CASE1: 6 yr old girl IQ within normal limits. Lives at home with natural parents, She has cerebral palsy. Difficulty in communications
Introduction
Observe a little, normal kid with his/her parents. There appears to be a continuous flow of communication supported by eye contact, touch, oral communication, as well as signs. At times the participant is not even conscious that he/she is communicating.
In a kid who has disability, a number of the communication paths are cut off. In a kid who has a limited motor functions, the likelihood to run and hug the parent probably restricted. If the kid has visual or speech impairment, the difficulty is further complicated. Thus it's rather natural that convulsive youngsters display behaviors setbacks. They could show tantrums, use unkind words loudly, or become listless. (Mercer & Mercer, 1998)
Communication disorders entail a broad range of difficulties in speech, hearing and language. For instance, speech and talking disorders comprise stuttering, dysfluency, aphasia, voice disorders, articulation difficulties, impediments in speech and talking, and phonological disorders. These disorders may be due to some environmental factors, high risk register problem being the most common. (Mercer & Mercer, 1998)
Students who have communication disorder wish to be treated equally as a teacher will treat other student, nonetheless it in addition the teacher is meant to do the following:
Students having communication disorders ought to be persuaded to talk about their useful difficulties as well as their desires in confidential in the initial week of learning and to discuss tricks for compensation.
When it seems that a student requires recommendation, enquire once you can aid. A teacher should accept a "No" graciously.
Encourage the classmates to recognize the student having communicative difficulty.
Be a fine speech model, this will show to every body that fine communication is pleasing.
Establish and maintain in the classroom an atmosphere which is conducive to simplify a communication.
Confer with a Speech Language specialist regarding the child with the communicative disorder in class and work with the Language specialist all through the class time.
Keep the latest records on the student's achievements in treatment.
Offer the student with speech disorder probability to speak in the class.
Give her time to communicate, don't disrupt or strive to fill up in gaps for her.
Speak to her naturally. (Mercer & Mercer, 1998)
Teacher Presentation
When the teacher is in class teaching, the teacher ought to do the following the 6years old with cerebral palsy and difficulty in communications
1. Should make contact and maintain the contact with the student.
2. Allow her to tape the lessons.
three. Offer and interpreter (signed English) to her, if she requires another kind of communication to understand
four. Assist and Encourage in facilitation of involvement in discussions and activities.
5. Be patient.
Field Experiences
Physical education in a must-have in health fitness and general well being of students, Physical education develops strength, maintains body mobility at the same time it challenges the mind and the body. All younger people without reference to their disabilities wish to benefit from the positive good thing about physical education. Starting from an early age students should be involved in physical education to which will lend a hand them have confidence of their abilities and they chose activities that much their interests and desires. For our student the teacher will have to;
1. Have a Discussion with the student to find out any particular requirements, difficulties or alternatives she foresees in the physical education learning setting.
2. Consider alternative exercises/ activities which the student can utilize with a lesser amount of difficulty, except has similar or same learning goals.
three. Make individual advance preparations with the curators throughout inactive visiting field tours.
four. Provide recommendation in the field; nonetheless it also offer positive support when that student demonstrates the capability of doing something without lend a hand. (Mercer & Mercer, 1998)
Testing
Testing is a crucial aspect of assessing al students to know how much their have understood what they learn at school. For this particular student test modification can be done for her by the teacher. This are modifications that are done on testing processes or test formats which offers students who have disabilities an equal probability to participate in test conditions and to reveal their abilities and knowledge. On most efficient of that the teacher should;
Permit extra time for that student having communication disorder to finish tests.
Create tests which are suitable for the disorder the student has (written, oral or drawn)
Check to make sure that the test instructions are wholly comprehended by the student and offer any extra lend a hand that probably required. (Mercer & Mercer, 1998)
CASE2: 12 yr old girl IQ 45. Natural parents' oldest child, culture is which having a disabled child is socially unacceptable. Functions like a five yr old academically 2 or three yr old socially
As ideas and belief concerning child advancement and the aspects that impact the child advancement vary greatly according to the cultural context, it's certain that youngsters raised in totally different cultural context will vary from others. Studies show those cultural differences in terms of parents' beliefs, norms and behaviors as well as their understanding of parenting plays a crucial role on how the parents will provide care to the child. This will in turn affect the way the student will develop and learn. (Mendieta, 2004)
General Guidelines for the parents to Building the Child's self-worth
Parents who have the child with disability should understand the situation and try to aid the child through helping the child to build her self worth. This can be done through the following aspects.
The parents should improve their own self-worth. Parents with cultural background which makes them have low self-esteem and feel the ashamed of the child will definitely pass the insecurities to the child unless they improve their own self-worth and exchange their cultural perceptions. (Mendieta, 2004)
Build on the child's good aspects and abilities, in preference to focusing on the disability of the child. Regular criticism will destroy the self-worth of the child. The child should be encouraged by her parents when she does something good and her parents wish to lend a hand her always. (Mendieta, 2004)
The parents also should take heed to the child. Her worries and interests might appear insignificant to parents, in the similar method that her parents might appear inconsequential to her, nonetheless it through listening and having the ability to understand the child the will likely be able to grow socially and build her self esteem. The child will birth to believe in herself and value herself which will enhance her factions. (Mendieta, 2004)
Ask the option of the child on issues which affects them, the child will vital and valued. A child is much more perceptive as opposed to the way the parents may be thinking. (Mendieta, 2004)
The parent should aid the child plan and set-up her goals, even if there are very small. When the child achieves such goal, it will likely be a positive act, which will aid the child in building her self-worth and dealing with her disability. This will also improve the way she relates with other youngsters. (Mendieta, 2004)
Factors that improve child/parent relationship
In order to improve child parent relation, parents should undertake several things
Improve communication between the child and the parent
Parents getting more involved with their youngsters activities
Parents giving proper care to the child
Stressing respect and between the child and the parent
These factors will improve the relationship between the parent and child and create a good understanding between the parents and the child. Communication factor is the most vital because it's through communication that a child can express his/her feelings about issues. Thus, parents wish to encourage loads of communication which should be free flowing and open. This will go along way to breaking done the cultural barriers which makes the parents not to value or feel ashamed of their child.
General Strategies for teaching
When the teacher is teaching such child order for a teacher to teach such a student the teacher should formulate learning lessons which will aid the child in building her self worth and reducing the discrimination arising from the cultural perceptions of the parents. Some of the general aspects that the teacher should do include
The teacher should develop proper practice to encourage the lecturers to have a greater understanding of cultural diversity and be able to sensitive in tackling issues of culture. Mendieta (2004) notes that, this kind of aspect is good when each child is allowed to express share and amplify their personal differences within a classroom
The Teacher should be able to adapt the particular requirements of the student in the class and also the teacher should be able to response appropriately to the specific desires of the student.
The teacher should be able to identify and acknowledge the totally different cultural communications model of the student, the teacher can easily aid the student in his/her classroom and lend a hand them gain more confidence and become more comfortable.
When the teacher formulated the curriculum, the curriculum should reflect the desires of the student. The curriculum should be based on the following characteristics;
Should be based on good theoretical philosophies of how youngsters develop and learn
Should be formulated to score lasting emotional, cognitive social and physical goals
Has to include achievable and realistic expectations which permit students with diverse capabilities to work at various levels on various activities
Build on what the students ready know
Should Support individual, linguistic and cultural diversity, offering a balance between most individuals culture and the minority culture
Be flexible and should be able to adapt to individual student or groups. (Mendieta, 2004)
CASE3: Junior high student IQ a hundred and forty only child highly verbal, active imagination and plays fantasy games. He is emotionally disturbed. Looks sullen appears not happy.
Introduction
One of the biggest challenges being faced by teachers in schools is how to find techniques and tricks of meeting the distinctive desires of totally different students in a classroom. Different students have totally different behavioral aspects, and each student has a totally different interests and tricks of learning. The challenge in a classroom situation becomes bigger because the teacher is not only responsible for one student, but also for the entire classroom. Thus, it becomes unclear which method a teacher desires to use, at times the method can even become controversial. (McLaren, 2003)
Behavioral disorders is at times known as conduct disorders, is amongst the most widespread sorts of psycho pathology amongst youngsters as well as younger adults. It is the mainly steadily cited as reason behind victims' being referred to mental health treatment. The manifestation of behavioral disorders over the past years is increasing appreciably in the classrooms in particular the junior classes. As a consequence, the presence of disorder has led to the classroom and the school has whole to make some adjustments in the way the way they teacher such a student suffering from behavioral disorders.
As a result their presence severely constrains the ability of the school systems to educate students effectively. The prevalence of behavioral problems among youngsters and younger adults is substantial. Many surveys indicate that behavioral disorders vary among younger adults, ranging from 2 and 6% in K-12 students. This percentage translates into 1.three to three.eight million cases of behavioral disorders among the school and pre-school population. (McLaren, 2003) Some of the features of a student suffering from behavioral disorders include but are not limited to:
Initiation of violent behavior as well as reacting violently towards other people
An exhibit of maltreatment, intimidating, or threatening behavior
Being physically insulting of others
Deliberate ruin of other's belongings
Showing little concern and understanding for the wishes and feelings of others.
General Strategies for teaching
In order for a teacher to teach such a student the teacher should bring the students awareness to role models having similar disability who have gone ahead. Inquire from the former teachers concerning the interactive techniques which were in the past effective for the student. Try and expose the student suffering from the behavioral disorders to other students who are showing normal behaviors. In addition the teacher should also decide if the student is on medication, and if such medication has any effect on the class performance of the student, and make the necessary adjustment of teaching. Some other general techniques to undertake include;
1. Utilize time-out sessions for cooling off disorderly behavior as well as a break supposing the student requires one.
2. In group work activities, recognize the inputs of the student having behavioral disorder.
three. Develop a contingency strategy with the student where by improper sorts of answer are substituted by proper ones.
four. Treat the student having behavioral disorder just as a person who is deserves respect and kindness.
5. Provide encouragement.
6. Reward him more than you penalize, so as to build his self-esteem.
Teacher Presentation
After having the student for a period of about one week, and making observation about the student, the teacher should try and foresee the classroom circumstances, where emotional state of the student will likely be susceptible and the teacher should be prepared to use proper moderate techniques. This includes
1. The use of examples, to encourage the student to study science so that he can follow grown-up behaviors
2. Analysis the student's fundamental capability to adjust and communicate your own communications efforts respectively
three. Use an extensive range of educational equipments that are able to be displayed so that the student can see and touch.
four. When a curiosity in a specific part has been stimulated, the teacher can speak to the student concerning it and demonstrate to him how to apply it.
5. Extraordinary efforts should be made aimed at encouraging and easily facilitating students having behavioral disorders to interrelate. (McLaren, 2003)
Reading
It is essential to target particular pro-social behaviors for proper instructions and evaluation to happen for example:
Taking turns to work with partner by following directives.
Reading as a group or reading with other students
Increasing positive family members via techniques of offering rewards upon reading appropriately
Demonstrating proper reading
Instructional techniques entailing self-reinforcement, self-control, self-monitoring, cognitive behavior, problem solving and meta-cognitive skills ought to be put in focus on teaching the student reading skills (McLaren, 2003)
Testing
Testing is a crucial aspect in learning of behavioral disorder student, it is crucial that when the teacher or the school is formulating tests the following should be undertaken by the teacher.
Be responsive to the student's responses to the totally different aspects of evaluation.
For the student, collect in his portfolio numerous examples of assignments (quizzes, projects, assignments,) which reveal knowledge of the unit or the subject of study.
Create individual arrangements during a test for the student with behavioral disorder in relation to what his individual desires is, in a method that the integrity of the tests is not compromise.
Keep an abreast with the student advancement through unofficial assessment.
Offer private room setting/alternative tests site (McLaren, 2003)
Conclusion
A child having a disability calls for specific totally different way from the parents and the lecturers, to meet the specific desires of such a student. However, the first vital step towards achieving that task is being conscious of the challenge. McDonnell, et al (1997) states that, a teacher as a responsibility to ensure that all students in a classroom understand his/her lessons in class. It is upon the teacher to make the necessary adaptations and adjustments to be able to meet the specific desires of the students having disabilities.. Proper practices, responsive curriculum, a multicultural approach test modifications are some of the tricks that a teacher can implement to ensure that he/she meets the specific requirements of students with disorders. The support of the parents and the whole group is also vital in ensuring that the child gets proper care and positive encouragements from the parent. Parents have a strong responsibility in building the students talents and abilities and offering proper care.
Reference:
McDonnell, L. M, et al (1997): Educating one and all: Students with disabilities and standards-based reform. National Research Council, Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
McLaren, P. (2003): Life in schools: An introduction of critical pedagogy in the foundations of education. Boston: Allyn and 1acon.
Mercer, C. D & Mercer, A. R (1998): Teaching Students with Learning Problems. 5th Edition; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc
Mendieta, J. (2004): Connecting students and parents through literacy practices. Unpublished B.A. monograph,