ECSE 421 - RB3

I loved this week’s readings! I have been waiting for a class like this my whole time here at college!  I am so excited that I get to start learning more about working with families with special needs children.  In chapter one it talks about the various characteristics a family may have and from those characteristics, how working with families and their children can be so different from one family to the next.  It is important to me to study these so in the future when I am working with families I will be able to best help them depending on their family status and circumstances.  In chapter two it talks lot about that next step of interacting with the family and how to do so with different types of families such as foster parents, same sex parents, and/or single parent families!  I also liked the analogy of the mobile and how it explains that if one part of the family is affected the rest of the family is affected as well!

As I was reading this material I was doing it in a hurried manner, so I was not able to catch everything that I could of out of the chapters.  I want to go through the chapters again and read them more in depth but I do not have time to do that with all my readings so this next week I am going to strive to take more time on my readings and really get the most I can from them the first time I read them!  I am able to retain the most from my reading as I take notes as I read of certain things in the text that stand out to me!  After this reading, I feel more knowledgeable about how to help families with disabilities and can’t wait to learn more throughout the next several weeks.  I enjoyed listening to what all my peers had to say today in class as we talked about our family settings and how we were raised and I also enjoyed sharing my experience and what I have learned from my family setting as well!

Weekly Quote:“Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be.  I didn’t intend you to be a fruit tree or a shade tree.  I want you to be a currant bush, and someday, little currant bush, when you are laden with fruit, you are going to say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for loving me enough to cut me down.” As Many as I Love, I Rebuke and Chasten; April 2011

HWD: Identifying Children with Severe Disabilities

This week I started to look at what, now days, is considered a ‘severe disability’ I came across IDEA’s fourteen Disability Categories.  Those fourteen categories include Autism, Deaf-Blindness, Deafness, Developmental Delay, Emotional Disturbance, Hearing Impairment, Intellectual Disability (formerly known as Mental Retardation), Multiple Disabilities, Orthopedic Impairment, Other heal impairment, Specific learning Disability, Speech or Language Impairment, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Visual Impairment Including Blindness.  As I read through these disability categories, the Intellectual Disability section caught my eye.  For next week I want to research more on Intellectual Disabilities and identify and sub-categories inside this larger category.

Bklynt185. (2015, July 29). 14 Disability Categories – According to IDEA. Retrieved from https://ideaparentguide2015.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/hello-world/