Dunkin Donuts Reflective Report

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About a week after getting breakfast with the Vo family I made a phone call to Ms. Vo and asked her if Tammy and herself would like to meet at the Dunkin Donuts near their house later that day at 3:30. I had informed Ms. Vo that I wanted to not only treat her and Tammy for being so cooperative with this assignment, but to share resources and any helpful information I could provide to Ms. Vo to make any hardships less tedious. My goal for this contact was to mainly express my sincere thanks for her help with this enlightening assignment and to inform her with any resources applicable to her. The process of our final contact went very smoothly and was the shortest contact out of the three. When arriving at Dunkin Donuts I got Tammy her favorite …show more content…

At times throughout your education you learn about families who have children with special needs – you may say to yourself “wow! being that parent must be so challenging” followed by expressing feelings of gratitude for the life you live, and then moving on with your life taking things for granted. However, this assignment places you directly in the shoes of such families. You get to really see how brave, strong and loving these families are. These families teach you that people are people all the same and no disability can label or determine a person’s life – it is part of them, not all of them. If someone were to say “I’m sorry” to Ms.Vo for having a child with a disability, she would laugh and say “why? I’m not”. Listening to Ms.Vo’s journey and observing Tammy will undoubtedly help me in my profession. You get to know a broader range of amazing individuals and hearing and viewing the needs of Tammy permits me to think of ways I can accommodate children who may have special needs in my classroom. For instance, maybe a child with special needs could use multiple visual aids and warnings before cleaning up and transitioning or maybe they need some form of leadership role like Tammy appreciates, in order to help them engage better among the class and their peers. This experience has also provided myself with a more broad knowledge on the many different resources that are available to the public and to a multitude of families, to which I can keep these resources provided and use them to further assist the families of the children in my future classroom. It is one thing to see on a PowerPoint the difficulties families can face when raising a child who has some type of a disability – whether its from medical bills, to finding resources, money or stress – but it is another thing to go out and experience and observe a chunk of a family’s life who have children with disabilities,

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