10/14/2015 SED 201C 01 Mrs. Dean Disability Resource Center Assignment The Disability Resource Center at Westminster College provides a wonderful wealth of resources and a great place for students with a possibility of disabilities or established disabilities. The center was visited on October 8‚ 2015‚ and was a real eye opener to learn about the many different‚ tremendous resource tools and eager people available to assist the students. The Director of Disability Resources‚ Faith Craig‚ works closely
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Hands-on Activities and Models in Mathematics for Students with Identified Learning Disabilities at the Middle School Level Hands-on Activities and Models in Mathematics: A Literature Review Teaching math to general education students can be a challenge but teaching math to students with a learning disability is significantly more difficult. Hands-on activities and manipulatives have been used in Math classes for years. They can be helpful if used in the correct manner. Battle
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2009) on adults with learning disabilities. This essay will look at the impact of the 2009 Department of Health (DoH) policy‚ ‘Valuing People Now’ on the lives of adults with learning disabilities‚ in terms of the four key principles of legal and civil rights‚ inclusion‚ choice and independence. The focus of the essay will be on the health care that this client group receive from mainstream NHS services. This is because the Government proposed that people with learning disabilities would be supported
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Programs that Serve Learners with Disabilities Michelle Blakley Education Psychology 225‚ Section 40 Professor Wall December 2‚ 2012 One of every dozen U.S. children and teenagers -- 5.2 million -- has a physical or mental disability‚ according to new figures from the 2000 Census that reflect sharp growth in the nation ’s young handicapped population over the past decade (Cohn‚ 2002). Everyone‚ at any time‚ is at risk to acquire a disability‚ whether through an illness‚ an injury‚ or
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self-efficacy. Disability self-concept incorporates these ideas‚ but encompasses its own concepts including disability self-efficacy and sense of disability identity. The study focused on the idea that individuals with a congenital disability would have more developed self-concept than those that lived with an acquired disability. In the end‚ the study concluded that participants with a congenital disability had a higher satisfaction with life‚ disability identity‚ and disability self-efficacy‚ which
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schools? Exceptional children are children who are either exceptionally gifted or children with exceptional learning disabilities. These are children whose performances are way above the average child or way below the average child. When they perform way above the average child‚ they are called gifted. When they perform way below the average‚ we say they are children with learning disabilities. Like any other child‚ these children with exceptionalities are also a part of our society. Therefore
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Counter Arguments and Rebuttals • When it comes to an in class experience for children with cognitive disabilities‚ it is imperative to have specialized instruction‚ collaboration and adequate supports. Specialized instructions has the goal to focus on the individual needs of the child such as having activity-based interventions and peer-mediated intervention. Collaboration is vital because it makes inclusion successful regarding the relationships of students and teachers. Additionally‚ adequate
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The social and medical model of disability There are a number of ‘models’ of disability which have been defined over the last few years. The two most frequently mentioned are the ‘social’ and the ‘medical’ models of disability. The medical model of disability views disability as a ‘problem’ that belongs to the disabled individual. It is not seen as an issue to concern anyone other than the individual affected. For example‚ if a wheelchair using student is unable to get into a building because
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basis. I would continuously stop by their classroom in between my classes and just talk to several of them‚ developing relationships that they will remember forever. This is something that they made known to me that they really appreciated. Their disabilities separate them from the rest of the school‚ isolating them from regular school activities social interactions. After talking to some of the students‚ time and time again‚ they would tell me that they just want to be treated like everyone else. Sometimes
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PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL Understanding Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Abstract Intellectual disability‚ autism‚ severe disabilities‚ and deaf and blindness‚ all these are different disabilities that fall under the umbrella of Special Education. As a special educator it is very critical for one to learn about all the different disabilities‚ to know about the causes and the characteristics. Students with disabilities are evaluated by their school to determine if they are eligible for
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