This weeks reading really interest me because I am looking to be in the field of special education in a few short years! I was very interested in Tuesday's readings because it involved the IDEA and that is something I have a lot of knowledge in.
When we were talking about the classification of people with disabilities, I brought up the point of them being called "individuals". This is an important point to recognize because people with a disability and their advocates take major offense to being called mentally "retarded". To them this means that they are completely incapable of doing activities that the "normal" person would do. They can do the activities but they just do it at a slower pace or with some modification.
In the field of education, we have to be able to look at a child with a disability and see them not for their disability but for their personalty. Society needs to do the same because we tend to judge people before walking a mile in their shoes.
Leslie Walter
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