EPSY 3360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Learned Helplessness, Intellectual Disability, Picea Engelmannii

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EPSY 3360
• Professor: leticiavillareal

Document Summary

Labeling is required to be included for special education. Some educators believe that the labels used to identify and classify exceptional children today stigmatize them and serve to deny them opportunities in the mainstream (e. g. , danforth & Rhodes, 1997; kliewer & biklen, 1996; reschly, 1996). Others argue that a workable system of classifying exceptional children (or their exceptional learning needs) is a prerequisite to providing needed special educational services (e. g. , kauffman, 1999; macmillan, gresham, Bocian, & lambros, 1998) and that reducing the stigma associated with disability requires honest and open recognition of the condition and that using more pleasant terms minimizes and devalues the individual"s situation and need for supports. The stigma of cancer has not abated because people tried to cloak it with euphemisms, new terms considered more upbeat and less offensive. Cancer of any type is not nice, not desirable, not anything we would wish for someone we love, but something to be acknowledged and treated.