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Jenna Preszler
Trotter
01 December 2017
Annotated Bibliographies
Dalien, Suzie. “Involving Your Child With Special Needs In The Community.” Special
specialedresource.com/resource-center/involving-child-special-needs-community. Web.
28 November 2017.
In this article, Dalien gives reasons to why special education students need to be involved
in their school community and why parents have to help with that process. The support for her
message comes from the degrees Dalien has; Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education
and a Masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction, she is very well educated and knows what
she’s talking about. Dalien lists several ways in which parents can get their student involved in
the community; Finding community programs within reasonable distances of the home of the
students, asking other parents with special needs children and getting connected with the school
their child goes to. She also suggests creating one’s own activity to better fit the needs of their
child. To do so parents she look up what others have done and always have a support group
behind them when reaching out for new ideas. This article helped my understanding of how
many different ways special education students can get involved not only at their schools but
outside as well.
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Dwight, Valle. “Special Needs Programs and Schools: a Primer.”Parenting, 30 Apr. 2015 Print
article,
www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/special-education-special-needs-learning-disabilities/.
This article, by Dwight goes into detail about different opportunities and different ways
in which parents can choose what teaching child gets and how they get it. There are many
different paths you can go down depending on your lifestyle and more. The “Individual
Education Plan” is specifically for special need students and allows the students to get the
services they need which really helps with parents and making sure they know there is a team
behind them as they raise their child. Along with the reassurance for parents come the projects
and activities these types of students will experience depending on what kind of school they go
to. An all special needs school has a different community group than a public school with regular
education student walking with the special need students to help socialize them much better. To
help with the social skills special education students learn from their teachers first and then go
out and use those skills. To gain the right skills special education students need the right
environment which is what this article mainly talks about and how important putting your child
in the best school that fits for your family and student is the best. This article helped me
understand that the type of school that special education students go to matter just as much as
what they learn. The curriculum that these students must learn is very different than regular
education and so it needs to be seen and handled differently than regular education.
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Samuels, Christina, and Carmen Constantinescu. “Studies Flag Potential Downside to Inclusion.”
www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/09/07/studies-flag-potential-downside-to-inclusion.ht
In this article, Samuels and Constantinescu show that inclusion classes may have an
effect on the students who don’t have disabilities in these classes. They state that some research
has been done to prove this statement by Michael A. Gottfried, an associate professor of
education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues. The research shows
that the students without disabilities had “more absences, lower math and reading scores in
kindergarten and 1st grade, and were more likely to act out in the classroom or struggle with
social skills” (Samuels and Constantinescu). More research continued to show that most students
affected by these inclusion classrooms were African-American and Hispanic non disabled
students that also came from low-income families. This article relates to my topic of helping
students with disabilities get involved by showing that not all students are going to work well
together and teachers should be able to see that and help the situation.
www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/treatments-approaches/educational-strat
In this article, the Understood Team explains why the inclusion of all students together
benefits them and keeps them from feeling excluded and helps with all aspects of their learning
abilities. They show that through studies made by doctors and education specialist that this
“inclusion” of all students helps everyone benefit through different ways of learning. The article
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explains that students in inclusion classrooms can get help from both the regular education
teacher and the special education teacher if needed which provides more support for all students
in the inclusion classrooms. Along with the benefits of learning from different views, these
students find how they learn best and through that they can find commonalities with other
students who they can relate to and this helps build friendships. This article shows how the
inclusion of all students helps the development of students and their learning abilities and social
aspects. It supports my topic for my capstone because the conformation that special education
student and regular education is good for both parties and that it has been proven to help with
social development.
Zorigian, Kris, and Jennifer Job. “Social Skills in the Classroom.” Learn NC,
In this article, Zorigian and Job explain how social skills are just as important as
academics and the way in which teachers should go about teaching their special need students.
They have 3 actions that all teachers should do to teach social skills; 1. Planning 2. Instructional
Delivery and 3. Assessment. Zorigian and Job call this the “model-lead-test method” which has
worked for them in there teaching jobs. They suggest this method because you are not just telling
you student what to do but by also acting it out and correcting them when they do it and prasing
them when they do it right is the best way to teach social skills, which in a way is the same as in
teach academically. You must reward them for doing it right same as when teaching academics
and your students gets something for answering the question right. This article helps with my
capstone because it shows that students will react more to what I want to do if I do it first and
lead by example. Since I want to do an art project with the special need students I have to
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understand that I must do it and then they can follow and when the finish it we can have some