Educating Special Needs Students
Gustavo Valencia
SPE-226
12-08-2014
Kimber Underdown
Educating Special Needs Students
A good dedicated passionate teacher is the one who thinks that all students can succeed. With this belief, teachers can inspire themselves to find any route possible to help the students in having a successful life in school and anywhere else. When it comes to special education, this belief really needs to be a true one because special education teachers will have to deal not only with behavioral students or students with high functioning disabilities but they will also be dealing with autistic students and students with severe intellectual disabilities (Grand Canyon University Course Material 2010).
With the basic teaching principle "all students can learn", teachers will enable themselves to find ways to help the students in learning social and life skills, get prepared to be independent, get a job and to enjoy quality of life regardless of their disabilities (Grand Canyon University Course Material 2010). Individuals with disabilities can show their frustration with anger, they can feel hopelessness, helplessness and have a sensation of disgust, fear and pity. Many times advocates, educators and even professionals fail by misunderstanding individuals with disabilities by not properly identifying the intellectual disability. The American Association on Intellectual Developmental Disability (AAIDD, 2008) explains that Intellectual disability is defined as sub-average intellectual functioning but it also should include "resultant deficits in adaptive behaviors and its occurrence during the developmental period" (Grand Canyon University Course Material 2010). All three conditions must be present in order to determine that intellectual disability is present in the individual.
Sub-average intellectual functioning refers to intelligence which is consider as a hypothetical construct difficult to define and is tested with a method called Intelligence Quotient or IQ which consists
SPE-226
12-08-2014
Kimber Underdown
Educating Special Needs Students
A good dedicated passionate teacher is the one who thinks that all students can succeed. With this belief, teachers can inspire themselves to find any route possible to help the students in having a successful life in school and anywhere else. When it comes to special education, this belief really needs to be a true one because special education teachers will have to deal not only with behavioral students or students with high functioning disabilities but they will also be dealing with autistic students and students with severe intellectual disabilities (Grand Canyon University Course Material 2010).
With the basic teaching principle "all students can learn", teachers will enable themselves to find ways to help the students in learning social and life skills, get prepared to be independent, get a job and to enjoy quality of life regardless of their disabilities (Grand Canyon University Course Material 2010). Individuals with disabilities can show their frustration with anger, they can feel hopelessness, helplessness and have a sensation of disgust, fear and pity. Many times advocates, educators and even professionals fail by misunderstanding individuals with disabilities by not properly identifying the intellectual disability. The American Association on Intellectual Developmental Disability (AAIDD, 2008) explains that Intellectual disability is defined as sub-average intellectual functioning but it also should include "resultant deficits in adaptive behaviors and its occurrence during the developmental period" (Grand Canyon University Course Material 2010). All three conditions must be present in order to determine that intellectual disability is present in the individual.
Sub-average intellectual functioning refers to intelligence which is consider as a hypothetical construct difficult to define and is tested with a method called Intelligence Quotient or IQ which consists
References: (Grand Canyon University Course Material 2010).