PS379 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Least Restrictive Environment, Individualized Education Program, Reading Disability
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Scientific & pseudo-scientific attitudes amplified in debates about exceptionality. Before, used to think that children with disabilities missed a step in brain development: missed crawling, re-taught children to crawl, micro-level: looking for a cure. Environment: early interventions, try to identify children with problems earlier, at age 3, notices reading disability, set goals to fix these problems by age. 6: head start programs (in us, ontario early year centers (oeyc, questions about what to do with child in early growing years. Predispositions to conditions: cluster of genes that is related to disability. Education of people with disabilities was not an issue: child (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t go to s(cid:272)hool if the(cid:455) had a disa(cid:271)ilit(cid:455, no impact on where to place them in education. Residential schools for children with sensory impairments, mental retardation. Provide training & protect from outside world. Instead of blaming the school, the blame went on the individual. Children with disabilities would go to special school.
