SPECIAL EDUCATION NEEDS PORTFOLIO Moving towards inclusive education INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED AND CHALLED STUDENTS IQ An Intelligence Quotient‚ usually referred to as IQ‚ is a numerical score arrived at through testing. A student can have a Low‚ Average or High IQ. Intelligence is an inherited trait which‚ if low may make learning difficult unless facilitated by a highly skilled teacher. Additionally‚ a pupil who has inherited a high intelligence can be badly affected by bad teaching methods and
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This Essay aims to discuss the range of special educational needs in mainstream primary schools‚ analysing appropriate teaching and learning strategies to support learning. Special Educational Needs (SEN) is defined as children with learning difficulties that call for special educational provision to be made for them. Children have a learning difficulty if they have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children the same age and/or have a disability that prevents or
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Mainstreaming special needs The soaring cost of special education for disabled students has been appropriately integrated into public schools for the common good of all students from various social classes. Special education has had a deep histroy that has been characterized by a score of legislations that has set this form of education and how it is administered to assimilate students with learning disabilities into standard classrooms. In both the United Kingdom and the United States‚ the first
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Special education needs. The last fifty years have seen significant changes in the education of students with special learning needs. An estimated 1.7 million pupils in the UK have special educational needs (SEN)‚ with over 250‚000 having statements of SEN (Russell 2003‚ 215). Many positive advances have been made in educating these children‚ with special needs children receiving more options and learning opportunities. How these opportunities are presented has been an ongoing source of debate
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| | |What Are Special Educational Needs? (Hand-out) | | This is a transition time for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities – new legislation in the form of a green paper - “Support and Aspiration” is advancing through the necessary stages and considerable changes are promised to be implemented
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Almost every school district in the country has at least one student who receives special education. Public schools must work to meet the needs of students by providing special educational services. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a federal educational law that ensures that children under twenty-one years of age have the right to a free public education. Millions of children receive special educational services based on IDEA. For a child to become eligible for these services
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child with special needs. The parent I chose to interview is a person I work with. She is a mother of two children‚ a son and a daughter which her son has been diagnosed with autism. Her son is ten years old and has been living with autism since he was diagnosed at the age of three. I have known this mother for about three years now and have helped her in many of the autism fundraisers that she puts on to raise money for her autism support group. I chose to interview her for my paper because I have
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When it come to children with special needs there are different categories that the children can fall in. With in each of these categories there are different teaching methods that have to be use and different types of training that the teacher will need. Children with special needs are tested and then put into the appropriate group as to the disability that they have. There are several different types of special needs such as autism‚ behavior disorders‚ Cerebral Palsy‚ Down Syndrome‚ Alcohol
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education for children with special educational needs in Ireland has been one of neglect and exclusion. However the past three decades have seen a shift in attitude and policy. A shift which‚ Professor Desmond Swan has described as a progression in three phases: the era of neglect and denial; the era of the special school; and the era of integration or inclusion . The right to education is recognised in Ireland under Article 42 of the Constitution. However‚ in 1993 The Special Education Review Committee
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History of Special Needs Provision in Ireland The history of education for children with special needs in Ireland has been one of neglect and exclusion until there was a change in attitudes and policies. The government had no need for policies regarding education and care of children with additional needs because they were carried out by religious orders. Many children were sent away to hospitals‚ homes and even asylums. They were hidden away from society. There were three stages in relation to the
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