Introduction

I have worked with special education students myself and I adored all of them. In fact, some special education students are extremely intelligent. Some of these students need more help than others, but they are still a living human being who deserves just as much respect as you and me. Special needs children are normal people, they may need a little extra attention, but that does not change who they are on the inside. 


How Some People Treat Specially Educated Children

Children often tease special needs children because of the way that they look or how they act. This is wrong. Everyone has the right to be treated with respect, whether they need extra help or not. Special children are discriminated against because of their looks and actions. People cannot change the way they look, and some people cannot control how they act, either. As the years go by students have been increasing to develop better attitude toward these children. Although some people still don’t have the class to step up and treat people how they deserve to be treated. Disabled people are just as capable of having successful lives, they just need a little extra help and time.

Causes and Cures

Some people are born with disabilities and deformities, while others have terrible incidents that occur in their life. For example, people can end up in a wheel chair permanently because of car accidents, they can get paralyzed, or receive brain damage. Being disabled does not mean that you are not normal. It just means that you need a little more help than other people. Some disabilities can be cured from surgery, but some are incurable. Cranio-sacral therapy may not cure a person’s disability, but it will not make it worse. Where a surgery could make a disability worse therapy will help a person. This may help relax their brain and calm them down so that they can concentrate on something important.


Specially Educated Children and Their Education

All schools have some sort of special education program. Due to the degree of disability, children can stay a few hours or the entire in the special education classroom. A very intelligent person could be disabled, not all disabled people are smart, but some can be very smart. Schools are in need of more special education teachers. About eight percent of all special education teachers are not certified for their job. Special Education teachers may negatively affect disabled people from birth to twenty-one years of age. Antonis Katsiyannis is a professor for special education at Clemson University. IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) says that the following things are needed at every school, “Include disabled children, expand special education classrooms, foster research validates instructional and behavioral interventions, support profession, and development involved with special education and related subjects.” The best way to help disabled children is to not educate them until age six or seven. There are not any schools built for just disabled children, but there are a few classrooms in all schools for these children.


Conclusion

If you have friends that are rude and hateful toward needing children you should let them know that being in that type of situation is out of there control. They obviously don’t know what it feels like to be made fun of, and I am sure that if they were the one being picked on in the situation; they wouldn’t think that it was very fun either. Volunteering at Kathy’s classroom made me realize that disabled children are no different then you and me. They are still human and they do everything that the average human does. I got to play a board game with one of her students, this was because she was behaving well and then received a reward. I often picture myself in that their situation and your realize that real life is different that what you read or watch on television. I hope that you take this to mind and put yourself in the shoes of a disabled person. Your life would then seem like a piece of cake, so please treat disabled people with just as much respect as you would treat your family and friends with. In my report you learned about many things about disabled children. Now you know that these children are no different from you and me, they just need a little extra attention.

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