Friday, January 23, 2009

LLL

I must say that the videos where quite entertaining and at the same time brought a tremendous amount of insight into my views of special needs children. I do not teach “certified” special needs children that I know of. But by watching the videos, I realize that I teach a lot of special needs students or are they? In one of the examples in the videos, the instructor talked about a woman in an empty auditorium and someone sits right next to her. To the average person, this is quite weird unless there were more people in the auditorium, but a special needs person would not know this was strange in any way. To that analogy, either many of the kids I work with are special need or simply ignorant. To that same analogy from the video, I meet the parents of some of these kids and find it impossible that these parents have raised the some of the kids I teach! On the other hand, I understand where some of the kids get their strange ideas about how life should work. Yes, the videos made sense, but I am just as confused after watching the video.

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  1. I think what may help you in this case is to try to look at the through the eyes of the students and even the parents. I great deal of the students we teach have a limited exposure to the world and there skills may be defined by as small as an area like their neighborhood. And if you examined the parents it may prove to be the same with them as well. I would say just take baby steps, try not to get frustrated and look at the world through their eyes.

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