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ASL and Special Education
When people asked me why I took ASL in college, I always said it was to satisfy my needed foreign language credit. The truth was that I wanted to help people. The Deaf community dislikes being referred to as disabled in any way, and in general resents that mentality that they need to be helped or assisted through life. But when I was a kid, I had an experience that made me wish I knew sign language. I was in church, and we had a physically and mentally handicapped boy visiting our class. He was very disruptive, and I’m sure my teacher was extremely frustrated as he kept disrupting the class by making loud noises or getting out of his chair. He kept trying to sign something, over and over again, … Read entire article »
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Special Education Appreciation
How many things do we take for granted in our society today. Snow plows, garbage workers, teachers en masse. I think that one of the things that we should appreciate the most yet take for granted nevertheless would have to be special educators. Special education is likely one of the most challenging professions in the entire world. The paperwork they have to do is close to twice the amount a regular teach has to take care of. That alone would almost be enough to dissuade me from entering this line of work. But despite that and countless other challenges these amazing people dive in anyway. How can we possibly not appreciate such selfless people? Special educators are some of the hardest workers I’ve ever heard of. I actually have a … Read entire article »
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