CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Vocational School, Disability Studies, Visual Impairment

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Shauna Pomerantz

Document Summary

Week 8: conceptualizing learning disabilities and other exceptionalities: conceptualizing exceptionalities. Why do we have an ability/disability paradigm: conceptualizing exceptionalities. Every child possesses a unique combination of abilities and problems, interests and fears, successes and failures (winzer, p. 4) Children come with many gifts and offer us many lessons: conceptualizing exceptionalities. In canadian society, special education is based on ideas about _________________________ and _________________________ development. Educators are taught to expect _________________________ in their students. To expect a pattern of strengths and weaknesses that is reflective of individual differences: conceptualizing exceptionalities. However some _________________________ ____________________________fall outside this range of normal expectations. Those students who fall outside the normal range are seen to need. There is an area of research that focuses on the study of _________________________ Within that area one approach is disability studies: conceptualizing exceptionalities. Addresses exceptionality in its social and political settings.