Challenges Faced By A Special Child Case Study

Challenges faced by a Special Child in his/her routine life.
The World Health Organization(1980) has defined a Special child/ Disabled child as “one who over an appreciable period is prevented by physical or mental conditions from full participation in the normal activities of their age groups including those of social, recreational, educational and vocational nature ”.

Children with special needs have a mental, physical, medical or social conditions that interferes with their normal functioning. These children face a lot of challenges in their day to day life than their peers. These challenges a special child faces are usually doubled. On one hand, they struggle with the symptoms and disabilities that result from the disease. On the other,

These children already struggle with self-esteem issues and often have a lower social standing among other children which may lead them so frequently becoming the targets of bullying. It is common to see children who stutter are more likely to be bullied. Because of the difficulties with social interaction and the inability to read social cues, children with Autism have higher rate of peer rejection and higher frequency of verbal and physical bullying. Another place where a special child faces bullying is in playground. Children with physical, developmental, intellectual, emotional and sensory disabilities are more likely to be bullied than their

Continuous isolation, rejection, denial of affection have damaging effects on the special child. Chronic neglect of a child is often related to significant behavioural changes such as withdrawal from soceity, depression.

Socail acceptability is other kind of challenge a special child faces as he/she grows up.
The intellectual capacity of special children may vary considerably compared to a normal child of same age. Some special child can be educated in special classess to gain elementary school level academic skills, while some can be trained to perform self-help skills and to achieve sheltered workshop employment. Some are typically limited to simple language usage and for some consistent custodial care may be required. This creates a separation from a special child and a normal child in a soceity. This makes a normal child look at a special child as a abnormality rather than a normal variation. This might lead to acts such as bullying and