CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intellectual Disability, Disability Studies, Ableism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Dawn Zinga

Document Summary

Lecture notes week 8: conceptualizing learning disabilities and other. Conceptualizing exceptionalities (cid:498)every child possesses a unique combination of abilities and problems, interests and fears, successes and failures(cid:499) (cid:523)winzer, p. (cid:886)(cid:524) Children come with many gifts and offer us many lessons: conceptualizing exceptionalities. In canadian society, special education is based on ideas about normative and non- normative development (normative is based on average) Educators are taught to expect variation in their students. To expect a pattern of strengths and weaknesses that is reflective of individual differences: conceptualizing exceptionalities. However some learning styles/processes fall outside this range of normal expectations. Those students who fall outside the normal range are seen to need special education. There is an area of research that focuses on the study of exceptionality. Within that area one approach is disability studies: conceptualizing exceptionalities. Addresses exceptionality in its social and political settings. Main focus is the dynamic interaction between bodily impairments, people"s social.