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Disability and education

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Posted by: grumpymum

15th Aug 2012 11:31am

disability and education does the education system really try and get our children to the best of there abilities


Comments 4

mistymae53
  • 9th Sep 2012 04:46pm

When they told me my child would never walk or talk I said rubbish, don't listen to them!

mistymae53
  • 9th Sep 2012 04:42pm

I'm sorry I think I need to make it clear that my experience is with a school for Special Children, not a mainstream school with a special children's facility, I personally think the Special School is quite well funded, purely because it is a school for children with special needs only. I suppose despite the gripes over the years that I have had at times with the school, overall I thank God for this particular school as my child's needs have been met. My child can walk and talk, eat solid food, and has survived cancer along with severe intellectual disability, so I am very grateful, all of these things were very unlikely at birth.

mistymae53
  • 9th Sep 2012 04:36pm

A lot of children in special schools have a lower intellectual capacity than other children of the same age. From what I have observed the things that are dealt with, where the child's capacitiy to learn is limited (I should say that I am referring to the school that I am aware of through personal experience only) tends to dwell more on life skills and often profound special high needs also, more attention is given to the child's abilities as they become closer to 18 when they are often given the opportunity to work in places such as Pheonix (SA) but other states would have different organizations. I must say that the special school I am talking about does assess the children though, and if they are more able to learn, they are sent on to other schools because they have a greater ability to learn. The thing with Special Schools is that a lot of the children have profound needs, maybe this does take from some of the other students at times, but main stream schooling, for a lot of children just isnt possible, not even in a special needs environment. Some children who attend special needs schools could be almost adult and have the intellectual capacitiy of three to four year olds, if you are unhappy with your children's progress, say something, children never stop learning, its not too late, let the school know that you would like them to be assessed because you feel they are not being given a chance to meet their full potential, you have that right, don't be shy, I certainly wouldnt be, and as far as being grumpy I can relate to that, and you have a right as a parent to be grumpy as well. Good luck! Best Wishes!

grumpymum
  • 15th Aug 2012 12:06pm

why im asking this question is i have 2 children with an inellectual disability and also one has uncontrolled epilepsy, i had both my children in mainstream for as i long as i could then with bullying issues and being on the lowest funding the school was saying they could not support them as they would need it, so went on to special school setting and curriculum went from 1 extreme to another. both my children were in yrs 10 and 9 when they moved and now hardly do any work or if they do so its so easy they laugh about it. example my oldest who is year 12 came home earlier in the year febuary to be exact and said mum we actually sat down and did work today. this is a novelity and mainly in vcal year 12 she is playing pool or air hockey, we learnt about febuary and how it is a leap year and it has valantines day in it. she laughed about and said wow now i know about febuary are you excited to mum i laughed to and said oh yes so proud. and my youngest daughter was so excited that in her report it said she could read a calander. wow she said and i thought i was special. i know when you dealing with disablity there are differences in abilities but how about they look at the children and there skill levels not what there lable is. when ever i bring up about getting harder work for them i get told im setting them up to fail. and who out there without disabilities do everything the first time without failing, and do you give up, all i want is my children to have a chance to do things.

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