Essays on Children With Disabilities

Engineers nowadays have to think about an important feature on any new piece of technology: Accessibility. This can be done differently in order to adapt to specific needs. Say, a person wants to use a smartphone but he or she has a vision impairment, the…

Are Teachers Doing Enough for Children with Disabilities? While schools today are doing what they can to provide help for students with mental and physical disabilities, are they doing enough to make a difference for the child’s education? With a mental disability, being in a…

Appropriate placement for children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment is a provision of the IDEA of 1997, and 2004. IEP and IFSP teams must determine placement for these children under the guidelines imbedded within the law. Families of children with disabilities sometimes disagree…

This research paper introduces the concept of children with disabilities within the education system and the need to use an inclusive approach to learning to accommodate every need of students. Special needs children can learn better when placed in an inclusive education system, but such…

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a psychological disorder that is present in both children and adults. While adults can also have ASD, the onset of the disorder usually comes in about the first 3 years of the person’s life (Rodrigues, Goncalves, Costa & Soares 2013)….

The film Taare Zameen Par by Amir Khan, inspired me to look into learning disabilities in children that may easily get passed off as them just misbehaving and choosing not to listen. In this film, the main character Ishaan is an 8 year old boy…

This essay will explore if it is ethically permissible to enable prospective parents to utilize selective reproductive technology (SRT) to test, screen for and prevent having a disabled child. SRT includes pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal screening and testing accompanied by selective termination, used “in a…