Yet it was in my growth in this profession that I learned what educating children with special needs was all about. ... I was then a general preschool educator who was unfamiliar with teaching procedures for mainstreaming students with special needs. ... The issue here is: "What should the field of special education do to attract and retain the best and brightest for teaching our students with special needs? ... This is essential for the teachers to meet the needs of his/her students. ... I choose to be to be a teacher of children with special needs because I enjoy overcoming challeng...

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While I was initially confused about how this text might relate to a course on special education, it soon became clear that racism, like ADD and LD, imposes a severe limitation on the ability of many students to learn in a typical classroom. ... It is interesting to me that we have a number of clinically recognized "special needs" which demand accommodations of various kinds in the classroom. Each of these needs is to some extent recognized by the general public as legitimate, while at the same time is viewed with suspicion by others. ... The textbook we are reading in this class mentioned...

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The Other Sister is a romantic comedy/drama about the special relationship between two mentally impaired young people- Carla (Juliette Lewis), who just came back from 8 years in a special school, and wanted to prove she can now handle her life on her own and be independent, and Daniel (Giovanni Ribisi), a sweet young man who falls in love with Carla after she helps him with the vicious students in their Polytechnic school. Of course things aren't perfect for the special couple- in their way stands Carla's overprotective mother (Diane Keaton), and Daniel's financial problems. ......

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