Notes On Disability And Empowerment

Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability in the 21st Century’. Published 2001 The Protection of Vulnerable Adults Scheme (POVA) for England and Wales. Published 2004.

The influence that legislation and policies have on the day-to-day experiences of an individual with a learning disability and of

Chapter 6 starts by telling the story of Lauren who has Down syndrome and defining intellectual disability. Intellectual disability in the chapter has multiple definitions and one is that it is define as a disability characterize by both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior such as, social and adaptive skills. To classify and a person with intellectual disability you need to look at various dimension of human functioning, which are intellectual abilities, adaptive behavior, health, participation and context. There are still many challenges on to what the definition of intellectual is and how to measure intellectual disability. There has been many test n to measure the student’s intelligence, but it can be very controversial. Issues

Disability Act (2010) refers to those people whom got a medical condition that requires special attention and extra care and helps us, as teachers to treat them equally and not let them feel excluded, this Act can be linked to A, B and F Domains from LLUK standards. If in my course of work I’ll have to deal with a disabled learner I’ll try to plan the session according www,,, to this and prepare for him appropriate tasks. I’ll try to widen my knowledge about his/her disability to know better his/her needs and what teaching

For the purpose of the act a person who has a learning disability is not considered to be suffering from a mental disorder nor require any hospital treatment unless their disability has been associated with “abnormal aggressive behaviour or irresponsible conduct on their part”. Mind 2010 point out that a person could be

Adults working with SEN children spend the majority of their time supporting that child however sometimes it’s the practitioners that needs the support. The role of the practitioners can be hard work and isn’t taken lightly, the practitioner needs support from other people around them to help promote their confidence and provide the correct provision for the children. A helpful support to practitioners could be the charity Mencap. Mencap work in partnership with people with a learning disability and all our services support people to live life as they choose.

IDEA defines a learning disability as a disorder in understanding or using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or do mathematical calculations. Learning disabilities are a life-long issue. Language problems that go untreated in the early years of school can continue into high school and adulthood. As a child who suffered with an Auditory Processing Disorder (APD), early intervention was very important for me to progress in school. I continue to this day, to utilize and build on compensatory techniques taught by my grade school Speech Pathologist. Henceforth, I have been able to succeed in school, social settings and now in college.

In order for an individual to be recognised as having a learning disability, during their assessment three core criteria must be identified. The individual must present with; a significantly lower than average intellect, a reduced ability to function in, and adjust to, their environment, or the inability to interrelate with others. Whilst diagnosis can take place at any age, these difficulties must arise during childhood.

Learning disabilities are neurologically based processing problems that can interfere with higher-level skills such as organization, time planning, abstract reasoning, long or short-term memory and attention. (Pardun, 2015)

This writer was given an assignment of researching three questions related to learning disability. The three questions are: 1. what is a learning disability? 2. How do individuals with learning disabilities process information? and 3. What challenges are related to how these individuals process information? This writer has learned a lot about learning disability and special education all throughout this course, during this research, and during observation time in the classroom. Special education, a program developed in order to provide a free, appropriate education to all students, even those with special needs, was

Over time, the view of best practice for educating and caring for people with disability has changed to one of inclusion in all aspects of life in society. In Australia, there was some resistance initially, fear and misunderstanding guided the decision making processes which meant those with disability were kept apart longer than in some other countries (Heward, 2009). Gradually, legislative changes, influenced by medical knowledge and researched based practice meant that people were no longer allowed to be separated by social barriers and were granted legal rights to guard against all forms of discrimination (Dempsey, 2008). In 2014, the expectation is that people with disability are included in all aspects of education with the same

This essay will explore how developmental psychology has improved the lives of children diagnosed with specific learning difficulties (SpLD). It will explore how these improvements have been made from diagnosis to assessments, consequences to intervention.

DDA includes a series of traditional impairments in the definition of disability, identifies that disability may not happen at a lifelong period, and sets up a frame work for the education standards (Foreman & Arthur-Kelly, 2014). According to the Australian Disability Standards for Education 2005 (education.gov.au, 2005), all students should be treated with no discrimination; reasonable adjustments of school activities are required for students with special learning needs; alterations need to be consulted with students and parents/carers. Until 2012, the achievement of the Education Standard was limited, due to the unclear statement of responsibility and complex complaint procedure. The attitude of education providers towards students with additional needs plays a crucial role in changing the standard to real support (Foreman & Arthur-Kelly, 2014). To provide support to students with additional needs, the national government implements a broad range of services, resources, and funding for both teacher professional development and student support, and also set up the national agreement - the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (Barr et al., 2008). It has been stressed that all

Specific learning disability is defined by Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) as “disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, spoken or written [that] may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations”

The concept of autonomy of people with learning disabilities through the eyes of their parents. Discourse analysis