As I stated in the previous post I am disabled. I’m old enough and cognizant enough to be a fairly autonomous adult, at least that’s what I work on people acknowledging, it’s a difficult concept for some of my family to grasp though.Since I am older now and she has survived raising my mom has become something of an impromptu mentor for people with school-age disabled children. Recently she befriended a woman who has an elementary school age little girl with cerebral palsy which is significantly more severe than mine. I do not know how old she is chronologically yet because I haven’t met her but she has the approximate mental level of a five year old. The special education teachers at her school (a school which I too had the misfortune to attend) has made very few if any attempts to teach her to even recognize her alphabet, a task which her mother believes is well within her capabilities. It bothers me that somebody who is supposed to be an “educational professional” thinks that just because a child is nonverbal as this woman’s child is means that they are incapable of learning even the rudiments of communication. I had thought that the first thing they taught special education teachers in college was to leave preconceived ideas of how people learn at the door. If it isn’t it should be.
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August 19th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Thank you. Yes, all students need to be challenged and continue learning.
August 31st, 2011 at 2:54 am
Keep functioning ,splendid job!