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I very much enjoyed watching the series Misunderstood Minds. There were a variety of different students with disabilities that caught my attention and inspired me to teach special education. Each child in the series taught me something new about special education. The first student was Nathan, who struggled with phonemic awareness. I was interesting in seeing Nathan’s problems rhyming and how that was how his disability was diagnosed. His disabily was only seen in his written language and did not influence his communication skills. I thought that it was interested in hearing that a student’s avoidance of something that’s hard can be commonly mistaken for attentional issues. While I was watching the video I came up with ideas that I thought that the special education teacher should do with Nathan. Some of my ideas were for Nathan to work on …show more content…
I was interested in the debate over her taking medication. I, at first agreed with her and her parents about not wanting her on medication. I was also worried about her uniqueness and creativity being destroyed by the medication. I also was excited by the idea of her changing schools in hope that she would make friends. I did not think about the new school working as a substitute stimulus for her. I was very surprised to learn about her lying about her academics and saddened to learn about her social problems. I was surprised at how much the medication helped her in the end and glad it did not hurt her uniqueness. The third child looked at was Sarah who has a learning disability that wasn 't diagnosed until she was in fifth grade due to her ability to compensate for her disability in the previous grades. It is found that she has an expressive language problem. Sarah understands everything well, but has trouble expressing what she knows. I was surprised that the solution was to just practice speaking in school. I expected it to be a lot more complicated to help
She didn’t wake up every morning, happy to go to the school and learn more things, instead she felt terrified wondering what was going to happen to her. Some days were not as bad like the others but there was some days that Melba could've really got hurt but she always found a way out without getting too injured. Kids just kept taunting her every moment of the day and the worst part was the teachers didn’t do anything about it. Even though they know she is a child too and that they should care that because she could get badly hurt and it would be the teacher's fault because they didn’t do anything about it or to stop
The specialist noticed that Lupita had a hard time answering test items that she did not understand. The specialist allowed the examinee to use scratch paper and pencil to eliminate test anxiety. The specialist also did away with the time requirements of the test and used accurate context vocabulary. It was evident that Lupita’s stress level went down; in addition, her new IQ score of 100 reflected it. In my opinion, the strategies that the specialist utilized reflected appropriate course of action to use with a child from culturally or linguistically diverse background
As the video introduces the audience to facilitated communication, a treatment which at the time was considered a revolutionary and miraculous treatment, I began to experience a strong sense of happiness followed by a rush of hopeful and optimistic emotions which were attributed to the implications of such treatment. No longer, I thought, will children who are born with such a horrible disorder will have to continue to experience the horrors of the inability to
The site is called vbschools.com it has a specific list of what it expects of its special education teachers. The first point was to provide direct and indirect support to the student. This also included when teaching use strategies that will help the students develop their sensory, cognitive, motor, language, condition, and memory skills. This already seems like a demanding task. I have seen Mr. Mitchell do this by mixing activities. He would mix sensory such as having the kids shape number out of clay instead of just writing the
He quickly shows everyone a picture of an uppercase Hearn and tells them to try and reproduce it. He then has two women come to the front and sit down and look into a mirror and try to trace it. Neither of them are successful due to mixed messages between their hands and eyes. This activity shows how difficult it is for a child with a learning disability to write. The eighth activity is oral expression. He starts talking very fast, stuttering, and having trouble finding the right words to say to show how a child with a learning disability would respond when asked a question. Most children with learning disabilities have dysnomia, which is a word finding problem. They have problem with their storage and retrieval systems in the brain, which is what makes it difficult sometimes to retrieve or find the right words. For most people talking is associative, meaning they can do more than just talk at one time. But for children with learning disabilities, its cognitive meaning they can just do that at one time. He plays “popcorn” with the participants and asks them to say a sentence that tells a story and relates to the one in front of it. This was associative for everyone, so to make it cognitive and to show everyone what it’s like to be dysnomic, he tells them to do the same thing
In my opinion, outsiders are misunderstood and misjudged. They may just have their own opinion about something that others don't agree with. Maybe they do something that seems weird to other people. Yes, sometimes people are strange, but that isn't always the case. They are outsiders because people make them outsiders.
Another powerful video, Including Samuel, ignited my insight in this week’s class. As I heard in the video, “inclusion is an easy thing to do poorly.” The movie chronicles the life of a young boy, Samuel, and his family. With the shock of learning about their son’s disability, it caused his parents, Dan and Betsy, to experience the unexpected. Nevertheless, they did everything to include their son and help him live a normal life focused on his capabilities, rather than his incapabilities. I even admired how his friends knew so much about him, his likes and dislikes, his strengths and his weaknesses.
After working with the 3rd graders, I became an assistant teacher at an early childhood education center in a low-income neighborhood with numerous students who needed extra support due to behavioral and emotional disorders. At one point, I encountered a student with selective mutism; selective mutism is when a person is capable of speaking but voluntarily chooses not to communicate verbally. I began to work one on one with him to understand why he didn 't communicate verbally. The first course of action was a meeting with his mother to learn more about him and th...
Throughout most of her childhood, Jessica Miele* was viewed by her family and peers as a strange girl. Her hyperactivity, trouble in school, and drive for music left her parents confused with what to do with him after several frustrating years. At age 14, Miele was sent from her home in New York to Vermont Academy, a boarding school in the mountains. It was there that she found his gifted ability to exprses herself creativley through art and music, and formed close friendships with her roommates. It was also in Vermont where she found the “study” drug, Ritalin.
This course really opened my eyes to see how difficult it can truly be for those that are involved within an IEP, no only the student, but the parents as well as the advocates. This would have to be one of the first times I hurt for T as I realized how hard it must be for her as she is completing her academic assignments. When I first asked T if it would be okay for me to work alongside of her while I completed this project, she mentioned an insensitive tutor that compared her to “normal kids”. Possibly that tutor did not mean to sound that way, but I know that it must have hurt T to hear those words as it makes it seem like she is not normal. If T is not normal then what is she? This allowed me to see first hand that those who are involved
I viewed all four video clips but the one I chose to do my discussion on is video clip #3. The third video clip is an individual counseling session and this week is for group counseling. The counselor in this video begin to discuss the topic on algebra grade in a gentle way without demanding him to go home and study for his Algebra test. The two skills that I observe in this video was active listening and restating and this lead the student to feel comfortable because the counsel is actively listening to him even when he made the comment about studying 20 minutes to just pass the algebra test. Active Listening help to encourage a person to try harder and the restating can determine the counselor understood correctly the teenager statement.
Slide 4: I think this slide is important because a child could be mislabeled. If a child is labeled incorrectly, then that child could be getting treated for a disability that they don't even have.
My brother was different from the kids at my school. In fact, his entire school was unlike other “normal” schools. Cove school was a special education school, a perfect fit for my brother whom struggled with a reading disability. Other kids suffered from various symptoms that were more drastic than my brother’s condition. Taking care of my brother and teaching the kids at Cove brought up a newfound interest in
Being misunderstood could come from many things. Just to tell a little about where this is coming from. My family consists of my mom, dad, brother and sister. My sister is 9 years older and my brother is 3 years older. Being the baby nobody listens to you. It’s hard to make anybody take you seriously or believe that you know what you’re talking about. There is an advantage however, you see everything and hear everything. Picking up things that you don’t even know you are learning. I started reading at an early age and enjoy it. When I hear things I find interesting I look it up and find more about it. When you are the baby you have to make your voice heard and make people hear what you have to say.
Special education is an incredibly important, but often underappreciated aspect of education. There is a stigma around individuals with disabilities, that leads people to assume those in special education are less capable or smart as their peers in in a strictly traditional classroom setting. That could not be farther from the truth though, and the individuals in special education are just as capable of learning and maturing in to successful adults. As a future teacher, I was not really aware of how little I knew about special education until I enrolled in this course. This course has helped change and shape my views of special education, and helped me gain a better understanding of what exceptional children are and how I can better serve them