Being a kid is already hard when it comes to homework, classwork, some teachers, and being bullied. But the students who are in the LGBTQ community has a harder time. Even kids in special education could also be in the LGBTQ community. I want to be a teacher that my student can feel like they can come to me and talk to me about anything!
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I only knew that they added the IA to LGBTQ but I found this picture that also include PD which I guess makes sense if they really want to include everyone.
These are the different flags for the different sexual orientation and gender identity. Also the only flag that isn't shown here is the hetosexual flag which is black and white.
This is what some teachers would have on their door. The only problem is not all teachers with this would do anything when they witness someone being bullied for being gay or transgender or won't do anything when the student is having a hard time coming out. When I am a teacher I would have this on my door and any student not just mine can come up to me and I'll help with whatever problem they have in school when it comes to being in the LGBTQ community and not just homework or classwork help.
Back in High School I was in Best Buddies for 4 years and I loved every minute of it. Best Buddies is a program for special needs kids to be pear up with another kid outside of their small classroom. To me I think they should have best buddies in middle and elementary schools too because so many special needs kids can benefit this. When I went to my first Best Buddy meeting there was only one girl from that class who was there. I just fell in love with her. She was so cute and I wanted to be her buddy. Furtunatly so did everyone else but I was still able to be her buddy and ones a week I would go to that classroom to sign up to take her for lunch. She enjoy hanging out with me at lunch. I didn't know when I first met her what disability she have. I didn't know anything about Down Syndrome. I just looked at her and her personality. I treated her like how I wanted others to treat me. I got her into Drama club and that is where I met Chris who was also in her class. One day when we both came out of the school from Drama my mom saw her. When I came into the car my mom told me that Ann has Down Syndrome. I was like wow and that began my research on Down Syndrome. It was funny when we were in Drama club because we both wanted to be Juliet. But the thing is she had a hard time reading. So she became a town person and I was the 3rd servant. Chris who wanted to be Romeo, was the Prince. I was impress by how he could remember all his lines before anyone else. He was always the first person to be off book. I had a crush on Chris. Then he asked me to Prom and I said yes even though at the time I was a freshman. My mom met Chris and we went to Prom. When he drop me off back home my mom told me that he might have aspergers because he seemed a bit off. I began to notce some artistic trates in him and he hardly ever gave me good eye contact.
I learned so much about disabilities and it just fill my passion to teach special Ed myself. In Biology I had this teacher name Mr. Clark and he had us to do some projects for class. One of the projects we had to do was to pick any genetic disorder so out of inspiration of Ann I choose Down Syndrome. I did an amazing power point with kids who have Down Syndrome and old people with Down Syndrome. I did a lot of research on my topic. I was surprised to learned that it happens if the mother is 35 or order and get pregnant and I was surprised that they have 21 chromosomes. One extra chromosomes then people without Down Syndrome. I felt sad when I learned that they get health problems. At the end of the presentation I said joined best buddies. Trying to encourage the other students to joined. Mr. Clark was impress and gave me an A.
Some kids with Autism would have a speech problem or can't talk at all but there are some kids who talk normal. Autistic kids like Chris has low intelligence in school and that was why he was in special Ed but Autistic kids like my other 2 boyfriends Said and Edgar they have very high intelligence. Said was in honor classes. Said is really good with math and science and Edgar is really good in math. Look at Albert Einsteins for example he had Asperger's and he was really smart in math and science but he was bad in his other subjects. Some Autistic kids doesn't like to be touch and some doesn't mind it. A lot of them has poor social skills. Chris didn't talk to people much exapt for me but he was great on stage. When I first met Said he wasn't socialable, only to me and his autistic friend John who is a different kind of autism. He would usually do his work. But after we got together and we started to go to Safe Homes he started to be more socialble and made new friends. He thanked me for helping him to be more socialble. Now I am with Edgar and I have brought him to safe homes too but he would sit by himself and put his head phones in his ears and watched videos on his phone. I am determine to get him to be more socioable but he is more of a challeneged then Said. Chris had a special skill in theater. Some kids with Autism who may not be good in school still might have some sought of special skill outside of school that we have to find.
There are different types of learning disabilities. Some are very common and some are not. Some kids with a learning disability belongs to special Education and some do not. In this post I will tell you the different kinds of learning disabilities of different background and education level.
This is a picture of a girl with Down Syndrome. Down Syndrome was discovered by John Langdon Down. Down Syndrome often happen when the mother gets pregnant when she is 35 or order years old. That doesn't always happen but that is well the science say that it often caused Down Syndrome. Some people think that kids who have down syndrome are retarded but they are not. They just look different then us and they might have their own challenges going on. Anyone who have down syndrome can be in a life skills class or even honors classes and anywhere in between. No 2 down syndromes are unlike and you can't judge how smart they are by how they look like or how they talk. kids with Down Syndrome would have health problems such as heart problems. They have a speech implement because they have a huge tounge.
Autism Spectrum Disorder is an umbrella term! Autistic Disorder or Autism Disorder is a neurological and developmental disorder that usually appears during the first three years of life. Children with autism looks like they are living in their own little word, shows little interests in others, and lack of social awareness. The focus of an autistic child is a consistent routine and includes an interest in repeating odd and peculiar behaviors. Autistic children often have problems communicating, avoiding eye contact, and show limit attachment to others. Asperger's Disorder was founded in the 1940s by Hans Asperger. He was obsessed with Autistic behaviors and difficult in communication skills in boys but they would have normal intelligence and language development. They would describe people with Asperger's as "High Functioning." PDD is like Asperger's because that too is "High Functioning" autism but it's a catch all because if there is a kid who may or may not have autism and show different types of autistic behaviors but they don't know what to label them as, they just label the kids as PDD whether he or she does have autism or not. Now because so many kids are being labeled with PDD, they are starting to get rid of it since they made it into a fake autism. The childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD), also known as Heller's syndrome and disintegrative psychosis, is a rare condition characterized by late onset of developmental delays in language, social function, and motor skills. As for right now researchers does not know the cause of this disorder. CDD has some similarities of autism and is considered to be a low functioning form of it. Since May 2013 this terms as well as other terms were fused into Autism Spectrum Disorder. Now CDD is also called "regressive autism." Rett syndrome is a neurodevelopmenal disorder that affects girls almost exclusively. It affects growth and development by a slowing development, loss of good use in hands, distinctive hand movements, slowed brain and head growth, problems with walking, seizures, and intellectual disability.
Watch this video on special education teachers, they are amazing teachers and we should have more of them around for our special needs kids.
