...this society, as we witnesses these crimes, it is our duty to put an end to it. And also to help protect the children in our society that are incapable of protecting themselves. Statistics done by the Children’s Bureau show that 9.3% of children that are recorded as abused are children with disabilities. These children that are unable to defend themselves are the ones that are being abused. The disabilities that these victims suffer from are behavioral, emotional, learning, intellectual, physical, visual, and hearing. Can you imagine being verbally or emotionally abused with out being able to see who is doing that to you. Or being physically disabled and being physically abused without being able to run away from it. During one of the survey’s done by the Bureau, it showed that 41 out 50 states having reported that most of their children that were abused, were disabled. But what can we do to change this. There are many options as to help prevent this from occurring in the lives of children today and in the future. One of those options is to start a parenting class for parents that give birth to a child with a disability. Help educate them on the disability and the risks of abuse. The Oregon Alliance for Kids With Special Needs (OAKS) had developed a program to protect children with disabilities from maltreatment by focusing on five goals: strong, resilient children; nurturing, supported, and responsible families; coordinated and comprehensive services; supportive communities;...
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...Social Security Disability for Children: What You Need to Know If you are qualified to receive Social Security disability benefits, your children may also receive benefits on your behalf. Social Security disability for children provides benefits to a biological child, stepchild, adopted child, or a grandchild who is a dependent. Qualification According to the Social Security Administration (SSA) website, a child should meet the following requirements in order to receive Social Security disability benefits or SSDI: • Child should be 18 years of age or below, or • Aged 18 to 19 years old but is a full-time student (no higher than grade 12), or • Aged 18 years and above but has disability that started before the child turned 22 years old....
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...LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK IN KENYA ON THE RIGHTS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INTERNATIONAL LAWS Under The Constitution of Kenya, article 2(5) and (6), treaties and rules of international law are part of Kenyan Law. This essentially means that even without domesticating some of the treaties their obligations apply directly to Kenya. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the first treaty that protected children rights. It guiding principles have a direct impact to children with disabilities. These include; non-discrimination, that these children should not be discriminated on the ground of disability, best interests of the child; under this rubric states must eradicate policy laws which do not place the best interests of the child as paramount, A child’s survival and development; that laws set must aim at ensuring development and survival of the child, and finally, Child participation, i.e. that children with disabilities or organizations representing them be consulted in matters and decisions affecting them. Article 23 of the Convention lays emphasis on the right of these children to special care and support to ensure they live full and independent lives. Most importantly the article guarantees the disabled children all the rights in the Convention. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) through General Comment 5 states that persons with disabilities should be guaranteed all rights under the covenant. On education, the...
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...Should primary children with learning disabilities be taught in mainstream education? In the UK more and more parents are finding themselves having to put their children who have learning disabilities into mainstream education, mainly because One of the main reasons for this is that the government have not got enough money to fund specialist schools or to train teachers to specialise in this area to look after children who have these learning disabilities Also the ones we have The existing specialist schools are already full and almost at breaking point. More and more classes around the UK have at least one or two children with a learning disability, and people are beginning to think about the effect they have on the class, the teachers and the child. A class in which there are pupils with learning disabilities can be seen as an advantage. This is because children haven’t got a clear understanding of differences and knowing one of their peers has a learning disability can help the pupils have an understanding of their fellow peer and their disability. It can help the child to tolerate and accept those with learning disabilities. This in time will spread into the child developing an understanding of not just learning disabilities but other differences that set their future peers and colleagues apart from them. It will develop the child’s empathy towards their peers and this is a vital life skill. For a child with learning disabilities being in a mainstream class will also...
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...students that have disabilities and gifted students. The history of special education have covered many issues throughout the years. There have been many laws and regulations created to help protect individuals with disabilities. This paper will report on the past history of special education, the laws associated with Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and how the current and future challenges of special education affect the laws. What is Special Education? Special Education was created to teach students with disabilities at no cost to the parents. Special Education in the past involved schools that did not support or recognize students with disabilities. Today Special Education have progressed to provide services to all students no matter what their disabilities are. Special Education is a program that establish guidelines and expectations that teachers, parents, and students follow, in order for the student to receive the proper help they need (Heward, 2009). Disabilities could be labeled as physical, mental, emotional, or gifted. Special Education are services that are put in place after an evaluation process of the student. The services offered by the Special Education program would be offered to students inside the classroom, as well as being pulled out of the classroom for one-on-one attention. Special education offers education to students who may require additional support to be successful students in school. All students with disabilities are eligible...
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...Special Education For Children With Disabilities Millions of children in our nation are identified as being "children with disabilities". Prior to the 1960s, millions of children with disabilities received inadequate or inappropriate special education services from the public schools and another 1 million children were excluded from school altogether. Disabilities such as autism, poverty, and racism are just a few of the “disabilities” that have blocked the pathways of over a million people thought out the US. My goal for this paper is to thoroughly examine the three main factors that I personally believe have the most traumatic and continuous effect on society that will ultimately repeat itself and create a pattern of issues that society will be forced to resolve in the future. It is my desire and personal goal to acknowledge each issue that many children face, label and prove it to be a awful disability, an find a realistic resolution to each issue addressed as a disability. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, in the United States, 21 percent of children live in families with incomes below the federal poverty line. Although many of these families have working parents, low wages and unstable employment make it difficult to provide the necessary resources for proper childhood development. Not only does research indicate that poverty is a threat to a child's well-being, but it also affects his ability to learn. Regular attendance at school is important...
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...for all children. The points below summarise the key requirements that early years settings and schools should meet: • Special education policy has to be in place in every setting for identifying and supporting children with additional needs. • Designated member of staff should be there to coordinate the provision for children with special needs. • Reasonable adjustments and adaptation to the layout and equipment have to be made for all children without discrimination. • Children’s individual needs have to be considered are met as part of the EYFS. • Settings should monitor the outcomes of groups of children at the risk of discrimination. 3.2 Explain the medical and social models of disability. Reference- Text book- Penny Tassoni. Medical model of disability-Some child with whom the practitioner work with may have disability and require additional support. The way the practitioner and other professionals work with them can reflect the way society views disability. Traditionally the way that society viewed disabilities has been labelled as the medical model. It views disability as...
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...people, live with disabilities. Women and girls with disabilities are particularly at a risk of abuse. According to a UNICEF survey, 30% of street youth are disabled. Some countries where IMR rates are high, mortality rates for children with disabilities is as high as 80%. Some suspect that children with disabilities are being purposely weeded out. 90% of children with disabilities worldwide do not attend school. Conflict areas find that for every one child that is killed, three are injured and permanently disabled. Children with disabilities are at a 1.7 times greater risk of being subjected to some form of violence. According to CRIN over 150 million children worldwide have a disability. 50% of children with a hearing impairment and 60% of those with an intellectual impairment are sexually abused. There are many medical professionals who kill children with disabilities and right them of as mercy killings. 90% of the children with disabilities will not survive pass twenty years of age. Children with disabilities face discrimination not only in services but also in the justice system as they are often not considered credible witnesses. In India children with disabilities mainly comes under the purview of the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. Some of the issues are dealt with by the health ministry. But no single ministry has been assigned the protection of these children, which leads to varying data about occurrence of disability amongst children. In India 1.67% of...
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...Children with disabilities arguably form the largest group of readily identifiable children who have been and continue to be persistently excluded from education. The World Bank estimates that of the 115 million children worldwide who are not in school, 30-40 per cent are children with disabilities. Evidence from 43 governments in the review of national progress in the implementation of the Agenda for Action for the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons (1993-2002) indicated that less than 10 per cent of children and youth with disabilities had access to any form of education. This paper will aim at providing a guideline to the provision of education for children with disabilities in the community; it will further discuss the strategies that can be used in order to integrate such children in the education system. Finally it will show how one can address the challenges related to mainstreaming. And at the end of this threefold task a conclusion will be drawn. Firstly it would be necessary to understand and recognise who these children with disabilities are in the communities, the numbers of children with disabilities is grossly underestimated, particularly in developing countries. Children with severe and moderate disabilities may be acknowledged, but children with mild or hidden disabilities are ignored. So too is the large population of children with learning disabilities or difficulties. These children account for a large proportion of children who drop out and do not...
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...Inclusion is a widely discussed topic in all educational systems nowadays. It refers to placing students with disabilities in age-appropriate general education classes in their home schools, and ensuring that they receive the specialized instruction described by their individualized education programs (IEP's). According to PD Dr. Friedhelm Pfeifer a senior researcher at ZEW and a lecturer at the University of Mannheim School, inclusion is intended to give all children and adolescents, including those with disabilities, the opportunity of participation in the highest possible quality educational services in the community. Nobody should be left out. In fact, this is a worthy societal objective. It essentially seeks to take these two worlds, regular...
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...Review of Social Relations and Self-Esteem of Children with Learning Disabilities Saint Leo University Abstract In today’s society there is an increase in children with learning disabilities. There have been studies done to show how peers and adults perceive children with learning disabilities, how they choose friends, and their social status. There have also been studies to show how children with a learning disability perceive themselves. INTRODUCTION Learning disabilities is a “disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in using language, spoken or written, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, write, spell or do mathematical calculations” (Harway, 1979) Children with learning disabilities (LD) learn and develop through their interactions with society and through the environment. This article is taking into account their concepts of themselves and others, their understanding of relations with others, and actual social interactions. Any approach to understanding and helping them would be more successful if it also took into account their concepts of self and others, their understanding of relations with others, and their social interactions. Contemporary research on social relations of children with learning disabilities provides information on peer and adult perception, their friendship choices, and the factors that determine their social status. Sociometric studies have shown them to be less...
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...Learning Disability 1 Running head: LEARNING DISABILITY Learning Disability 2 Abstract Learning disability is a term used to describe specific kinds of learning problems. A person can have problems with skills like reading, listening, speaking, math, writing, and reasoning. Learning disabilities constitutes over half of the special education services. The cause of learning disabilities deals with the dysfunction of the brain and how it processes information it may be related to medical or genetic. Having problems receiving and sending messages deals with communication disorder. Students with high achievement, intellectually has the capacity to retain, learn, and use an extreme amount of information is called gifted .In this paper I will discuss the characteristics, causes and definition of learning disabilities, communication disorders, and giftedness. Learning Disability 3 Learning Disability Learning disabilities or learning disorder affect how a person receives information, how they process it, and how they communicate. People with learning disabilities have problems processing sensory information. The art of learning is affected because a student cannot learn as quickly as his/her counterparts...
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...Education of Individuals with Disability Name: Institution: Education of Individuals with Disability History of Special Education In the early 18th century, people with disability were often ignored, obscured, or put to death. First efforts to provide education for disabled students were focused on students with sensory problems such as the deaf and blind. During the 19 and early 20th century, schools that were specialized in providing education to students with disability emerged in United States and Europe. The extremely published story of Helen Keller influenced the introduction of education for disabled people in America. In 1887, Anne Sullivan who was Helen’s teacher said that he will not give up in offering education to the deaf and the blind, and she succeeded in teaching a five year old Helen how to communicate (Ashbaker, 2011, p. 25). Prior to 1965, there were no free education services provided to students with serious disabilities. These students were barred from attending school. Most of the students with severe disabilities used to put up in institutions. Many students who had mild disabilities and were not in a position to complete high school without any help did not have any other alternative other than dropping out of school. To appreciate developments that have placed disabled students in normal learning classroom, it is important to understand the legislative history that led to this move. Back in 1954, there was a civil rights case that involving...
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...support for people with disabilities 2 Other legislation to promote opportunities for people with disabilities has been drafted. These include: 3 Legislation 4 Key ministries and agencies responsible for disability issues 5 Policies 5 Programmes 6 Challenges 8 Recommendations by The National Council for Persons with Disabilities 10 THE CURRENT SITUATION OF SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION IN KENYA BACKGROUND INFORMATION There is no recent data on the situation of people with disabilities in Kenya. Some numbers are available, although these do not give an accurate picture of the number of disabled people living in the country. Applying the WHO recommended 10 per cent to today’s Kenyan population of approximately 40 million this would indicate that there may be some 4 million disabled people. Many disabled people in Kenya, as in most developing countries in the world, live in poverty have limited opportunities for accessing education, health, suitable housing and employment opportunities. * Recently Kenya inaugurated the African union specialized agency for disability prevention and research in the continent-the east African region office serves 12 countries that include; Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia ,the Comoros, Somalia Seychelles and Eritrea. The office provides a unified approach to issues of disabilities in all aspects such as the exchange of information organizing for products in the field of rehabilitation, disability prevention and the...
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...assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological. Types of special needs vary in severity. People with autism, Down syndrome, dyslexia, blindness, ADHD, or cystic fibrosis, for example, may be considered to have special needs. However, special needs can also include cleft lips and or palates, port wine birth marks, or missing limbs. Students with disabilities, otherwise known as People with special needs are those people with one form of disabilities or the other, capable of limiting their involvement and participation in the regular educational programmes, and subsequently affect their academic performance and functionality in the society. The Nigerian society, like every other one, is composed of individuals with special needs. In Nigeria there is a severe lack of legislation relating to the education of disabled children with the National Policy Education (NPE) and the 'Nigerians with Disability Decree' the only government literature available. Released in 1977, the NPE set out the aims of special education in Nigeria: • To give a concrete meaning to the idea of equalising educational opportunities for all children; their physical, mental and emotional disabilities notwithstanding; • To provide adequate education for all disabled children and adults, in order that they may play their roles fully in contributing to the development of the nation; • The policy also includes beneficial provisions to people with special needs: Integration of children with handicap...
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