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Considering what specialist help would be beneficial to the child and discuss options with parents/carers

It is an important part of a practitioner’s job to observe and assess children in order to establish where a child is at with regards to their development, health and well being and if they require extra support. The factors that need to be taken into account when assessing development are:

Losing your sight at a later stage in life can create acceptance difficulties and the need to learn a new method of communication.

Even academic achievement goes up when the children were in the superior group. When doing the card packs the first day the brown eyed children spent five and half minutes to go through the deck, while the superior blue eyed children spent only three minutes, the following day the superior group of brown eyed students took only two and a half minutes compared to the four minutes and eighteen seconds of the inferior blue eyed group.

In a powerful experiment we were able to see through the eyes of a kindergarten children prejudice dynamics. In a famous experience by Jane Elliot she separated her class between blue-eyed and brown-eyed students. Professor Elliot had separated her students by making one eye group inferior to the other making them have certain benefits and better treatment than the other group of students. Eventually, the students were switched the following day. This experiment have showed this group of kindergarten students how colors and discrimination affected the minority population. After this successful experiment with the kindergarten student’s professor Jane Elliot had done many other experiments using adults using the a similar technique blue-eyed

The teacher or teaching assistant would need to make sure that the child sat at the front of the class. The person leading the lesson would have to ensure that their face is clearly visible and background noise should be kept to a minimum. Teaching the child in a small group or individually would be a benefit and a quite area should be found for this. The teacher should try and limit the time spent talking in group sessions to a minimum and ensure that they have visual aids available as well as writing key words on the board for the child. The other children in the class should be encouraged to

Tips on how to control Behaviors: Children need structure every day from the time they get up until the time they go to sleep. As a parent you can make chart with each day and every mapped out what time to start activity to the time they stop. Like what time to start eating and what time to finish. Pick up dishes scrap place them in the sink or dishwasher wash hands go take a bath get out read book for 20 minutes time to sleep.

"More than 10% of normal children in primary schools have learning difficulties to some extent" (Holle, 1976). Teachers should try to find the problem the student is having and find them the help they need by consulting with parents or counselors.

Make sure that their conversation is within confidential space meaning that only you the practitioner with the child and the parent.

as a intangible factor. Colored children not having the ability to study, to engage in discussions and

This children seemed well behaved they sat back and listen to their teacher feed them with with lies on eye color. At first the kids seemed like they were not going to fall for the trick but the teacher kept enforcing that she was right about brown eyed students

In watching the video Jane Elliot specifically separated the class by eye color Blue eyed meaning that you were better smarter and appreciated more in society and brown eyed meaning you were less than, not a good person, and not as smart as a blue-eyed person. And one of students was subjective to that because one his parents was brown eyed and he didn't quite understand why was his dad being labeled as less because of his eye color. The kids quickly recognized that brown eyed people were labeled as bad people and people who are flat out bad. One of the students who was labeled as brown eye immediately felt the treatment of not be treated equally and being put down based upon his eye color.

Always try to contact and regularly update other settings, as well as parents with the childs progress and development.

It is essential that anyone working with children can identify if a child is having problems and might need extra support, this can be achieved through careful observation in the classroom and playground. If, a teaching assistant or adult in school, were to have any concerns about a particular child they should initially go to the class teacher and share their thoughts but it is important that they maintain as much confidentiality as possible and would need to find an appropriate time to discuss this. This should then be brought up with the pupil’s parents in a sensitive way and at an appropriate time, e.g. parent’s evening.

Could orange colored lenses dictate my future? Would they change the way my friends see me? Would they help me get through high school and into college? These are just a few questions I found myself struggling with seven years ago. In fourth grade while reading audibly, my teacher noticed I might have a reading disability. As I skipped lines, mixed up words, and even confused words as others, my teacher discussed the concern with my parents. Were there eye problems, was it dyslexia or a learning disorder? Being that all of these conditions were checked, with no conclusive answer, we only knew I was behind on my reading and comprehension skills.