A Special Day

It started off as a regular Friday. I woke up feeling relieved that I didn’t have classes that day, as I needed a break from school. Instead of rushing to get dressed, I chose to sleep in for a while. When I woke up again, it was already past noon and my roommate was gone. As I slowly crept out of bed, I realized that I was smiling. I wasn’t stressed out like I usually was, and that was because I never had classes on Fridays. It upsets me when I think about how excited I was to leave home and be

The majority of my time with the athletes is during the track and field season. Though it has been a dream of mine to play on a Unified Special Olympics team, making these events easier to achieve gives me just as much pleasure as play alongside them. This past year I was in charge of announcing the winners of each event, and I can tell you it is one of the greatest jobs one could ever have

Bunny learns to find his voice through a series of trial and error. Finding one’s own special uniqueness is a step toward finding oneself. There are many different ways to achieve personal enlightenment, including talking to trusted family and friends, not trying to mimic others, and being proud of oneself. In Heather Henson’s novel Dream of Night, Shiloh finds her own personality with the help of a very special horse. Shiloh is a hardened foster child who meets an old and abused racehorse. Her relationship

future. I was hoping something would come to me randomly one day. However, it was the last few weeks in August of 2016 when I discovered what I want to pursue. The manager at Seven Hills Pediatric Center in Groton saw me volunteering on the grounds during their picnic and asked if I was interested in working in the dietary department. I astoundingly said yes as I started my journey toward discovering my true passion of becoming a Special Education Teacher. Working each week at a facility and seeing

placed in inclusive settings (Fiorello, Huber, and Rosenfeld 500). The use of tactics, like manipulatives and certain technological activities, geared towards special education students in the general education classroom, can inadvertently improve some of the other students understanding and test scores. Some people argue that placing special education students with advanced students creates too big of a gap moving the range of tolerance downward to the point that the needs of the high achievers are

lavender lilacs she always had sitting in a vase on the table. That I had picked for her out of the lilac tree in her backyard. Every time I would got to her house I would always go out back and get flowers for her to put in the vase. Laundry day was another day the house smelled so good, you could smell her laundry soap. I don’t remember what kind it was but it smelled really good. I would

responsible for everything that occurs within the limits of your post while you are on duty. You are also responsible for all equipment and property located within the limits of your post. The exact limits of your post are defined by the special orders. The special orders should also include every place a guard must go to perform your duties. You will investigate every unusual or suspicious occurrence on or near your post provided that you do not have to leave your point of duty to do so. If necessary

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

classroom is becoming more and more well known in most schools. This could be the act of including a child with special needs or even a child where their second language is English. As recent as a hundred years ago, children with disabilities received little, if any, formal education. In the tradition of segregating students during the middle to late 19th century. Special schools for those with special needs continued to be created in the early 1900s. These schools claimed to educate children; however, they

individuals face discrimination and bullying. In some extreme cases, they may be taken advantage of financially or sexually (Bullying and Youth with Disabilities and Special Health Needs, n.d.). Special needs individuals are also faced with local and federal budget cuts to the developmentally disabled community and are lacking proper day services, transportation and