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WhatamIdoing wrote "Undid revision 504425995 by Dolfrog (talk) Wrong sort of disability: learning disabilities aren't usually evident from medical history alone" Well please could you inform the rest of the world what other issues cause learning disabilities other than issues which have a medical / clinical origin. dolfrog ( talk) 01:31, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Teaching children to read is the responsibility of the education system not parents, and having lousy parents is not a cause of learning disability. The first problem in many countries is that formal education begin before the age of developmental maturation 7-8 years of age. Which means that purely developmental issues can be miss understood as a learning disability, which those who do not have a cognitive disability will grow out of. Yes there is a wide spectrum of medical issues from the issues that can cause mild dyslexia to severe autism etc. And many of these issues are still subject to rigorous international research. The medical conditons which can cause issues such as dyslexia may be beyond the qualifications of a local medical professional and may require more specialist assessment and diagnosis, there are many uniformed medical professionals. My family all have one of those clinical disabilities which can be hard to identify and diagnose, and is the cause of our dyslexic symptom, but also have more severe communication issues that require life long support, and especially in the education system where we learn to understand ther nature of ou disability, its limiting affects and how we are best able to use alternative compensating abilities to work around our disabilities. Just because the medical profesionals in your area are not adequately trained to identify this disabilities does not mean they do not exist. So Beeblebrox, your reason for reverting my last edit to the article is a complete fiction. dolfrog ( talk) 20:01, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Dahlia, a diagnosis of a learning disability isn't generally "obvious from the medical records" anywhere in the world. Babies and toddlers get well-child visits in the US, too, and they're free or nearly free for most children, but the mechanism of payment doesn't change anything. You don't diagnose dyslexia in babies and toddlers. It's not a difference in healthcare systems; it's a fact of life. Babies aren't supposed to be reading; therefore, they cannot be diagnosed with a difficulty in learning how to read. Learning disabilities, by definition, require that the person be performing worse than expected for the person's age and IQ. No baby in the world can be said to perform worse than expected on a reading test. You might say that a baby is "at risk for" dyslexia if the baby has an associated physical condition like agenesis of the corpus callosum, but the baby can't actually have dyslexia until he is old enough to read.
But that's really all irrelevant: Dolfrog re-wrote the sentence to exclude children with dozens of types of very obvious, purely physical disabilities, like paralysis or flipper baby syndrome. Do you support excluding all of those children?
Alternatively, do you think that it makes sense to say "sometimes it is easy to figure out that a child needs special services, because his medical record says that he has dyslexia, but other times, it is not at all obvious from medical records that the child has special educational needs, such as when the child has dyslexia"? Isn't that self-contradictory? Doesn't it make more sense to say "sometimes it's obvious" and name conditions that are actually obvious on a medical exam, not conditions that would require unusual, specialized testing? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:11, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Just for clarification developmental dyslexia, has three cognitive subtypes, auditory, visual, and attentional. which means that an auditory processing disorder, a visual processing disorder, an attention deficit / disorder or any combination of three, can be the medical/ clinical cuase of the dyslexic symptom. Dyslexia is not a condition, but a share symptom of one or more medical/ clinical conditions and as such a diagnosis of dyslexia is a screening process which should lead to further clinical investigation to identify and diagnose the underlying medical cause. If there is a failure to carry out these further investigations in some countries then that is the irresponsibility and possible ignorance on behalf of those responsible for taking care of childrens needs and welfare while in the education system. These underlying medical conditions that cause the dyslexic symptom have far more serious problems than just the dyslexic symptom and to ignore them is pure negligence by the education in any country. And more nonsense from Jimsteele9999 geographic phenomena are not the same as man made systems. Education systems are the inventions of the humans who create them and each countries education system varies according to the political party currently running the country, and as such is subject to change after each Government election. Unlike Ayers Rock which is the same regardless of the passage of governments of Australia. So yes those who live in the UK have know more about the UK education system than editors from the USA who have never lived in the UK long enough to gain any understanding of the UK education system. It is both Jimsteele9999 and whatamidoing who do not listen to others and seem to want ownership of this article to suite their own inflexible agenda, what ever that may be. dolfrog ( talk) 19:41, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
"we have no such a thing as 'regular classrooms' and 'special classrooms'."
"We do have a tiny number of schools with special units or resources."
WhatamIdoing and Jimsteele9999 represent the cultural disability biggotary which seems to be part of US Society against those who share my disability, which causes my dyslexic symptom. And would help explain the disability discrimination from other Wikipedia editors who share your attitudes towards my disability, and choose not to provide support and understanding those who share my disability require, and this includes editors who are part of the Wiki medicine project. The difference in cultural attitudes towards my disability are are described in the Learning disability article. The US "Disproportionality" towards disability which from my perspective helps to explain the biggoted attitude towards my disability on here and elsewhere, and how you fail to understand my editing support needs. So this is just the US trying to impose their different culture and moral values on others, and failing to even trying to understand the cultures of others, and more importantly the disabilities and differences of others. dolfrog ( talk) 05:16, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
WhatamIdoing "Therefore dyslexia is not something that will be obvious in a young child's medical records." For someone who claims to have a high IQ your ignorance astounds me, These are disabilities are termed Invisible Disabilities, like mine which I have had since birth, but in my case was not diagnosed until my late 40s, and for medical reasons not until after 8 years of age for my children. This is just more of your apparent cultural disability discrimination as described above. dolfrog ( talk) 05:26, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Jimsteele9999 unless you currently live in the UK how would you know the terminology we use in the UK, You seem to think that just because we share the same language that every word has the same meaning in our different cultures, and that our culture mirrors your own. You are wrong, and beginning to sound like a sockpuppet, by refusing to understand the differences of others in preference to your limited knowledge of the world outside of the USA. dolfrog ( talk) 05:34, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
If we need to have an RFC, then I think it would be best to present both sides, rather than having one side give all the information. So here's the basic question:
In the article section titled Identifying students with special needs, it currently says,
"Some children are easily identified as candidates for special needs from their medical history. They may have been diagnosed with a genetic condition that is associated with mental retardation, may have various forms of brain damage, may have a developmental disorder, may have visual or hearing disabilities, or other disabilities.
Among students whose identification is less obvious, such as students with learning difficulties, two primary methods have been used for identifying them: the discrepancy model and the response to intervention model. The discrepancy model depends on the teacher noticing that the students' achievements are noticeably below what is expected. The response to intervention model advocates earlier intervention."
One editor changed the word disabilities to learning disabilities (underlined in the text above for your convenience). This change has been disputed. Should this change be made?
After this, I think we should use this format so that respondents can see both sides of the question immediately.
No, we should not make this change | Yes, we should make this change |
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We should not make this change because:
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We should make this change because...
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So that's the format I suggest, and if anyone actually supports making this particular change, then please remove the joke/placeholder items and add in some real reasons. Also, anyone who has other reasons not to narrow the description to just learning disabilities, feel free to add to that side.
If no one actually wants to step up and put their name to some reasons why the first paragraph should be narrowed to exclude all these other disabilities, then I'm going to assume that the dispute is over and that there really is no reason, even in the UK, to make this change or to tag it as having a problem with an insufficiently UK focus.
If we can get some reasons for making this change, then we'll wait until you're happy with your half of the argument, and then start the RFC. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 21:13, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
I can no long participate on this talk page or article as the high stress levels are damaging my health. I can only hope that some responsible editors begin to read the medical and educational research, and investigate the varying cultures and communication and learning systems that exisit around the world. dolfrog ( talk) 08:57, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
OK so if you want to know about dyslexia you can begin by reading the research papers in the following PubMed research paper collections. Happy reading. dolfrog ( talk) 00:25, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Dyslexia and related topic collections
Dyslexia collections by year of publication
This is a list of potentially useful sources from the UNESCO website, which Dahlia had recommended as a source of non-American information:
The history interests me more than the other issues, but I've only glanced over most of them, and perhaps others will find other points of interest. I expect that a few people will be disappointed to discover that they use basically the same language as this article, e.g., the word segregation to describe separating children on the basis of their disability status, or that they split up the settings for provision into even more than the four broad categories that we're using (different sources here use a different number, but none of them have the three groups that the UK editors are used to thinking in), but the best thing might be for everyone to read them. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 21:38, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
In Japan and many other countries in the world, people need to take entrance exams in order to enter high school. Disabled people chose not to take entrance exams, so they can't be excluded from school if they were never enrolled in school. And how can they be segregated in separate classrooms or in a special school exclusively for students with special needs if they chose not to attend school? If disabled people choose not to attend school, how can they be included in regular classrooms for all, or at least more than half, of the school day? If disabled people chose not to attend school, how can they be mainstreamed in regular classrooms during specific time periods based on their skills? Does anyone besides the United States care about inclusion, mainstreaming, segregation and exclusion? UndyingNova ( talk) 21:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
The ESE (teaching) page redirects to the Special education#Special schools section instead of the Special education page itself. I thought this was unusual but wanted to ask here if anybody knew why this made sense before changing it. makeswell ( talk) 11:23, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Please note historical terminology: persons with mental retardation are now known as persons with a developmental disability in North America, and an intellectual disability in other parts of the world.
The world’s first and most famous attempt at teaching a 'retarded child' — the “Wild Boy of Aveyron,” who was captured at the end of the 18th century and brought to the National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Paris — was by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard in France. [1] After five years of instruction “he proved that the ‘feeble mind’ could learn.” [2] Itard’s work was continued by Édouard Séguin, who used his “physiological method” paired with sensory and muscle training to teach reading, writing, and speech. [3] Thereafter, he established “a class for ten to twelve ‘idiots’” in Rue Faubourg Saint Martin near Paris. [4] Moving to the United States in 1850, Séguin was credited with defining and shaping the education of the persons with mental retardation in North America. Despite his efforts, however, “the treatment of the mentally retarded continued to receive staunch opposition from the public, who believed that the teaching and training of the retarded was rather uneventful.” [5] It was not until 1848 that the United States made provisions for the treatment of the ‘mentally retarded’ in specially constructed hospitals. [6] The state of Massachusetts, through legislative efforts, founded the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center. Its primary purpose emphasized the idea of “habilitation of the retarded and stressed the teaching of useful skills”. [7] By the end of the 19th century, 15 states had similar facilities in operation. An analogous institution in Alberta, Canada the Provincial Training School for Mental Defectives in Red Deer, was not built until 1923.
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Asordi ( talk) 18:58, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
I think this article could benefit from the addition of information on PL94-142 as this is where it all began. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Griffin18 ( talk • contribs) 02:02, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
This article does a great job of giving a general over view of special education, I think that it should provide more details and facts on the types of learning disabilities that are included in special education. Should also describe the steps that a teacher or parent must take in order for a child to receive special education services. Should also include various laws associated with special education, and what public schools in the united states are required to do for students with disabilities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Disarnot ( talk • contribs) 00:55, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
According to a study that revolved around educating teachers on how to institute a curriculum for special needs, an increase in confidence and ability in teachers resulted in a positive change in 4 in 6 students. It also showed an increase in teacher confidence which could result in positive benefits, however there remains the need to develop a fully functional and acceptable curriculum. References: • Gianoumis, Stamatios; Seiverling, Laura; Sturming, Peter. "The Effect of Behavioral Skills Training on Correct Teacher Implementation of Natural Language Paradigm Teaching Skills and Child Behavior." Behavioral Intervention 27 (2) (2012). 57-74. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Web. 18 April, 2016. http://search.ebscohost.com.libdb.ppcc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pbh&AN=74281005&site=ehost-live • Mustafa Arif, Muhammad; Niazy, Ayesha; Hassan, Bilal; Ahmed, Farah. "Awareness of Autism in Primary School Teachers." Autism Research and Treatment (2013). 1-5. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 April, 2016. http://search.ebscohost.com.libdb.ppcc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=95270033&site=ehost-live — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:281:C501:A700:5133:811F:F919:4867 ( talk) 03:17, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
204.69.3.20 ( talk) 21:22, 2 April 2013 (UTC)The actual meaning of special education-classes or instruction designed for students with special education needs. An early proponent of education for blind was Valentin Huay, who opened a school in 1784; his efforts persued those of Louis Braille. 204.69.3.20 ( talk) 21:22, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Source 11 is a dead link. It needs to be updated. Tarynbaird ( talk) 16:11, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
One suggestion that I would make towards this article is to maybe add more information on personal experience with Special education students and what they have dealt with while working with these kind of students. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.92.42.82 ( talk) 18:52, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
One suggestion I would make towards this article is to add more on personal experience with students who do have special needs and what they went through while working with these students! Kiley mackowiak ( talk) 19:10, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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After reviewing the National Approaches section of the article, I think it would be helpful to include a section for South America so the section is inclusive of all the different continents in the world. Adding this section can allow readers to better understand the differences in Special Education across the entire world and makes the section more well-rounded. Chadowelf ( talk) 07:33, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
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As it is the entire article outside of the "National approaches" section already suffers from a first world western bias could be reduced by moving content to various country-specific articles. US budgetary politics, for example, is not particularly relevant here. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 20:34, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
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I have a feeling someone will move ADHD back to "emotional and behavioural disorders" so I want to ask that you please remove the example altogether instead if you must. Many find the classification of ADHD as a behavioural disorder is stigmatising as it characterises it primarily by its effects on other people, downplaying the internal symptoms and effects on individuals. Furthermore, research in the last 10-20 years has identified that people with ADHD often have no obvious behavioural or emotional symptoms at all. It is first and foremost a cognitive impairment on executive functions. A child with ADHD could be perfectly happy and well behaved, and still fall behind at school due to their ADHD. Please, if you feel ADHD doesn't belong in its current place, I only ask that you don't reclassify it as an emotional or behavioural disorder. Thank you. Djelibey ( talk) 10:50, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
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WhatamIdoing wrote "Undid revision 504425995 by Dolfrog (talk) Wrong sort of disability: learning disabilities aren't usually evident from medical history alone" Well please could you inform the rest of the world what other issues cause learning disabilities other than issues which have a medical / clinical origin. dolfrog ( talk) 01:31, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Teaching children to read is the responsibility of the education system not parents, and having lousy parents is not a cause of learning disability. The first problem in many countries is that formal education begin before the age of developmental maturation 7-8 years of age. Which means that purely developmental issues can be miss understood as a learning disability, which those who do not have a cognitive disability will grow out of. Yes there is a wide spectrum of medical issues from the issues that can cause mild dyslexia to severe autism etc. And many of these issues are still subject to rigorous international research. The medical conditons which can cause issues such as dyslexia may be beyond the qualifications of a local medical professional and may require more specialist assessment and diagnosis, there are many uniformed medical professionals. My family all have one of those clinical disabilities which can be hard to identify and diagnose, and is the cause of our dyslexic symptom, but also have more severe communication issues that require life long support, and especially in the education system where we learn to understand ther nature of ou disability, its limiting affects and how we are best able to use alternative compensating abilities to work around our disabilities. Just because the medical profesionals in your area are not adequately trained to identify this disabilities does not mean they do not exist. So Beeblebrox, your reason for reverting my last edit to the article is a complete fiction. dolfrog ( talk) 20:01, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Dahlia, a diagnosis of a learning disability isn't generally "obvious from the medical records" anywhere in the world. Babies and toddlers get well-child visits in the US, too, and they're free or nearly free for most children, but the mechanism of payment doesn't change anything. You don't diagnose dyslexia in babies and toddlers. It's not a difference in healthcare systems; it's a fact of life. Babies aren't supposed to be reading; therefore, they cannot be diagnosed with a difficulty in learning how to read. Learning disabilities, by definition, require that the person be performing worse than expected for the person's age and IQ. No baby in the world can be said to perform worse than expected on a reading test. You might say that a baby is "at risk for" dyslexia if the baby has an associated physical condition like agenesis of the corpus callosum, but the baby can't actually have dyslexia until he is old enough to read.
But that's really all irrelevant: Dolfrog re-wrote the sentence to exclude children with dozens of types of very obvious, purely physical disabilities, like paralysis or flipper baby syndrome. Do you support excluding all of those children?
Alternatively, do you think that it makes sense to say "sometimes it is easy to figure out that a child needs special services, because his medical record says that he has dyslexia, but other times, it is not at all obvious from medical records that the child has special educational needs, such as when the child has dyslexia"? Isn't that self-contradictory? Doesn't it make more sense to say "sometimes it's obvious" and name conditions that are actually obvious on a medical exam, not conditions that would require unusual, specialized testing? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:11, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
Just for clarification developmental dyslexia, has three cognitive subtypes, auditory, visual, and attentional. which means that an auditory processing disorder, a visual processing disorder, an attention deficit / disorder or any combination of three, can be the medical/ clinical cuase of the dyslexic symptom. Dyslexia is not a condition, but a share symptom of one or more medical/ clinical conditions and as such a diagnosis of dyslexia is a screening process which should lead to further clinical investigation to identify and diagnose the underlying medical cause. If there is a failure to carry out these further investigations in some countries then that is the irresponsibility and possible ignorance on behalf of those responsible for taking care of childrens needs and welfare while in the education system. These underlying medical conditions that cause the dyslexic symptom have far more serious problems than just the dyslexic symptom and to ignore them is pure negligence by the education in any country. And more nonsense from Jimsteele9999 geographic phenomena are not the same as man made systems. Education systems are the inventions of the humans who create them and each countries education system varies according to the political party currently running the country, and as such is subject to change after each Government election. Unlike Ayers Rock which is the same regardless of the passage of governments of Australia. So yes those who live in the UK have know more about the UK education system than editors from the USA who have never lived in the UK long enough to gain any understanding of the UK education system. It is both Jimsteele9999 and whatamidoing who do not listen to others and seem to want ownership of this article to suite their own inflexible agenda, what ever that may be. dolfrog ( talk) 19:41, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
"we have no such a thing as 'regular classrooms' and 'special classrooms'."
"We do have a tiny number of schools with special units or resources."
WhatamIdoing and Jimsteele9999 represent the cultural disability biggotary which seems to be part of US Society against those who share my disability, which causes my dyslexic symptom. And would help explain the disability discrimination from other Wikipedia editors who share your attitudes towards my disability, and choose not to provide support and understanding those who share my disability require, and this includes editors who are part of the Wiki medicine project. The difference in cultural attitudes towards my disability are are described in the Learning disability article. The US "Disproportionality" towards disability which from my perspective helps to explain the biggoted attitude towards my disability on here and elsewhere, and how you fail to understand my editing support needs. So this is just the US trying to impose their different culture and moral values on others, and failing to even trying to understand the cultures of others, and more importantly the disabilities and differences of others. dolfrog ( talk) 05:16, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
WhatamIdoing "Therefore dyslexia is not something that will be obvious in a young child's medical records." For someone who claims to have a high IQ your ignorance astounds me, These are disabilities are termed Invisible Disabilities, like mine which I have had since birth, but in my case was not diagnosed until my late 40s, and for medical reasons not until after 8 years of age for my children. This is just more of your apparent cultural disability discrimination as described above. dolfrog ( talk) 05:26, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
Jimsteele9999 unless you currently live in the UK how would you know the terminology we use in the UK, You seem to think that just because we share the same language that every word has the same meaning in our different cultures, and that our culture mirrors your own. You are wrong, and beginning to sound like a sockpuppet, by refusing to understand the differences of others in preference to your limited knowledge of the world outside of the USA. dolfrog ( talk) 05:34, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
If we need to have an RFC, then I think it would be best to present both sides, rather than having one side give all the information. So here's the basic question:
In the article section titled Identifying students with special needs, it currently says,
"Some children are easily identified as candidates for special needs from their medical history. They may have been diagnosed with a genetic condition that is associated with mental retardation, may have various forms of brain damage, may have a developmental disorder, may have visual or hearing disabilities, or other disabilities.
Among students whose identification is less obvious, such as students with learning difficulties, two primary methods have been used for identifying them: the discrepancy model and the response to intervention model. The discrepancy model depends on the teacher noticing that the students' achievements are noticeably below what is expected. The response to intervention model advocates earlier intervention."
One editor changed the word disabilities to learning disabilities (underlined in the text above for your convenience). This change has been disputed. Should this change be made?
After this, I think we should use this format so that respondents can see both sides of the question immediately.
No, we should not make this change | Yes, we should make this change |
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We should not make this change because:
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We should make this change because...
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So that's the format I suggest, and if anyone actually supports making this particular change, then please remove the joke/placeholder items and add in some real reasons. Also, anyone who has other reasons not to narrow the description to just learning disabilities, feel free to add to that side.
If no one actually wants to step up and put their name to some reasons why the first paragraph should be narrowed to exclude all these other disabilities, then I'm going to assume that the dispute is over and that there really is no reason, even in the UK, to make this change or to tag it as having a problem with an insufficiently UK focus.
If we can get some reasons for making this change, then we'll wait until you're happy with your half of the argument, and then start the RFC. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 21:13, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
I can no long participate on this talk page or article as the high stress levels are damaging my health. I can only hope that some responsible editors begin to read the medical and educational research, and investigate the varying cultures and communication and learning systems that exisit around the world. dolfrog ( talk) 08:57, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
OK so if you want to know about dyslexia you can begin by reading the research papers in the following PubMed research paper collections. Happy reading. dolfrog ( talk) 00:25, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
Dyslexia and related topic collections
Dyslexia collections by year of publication
This is a list of potentially useful sources from the UNESCO website, which Dahlia had recommended as a source of non-American information:
The history interests me more than the other issues, but I've only glanced over most of them, and perhaps others will find other points of interest. I expect that a few people will be disappointed to discover that they use basically the same language as this article, e.g., the word segregation to describe separating children on the basis of their disability status, or that they split up the settings for provision into even more than the four broad categories that we're using (different sources here use a different number, but none of them have the three groups that the UK editors are used to thinking in), but the best thing might be for everyone to read them. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 21:38, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
In Japan and many other countries in the world, people need to take entrance exams in order to enter high school. Disabled people chose not to take entrance exams, so they can't be excluded from school if they were never enrolled in school. And how can they be segregated in separate classrooms or in a special school exclusively for students with special needs if they chose not to attend school? If disabled people choose not to attend school, how can they be included in regular classrooms for all, or at least more than half, of the school day? If disabled people chose not to attend school, how can they be mainstreamed in regular classrooms during specific time periods based on their skills? Does anyone besides the United States care about inclusion, mainstreaming, segregation and exclusion? UndyingNova ( talk) 21:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
The ESE (teaching) page redirects to the Special education#Special schools section instead of the Special education page itself. I thought this was unusual but wanted to ask here if anybody knew why this made sense before changing it. makeswell ( talk) 11:23, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Please note historical terminology: persons with mental retardation are now known as persons with a developmental disability in North America, and an intellectual disability in other parts of the world.
The world’s first and most famous attempt at teaching a 'retarded child' — the “Wild Boy of Aveyron,” who was captured at the end of the 18th century and brought to the National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Paris — was by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard in France. [1] After five years of instruction “he proved that the ‘feeble mind’ could learn.” [2] Itard’s work was continued by Édouard Séguin, who used his “physiological method” paired with sensory and muscle training to teach reading, writing, and speech. [3] Thereafter, he established “a class for ten to twelve ‘idiots’” in Rue Faubourg Saint Martin near Paris. [4] Moving to the United States in 1850, Séguin was credited with defining and shaping the education of the persons with mental retardation in North America. Despite his efforts, however, “the treatment of the mentally retarded continued to receive staunch opposition from the public, who believed that the teaching and training of the retarded was rather uneventful.” [5] It was not until 1848 that the United States made provisions for the treatment of the ‘mentally retarded’ in specially constructed hospitals. [6] The state of Massachusetts, through legislative efforts, founded the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center. Its primary purpose emphasized the idea of “habilitation of the retarded and stressed the teaching of useful skills”. [7] By the end of the 19th century, 15 states had similar facilities in operation. An analogous institution in Alberta, Canada the Provincial Training School for Mental Defectives in Red Deer, was not built until 1923.
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I think this article could benefit from the addition of information on PL94-142 as this is where it all began. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Griffin18 ( talk • contribs) 02:02, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
This article does a great job of giving a general over view of special education, I think that it should provide more details and facts on the types of learning disabilities that are included in special education. Should also describe the steps that a teacher or parent must take in order for a child to receive special education services. Should also include various laws associated with special education, and what public schools in the united states are required to do for students with disabilities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Disarnot ( talk • contribs) 00:55, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
According to a study that revolved around educating teachers on how to institute a curriculum for special needs, an increase in confidence and ability in teachers resulted in a positive change in 4 in 6 students. It also showed an increase in teacher confidence which could result in positive benefits, however there remains the need to develop a fully functional and acceptable curriculum. References: • Gianoumis, Stamatios; Seiverling, Laura; Sturming, Peter. "The Effect of Behavioral Skills Training on Correct Teacher Implementation of Natural Language Paradigm Teaching Skills and Child Behavior." Behavioral Intervention 27 (2) (2012). 57-74. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Web. 18 April, 2016. http://search.ebscohost.com.libdb.ppcc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pbh&AN=74281005&site=ehost-live • Mustafa Arif, Muhammad; Niazy, Ayesha; Hassan, Bilal; Ahmed, Farah. "Awareness of Autism in Primary School Teachers." Autism Research and Treatment (2013). 1-5. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 April, 2016. http://search.ebscohost.com.libdb.ppcc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=95270033&site=ehost-live — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:281:C501:A700:5133:811F:F919:4867 ( talk) 03:17, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
204.69.3.20 ( talk) 21:22, 2 April 2013 (UTC)The actual meaning of special education-classes or instruction designed for students with special education needs. An early proponent of education for blind was Valentin Huay, who opened a school in 1784; his efforts persued those of Louis Braille. 204.69.3.20 ( talk) 21:22, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Source 11 is a dead link. It needs to be updated. Tarynbaird ( talk) 16:11, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
One suggestion that I would make towards this article is to maybe add more information on personal experience with Special education students and what they have dealt with while working with these kind of students. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.92.42.82 ( talk) 18:52, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
One suggestion I would make towards this article is to add more on personal experience with students who do have special needs and what they went through while working with these students! Kiley mackowiak ( talk) 19:10, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
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After reviewing the National Approaches section of the article, I think it would be helpful to include a section for South America so the section is inclusive of all the different continents in the world. Adding this section can allow readers to better understand the differences in Special Education across the entire world and makes the section more well-rounded. Chadowelf ( talk) 07:33, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
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The rather long and detailed "Issues" section currently has a subsection titled "Global issues". Given that this article is supposed to be a broad global overview, it logically follows that the article should actually not be covering topics that are not global in scope. Thus the content of the Issues section before the "Global issues" subsection should not be there.
As it is the entire article outside of the "National approaches" section already suffers from a first world western bias could be reduced by moving content to various country-specific articles. US budgetary politics, for example, is not particularly relevant here. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 20:34, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
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I have a feeling someone will move ADHD back to "emotional and behavioural disorders" so I want to ask that you please remove the example altogether instead if you must. Many find the classification of ADHD as a behavioural disorder is stigmatising as it characterises it primarily by its effects on other people, downplaying the internal symptoms and effects on individuals. Furthermore, research in the last 10-20 years has identified that people with ADHD often have no obvious behavioural or emotional symptoms at all. It is first and foremost a cognitive impairment on executive functions. A child with ADHD could be perfectly happy and well behaved, and still fall behind at school due to their ADHD. Please, if you feel ADHD doesn't belong in its current place, I only ask that you don't reclassify it as an emotional or behavioural disorder. Thank you. Djelibey ( talk) 10:50, 6 May 2022 (UTC)