Essays on Handicapped Children

Abstract

Special education is about educating students with special needs because of their disabilities, such as speech or vision impairment, autism, and orthopedic issues among others. Their condition does not allow them to progress in the normal classroom environment, and so they need special attention. Over the past 20 years, the legal system has evolved to guarantee the inclusion of children with disabilities in the public school system. Various laws have been passed, such as Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHCA) and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), to afford the necessary services to special students and ensure that ...

Helen Keller’s The Story of My life

They Story of My Life is an autobiography written by Helen Keller, the first deafblind person to earn a bachelor’s degree in arts. Her educational achievement is even more notorious considering that at the beginning of the twentieth century women had limited educational and work opportunities. At 22 and while still a student at Radcliffe College she published her autobiography, The Story of My Life, which had appeared the year before in installment form in the Ladies Home Journal magazine.1 Helen Keller opened the doors to education and opportunity to many blind and disabled people not only in ...

A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Mainstreaming is described as the process of integrating disabled children in the normal education program. This entails presenting special needs children in the normal school curriculum apart from their special education program (Jones, 200). This consists of putting the special needs students in a regular class with the rest of normal students and making sure that they interact with the normal students. In the past ages, physically and mentally handicapped children were shunned away by the society. Most of them did not even attend schools and on often occasion, some were closed in hidden places the rest of their lives. ...

Ethics and Education

Ethics are referred to as the ideologies that govern tolerable or ideal behavior, it mostly centers on what conduct if tolerable or intolerable. In education, however, ethical issues that are faced are not matters of life and death. In this industry ethical dilemmas occur when educationalists are faced by choices that are contradicting with the policies and values of the specific education organization. This industry has numerous ethical problems and educationalists have to be equipped with the proper strategies for making decisions1.

Education is considered a process through which learning is impacted on people. It is a constant process and there ...