Reflection Week 9

Reflection:

This week in class we worked on our family projects. As we were finishing up with this project and getting all of our loose ends tied up, we were able to get a really good perspective on what these families go through and how much really does go into helping these families. Sometimes it was really hard to find what we needed to help the family and there were so many different considerations and things to go over. One thing that really stood out to me this week is how much things can change. My family and group had a baby who actually ended up passing away before the age of 1. This was really sad and would be a hard thing to go through because this family had changed just about every aspect of their life for this baby, and then the baby didn't make it. As I got to thinking about all of this and what it has to do with me, I realized that as a teacher I will have to work with these families and know how to help them and the students I teach. Knowing the resources around us and who to contact can be a huge help to the families of my students.

As we gave our presentation and group 2 gave theirs, I thought it was really cool that we were both able to teach the class something new and something different. Each individual family is going to have different needs and different things going on, and it was really neat to see how these groups were able to help the family they had.

Weekly Quote:

"Every family and every situation is different." I think this quote is 100% true. This is important to remember because even though a family might have a child with the same disability, the children are going to react different because they aren't the same. As a future teacher, I can help each family and student by having a variety of strategies and resources to help them with their own individual needs.

HWD:

This week as I was researching more on the relationships of families with a child who has a disability I came across something that really hit me and I hadn't thought about before reading it. The website I found talked about how siblings can have negative feelings toward the child who has the disability. One of the things it talked about was how sisters of these children often feel like they have to pick up the slack because mom is busy with their sibling. I hadn't really thought of this before but it said that the daughters tend to take more care over other siblings or make meals and clean. It talked about having parents make sure that their children who don't have a disability aren't given too many responsibilities.

Source: http://gozips.uakron.edu/~susan8/specialneeds.htm