The F. A. T Rustration Video Analysis

Teachers, social workers, psychologists, parents and friends participated in Richard Lavoie's workshop. After they completed the workshop they reflected their experience and the way it changed their approach and viewpoints to children with learning disabilities. Rather than straight lecture, the workshop requires the participants to try for themselves in a classroom simulation, taking the place of child with a learning disability. Richard Lavoie stated that if they don't want to role play or get involved, that's too bad because learning disabled students don't get a choice whether they want to be in the classroom. He was shooting questions at a rapid-fire pace, questions that would be simple if given the time or a less hostile environment. I expected all of the participants to be able to respond, but within six minutes of the workshop, they all began showing signs of shutting down.

disability. Many of the students in my class are struggling with the social-emotional skill of sharing. For

I really enjoyed watching this video because it demonstrates how students with needs cannot be over looked

Even though a classroom situation may be smaller and have less people, without disclosing the full truth a professor may be unfair with the students. By not telling the students the truth, a teacher becomes responsible for the educational disadvantages his or her students face in the classroom. By telling the students and their parents, the teacher gives the responsibility of taking action to the students and parents. The students and parents can then decide whether they want the professor to teach their children or to switch classes. Also, students should tell their professors in a classroom situation. Again, this is so they are on an equal playing field with their peers. By being obligated to tell the truth, some of their peers may find out about their disabilities. Students may have to overcome the backlash from the truth becoming public. However, knowing that they will have to tell the truth allows the student at a young age to learn how to overcome public perspectives on disabilities. This will help students in the future when they are in the real world and are judged by the public for their

I am thoroughly impressed with the video I watched. I have never seen a more efficient delivery of health care by any facility. Virginia Mason Hospital & Medical Center adapted the policies and practices used by car assembly lines to help alleviate some of the disconcerting problems of the health care delivery system. The medical center aptly named this policy change “the war on waste” as it intends to remove everything that adds no value to the customer or patients.

After watching the first minute of the video, my response was just absolutely baffled. I could not fathom as to why a teacher would cause her students to become so discriminatory against one another. I could not understand what she could possibly hope to prove by allowing such bullying and discrimination to occur in her classroom. Even knowing that this was an exercise implemented to help teach students about diversity, I could not put the pieces of the exercise together and see how it can transform minds until the exercise was completely over. After the teacher talked through the exercise with her students, I finally understood and found myself realizing how this is still a lesson worth teaching in today’s classrooms.

Renan da Silva, 24, is a young man with an intellectual disability from Sao Paolo, Brazil. He lives in one of the neighborhoods with the highest rates of poverty and inequality of Sao Paulo. Prior to joining the POETA Youth Spark Center, Renan had no aspirations and believed that his disability would not allow him to get a job and gain professional experience. However, once he joined the Center, he started taking courses in Computer Science with the hopes of finding a job one day and being a productive person. While still enrolled in the course, Renan started working with a company in the human resources department. In this company, his leadership and communications skills really stood out. He started giving ideas to improve communication

This video gives teachers an idea for what they should know. It is a big deal that teachers know about disabilites and how they can help since they are often the first to see a problem when it comes to many disabilites.

Gives great hope for improvement. And possibility for overcoming the learning difficulties, “disabilities”, challenges. – with the right intervention.

Every Tuesday the teacher would take the students to the center for independent living. The Center for Independent Living has staffs and mentors that teach student with disability life skills that that they need. The staff work with students in small group on teaching them how to do crafting skills such as knitting, paper Mache, and etc. They teach the students how to use the computer and typing. The staff also work with school teaching them how to cook. Some students choose to work on typing skills, some worked on art crafting such as

When I first came into this class I thought I knew everything about disabilities. I never thought about how others viewed their disabilities or even if they considered it a disability. I felt like my view point on disabilities was right and I was far from judgmental. As class when on I learned that I wasn’t all the way right about disabilities and that I did judge people based of their limitation. This class opened my eyes to how other people feel and want to be treated. It allowed me learn about people and how they felt about their limitations.

Richard D. Lavoie, in his F.A.T. City workshop presentation, highlighted the difficulties and struggles a learning disabled child faces in the general education classroom. The title F.A.T. City comes from the acronym standing from frustration, anxiety and attention, a whirlwind of emotions felt by the learning disabled child in a classroom where he/she is not understood.

For special needs students, disabilities can impact the learning environment, for both the special needs students and non-special needs students. Different accommodations and modifications can be made to meet the needs of both learners. On the other hand, certain methods should be avoided when working with special needs students. In FAT (Frustration Anxiety Tension) City, the “teacher” of the group discusses different approaches to these integrated classes. Additionally, the “students” portray different characteristics of learning disabilities in the video.

Before taking this class I had very little knowledge and experience, and through that I did not know how to perceive people with disabilities other than what I saw with my eyes, which was their disability first. The truth is children and people with disabilities are everyday heroes. They have every day struggles and challenges that most of us do not have, they have to push and fight to do every day tasks that we can do without struggling and having to push ourselves, and they see the world differently in ways that we are not capable of doing so. They can love more, and are fighters in everyday life. We can learn so much from them if we choose to look and see past their disability because truth is, that is not what defines them as a person. I have learned so much from lectures and discussions in class, the documentaries shown, my textbook, visuals, and presentations. Here are a few things that stood out to me while taking this course.

The student quote that stood out to me the most is School and Classroom Practices- “They’ll Give You Little Bite of It and Then You Start Going, Now I Get to Do This.” The reasoning I like this quote because everyone in the school is showing support to one another. It clarifies that the students who do not have any disabilities can be responsible by showing and taking time out to help the students with disability problem in the same class. It explain that if the student with the disability problem does not understand a problem in class then the students without the disability can show him or her how to do the problem. Then the students with disability problem can do their work on their own without someone taking them step by step demonstrating the problem them. It also explains this in the quote that the behaviors from both with and without disability are less because both students are their learned not to act up in the class while the teacher is teaching. However, it there any misbehavior on both side then as a class the students go over school rules and class expectation standards for the school.