The document provides practical ideas for including students with disabilities in the classroom. It suggests dispersing students with disabilities around the room instead of segregating them. Teachers should encourage participation by having students turn in their own papers and help pass things out. They should be patient with students with speech impediments and not finish their sentences. Peer buddies could help students with physical disabilities with materials. It also recommends discussing college and career opportunities with students, preparing them for sudden noises, and providing book holders or books on tape for students unable to hold books physically.

1. Persons With Disabilities
Rebecca Comeau
EDU 627 Multicultural Eduation
Spring 2012

2. Chapter 16 Review

3. Teaching to the Population

4. Teaching About the Population

5. Practical Ideas for Providing An
Appropriate Educational Experience
 Monica J. Foster wrote Disability Awareness in the Classroom and listed many
ways to make a child with disabilities feel more included:
 Room Placement
 Rather than cramming and segregating them all in the back, disperse students with
disabilities around the classroom as their needs and preferences dictate.
 Activities and Communication
 Encourage students to participate
 Turn in own papers
 Help teacher pass out papers
 Be patient for students with speech impediments
 Don’t finish their sentences
 Discuss this with other students to help them understand that it is important that each
student has a voice
 Call on them for answers just as often as the rest of the class
 Peer Buddy
 Depending on if the student has an aide and/or IEP needs, peer buddies could assist
children with a physical disability
 Help with papers and books
 Push student in a wheelchair
 Take turns rotating peer buddies

6. Practical Ideas for Providing An
Appropriate Educational Experience
(cont.)…
 Education
 A key to success
 Talk to students with disabilities about college and career opportunities
o Ask what they want to be when they grow up
 Encourage and challenge them to do their best
 Suggest books, activities, and more to encourage their growth, development of future
goals, and more
 Startle Reflex
 Can be frightening, painful, and unnecessarily embarassing
 Prepare a student if you know something sudden will happen
 Such as a fire drill
 Prepare other students by asking them not to come up suddenly to the student or too quietly
 Books on Tape/Book Holders
 Some children with a physical disability may be unable to hold a book due to strength and
tremor issues
 Things you can try:
 A book holder
 Page-turner
 Books on tape
 Computers
 Disability Awareness
 Classroom Activities

7. Makes You Think…
 “Everyone, with or without a disability, deserves
the opportunity to set goals (Foster, 2012).”

8. What’s That?
 Startle reflex- “When a student jumps easily at a
noise or sudden action (Foster, 2012).”

9. Let’s Discuss…

10. References