mildly, moderately and severely handicapped children. Mildly and moderately handicapped children are usually included in regular schools, and severely handicapped children are included in special schools and residential schools. After the World Conference on Special Education Needs held in Spain (1994) and the enactment of PWD Act (1995) in India the trend has been changed5. Now special education is proposed to be provided to all children irrespective of their degree of disability. The scope of special education is an important element and it includes
1. Identification of disabled children based on physical and behavioral characteristics, assessment of such children (medical, psychological and functional assessment), their care and rehabilitation.
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Doorlag (1995), Teaching Special Students in the Mainstream (4th ed.),
4. Various support services for children and teachers and allied services medical check up and care also come under the scope of special education.
5. Provisions of aids and equipments for meeting the needs of exceptional children—their accomplishment and development by teachers form an important aspect of special education.
Objectives of Special Education
Educational efforts are directed to attain certain specific goals and objectives. Education in general, stands for bringing desirable modification in the behavior of the learners of any age, for bringing an all-round growth and development of their personality. Special education is no exception. It is also a goal directed and objective oriented phenomenon with a bigger responsibility than the general education. It plays its role on the two big fronts for performing two types of functions.
(i) The general functions as being performed by any type or scheme of general education.
(ii) The specific functions needed to be performed for meeting the special needs and requirements of the exceptional children.
The objectives for the organization of special education6
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To work for bringing educational opportunities to the doorsteps of every exceptional child irrespective of his disability limitation or strength in one or the other areas of is development.
6. To help the exceptional children to learn and acquire necessary skills for their self-help, independent living and leading future life as properly as possible.
To help them to acquire necessary social skills, emotional literacy to live and participate in school, home and community life as properly as possible.
6. Mangal S.K. (2007), Educating Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education, PHI Learning Private Learning, New Delhi.
7. To help them in receiving instructions and learning experiences in tune with their learning abilities and specific individualities.
8. To help them in seeking their integration into the mainstream by providing them the least restrictive environment for their educational placement.
9. To help them in acquiring learning experiences and training by the use of materials, methods, techniques, aids and equipment, assistive devices, etc. as per tune with the nature of their exceptionalities.
10. To help them in getting appropriate, educational, personal and vocational guidance for their adequate adjustment, development and
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(The requirement of designing special education services to meet a student’s unique needs is also found within the IDEA’s purpose section and its definition of “special education”.) In many situations where a student’s special education services may appear to be ineffective, an important question to ask is whether the student’s educational program has been sufficiently tailored to meet his or her unique special education needs.
to prepare children from low-income families for school (The Administration For Children And Families, 2002). To prepare a child for school the program has the goal of
...s goal by providing education, keeping in mind that information may need to be repeated, providing emotional support and access to continuous support, as well as using measurable tools to determine effectiveness of interventions.
helping them to help readjust the other children - helping them to cope with any
Federal and state laws, as well as mandates, now require schools to educate all children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment, to the maximum extent possible. The least restrictive environment is considered to be the general or the “regular” education classroom. The preferred language of today is the term “general education classroom”, because using the word “regular” implies that special education rooms would then be considered ‘irregular”. Schools are also bound by law to provide “a full continuum of services” which simply means they need to be able to provide all placement options, from the least restrictive to the most restrictive environment, such as an institution. Each special needs student also has an individualized education plan to meet their unique needs.
working with a child as an individual can show the practitioner if that child needs help in a certain area of development and also if that child is in the correct age band of the eyfs, if they child is below in any then the practitioner can help put some needs& activities in place for this child to help their development. Help with
For a special education student to be successful and reach their true potential, it takes a collaborative effort between both the special education and general education teacher. Both teachers need to have an understanding of each student’s disability and unique academic needs. Both teachers play vital roles in participating as part of the IEP team, providing professional input, and best practices to develop the student’s IEP, which will provide all stakeholders in the child’s education the accommodations and modifications for the special needs child to be successful in the
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It is required that the student be placed in the setting most like that of typical peers in which they can succeed when provided with needed supports and services (Friend, 2014). In other words, children with disabilities are to be educated with children who are not disabled to the maximum extent appropriate. Removal may only occur when education in regular classes, with the use of supplementary aids and services, cannot be achieved satisfactorily (Yell, 2006).
What is special education? The common belief is that it a program only dedicated to helping students with disabilities, whether physical or mentally. This is not entirely accurate in regards of what special education is. While special education does provide assistance to students with disabilities ns meet their needs in quality education (Küpper 2009)—the program extends to all students facing difficulties keeping up with the pace of learning (Huerta 2009). This brings the next question onto the table: the importance of special education. Before 1970s, majority of students with disabilities were shun into isolation with little to no education in general classes (Bradley 2016). However, with the passage of Education for All Handicapped Children
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation. (1994). The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education. Retrieved from http://www.unesco.org/education/pdf/SALAMA_E.PDF
Heward, W. L. (2013). Exceptional children: An introduction to special education (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
These children and youth exhibit high performance capability in intellectual, creative, and/or artistic areas, possess an unusual leadership capacity, or excel in specific academic fields. They require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the schools.
Writing this final essay for this course one is able to reflection on the knowledge one has gained since the beginning of the course. This course has been affective and the benefits are using the information immediately to correct mistakes and grow in the profession. After interviewing attorneys and director’s special in the education program the reality of how important following the regulations are important and must be followed. As a special educator one is more prepared and ready to provide a first rate education. Everyone who works with special needs students should be prepared and understand the law taking a class in Law and Litigation is recommended.