Sped 310 lesson 6

SPED 310

This week was very interesting in class. I think that the legal aspect of this class can be very complicated. I never realized that there were so many situations that can change how you view a case. I loved being able to have the colored slips of paper with the cases on them. We were able to lay them out on the floor and it really helped me to have a visual aid.

I loved the presentation today about "Hard of Hearing", The group did a wonderful group in how they talked about the topic. I think that people who are hard of hearing, they need to have exposure to deaf culture and hearing culture. I have had so much experience with the deaf culture that I realized how different it is. In high school, I took a Sign Language class for 4 years. I thoroughly enjoyed being able to take this class. It stood out compared to other classes because my teacher was deaf. I realized that sign language is like dancing with your hands. There is a fluency and rhythm. I grew up dancing my whole life and so once I started learning Sign Language very quickly. My teacher noticed how well i was doing compared to the class and she took me under her wing and helped me to grow to my potential. By my last year, I started interpreting for her and helped aid students in class. There is a special place in my heart for the deaf community and sign language!

Lesson 4 and 5 Lesson Reflection

This last week was very intense. I loved playing the role of the attorney for the families and talking about the Cedar Rapids case. I realized how cases can be confusing and it can be hard to choose a side. When we were stating facts about the Cedar Rapids case I thought that I just agreed with the parents because of allowing children to have free public education. I think it is important to have children be able to have education no matter what condition they are in. But as we began talking about it, I thought it was hard to decide on if the school really had to pay for the nurse because it was under medical assistance . I think that it is important to have schools help children when it has to deal with education but on the other hand, where do we draw the line? How do we know when it is best to have schools provide something under IDEA or have the parents be in charge of taking care of that student. I could see the view point of the school and almost sided with them that because they are responsible for that student and their health then they need to get the best for them so the school isn't sued for death. The school needs to get the best but at the same time, it is too expensive. I think that it can be hard to turn away some children while others aren't. I understand why they have the laws in place that are there because if they didn't, they wouldn't be able to decide who gets what privileges and treatments.
I liked also being involved in the group presentation and being able to do those activities, they were very interesting to participate in and really made me think about how kids with disabilities feel and that there is a wide range of disabilities that someone can have. It is good to be able to put yourself in someone else's shoes to understand how they feel. We cannot just have sympathy for someone. We need to have empathy for them as well. We have to experience for ourselves what they feel like so we can understand. it can make a huge difference in how we treat someone if we ourselves go through it too.

Children

This week I learned so much about children with disabilities. After watching the videos for class, my heart was broken. It was really hard to watch how people were treated just because they weren't fully understood. I think that it is so crazy for this time period of unfairness to only occur a couple of decades ago. I know that we have come a long way in research and understanding, but it still seems like we treated those people so primitively not so long ago.I think by looking back on the past, we can help drive our future.
I also learned this week how we can use different teaching methods to help our classrooms and to change the way our students learn. I think there some great methods like, team teaching and alternative teaching so that it can help those students that are struggling. I know as a student, I struggled in school at times and I loved breaking off into groups to learn more and bounce ideas off one another. It was helpful for me to see a peer's perspective that is my age, instead of trying to understand my teacher's way of thinking.