During my youth and teenage years I was able to move into the home of my older sister, who lived with guardians due to her special needs, my parents busy schedule, and enabling her to overcome her disabilities for a promising future. My Aunt, who was my sister's guardian, attended a lot of advocacy groups related to Connie's special needs. I always had the option of sitting home working on art hobbies, practicing dance, creating wonderful mass production poetry, watching TV, doing homework, OR not sitting at home and attending the meetings with her. I chose the meetings. It was fun learning about the issues with these special needs individuals and working my spatial magic to dream up solutions for them, and getting involved with the legislation/advocacy aspect.
One thing these groups always brought up was the parent excuse syndrome. Many think this syndrome is excuse not to take care of the child victim of special needs. This is usually not the case. The syndrome regards everything else in life besides the child, and an extra level of protection encasing the child. The parents use the need to care for the child to let go of everything else in their lives, and they do this while controlling every aspect of the child's life. It's as if attempting to turn the child into a robot where the parent becomes the remote control. Essentially, this is denial of the child's situation. It is also detrimental to the child learning self advocacy; a skill that is common among special needs children that go on to college, graduate, and live a successful post college life. In doing some research into the topic, and speaking to a friend who is an expert in the education arena after working so many years in the field, and consulting with my own sister who took the special education route in college with a master in it, moving on to attempt a Ph.D. in art therapy, which she realizes as a method for teaching self advocacy and self expression, until her cancer got her from years of meds and environmental exposure to natural gas butane, I quickly learned that self advocacy is a key skills, and interaction with expressive capabilities is the way to build that skill. My friend in the field for years helped me develop an activity that adheres to all levels in the attached pdf explaining how special needs children develop. Social Inclusion PDF To teach and reinforce self advocacy with initiating skills. Bring him or her to a club meeting, political party meeting, office party, office grand opening, MSABC meeting, something with a lot of people attending.
Social Inclusion pdf
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AuthorDr. Bonnie enjoys publishing poetry, fiction, social media and non-fiction. She has created numerous technical documents and research dissertations. Bonnie has also assisted in the writing of movie scripts that have gone into production. ArchivesCategories |