How To Write An Essay On Working With Children With Special Needs
Ms. Hoover
Graduation Project
16 August 2013
Working with Children with Special Needs According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), about one in every 33 babies born is the United States, is born with a birth defect or developmental disability. Birth defects cause changes in one or more parts of the body and can have serious and adverse effects on the developing child. The defect can cause a permanent disability that affects health, functional ability and/or cognitive ability. Defects can affect the way a body looks and works (CDC). When a child is born with a physical or developmental disability, the whole family is affected. Regardless of the type of disability a child has, these children are afforded the opportunity to learn and participate in school and school functions. This gives those students with physical or developmental delays the same educational opportunities as children …show more content…
Kristi Costello. She is a high school Special Education teacher for the Palmyra Area School District. Before setting up a mutually convenient date, I needed to complete paperwork from Palmyra High School that would allow me to spend a day there. Once Doctor Benjamin Ruby, the high school principal, approved this, I contacted Mrs. Costello. We scheduled a full day of job shadowing that took place on January 25, 2013. Her students arrived by van at 7:15 a.m., before the regular buses arrived. I noticed there were three students in wheelchairs. They were wheeling themselves! A few of the students had problems walking and there were other students who looked like they were helping those who weren’t steady. I initially thought the helpers were buddies to the disabled students, but they were also students in the Life Skills Class. The class was surprisingly large with seventeen students. There were five students who looked like they didn’t belong there, but once I talked to them, I realized they had mental
Graduation Project
16 August 2013
Working with Children with Special Needs According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), about one in every 33 babies born is the United States, is born with a birth defect or developmental disability. Birth defects cause changes in one or more parts of the body and can have serious and adverse effects on the developing child. The defect can cause a permanent disability that affects health, functional ability and/or cognitive ability. Defects can affect the way a body looks and works (CDC). When a child is born with a physical or developmental disability, the whole family is affected. Regardless of the type of disability a child has, these children are afforded the opportunity to learn and participate in school and school functions. This gives those students with physical or developmental delays the same educational opportunities as children …show more content…
Kristi Costello. She is a high school Special Education teacher for the Palmyra Area School District. Before setting up a mutually convenient date, I needed to complete paperwork from Palmyra High School that would allow me to spend a day there. Once Doctor Benjamin Ruby, the high school principal, approved this, I contacted Mrs. Costello. We scheduled a full day of job shadowing that took place on January 25, 2013. Her students arrived by van at 7:15 a.m., before the regular buses arrived. I noticed there were three students in wheelchairs. They were wheeling themselves! A few of the students had problems walking and there were other students who looked like they were helping those who weren’t steady. I initially thought the helpers were buddies to the disabled students, but they were also students in the Life Skills Class. The class was surprisingly large with seventeen students. There were five students who looked like they didn’t belong there, but once I talked to them, I realized they had mental