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Children with disabilities have challenges in accessing play and social interactions. [27] Play is essential for the physical, emotional, and social well-being of all children. [ 28 ] The use of assistive technology has been recommended to facilitate the communication, mobility, and independence of children with disabilities. [ 29 ]
Implementing the social model within modern forms of inclusive education provides children of all abilities with the role of changing discriminatory attitudes within the school system. For example, a disabled student may need to read text instead of listening to a tape recording of the text.
Picture book Baking Up a Storm [13] Jessica Parham/Srimalie Bassani Protagonist is a boy without a left hand. 2022 Picture book Come Over to My House [14] Eliza Hull, Sally Rippin/Daniel Gray-Barnett Examples of lots of different disabilities and how people live by showing kids playing at each other's houses.
Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society broadly. [1] [2] Disability models are useful for understanding disagreements over disability policy, [2] teaching people about ableism, [3] providing disability-responsive health care, [3] and articulating the life experiences of disabled people.
The term special needs is a short form of special education needs [12] [13] and is a way to refer to students with disabilities, in which their learning may be altered or delayed compared to other students. [14]
Professor Ian Davidson and colleagues analyzed the depiction of disabled characters in a collection of 19th children's literature from the Toronto Public Library. [5] The researchers found certain common characteristics of disability representation in 19th-century children's literature: disabled characters rarely appeared as individuals, but are usually depicted as impersonal groups and ...
Founded in 1971 by Eric Schopler, TEACCH provides training and services geared to helping autistic children and their families cope with the condition. [ 2 ] [ 17 ] Gary B. Mesibov , a professor and researcher on UNC's TEACCH program since about 1979, was director of the program from 1992 to 2010.
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