Education of Children with Special Needs

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Education of Children with Special Needs

• Alicia Westfall
• Awest001_at_mail.plattsburgh.edu
• Library Skills 105H
• March 12th 2007

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Introduction
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• Children with Special needs are also considered
  to be those children in the classroom labeled as
  Special Ed Children. The major idea today is
  trying to separate special ed children and
  their learning needs from the normal children
  and their learning needs. Today many parents,
  children, and teachers are trying to incorporate
  special ed students in the normal every day
  classroom routines, lessons, and normal everyday
  activity. With this they are trying to create
  inclusive classrooms where children with special
  needs are able to get the help they need in the
  same classroom as normal students with the
  object of trying not to label or segregate them.
• Huges, Jan N. Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
  Encyclopedia of Special Education. 2ND ed. Cecil
  R. Reynolds and Elaine Fletcher Tawzeh. Canada
  Wiley and Sons Inc, 2001.

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TOPIC analysis
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• Inclusive classrooms were found not to be the
  best solution from others opinions and research.
  These classrooms were seen to not have been able
  to give the children with special needs the
  greatest opportunity to receive all of the help
  and full personal attention they need to achieve
  up to their academic goals and standards. Also it
  was said that these children would also take away
  from the attention that the normal kids in the
  classroom would need to receive. It was also
  concluded that the special needs children would
  be disruptive with loud out bursts, and
  uncontrollable behaviors that would disrupt the
  learning process.

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• The academic principal in which education of
  children with special needs falls under is Social
  Sciences.
• The subject area in which it falls is Education
  (L-LJ), and Special (LC).
• The Library of Congress Subject Headings which
  were most effective in identifying material on
  the Feinberg Library Catalog or World Cat were
  Education and Special.
• The most effective Boolean Searches I found most
  effective for my topic was the following
• Teach and styles and classroom special needs
  and (children or behavior types) (learning or
  styles) and lessons

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• The databases that I found most useful and
  effective for my topic were the Subject Database
  Menu and Lexus-Nexus Database Menu.
• My experience identifying subject headings and
  key words was a pleasant experience. Once I
  learned how to identify and apply using subject
  headings and key words it made finding research
  easier and a less miserable experience for me.
  The way I found most effective to identify
  subject headings and keywords was by finding the
  main idea or root words in sentences and then
  trying them out in the databases that I thought
  were the most effective for that particular
  search. The process that worked best for me was
  identifying that correct words and applying my
  knowledge from class to choose the right search.

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Research
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BOOKS

• Giuliani, George A. The Big Book of Special
  Education Resources. Thousand Oaks, CA Crown
  Press,2006.
• The Big Book of Special Education Resources was a
  book written by highly qualified doctors, and
  medical professionals about people and children
  who have special needs. This book also discusses
  their everyday behaviors, learning styles, and
  everyday activities. The perspective this book
  give is about how each person with special needs
  needs the proper care and treatment. The
  interesting finding in this book included lots of
  pictures, charts, and maps of various findings of
  a person who has special needs.

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• Schwartz, Diane. Including Children with Special
  Needs. Westport Conn. Greenwood Press, 2005.
• The authors of this book are highly qualified
  specialists of many backgrounds that helped
  establish ways to include children in the
  classroom who have special needs instead of
  segregating them. These specialists have given
  solutions and other options in order to make sure
  these students are included. They believe that
  students with special needs deserve the
  opportunity to be involved and included in the
  regular everyday classroom settings and
  activities. This book also included many
  pictures, tables, and reports of studies and
  observations of children with special needs.

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• Powell, Stuart. Special Teaching in Higher
  Education. Sterling, VA Kogan Page, 2003.
• This book was written by specialists who studied
  how students should be treated and monitored in
  the academic environment. It explained studies of
  different types of children with special needs in
  the academic environment and how their behavior
  was during a normal classroom activity. They gave
  the perspective that students with special needs
  should not be placed in a classroom with normal
  students because of their disruptive behaviors
  and the extra attention that they need in the
  classroom, which would take away from the
  attention the normal children in the classroom
  need daily. In this book it showed statistics of
  how a child with special needs disrupted everyday
  classroom activities.

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Periodicals

• Burrell, Sue. Special Education and the Juvenile
  Justice System/Washington, DC Dept. of
  Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of
  Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention, 2000.
• This article was about the rights people with
  special needs have. This article was credible
  because it was a government source. It also gave
  examples of how people were mistreated and
  different cases that were brought to court in
  order to protect the rights of people with
  special needs. It stated laws and ways to help
  protect your rights if you are a person of
  special needs.

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• Oconnor, Rollanda E. Teaching World
  Recognition Effective Strategies for Students
  with learning difficulties. New York Guilford
  Press, 2000.
• This article was written by teachers who were
  concerned that children with special needs were
  not getting enough attention that they needed in
  the classroom. These teachers came up with ideas
  and strategies that separating these students
  from normal students would be the best benefit
  and they would get all the special attention they
  would need. They used studies to prove this
  theory and statistics.

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• Greenfield, Susan. How will we nurture minds of
  the future? Times Educational Supplement
  4684. 5/5/2006 21.
• This article discusses the uses of technology in
  education of the 21st century. This article
  focuses on how technology can help children with
  special needs. They wanted to adopt technology
  that will ensure that the classroom will fit the
  child, and the growing trend for technology. An
  in-depth consideration of the future of learning
  and education is needed. In this article they are
  looking out for the best needs of children who
  are special. Here they are just making
  observations of what would be the best for the
  future and childrens needs.

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• McLeskey, James and Nancy L. Waldron. Making
  Differences Ordinary in Inclusive Classrooms.
  Intervention in School and Clinic 42.3, (January
  2007)162-168. Education Research Complete.
  Plattsburgh State University Library. March 3rd
  2007 lthttp//search.ebscohost.comgt
• The authors of the article Making Differences
  Ordinary in Inclusive Classrooms are well
  qualified in giving the information in this
  article. There is accredited information from a
  professor of the department of special education
  and other professors of the doctorate and
  professional level. The major idea in this
  article was about not secluding special education
  children (kids with special needs) with normal
  children ( kids without special needs.) It
  talked about the major idea of getting all the
  kids to work and learn together in one
  environment, not making it known that some kids
  need more help then others. Here they have five
  tips about how to include everyone in a lesson
  and how to prevent these students from being
  secluded from the everyday classroom environment.
  The audience for this article would be anyone who
  wants to learn about special education students
  in the classroom environment and people who want
  to learn ways to include every child in the
  everyday learning experience. The authors are all
  in favor of including the children with special
  needs and having them perform the same daily
  class schedule as normal students.

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Internet

• Department of Education and Skills. Special
  Education Needs and Disabilities. 1995-2007.
  March 13th 2007. http//www.teachernet.gov.uk/
• This web site was a reliable source to use
  because it was a government site. It provided
  reliable information about the laws and
  regulations for children with special needs in
  the school system. Also this site was give credit
  by teachernet and it provided contact information
  if you had any questions or wanted further
  information about the site. It also gave extra
  links which provided further information and
  research if you wanted it.

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• National Association for Gifted Children.
  Special Education Jobs and Information. March
  11th 2007 http//www.unixl.com/
• This web site was not one of the best to use for
  my project. It provided basic information but was
  a commercial site which was not credited and did
  not provide a contact if needed. This site gave
  very little knowledgeable information and just
  touched upon the basics without going into full
  detail.

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• Louisiana Public Broadcasting. Dealing with
  Diversity Teaching Children with Special
  Needs. March 13th 2007. http//www.netaonline.
  org/
• This web site was a fairly good one to use to
  find resources. It was better to use because it
  was an organization but it had only one view and
  opinion about teaching children with special
  needs. It also gave an e-mail address to contact
  them if you had any questions, needed to get a
  hold of them or wanted further information.

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• The internet was very effective in finding
  information and valuable information on my topic.
  It was obvious that I needed to make sure that I
  used a good internet source such as a government
  site, or an organization other than a commercial
  sites that did not have valuable information.

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Non-Print

• Human Senses videorecording Princetown, N.J.
  Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2003.
• This video is a good source of viewing how
  special needs children react in different
  environment settings. It gives a visual
  perspective on the life of a person who has
  special needs. With this is gives a better view
  on why or why not children should be placed in
  different classrooms other than inclusive one.

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Self Evaluation
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• The kind of resources that seemed to be better
  than others for this topic were magazine and
  journal articles. I choose these as the best
  material sources because that provided basic
  knowledge of the topic, statistics, and different
  views about each topic. The internet worked well
  for my project but it did not have the specific
  information with statistics or charts that would
  have been needed to be included for more
  evidence. Books and periodicals also worked well
  for finding information on my topic sometimes
  there was an over amount of information that was
  unnecessary for my topic. Over all I believe that
  periodicals were better for my topic than any
  other material. There was great quality and
  quantity of periodicals that resulted in a
  massive amount of information on my topic. I
  liked the fact that periodicals had a wider range
  and views of my topic, this way I was able to see
  both sides of my topic and choose what view I
  believed was correct.

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• What I learned about my topic was how children
  with special needs are segregated from normal
  children in the everyday classroom environment.
  This also led to different ways and strategies
  into including them into everyday classroom
  activities trying not to make them segregated
  and know that they are different from the other
  children. Also I learned the reasons why children
  with special needs were not included, and why
  people and parents did not want to develop
  inclusive classrooms. Mostly this was do to their
  sudden out bursts and the constant attention they
  would take away from other students because they
  need constant attention to develop their
  educational goals.

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• I will apply what I learned in the class in the
  future by helping with my future research papers
  and assignments in the near future. Also I can
  apply it in my future professional career when I
  become a teacher and need to look up information
  on future projects.

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• What I learned about the research process is how
  to figure out and determine how to use the
  different data bases and search engines to use. I
  also learned how to make an annotation and cite
  my sources. Learning what plagiarism is also
  helped me to in the future knowing what to quote
  and what not to quote. I also thought Boolean
  searches were very helpful in finding and
  locating information and making the process
  quicker and easier. Learning to cite information
  in the proper form was very useful because I was
  able to establish where I got my information from
  quicker.

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Works Cited

• Burrell, Sue. Special Education and the Juvenile
  Justice System/Washington, DC Dept. of
  Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of
  Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention, 2000.
• Children with Special Needs. 14 March 2007.lt
  www.peaceflame.nl/gt
• Children with Special Needs. 14 March 2007.lt
  www.nona-cdc.com gt
• Children with Special Needs. 14 March 2007.
  ltwww.sonoma.edu/gt
• Children with Special Needs. 14 March 2007.
  ltwww.amherstmedia.com/gt
• Dealing with Diversity Teaching Children with
  Special Needs. March 13th 2007.
  http//www.netaonline.org/
• Department of Education and Skills. Special
  Education Needs and Disabilities. 1995-2007.
  March 13th 2007. http//www.teachernet.gov.uk/
• Giuliani, George A. The Big Book of Special
  Education Resources. Thousand Oaks, CA Crown
  Press,2006.
• Greenfield, Susan. How will we nurture minds of
  the future? Times Educational Supplement
  4684. 5/5/2006 21.
• Huges, Jan N. Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
  Encyclopedia of Special Education. 2ND ed. Cecil
  R. Reynolds and Louisiana Public Broadcasting.
  Elaine Fletcher Tawzeh. Canada Wiley and Sons
  Inc, 2001.
• Human Senses video recording Princetown, N.J.
  Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2003.
• McLeskey, James and Nancy L. Waldron. Making
  Differences Ordinary in Inclusive Classrooms.
  Intervention in School and Clinic 42.3, (January
  2007)162-168. Education Research Complete.
  Plattsburgh State University Library. March 3rd
  2007 lthttp//search.ebscohost.comgt

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• National Association for Gifted Children. Special
  Education Jobs and Information. March 11th 2007
  http//www.unixl.com/
• Oconnor, Rollanda E. Teaching World Recognition
  Effective Strategies for Students with learning
  difficulties. New York Guilford Press, 2000.
• Powell, Stuart. Special Teaching in Higher
  Education. Sterling, VA Kogan Page, 2003.
• Schwartz, Diane. Including Children with Special
  Needs. Westport Conn. Greenwood Press, 2005.