How Do We Identify Children With Learning Disabilities

How Do We Identify Children With Learning Disabilities

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In what ways has social bias affected the achievement of girls with gifts?

Girls are often not considered to be as special as if a male were to be considered having exceptional abilities. Girls often do not use their special abilities as males do in the classroom. Females are known to be "passive, modest, dependent, nurturing, and unselfish." Although there is nothing wrong with these characteristics, they do not always equal excelling in the classroom. They have the need to be feminine and will not try and show off like the males in the classroom or show off their smarts to look like a smart studious girl. This is one of the problems and has caused girls with special gifts to ignore their gifts and not use them to their fullest potential.

Define and discuss the concept of twice exceptional.

According to the dictionary, twice exceptional is possessing average to above average intelligence despite having a disability. In our textbook, twice exceptional is described as also having superior intelligence despite having some sort of disability. The problem with children who are twice exceptional is that their intelligence is often overlooked. If a child cannot see, hear, walk, or something else, they are not always looked to as intelligent. In fact, in most cases they are overlooked because of their handicap. In fact though, these children may be twice exceptional and may actually be academically superior to their peers. However, most cases are not discovered as easily and sometimes are not discovered at all because of the obvious handicap.

Laws and Schools

Identify and briefly explain the six key principles of PL 94-142, the 
Education for All Handicapped Children Act.

The 6 key provisions of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act includes: zero reject, nondiscriminatory evaluation, individualized education program, least restricted environment, due process, and parental participation. These make sure all handicapped children can receive the same education, that they get tested about whether they need to be placed in a certain class, that an IEP be written for each student, that handicapped students are included in classes with students who are not handicapped in any way, that there is fairness in the classroom situation for these students and that parents can be included in the decision making of what is best for their child in the schooling environment.


What is the impact of the “No Child Left Behind Act” and “High Stakes Testing" on schools?

No Child Left Behind and High Stakes Testing have had huge impacts on schools since they came to be. "The increase of High-Stakes testing has created special problems for children with exceptionalities because important decisions are based on the results of such tests." No Child Left Behind also causes other students to feel like they are not being challenged enough because all the material is made so that everyone can pass and sometimes not to completely challenge the students or push them to the next level.

Family with Children

What are the special burdens of families with children who are disabled?

There are a numerous amount of burdens that face a family which has a child who is disabled and often not able to learn at the same ability of his/her peers. Families first of all have to be faced with the financial burden which the families needs to go through to make sure that the child receives the best care that is possible. A family needs to make sure that their child receives the best education that they can and if that means spending the extra dollar on a better school for their child who may need special attention. As well as spending more on the child's education, the cost of medical bills and medicine may take a role on the education that their children receive. They may have to attend a public school as opposed to a public school where they could possibly receive more attention if money is an issue.

Families also need to become more involved in the schooling of their child. According to the textbook, "Involving and supporting families is likely to be a more powerful intervention than one that focuses exclusively on the child." In other words, if a family is more directly involved in the schooling of their child, the child is more likely to do better in school.

How do parents and siblings respond to the presence of a child with disabilities in the family?

A family will try its best to include the child with special needs and consider them one of the family. Despite this often the siblings feel a sense of not being loved as much as the child with special needs often feels. They sometimes may feel like the child with special needs is the center of attention. Although that is often the case, it is not always. From seeing this myself, I can say that although most of the attention may be centered around the one with the most needs, the siblings are not ignored and are included as much into daily family life as one another.
What I also found was that the parents of children with special needs can suffer from them. In a study I saw that sometimes having a child with special needs can create psychiatric and psychological problems for the parents in the future.