Including Samuel Reflection Assignment Essay Example

that the staff receives adequate training. I feel that the staff is not well versed with special Ed law or DESE mandates (it’s really scary). I also think that the SPED staff does not have In the film, Keith Jones said, “You can’t box people up in a room, 20 by 20, eight hours a day, then ship them off into the world and expect them to have social interaction skills.” Why do adults often separate children with disabilities? What do you think young people learn—or don’t learn—by being separated? (2 pts)

I think adults often separate children with disabilities, because they assume that children with disabilities are incapable of being educated. I think these adults are misinformed and they assume that because a person is disabled physically, they are impaired mentally as well. When young people are separated from children with disabilities, they are misinformed just as the adults are misinformed. Young people will not be tolerant of children with disabilities or other young people that look different from them. I think that nondisabled students who have had opportunities to interact with students with disabilities hold more positive and accepting attitudes toward students with disabilities, than do students who have not had such opportunities. Such interactions can also reduce nondisabled students' fear of students with severe disabilities and promote understanding and acceptance.

Did this film change the way you think about people with disabilities? If so, how? (2pts) This film really helped me further understand that people with disabilities are entitled to and deserve the same rights as everyone else. The struggle that the disabled person fights for and is entitled to is

reminiscent of the same struggle African-Americans fought for (and is still fighting for), during the civil rights movement….to be treat equally, and be given the same opportunities as any other citizen.