Many parents detect a certain disability in one of their children from an early age. But others do not find out if their child needs special education until they reach the stage of schooling.
Special Education is intended for all those children who They need this "special education" either due to intellectual giftedness or due to a mental, physical or sensory disability, and for this they need to learn in specialized centers.
These centers already have experts in the field who study the particular needs of each student, they are special and necessary supports and will never limit the student. This type of special education makes children try to achieve maximum personal and social development.
How do you know if the child needs Special Education?
There are times when it is not easy to distinguish if a child has some type of disability or if he suffers from some characteristic sign that differentiates him from other children. This requires being attentive to the child's behavior and observe if there are behaviors or situations that are not common. In this case, there must be communication with a professional to help us with all the services you may need.
If at the beginning of the educational age the child has started and receives notifications from the center about his behavior, they should identify these guidelines to direct the child to a professional psychopedagogue and observe said attitude.
Guidelines Describing If You Need Special Education
These are the guidelines that describe whether the child can include some of these characteristics so that it is necessary to carry this type of education:
- By the time they are 3 years old, they already begin to have a fluid conversation. But if they do not have a repertoire of 50 words or form sentences of more than two words it may be showing the first signs.
- They express their emotions in an exaggerated way and find it difficult to manage them properly.
- They like to be attached to adults and they create more dependency on them than a normal child.
- They are children who are governed with great impulsiveness and they don't have much initiative to start small projects.
- When they have to participate in activities with other colleagues they can become confrontational and not behave in a correct and habitual way, getting noticed.
- However, it has problems with attention, memory and self-control and learning.
- Some have hearing and / or visual problems.
- You get to associate autistic disorder, Asperger's, rett or infantile disintegrative.
- Low self-esteem and low motivation can be attributed to them in this given their constant failures, and that can lead them to make less effort in their learning.
- In motor development it may be limited, finding difficulties with interaction with the environment, without being able to assimilate and experiment with all the objects that surround him.
When to determine if the child is eligible?
At this point we take as a reference whether the person is within their evaluation, both studied and approved, so that you can be treated in a Special Education center. Experts will take the next step in creating an Individualized Education Program (IEP).
Even if the child has an approved disability, they may not be eligible for these centers., since his disability does not prevent him from being in other general education centers. Nevertheless the school will not provide special education services but perhaps a private teacher can be approved for your care.
There is no denying that these children need this type of education and there are always other options to help you. Knowledge is always a great power and they have all their rights to adapt to a society.