...Teen Pregnancy Teens that are pregnant face unique problems. One, being a teen and being pregnant hold it’s on risk. In addition, teens who are mothers at an early age often have the fact that he or she is a parent interfere with his or her education, there are also problems involving social opportunities and employment options. Special problems that pregnant teenagers encounter are the financing of the pregnancy, the right to abort the fetus while being a minor, and the option to give the child up for adoption. These problems are unique to this population because many adults do not encounter these issues. Minors usually need the consent of at least one parent or other authorized adult to receive medical treatment but minors in certain situations can consent to some types of reproductive health and pregnancy related treatment on their own behalf. If a minor is getting treatment with the help of insurance, then the parent of the minor is involved and is aware of the services received. If the minor is concerned about involving his or her parents, other resources for payment are sought. Clinics such as Planned Parenthood provide assistance in family planning, abortion, and pregnancy services. The Adolescent Family Life Program is a free program available in California. All pregnant and parenting teens are eligible regardless of income. In addition, case management is provided to minor parents to help them access services which include medical services, child care, nutritional...
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...Special People with Special Needs Working with the blind can be a rewarding and challenging job. The blind have many challenges which must be faced on a day-to-day basis, and it is the job of the counselor or human service worker to work with the client to help him or her overcome these challenges. In this paper areas of special problems and needs of the blind, barriers in delivering the services to these clients, and solution which will help these clients overcome the barriers they face will be reviewed. Human service workers must remember that these clients have needs which differ from other clients, as they are facing some hard challenges, and therefore must be more considerate of these needs. The blind need support such as Braille books to read, counseling to overcome any fears, and programs which are designed to help these clients live their day to day lives. These can all be done with the support of the counselor and human service worker. There are organizations from which blind clients can also seek assistance, include the American Foundation for the Blind, which will be discussed throughout this paper. Services are also offered in the clients local communities providing support to the blind community. Special Problems and Needs of the Blind Accessing services from any human service organization is a difficult process for anyone seeking assistance. This process becomes increasing more difficult when ones sight is a barrier to communication and accessibility. Individuals...
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... Also, it can improve your studying prospects by learning new things through your daily experience. Not only your studying prospects, but also employment prospects can be enhanced by helping you gain work experience, if you are unemployed or thinking of a career change. Volunteering can provide you with something interesting, useful and fun to do in your spare time. It is a great way to meet new people, make new friends and give something back to your community. In addition, volunteering can be skillful and powerful by practicing it quite often and become a professional-level volunteering. On the other side, volunteering can be for everyone; there are no specific ages to volunteer, as long as you can handle it, you are in. There are many types or task of volunteering: work with animals, gardening, feeding homeless people, working with children, supporting older people, working in a hospital, cleaning a university’s hallway, tutoring, etc. During my first semester here in Saint Martin’s University, I volunteered in two different fields, which are helping people with special needs and on campus gardening. To expand my experience, I’m was volunteering for spring semester in Saint Martin’s University’s garden, where we work in planting some plants such as apple, onion, beans, potato and flowers. Not only gardening, but also I volunteered to...
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...History of Special Education Alisha Anderson Grand Canyon University: SPE-526 June 26, 2013 Abstract Special education will continue to be transformed in a number of different ways throughout the years to come. Special Education provide different services, support systems, and resources to help meet the needs of students that have disabilities and gifted students. The history of special education have covered many issues throughout the years. There have been many laws and regulations created to help protect individuals with disabilities. This paper will report on the past history of special education, the laws associated with Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and how the current and future challenges of special education affect the laws. What is Special Education? Special Education was created to teach students with disabilities at no cost to the parents. Special Education in the past involved schools that did not support or recognize students with disabilities. Today Special Education have progressed to provide services to all students no matter what their disabilities are. Special Education is a program that establish guidelines and expectations that teachers, parents, and students follow, in order for the student to receive the proper help they need (Heward, 2009). Disabilities could be labeled as physical, mental, emotional, or gifted. Special Education are services that are put in place after an evaluation process of the student. The services...
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...Discrimination, and Politics in a Special Needs World Education is an essential corner stone in our society. Education creates livelihood, piece of mind, a stable society, and well-rounded individuals. The unfortunate fact is that many of our children lack the proper education they need in order to become full functioning adults in today’s society. What are even worse are the children with special needs that get left behind. In order to address special needs students and others that fall behind in the education system, we need to define what special needs are, where they fit in society, and finally what the future holds for them. What do we consider as “special” in students? Special education is identified as “the education of children who deviate socially, mentally, or physically from the average to such an extent that they require major modifications of usual school practices.” (Encyclopedia Britannica Online, 2005, p.1). We can go a step further and define “special needs” to a more specific group of people. According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997,”students with disabilities include those with mental retardation, hearing impairments, speech or language impairments, visual impairments, serious emotional disturbance, orthopedic impairments, autism, other health impairments, or specific learning disabilities.” (Warger, 1999, p.1). There are laws in place by our government that allow special provisions for people with disabilities. IDEA is...
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...The word "special" has a negative connotation in our society because the word signifies that something is different or abnormal in a person, thereby separating that person from everybody else. As seen when a disrespectful customer rudely remarked, "Special needs children need to special somewhere else" (Estreich). In past years and decades, many have been treated as outcasts because of their disabilities and have been branded with the word "special", as for how the rude customer had done to Milo. Though in this situation only one individual had used the word "special" with a negative connotation, ideas of bigotry are more widespread than some people might possibly conceive. Furthermore, when the author describes the past decades she states that "If there were a slogan for those grim decades, 'let them be special somewhere else' would sum...
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...with Special Needs Roy Briston CJA/234 February 18, 2014 Prisoners with Special Needs There are many inmates in prisons that have different special needs. Some of these needs are based on whether the inmates are male or female. Males have some special needs to take care of their selves that females do not and vice versa. Then there are those who suffer from a mental illness. Their special needs are much different than those who have basic needs. People who suffer from substance abuse have needs in the area of addiction. All these different kinds of people with diverse needs effect the jails and prisons in various ways. If people were not cared for properly there would be negative repercussions. There are programs in prisons that allow these prisoners to be cared for properly. There are many special needs prisoners, one that many are familiar with are the mentally ill, and substance abusing. In 1955 there weren’t any mental institutions being built, and there were forty that were shut down about a decade ago. As of today there were more prisons opening up, and many people seemed the most qualified to care for and house these patients. Today prisons have taken on the lead role of caring for mentally ill patients, housing 45,000 in prison to 3,000 in mental institutions. Rehabilitation programs are lacking in the mentally ill category, therefore mentally ill prisoners usually return to prison. There are many inmates in prisons that have different special needs. Some...
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...CATERING FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN THE REGULAR CLASSROOM: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD FUANDAI, Cornelius M. PhD, FCAI Faculty of Education Nasarawa State University, P.M.B. 1022 Keffi Nasarawa State e-mail:- corneyfuan@yahoo.com Abstract The National Policy on Education specifically stipulates that there is need for equality of educational opportunities to all Nigerian children irrespective of any real or imagined disabilities (FNG 2004). The policy further states that Education of children with special needs shall be free at all levels and all necessary facilities that would ensure easy access to education shall be provided via inclusive education or integration of special class and units into ordinary/public classes under the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme. These policy statements appear lofty but their attainment under the present situation seems to be a mirage. Already, about seven million Nigerian children of school going age are out of the school system. Besides most of the public schools are overcrowded and over populated with little or no attention paid to the special child. Furthermore, there are not enough qualified personnel and instructional materials in the school system. The implication of this state of affairs in children with special needs is not adequately catered for. Worst still, most of the children with special needs are not identified early enough let alone intervention and remedial programmes arranged for...
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...Special Needs Lora D. Purcell SOC120 Instructor Sue Meckert February 20, 2012 Beginning a new career choice at my age; has been a bit overwhelming. I have had to write many challenging papers. This paper for SOC120 has been especially difficult for me to write. I could not relate to the topics my instructor gave us to choose from, none of them clicked with me. We were given permission to write about any topic, as long it was okay with her. I chose a topic that is very dear and passionate to me, special needs children. That is why it becomes difficult for me to write theory based papers, I write from my heart and tend to forget to add the theoretical points to my paper. I hope to share how my thoughts on the subject of special needs will be informative and will enlighten the reader. Trying to inform the public of the special needs environment is a challenge. People need to be taught how to react and respect them, along with family members that care for them. As it is stated; America is a wonderful melting pot of cultural diversity. I believe that the majority of people are open minded and try to be fair. Something happens, though, when some people come in contact with adults and kids with disabilities. It is understandable to be fearful of the unknown. (1) The community I live in is becoming more aware of how they should react and respond to the special...
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...1964 was a time where nothing but normal was accepted, leaving those with special needs on their own. But, things started to change due to Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She was the new face for the disabled, coming up with Camp Shriver, helping with the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and also created the Special Olympics, which lead to better rights and acceptance of those with special needs. While Eunice grew up, she had been surrounded by a loving and well-structured family of 11. Although her family was always supportive of her desires, they also stood by her sister Rosemary. Before Eunice Kennedy Shriver made her mark on the world, discrimination against people with special needs was a rampant problem. There was no place for them to feel...
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...Table of Contents THE CURRENT SITUATION OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION IN KENYA 2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION 2 Governmental support for people with disabilities 2 Other legislation to promote opportunities for people with disabilities has been drafted. These include: 3 Legislation 4 Key ministries and agencies responsible for disability issues 5 Policies 5 Programmes 6 Challenges 8 Recommendations by The National Council for Persons with Disabilities 10 THE CURRENT SITUATION OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION IN KENYA BACKGROUND INFORMATION There is no recent data on the situation of people with disabilities in Kenya. Some numbers are available, although these do not give an accurate picture of the number of disabled people living in the country. Applying the WHO recommended 10 per cent to today’s Kenyan population of approximately 40 million this would indicate that there may be some 4 million disabled people. Many disabled people in Kenya, as in most developing countries in the world, live in poverty have limited opportunities for accessing education, health, suitable housing and employment opportunities. * Recently Kenya inaugurated the African union specialized agency for disability prevention and research in the continent-the east African region office serves 12 countries that include; Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia ,the Comoros, Somalia Seychelles and Eritrea. The office provides a unified approach to issues of disabilities in all aspects...
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...History of Special Education Erin Hauser SPE/300 May 4, 2015 Tabatha Astacio Arce Introduction Special Education has come a long way particularly since the enactment of two federal laws: the EHA (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). The EHA requires public education for all children with disabilities and the IDEA requires special education for those children. How Terminology Has Changed The term “mental retardation” has such an offensive vibe to it. Many teachers get upset when people use this term. However, it is used because that is what was written into the text of federal law. It says “ …a learning problem that is primarily the result of visual, hearing, mental retardation…” (20 U.S.C. 1401(30)). Some states have changed the terminology in their state statutes to “cognitive disability” or “intellectual disability”. Many people do not like the words “handicap” or “crippled” even, as it implies a negative feel towards the person. Some believe this makes us focus on their disability instead of the person and their gifts and talents. Many people refer to people with these struggles as “exceptional” as others have preferred “challenged” or “differently-abled”. Our society tends to focus on the negative in people or the “different” in people who don’t fit the “normal” criteria such as fashionable, intelligent, middle to upper class, athletic. Why Students are in the Least Restrictive Environment ...
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...Thompson Literature Review 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 to think about how a person with special needs can do the same task. Just because an individual has a special does not mean that they cannot do what everyone else can. Advocacy would come in at this point because they are there to be on that individuals’ side and help them. The Special Education Advocacy is located in New England. They state on their web page "I implore you to see with a child's eyes, to hear with a child's ears, and to listen with a child's heart" (Special Education Advocacy, 2009). This is a very powerful statement and draws individuals in because they want that personal experience that they are offering. For the mediation services that they offer it is stated that they have “unbiased mediation for families experiencing conflict due to family special needs responsibilities, resolution of guardianship agreements...
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...Special Needs and Inclusive Education Program in Uganda This essay urges that the state is a relatively stronger player in delivering public policy in contemporary governance. This essay will discuss this with reference to the implementation of the Special Needs Education and Inclusive Education (SNE/IE) program in Uganda. The Special Needs Education (SNE) program in Uganda was introduced in the 1950’s by the Colonial Government for provision of ‘special education’ services to children who had visual, hearing, learning and motor impairments (CSBAG, 2013, p.15 see Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group). The author indicates that, with the introduction of the Universal Primary Education (UPE) Policy in 1997, Inclusive Education (IE) as a key component of the policy was emphasized with a major goal of increasing access, equity and quality of educational services for persons with special learning needs (pp.15-16). Special Needs Education and Inclusive Education (SNE/IE) is drawn from the ultimate right of every child to education which is declared in various international instruments to which Uganda is a signatory. These instruments include; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the Salamanca Statements and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education (1994), United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) and the African (Bunjul) Charter on Human Rights and People’ Rights (1986) (p.23)...
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...Eric de Winter Ms. Hutton English 10R 17 February 2012 Someone Special Dear Mr. Feller, Imagine if your son was the captain of his travel soccer team. And at eight years of age you receive a letter from his doctor saying that they can’t do anything about his tumor and he has to get his leg amputated. Your son would no longer be able to play sports, he would be absolutely devastated. Every year hundreds of thousands of kids are born with some kind of disability. In the early 1960s, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, “saw how unjustly and unfairly people with disabilities were treated. She also saw that many children with special needs didn’t even have a place to play” (specialolympics.org). Soon, her vision became a reality. Eunice held a summer day camp for young people with intellectual disabilities in her own backyard. Her goal was to “learn what these children could do in sports and other activities and not dwell on what they could not do” (specialolympics.org). Her vision eventually turned into the global Special Olympics movement. The Special Olympics’ Athlete oath, “Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt” (specialolympics.org). During the early 1960s, Eunice Kennedy Shriver noticed how unjustly people with disabilities were treated. These poor people were unable to participate in team sports let alone be able to contribute in individual sports all because they were born with a disability. However, thanks...
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