Personal Narrative: My Son's Learning Disability

I was diagnosed with dyslexia during my 10th grade as I was slow in learning and writing. I was provided with accommodations for my 10th and 12th grade Board examination by the Central Board of Secondary Education. However, I did not use accommodations during my undergraduate study in MBBS and I had progressively improved in my scores and writing speed with the help of peers and teaching faculty and my own perseverance. With how far I have progressed scholastically, I strongly believe I can independently perform tasks without any aid.

The education system has the power to create a huge impact on the development of a child with a disability. This impact can be act both positively and negatively depending on a multitude of factors such as parents, teachers, and the school district as a whole. To ensure the success of a child with a disability, Individual Education Plans or IEPs are often created so that the child can reach success at their own pace, and through a plan that works best with their learning style. An IEP plan is a constant work in progress. This plan is often formed as a collaboration from a number of individuals such as parents and teachers. Together, the group can modify the IEP until they form a plan that they believe will provide the most success to the child. An IEP often includes both academic and nonacademic goals and focuses on encouraging the child's strengths, while also working to improve their weaknesses. This paper will analyze two articles which describe the strengths and weaknesses of IEP plans. These articles are relevant to a wide variety of people

To live with disable child can have deep impact on overall family members. It turns out to be an exclusive shared experience for the families and this may impact on the overall family functioning. While considering the positive impact, this widens the horizons, raising more awareness among family members considering their

What information did I know prior to reading information presented within the chapter? Prior to reading chapter one I can remember learning about PL 94-142, This is the education for all Handicapped Children Act, this law was put in place to order that all children with special needs receive service within the public schools. After reading chapter two one thing that I already knew was that everyone has a desire to know if there child is developing at a normal rate. One thing I knew prior to reading chapter eleven was how to conduct and effective parent conference.

Disability labels fail to represent the child’s unique strengths and detailed limitations. Labels also fail to recognize the severity of the disability. It is crucial for parents, teachers, and members of community to be aware and are educated properly over the critical downfalls of slapping labels on children. Many disability labels are actually very unreliable. Educational evaluation is filled with quirks. Different States use different criteria for the same categories. A lot of evaluational instruments tend to have questionable validity and or reliability. Also many label can become trendy at times. One year a particular label seem more prevalent than any other times based on its popularity at the time. Parents, teachers, and community should take action and work diligently to see to it that all children are treated as an individual all with their own different needs, strengths, and unique qualities. Parents, as the voice for their children, play a crucial part in guiding and helping to insure that labels need never to define their child and make it a deciding factor to their education. Parents must do their own research as to what is best for that particular child and their situation. Parents and teachers must make it a point to always emphasize the child's abilities and strengths and grown on that, along with their disabilities. It is also important for teachers and

Can humans learn echolocation, a technique bats and dolphins use to see and communicate? An African American Californian boy has mastered it and taught others to as well. Ben Underwood, a child who went blind at the age of three, learned to cope with his disabilities and learned how to see using echolocation, inspiring blind children all over the world.

My thoughts about Brenda Dyck article are of appreciation for all the wonderful suggestions she proposes to unfold children’s talents. I believe that with these two ways to evaluate, the Multiple Intelligence survey, and the Learning-Style Preference Questionnaire, children will build self-esteem and motivation to do better at school and in life. Students will understand that everyone is different and we all need to be more respectful and less judgmental of each other. More valuable as an evaluation is that teachers may capture a solution to a behavioral issue that will benefit the class atmosphere.

Michael is currently a sixth grade student at Northeast Middle School. He is identified with having a disability of Autism, Other Health Impairments (ADHD and anxiety), Gifted and newly identified with Speech and Language Impairment. Michael is in an itinerant learning support setting and has the learning support teacher in all academic class periods. He receives gifted support three times in a six day-cycle with Ms. Shook. Michael is attending academic support twice in a six day-cycle to assist him with assignments, assessments, organization and to work on his academic skills.

Situation: I was looking over my son's grades, and noticed he had a few missing assignments that were impacting his grades.

Through these challenges, however, teachers should be prepared to move forward in ensuring they meet the demands and needs of exceptional scholars, and track their progress daily. Each and every scholar should have the opportunity to succeed in both school, and in their daily lives. As teachers, we are not only preparing our scholars to meet their goals, but to exceed every expectation they face in the every day world. According to the reading, Exceptional Scholars, as well as stated in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, [education should be]… “Specially designed instruction, at no cost to parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a

Many of us Rosedalians don’t know what goes on behind the scenes of the Developmentally Delayed (DD) Program so on Tuesday, April 11th, I went downstairs to find out what went into organizing and managing Rosedale’s DD class.

During my observation time, I wanted to see if D is on the right track in her child development regarding her motor skills, language, cognitive, psychosocial, adaptive skills. It was around 4:00 p.m. when I started to observe her. I watched her in her home after school. Upon entering her house, I watched her working on her homework assignment. She was tracing shapes with a pen, she was able to hold the pen in her hand in trace the circle lines on the worksheet. After tracing the circle, she was able to cut out the circle and glue it to another piece of paper. She then colored the circle with the correct color that was asked for and matches the shapes. After she was done with her homework we went to her playroom where she showed me how she could skip and stand on one leg. Her physical development is good for her age. Her language skills are also on track, she is very talkative for a 5-year-old and very smart. After playtime, we sat at a blue table to read one of her favorite book "The Berenstain Bears." She was able to tell me what the story was about since she had read it multiple time before. She is able to speak clear long sentence's. She told me a story about how her

I remember the day very well. It was nearly twelve years ago when I overheard a conversation between my parents and one of my doctors. By my fifth birthday, I had visited over twenty different medical professionals each of whom had their own theory as to why I was not meeting my childhood milestones. On this day, my parents got their answer. “The tests have come back and we have a diagnosis for Caitlyn. She has Trisomy X. This means she has an extra X chromosome. The prognosis is not great. She will have learning disabilities that will likely require special education, and it’s doubtful she will be able to attend college and have a normal life,” stated the doctor in a very matter of fact tone.

It was the day that I’ve been waiting for over 3 years. A day that would finally let me be normal like everyone else and have the choices as other people without being ridiculed by the teachers that saw me as unqualified to be taught in a standard way. Thanks to my mom thinking that it would be a marvelous idea to have me be placed in special education due to my lack of effort taking reading comprehension test. I was placed in special education at the end of 5th grade, and sought to see the end of it. That day would eventually come on early April of 2015, where I was called upon to the office during class in 8th grade.

and it made me feel like a can make a difference in the world, even if it is only one child at a time.