disability ability and response
- 1. Presented By: Dr Daniyal Mushtaq
- 3. Children with diverse Learning Needs All children can learn, but not all children learn in the same way, at the same time or at the same rate— learning is an individual process.
- 4. Introduction To understand the children with special needs or their diverse learning needs it is important to know or understand first the special needs. The following discussion will give you insight about the concept of special needs or diverse needs of children
- 6. Continued…………. The term special needs in different countries used in different aspects for example here in Pakistan we used this term for disabled people like hearing impaired, physically disabled, visually impaired and mental retarded but in the United States, special needs is a term used in clinical diagnostic and functional development to describe individuals who require assistance for disabilities that may be medical, mental, or psychological. .
- 7. Continued…………. People with Autism, Down syndrome, dyslexia and blindness, for example, may be considered to have special needs. In the United Kingdom, Special needs often refer to special needs within an educational context. This is also referred to as special educational needs (SEN). By this you experienced that special needs term is not common all over the world.
- 8. Objectives 1. Identify the characteristics of special needs students. 2. Know about the disability and who is responsible for the disabled children. 3. Know about inclusive education and its perspectives at national and international
- 9. Continued…………. 4. Identify the different services available for special needs students and best option available for them is inclusive education. 5. Define different categories of disability and prevalence rates in Pakistan. 6. Discuss disability in different perspectives or point of views.
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- 14. Communication Disability Communication Disorder is an impairment in the ability to receive, send, process, and comprehend concepts or verbal, nonverbal and graphic symbol systems. A communication disorder may be evident in the processes of hearing, language, and/or speech. A communication disorder may range in severity from mild to profound.
- 15. Continued ………… Speech disorder is an impairment of the articulation of speech sounds, fluency and/or voice. 1. Articulation disorder. 2.Fluency disorder. 3.Voice disorder
- 18. Continued ………… Language disorder is impaired comprehension and/or use of spoken, written and/or other symbol systems. The disorder may involve (1) the form of language (phonology, morphology, syntax), (2) the content of language (semantics), and/or (3) the function of language in communication (pragmatics) in any combination
- 19. Hearing disorder Hearing disorder is the result of impaired auditory sensitivity of the physiological auditory system. Deaf is defined as a hearing disorder that limits an individual's aural/oral communication performance to the extent that the primary sensory input for communication may be other than the auditory channel.
- 20. Continued ………… Hard of hearing is defined as a hearing disorder, whether fluctuating or permanent , which adversely affects an individual's ability to communicate
- 21. Intellectual or Learning Disabilities Intellectual disability is a broad concept that ranges from mental retardation to cognitive deficits too mild or too specific (as in specific learning disability) to qualify as mental retardation. Intellectual disabilities may appear at any age. Mental retardation is a subtype of intellectual disability, and the term intellectual disability is now preferred by many advocates in most English-speaking countries.
- 22. Behavioral Disability Emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD) are difficult to define. In fact, some think that people are identified as having this disability when adults in authority .
- 23. Physical Disabilities A physical disability is one that affects a person's mobility or dexterity. A person with physical disability may need to use some sort of equipment for assistance with mobility.
- 24. Continued ………… Types of Physical Disabilities: Paraplegia Quadriplegia Multiple sclerosis (MS) Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy Absent limb/reduced limb function Dystrophy Polio
- 25. Multiple Disabilities Multiple disabilities is a disability category under IDEA. As you might expect, children with multiple disabilities have two or more disabling conditions that affect learning or other important life functions. To qualify for special education services under this category, both of the student's disorders must be so significant that her educational needs could not be met in programs that are designed to address one of the disabilities alone.
- 26. Situation in Pakistan According to 1998 census - 2.49% According to WHO - 10% Reasons: instruments, survey aim, data collection technique and personnel .
- 27. Continued ….. Developing Countries report data about disability: poor health care poor nutrition unsafe living conditions unseen, unheard and uncounted persons
- 28. Barriers faced by Persons with Disability social economic physical political handicaps Stigmatization lack of informational data, rules and regulations rehabilitation centers mainstreaming and specialized services for persons with disabilities.
- 29. DISABILITY: WHO’S RESPONSIBILITY? It is a debate from the history that who is responsible for the disabled child, either the mother or father. But the answer is not both; it is by many reasons, biological and environmental. We can’t say it is sin of parents and Allah punished them for this. As a teacher we must understand when anyone have disabled child then who will be responsible for them?
- 30. Continued ………… The literature and research findings of different studies revealed that parents, family members, professionals, teachers, medical personnel, government employers, social workers, psychologist and society all are responsible for their welfare and wellbeing. Let’s discuss one by one responsibility of these stakeholders for the disabled children: