) attention and support in order to master even basic tasks. This can empower the adults with a greater sense of empathy, and can also impact the stress level of family relationships; husbands and wives, siblings, and all who sometimes react by feeling that they have a greater emotional and physical burden (Heron) Special Needs" is an umbrella underneath which a staggering array of diagnoses can be wedged
Intellectual giftedness is a difference in learning and can also benefit from specialized teaching techniques or different educational programs, but the term "special education" is generally used to specifically indicate instruction of students whose special needs reduce their ability to learn independently or in a classroom. Developmentally, though these children often experience a wide range of developmental issues that sometimes have different levels of impact upon the family -- both nuclear and extended (Newacheck et
The extended family, however, is usually quite supportive and a great help to the parents. Of course, there are those who shun the special child -- who are embarassed, but by in large being a "part-time" parent is typically easier than the duties of a full-time special needs caregiver, again depending on the particular disability of function (Parker)
Neither role is easy, and requires not only a special kind of personality, but a different mindset and ability to separate behaviors from personality issues and redefine expectations. As professionals who work with special children, we must be sensitive and prepared to help these children and their families; this process starts by educating ourselves and educating parents in their roles, rights, obligations and resources for their children; in this way, the prognosis for a successful intervention will be even more positive (Paro, Olsen and Pinata; Overview and Information)
By stressing the need for appropriate classroom behavior for all, students are able to learn to 'play by the rules' of the classroom environment, even if they may share differinging ethical and cultural beliefs when they leave the classroom confines. (Arnold 1990, pp
This may sound like a radical challenge to current feelings-centered educational pscyhology. But the behaviorist objection," wrote Skinner, "to inner states is not that they do not exist, but that they are not relevant in a functional analysis" (Skinner 1953, p
This may sound like a radical challenge to current feelings-centered educational pscyhology. But the behaviorist objection," wrote Skinner, "to inner states is not that they do not exist, but that they are not relevant in a functional analysis" (Skinner 1953, p
This may sound like a radical challenge to current feelings-centered educational pscyhology. But the behaviorist objection," wrote Skinner, "to inner states is not that they do not exist, but that they are not relevant in a functional analysis" (Skinner 1953, p
This may sound like a radical challenge to current feelings-centered educational pscyhology. But the behaviorist objection," wrote Skinner, "to inner states is not that they do not exist, but that they are not relevant in a functional analysis" (Skinner 1953, p
This may sound like a radical challenge to current feelings-centered educational pscyhology. But the behaviorist objection," wrote Skinner, "to inner states is not that they do not exist, but that they are not relevant in a functional analysis" (Skinner 1953, p
This data clearly demonstrates that improved interventions are needed. Statistics indicate that about half of all children are in full time day care within their first year (Scott, 2004)
. There is considerable evidence to suggest a link between handedness and various neurological and behavioral problems," as a result of this failure to switch to the left hemisphere and thus the right hand's dominance (Cairney et al
The ability to perform at a high level on skills of manual ability can translate into better performance when writing and in sports, which can result in higher self-esteem for right-handed children. Furthermore, "On further examination of fine- and gross-motor composite performance" the researchers " found that the left-handers are at a greater disadvantage than their mixed-handed peers in comparison with right-handers" (Gabbard et al
For example, "while most people naturally write from left to right, lefties move from right to left at first. The same goes for drawing circles: Righties do it counterclockwise and lefties clockwise, which is why they tend to reverse letters (like a, c, d, f, g, q, and s) that are made with a counterclockwise stroke" (Lang 2007)
To print a letter, she'd have to look at the example, start copying it with her hand covering the sample, stop and lift up her hand to look at it again, and copy the next part. It was taking her forever" compared to her peers, and caused the girl a great deal of frustration (Pitman 2006)
"Ambidextrous children are at a greater risk of slipping behind at school, new research by Bristol University has found. The researchers recommend testing pupils for;mixed-handedness,' as those children that had failed to become left or right-handed are more likely to progress slowly up to the age of 14" (Ward 2008, p
' At some point in our evolution, she says, this shifted major processing tasks like speech function to the brain's left hemisphere, and somehow conferred bias to the right hand in the process. Although it has been tweaked here and there, this theory of the origin of handedness is still widely accepted" (Wolman 2005)
The point of the research was to document the difference between what mothers' estimates were (of their children's viewing time) versus what children's estimates were of how much time they spent in front of the television set. The results, while not earthshaking or socially provocative, showed that in general "parental estimates of global viewing" was more accurate than estimates given by children (Borzekowski, 1999, p
A research article in the journal Early Childhood Research & Practice examined the behavior of 70 preschool children at play -- and the relationship of those children to television violence and regulatory status. The authors claim that children between the ages of 2 and 18 years of age participate with media -- all forms including the Internet and electronic games -- between 38 and 45 hours a week, on average (Daly, et al
1662). A research project published in the journal the Future of Children reports that people who begin drinking alcohol at age fourteen or younger are approximately "four times as likely to become alcohol dependent as are those who begin drinking at age twenty or older" (Escobar-Chaves, et al