Cerebral Palsy Research Paper

Teachers are some of the strongest people out there, and with the help and adequate training a teacher can be able to tackle any struggle thrown in his or her path. The thought of having a child who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy may scare or even cause a large amount of stress to a teacher. Most children with cerebral palsy were diagnosed at a young age and have been in some type of intervention for the years that have been leading up to the child beginning public school. Teachers must remember that each child diagnosed with cerebral palsy I different, and they cannot use the same teaching strategies for each child. For teachers to ensure that a child with cerebral palsy in their classroom achieves not only curriculum standards but also

My aunt, Denise Kretzschmar, is a Special Education coordinator at a local middle school and she states that, “Without the support from the families, the student’s would not succeed, and their general education teachers would not understand how to handle a situation that could occur from their child.” Every teacher, much like the parents, do have many techniques of how to manage their workload to not over stress themselves. Denise exclaims that being a special education coordinator is harder than being a regular teacher as having to understand each child’s disability can be a hard task. Although, she tells me all the time that she would never switch back to teaching in the regular classroom as, “there is no greater joy in life than watching each child who has a disability grow and participate in many general classroom activities with students who do not have a disability.” She told me during our interview that when the students who have disabilities are placed in the normal classroom for inclusion reach higher success rates than when in a special education room all day. Overall the impact of not only having specifically cerebral palsy, but any disability in the classroom makes all students have a higher success rate and all students are supportive over those who do have