Unit 14 Assignment – Working with children with special needs E1) explain the social model and the medical model of disability The ‘Social Model’ states that all children have individual needs but also has strengths‚ skills and preferences. It provides inclusive environments as a starting point for all children. It looks at the environment as a whole and attitudes towards disability and considers that it might be the ‘problem’ that needs fixing rather than the child. By using this approach‚ the
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When it come to children with special needs there are different categories that the children can fall in. With in each of these categories there are different teaching methods that have to be use and different types of training that the teacher will need. Children with special needs are tested and then put into the appropriate group as to the disability that they have. There are several different types of special needs such as autism‚ behavior disorders‚ Cerebral Palsy‚ Down Syndrome‚ Alcohol
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Parenting with Families of Children with Special Needs was a very informative‚ interesting‚ and educational article. This article included information that would be very important for teachers‚ family members‚ caregivers‚ and any other people who work with children with special needs. This article also includes some inserts from a parent of a child who was born with Down syndrome. Baby Ella’s mother briefly discuss how they felt when they found out about Ella’s condition and how they are dealing
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Kim Abbs Young Children With Special Needs Unit 3 Project I live in the state of Wisconsin. If I had a child with developmental delays I would go through an organization called Wisconsin Department of Health Services. This offers a wide variety of services such as counseling‚ in home services‚ and transportationi for the child. There is also a great organization called Wisconsin Ties. This organiztion helps to get you referred to the right people and connect you with other paretns
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Thompson Literature Review Special needs individuals are not different from everyone they just need a little extra help along their way. This population has to have mediation because there are many who cannot speak for themselves. They need the help from a neutral person so that they can discuss complications that they may be dealing with without judgment. Advocacy is a necessity too because that individual needs a person to stand by their side and help them fight for
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For my choice project I chose to interview a parent who has a child with special needs. The parent I chose to interview is a person I work with. She is a mother of two children‚ a son and a daughter which her son has been diagnosed with autism. Her son is ten years old and has been living with autism since he was diagnosed at the age of three. I have known this mother for about three years now and have helped her in many of the autism fundraisers that she puts on to raise money for her autism support
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Ms. Hoover Graduation Project 16 August 2013 Working with Children with Special Needs According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)‚ about one in every 33 babies born is the United States‚ is born with a birth defect or developmental disability. Birth defects cause changes in one or more parts of the body and can have serious and adverse effects on the developing child. The defect can cause a permanent disability that affects health‚ functional ability and/or cognitive ability. Defects can
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Mainstreaming Special Needs Children In an ideal world all children would be born without disabilities. This idea is not possible though and sometimes children are born with special needs. The child could have only one disability or several. A disability can be mild and treated with medication or the disability can be severe and the child will need constant supervision. Once the child becomes of age to attend school‚ the issue of whether or not to place the child in a regular classroom or special needs
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Computers and educational technology can be powerful tools for assisting children with special needs and disabilities. Computers can help children with attention deficit disorders focus more effectively on their learning tasks and can also assist autistic children by improving their communications and interactions with peers as they use computers together. This topic became very important to me when my cousin was born deaf. He is only three now but the assistive technology that awaits him during
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Describe 2 strategies for each example described above. These strategies could be medical‚ nutritional‚ educational‚ social or emotional which are meant to meet the children’s additional needs. Down Syndrome Down Syndrome‚ also referred to as Trisomy 21‚ is a condition which causes delays in the development of children‚ both mentally and physically‚ due to extra genetic material. While normally when a baby is conceived it receives genetic information in the form of 46 chromosomes‚ 23 from the mother
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