Children With Disabilities

Outline the legal entitlements of disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs.

I used to cry when my father took me there. I didn’t feel like I was like the other children” (Human Rights Watch). Balkumari is a young woman with a physical disability that makes her have a difficult time walking. Her father did not let her attend school until she was 11 years old. She did not like the school because she felt that she did not belong there. This is because the kids in her school felt uncomfortable around her, which probably led them to turn away from her and make her feel like she did not belong there. The kids were not around her enough to get to know her personally, instead of knowing her for her disability. Looking at this story, it shows that we need to integrate disabled and nondisabled students together, so they can get to know each other and get to know their personalities, instead of looking at them for the tasks that they are limited to doing. Overall, it is clear to see that the third reason not enough is being done for disabled children to be accepted by nondisabled children is because disabled and non-disabled kids still do not feel comfortable talking to one another because they are not around each other

Americans with disabilities are a gathering group of around 50 million individuals that today led free, self-asserting lives and who characterize themselves as per their personhood – their thoughts, convictions, trusts and dreams – well beyond their incapacity. Since the mid-1900s, individuals with handicaps have pushed for the acknowledgment of inability as a part of the character that impacts the encounters of an individual, not as the sole-characterizing highlight of a person. In the 1800s, individuals with disabilities were viewed as small, sad, sad people unfit and not able to add to society, but to serve as disparaging objects of amusement in carnivals and displays.

When children with Autism isolate themselves they tend to avoid playing with other children and being active. This makes it difficult for children with Autism to get the recommended hour of exercise a day, and not getting exercise makes children more likely to become overweight and unhealthy. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “Obesity rates for children with disabilities are 38 percent higher than among children without disabilities (NCBDDD 2012). This creates a cycle of becoming overweight and then not wanting to exercise even more.

What assets appear to be a recognized and logical resource for people with a developmental

Both reading and writing challenges experienced by children with speech and language problems has historically been neglected. At the same time as of late, various exploration have initiated in highlighting the issues of learning how to read and write that may be experienced in children with speech and language difficulties.

Children who suffer with learning disabilities struggle with communicating not only at school, but even within their very own family. The desired lifesaving cure may not exist yet, but with the help of a community, a child can develop the imperative skills he or she desperately needs to become literate. Literacy means to be able to participate in a society. It does not matter if someone’s language is perfect without a grammatical error in sight or if their language is filled with insufficient mistakes. All that matters is if a person is capable of understanding the other’s main concept. I recently learned this eye-opening lesson about literacy from my three year old cousin battling with a recent diagnosis of autism.

There is always more than meets the eye when spotlighting different realms. I wanted this paper to meet more than just the standards set by my professor. I wanted to be able to lean towards or away from a career choice. Being able to step outside of my own world into one where I would truly try to understand people with disabilities in their lives was what I had chosen. Spending a day in the Mary Cariola Children’s Center allowed me to do this by interacting with children at various different levels and learning disabilities. I have quite a bit of knowledge on children with special needs but have never truly been able to interact with them further than my cousin who has been confined to a wheelchair (for reasons unknown to any doctor).

institutionalization of individuals with disabilities is also widely prevalent practice, so the majority of efforts are towards deinstitutionalization but the process is slow. Mental-health programs are in dire need of reform and integration of children with disabilities in education is lagging. Employment integration with disabled individuals is helped by social and government initiatives. Croatia is also slow to improve the rights of disabled individuals. The lack of community based services leads to increase of institutionalizations and medical care for disabled individuals is far from satisfactory. Employment opportunities for disabled individuals is implemented slowly and often is inadequate to address the real issues if the disabled.

For my choice project I chose to interview a parent who has a 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 met her son and have observed her being a parent to this child who showed some very challenging behaviors. I was able to produce many questions for her and was looking forward to

“She looks so normal”, this is a typical response that a mother often hears about her child with special needs. “Special” is a term that is described as “different”. Some people may look at a child with special needs and feel sympathy while others lack the knowledge. For my child development class, I was assigned to conduct an interview with a mother who has a special needs child. I was one of the many that lack knowledge of special needs children because I did not know what this mother had to face. While doing this interview I have learned that it takes a special person to take care of a special child. This child has a disease called NOMID, which stands for neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disease, this disease causes inflammation and tissue damage affecting the nervous system, skin, and joint. This interview has taught me that some parents will face many difficulties while raising a special needs child, but they will do whatever it takes to help the child overcome challenges that they may face everyday.

The education issue of children with disability has become an integral part of the global discourse. It is stated as one of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the Incheon Declaration by the UN in 2015 (Singal, 2016). Sadly, the community of children with disability is still excluded from equal education (Singal, 2016). It is mentioned in a report by Plan International (2013) that children with disabilities were 10 times less likely to attend school than children without disabilities. Among all the countries with this issue, India is a special case: the enrollment rate of children with disability has rose rapidly while the quality of education is still concerning.

They can eliminate the thought of physical textbooks. They can save trees and heavy School Bags. They are also more modern.

Singal, D. N. (2015). Education of children with disabilities in India and Pakistan. United Kingdom: University of Cambridge. 44 pp.

Special needs individuals are not different from everyone they just need a little extra help along their way. This population has to have mediation because there are many who cannot speak for themselves. They need the help from a neutral person so that they can discuss complications that they may be dealing with without judgment. Advocacy is a necessity too because that individual needs a person to stand by their side and help them fight for what is right. In todays society people only care about themselves. This hinders those that have special needs because they also need people