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Default How do students with disabilities learn, interact, and take in information? - 12-27-2008, 08:53 AM

In the classroom, how do individuals with disabilities perform? Not enough people give them credit for trying...Though they have a disability, they're not any different than us as people, and I was just wondering how different do they learn in the classroom?
   
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Default 12-29-2008, 03:20 AM

They learn the same things just at a different rate. They are different developmentally. I like what you said about giving the students credit for trying. It is very true that expectations are not high for most special education/special needs students. Children will give the teacher exactly what they expect. I personally have high expectations. I don't want to hear"I can't"from any of the students until they try if it is possible for them to at least try.
   
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Default 12-30-2008, 11:18 AM

Some students with disabilities do not learn...they may even regress.I have four children and one as mild autism and one has severe autism and epilepsy. From the beginning of their education my husband and I have had to fight for their education. In the beginning it was a real fight...but now many teachers are really caring and compassionate. My daughter that has mild autism has improved year after year and she is almost up to"normal"kids her age.My son who has severe autism was making progress until the seizures started. Since then everything has been downhill. The seizures now over a two years later since diagnosis are relatively under control...he probably still has 30-50 small absent mind seizures now instead of 300+. But his learning has went downhill and it is extremely depressing. There was a time before the seizures that he was making great progress. But now they are talking about putting him a a class to just teach him basic life skills....total 360....We have two normal children and have always expected the same out of our two disabled children. Our daughter who had less severe autism will no doubt lead a normal life. But our son is going through a real difficult time with the severe autism and epilepsy.....
   
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Default 01-03-2009, 01:00 PM

The key is having the necessary accomodation. For example, the required assitie technology to enable a blind student to take notes, etc.Some students with intellectual disabilities don't learn as well--and so far we have no real way to change that. But for the great majority of students with disabilities, they perform just as well when the means to offset the impairment is made available.There's a lot of evidence to back this up--especially at the college level. There have been many studies that show college students with disabilities have equal academic achievements on average as the rest of the population. That is not true in our primary and secondary schools overall--because they are (to put it politely) at leasta decade behind the colleges in complying with the law and addressing the needs of students with disabilities. The majority of local school systems are in outright violation of the law in at least some respects--and there is almost no effort on the part of the federal government to enforce those laws.
   
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Default 03-27-2009, 09:45 PM

Just like any other child they are all different and learn in different ways.Like every one else they learn through hearing, seeing, doing, with lots of repetition and having appropriate rewards for success. The only difference is that some children take longer to process the information they get&some need input through all the different senses before they can master the information.
   
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