Study to Examine Belief and Role

[Abdul Wahab]

Possibly the largest and most pervasive issue in special education, in addition to my own journey in education, is special education's relationship to general education. History indicates that it has never been an easy clear cut relationship involving the two. There's been plenty of giving and taking or maybe I ought to say pulling and pushing as it pertains to educational policy, and the educational practices and services of education and special education by the human educators who deliver those services on both parties of the isle, like me.

Over the last 20+ years I have now been on both parties of education. I have experienced best school in gurgaon and felt what it had been like to become a regular main stream educator dealing with special education policy, special education students and their specialized teachers. I've already been on the special education side hoping to get regular education teachers to work more effectively with my special education students through modifying their instruction and materials and having a little more patience and empathy.

Furthermore, I have now been a conventional regular education teacher who taught regular education inclusion classes attempting to figure out how to best assist some new special education teacher in my class and their special education students as well. And, in contrast, I have already been a special education inclusion teacher intruding on the territory of some regular education teachers with my special education students and the modifications I believed these teachers should implement. I will tell you first-hand that none of this give and take between special education and regular education has been easy. Nor do I see this pushing and pulling becoming easy anytime soon.

So, what's special education? And why is it so special and yet so complex and controversial sometimes? Well, special education, as its name suggests, is a specialized branch of education. It claims its lineage to such people as Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard (1775-1838), the physician who "tamed" the "wild boy of Aveyron," and Anne Sullivan Macy (1866-1936), the teacher who "worked miracles" with Helen Keller.

Special educators teach students who have physical, cognitive, language, learning, sensory, and/or emotional abilities that deviate from those of the typical population. Special educators provide instruction specifically tailored to meet up individualized needs. These best school in gurgaon teachers basically make education more available and accessible to students who otherwise could have limited usage of education as a result of whatever disability they are struggling with.

It's not merely the teachers though who may play a role in the history of special education in this country. Physicians and clergy, including Itard- mentioned above, Edouard O. Seguin (1812-1880), Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876), and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851), wished to ameliorate the neglectful, often abusive treatment of individuals with disabilities. Sadly, education in this country was, more frequently than not, very neglectful and abusive when dealing with students which are different somehow.