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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Types Of Disabilities and how people with disabilites deal with it?

Since you have gotten a view of what special needs are from my last post by reading a paper I wrote on this very subject. You have a basic understanding of what a disability is and what a special needs people are. As a refresher a disability is a physical or mental condition that limits a persons movements sense or activities. Again, for me I am hard of hearing. I have trouble on some level. To help with that I wear hearing aids to help with amplifying the sound so I can people better.
Today is going to be the many categories that deal with what  disabilities are and what stages of a response to a disability. Then going to understand the acceptance of a disability of a scale. Sometimes this is commonly used. People with disabilities as an acronym which is PWD is how it is used. 
Categories of a Disability 

  1. Physical Disability 
  2. Intellectual/Development 
  3. Cognitive 
  4. psychiatric   

Acceptance of a disability scale 
- Developed in 1971 as a way to determine the characteristics of what makes a person with a disability accepting of his/her disability.

  1. Focus on certain individual values 
  2. DE-emphasis on Physique 
  3. containment of disability 
  4. Stop comparing self to others' assets. 
Stages of response to a disability 

  1. shock
  2. denial 
  3. depression 
  4. anger
  5. acceptance. 
At the end just let the person with special needs just be themselves and just be their for them. It is okay to not understand at first. Being their sometimes just means  the world to them. 

P.S I am going to write about what person first language and what disability culture is. That will be introduction to something. My very dear friend is going to write about what disability culture is like where he lives in New York. That will be the week after when I give my introduction to the ideas he is going to write about. 

Sunday, November 12, 2017

What is Special needs?

I was thinking about what to write here in this weeks post. Today I am going to share a paper I wrote for an Educational Psychology class.  In this I class I learned about how to identify and help different learners and much more. One of things I learned was identifying what special needs people are and what gifted people are. That is some of things I have learned in the class. This paper goes in to what special needs are and what special education is. Then it is what the government should do about it. Take your time reading the paper and let me know your thoughts reader. Just as a reminder this is just my own thoughts about the topic. Copy and paste the link.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PTna0lEOTfF5JhQ_6G2tCt4sPhKl6pjDhAluKsB5XaA/edit?usp=sharing

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Get to know the Author

My name is Joseph Gronski and I am a special needs person. Which means that I am hard of hearing and my I.Q is lower than the average person. I have a passion for working with the special needs community. Right, Now I am a student Pennsylvania State University studying Rehabilitation and Human Services along with a minor in Special Education. They are both an education major and minor through my school. I have a passion for promoting special needs people through  school and education. I know what it is like to be a special needs person and thinks I can relate to people and jobs I want after school. I want to become a special needs teacher through Teach for America because I was once in special needs classes myself and know what it is like to struggle myself. On some level I can relate to the people I teach or counsel. I also want to become a psychiatrist specializing in Adolescent psychology because I know how it is be yourself at that age. Lets go back a step to understand a little bit about how I became hard of hearing.

When I was four my right middle ear bones  had erupted and my parents had to take me to the emergency room. All of a sudden this blue liquid was coming out of my ear. They had to replace the middle ear bones with fake ones. Then it affected my left ear and that is how I became hard of hearing. From that my physical disability has impacted my mental disability. That only wants to make me want to work harder at school because I know I have these obstacles I have to overcome. What does all this mean when it come my blog and what I am passionate about?

I will be sharing a weekly blog post about mental health and special needs people are. I will be posting every Sunday night. Related topics to on the subject. It could be through my daily life or what I did learn or what I am currently learning. One day were are all going to say we are all able not disabled. To me everyone has something good to contribute to this world not matter how small it is.

P.S I am a lot different about than other blogs that are similar because I am a special needs person who wants educate other people about special needs or mental health. I will be blogging various topics from my Psychology courses, Rehabilitation and Human Services Courses or my Special education courses.  I might even take topics from my Sociology courses. Thanks for taking the time to read my very first blog post and can not wait until next week.

Just letting you know!

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