Special Education Case Study

Statement of Interest in Special Education
A conversation in my driveway with a close friend over three years ago made me consciously aware of the difficulties parents with children having disabilities face every day, as well as the common misconceptions about educating students with special needs. Education improves life, and everyone needs equal access to it. It is also well known that there is an issue with overrepresentation or underrepresentation and disproportionality of certain minority groups including English Language Learner (ELL), in special education. Nonetheless, what happens when legislators raise the standards for equal and better education for special education students? Today, students requiring specialized education services

The law requires that this instruction fundamentally tailors to the unique need(s) of the child with the disability. Society considers children with disabilities minorities in the school, and since the late 1960’s parents, schools, legislators, and educators have been fighting for the rights of children with disabilities. In 1975 the first Act, P.L.94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed, setting all the guidelines for special education as a field (Bicehouse & Faieta, 2017). Researchers Spaulding & Pratt (2015) mentioned efforts to educate individuals with disabilities began as early as a century before the 1960’s reform movements. A time when the law did not afford a disabled person the opportunity to go to school or the family placed him or her in an

Thus, out of respect for my passion, field, and possible future students, I will remain subjective by being aware of all the possible forms of bias, and back up my research and result with professional studies and qualitative and quantitative data. Further, even when there is no personal experience, unconscious bias can still be present in research. Therefore, my experience makes me confident in my knowledge of the subject. Hence, I will use my experience only as a guide to planning, asking the right questions, to set limitations, and to be fair to all the candidates that I will interview. More importantly, first establishing research protocols for assessing the benefits and risks during the investigation process can minimize the potential for inflicting personal biases in my research, and for ensuring the quality of my