Case Study Reflection Of The Article, First, Discover Their Strengths

Case Study Reflection After reading the article, First, Discover Their Strengths, the first thought that I had was how much all students, especially those with disabilities, would benefit from educators discovering their strengths and using those strengths to aid in developing other aspects of their learning. This is something that is not often practiced within the classroom and many students quickly become labeled in a negative way, those with and without disabilities. Because of this, many students are rarely supported in the way they should be educationally within the general education classroom. After reading the article I reviewed the information that I was to gather on a student and thought about which student would benefit most from

This made me reflect upon the student’s strengths a bit more and to add more detail to this aspect of the case study. Another thought that I had while working with the educator was that she also does not recognize his strengths enough and that she is unaware of what his specific needs might be. However, she is concerned and she did reach out to ask for some ways to better meet his needs while we discussed the questionnaire. The general education teachers within most schools here are less supported, trained, and experienced in teaching students with any severity of a disability. This is a concern, not just for this particular student, but many others as well. Thus some questions arise that I wish I could

How will the lack of support and intervention in his early education affect him, now and in the future? I reflected on the impacts on students who do not receive early intervention, before kindergarten in this case, compared to those who do. I recalled a young student that I had the pleasure of getting to know through other observations within a special education preschool classroom for two years, a student very similar to the student that I focused on for the case study. He is now in a general education kindergarten classroom at five years old. His early support within the classroom setting of a special education preschool with mixed abilities has supported him beyond what most students receive. While this is not an option for the student I focused on, he can still be supported and be successful if things