When I read Vanessa's blog, I felt like she had a lot of great ideas that I seemed to agree with as well. She also had some great articles and videos.
I also went to a school like Vanessa where the special needs likds were placed in a different classroom from everyone else. To me, I feel like it is beneficial for them because they are getting the help they need and deserve rather than in a regular classroom where they get no or minimal help. As a child who was put into a separate classroom for needs that weren't found in a regular classroom, I feel like it depends on the individual child whether or not they will benefit from being in the separate classroom. Every child is different even if they may be diagnosed with the same problem.
Vanessa posted an article to her blog which I really seemed to enjoy. It talked about how in Europe, they separate the students based on what services they need. I think this is a great idea and its how it should be everywhere. Children deserve to be given the types of services they need and with the way it was done at my high school, although they felt they were doing it right, it should have been done much differently.
One thing I really enjoyed about Vanessa's blog was the video about the young girl named Lily with down syndrome. This video was a great example of why it is important to realize that every child is different. In the video, it talks about two different children with down syndrome, but however one is placed in a special needs school and the other in a mainstream school. The great thing was that both children really got what they needed and were able to develop normally. This really shows that it does depend on the child and their specific needs rather than just putting all children with the same problems in the same classes with the same services.
I really like this video about children with down syndrome because it shows that they are just as capable of doing things as people without down syndrome are. Check it out
i like how you connected your blog to Vanessa's, I made connections on my blog about students in special education and how it was unfair as well. nice post
ReplyDeleteI also used Vanessa's post for the center of my post. My high school also had the students with disabilities separate from everyone else. I also really enjoyed the video Vanessa posted on the girl with Down syndrome, it explains both sides of the story of if kids should go to a mainstream school or not.
ReplyDeletei loved the video it was so inspiring to watch and completely true! No matter what disabilities a person has they all have the same feelings as "normal" people too!
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