students. These students have trouble with separating and distinguishing letter sounds, and rhyming. Reading comprehension is affected because they struggle with relating new words and ideas to information already known. Developmental writing disabilities is also so known as dysgraphia. These students have trouble with sequencing words, spelling, vocabulary, and expressive language. They have trouble building sentences. Developmental mathematics disability this is well known as dyscalculia where they have trouble with numeracy development. In the earlier years problems with numbers and basic concepts, in the later years it is struggles with reasoning.
I found pages 86-87 to be very helpful for me in understanding ways to treat children with ADHD. I feel that giving Retalin to young children can definetly lead to a long term drug problem is they not carefully supervised. For example, my friend Kyle, who I met in the dorms, has always had ADHD and he still takes retalin. The problem is that he takes them too much. He will take the retalin before a party so he can stay up and drink longer, or so he can stay up and study all night. Even though studies have shown that these different stimuloues drugs are safe and efficient, I still feel that there is a better way to treat this disability(i.e. behavior iuntervention & careful supervision of the drug use). I think that if a child needs to be on Retalin, then the parent should hold on to the drug and only give them what they need. When the drug is taken as prescribed, they do not lead to drug abuse problems, so monitor your kids (Meece, page 86).
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