This article was a little difficult for me to read, it took a few pages for me to get into it but ended up being good. I found it really interesting the way that people look at children that have disabilities and having them in your normal everyday classrooms.
"Colleen Madison agreed with Shayne that no child was inherently an intellectual burden to a classroom; in fact, she argues, each student contributed a unique and potentially valuable dimension to the web of relationships that formed a school community"
I have to agree with this, in order for students to really learn things other than what is being taught they need the opportunity to work with other students that might be different from them. Just because a child might have some set backs that aren't like the rest of his classmates that doesn't mean they should be excluded or feel like they are anything less than anyone else. Students with disabilities may not have all the same functions to speak or explain what they need to but they can contribute to a classroom just like anyone else could.
"I don't tend to see down syndrome as something. If you look at those kids running around the room, they're incredibly different from each other. They're different in terms of what their bodies are like, how they best communicated, what they're like socially, their interests. And with those three kids in the room it would be hard to say, "This is how you should teach kids with down syndrome." They are not all alike."
A few sentences after this it says "... down syndrome often obscures our ability to recognize the child as a child." which I believe is very true. Everyone is so worried about them being behind or causing disruption in the classroom that they forget that these students are still children. They don't want to be excluded because they are different, it could help them more to be in a normal classroom.
"Colleen Madison agreed with Shayne that no child was inherently an intellectual burden to a classroom; in fact, she argues, each student contributed a unique and potentially valuable dimension to the web of relationships that formed a school community"
I have to agree with this, in order for students to really learn things other than what is being taught they need the opportunity to work with other students that might be different from them. Just because a child might have some set backs that aren't like the rest of his classmates that doesn't mean they should be excluded or feel like they are anything less than anyone else. Students with disabilities may not have all the same functions to speak or explain what they need to but they can contribute to a classroom just like anyone else could.
"I don't tend to see down syndrome as something. If you look at those kids running around the room, they're incredibly different from each other. They're different in terms of what their bodies are like, how they best communicated, what they're like socially, their interests. And with those three kids in the room it would be hard to say, "This is how you should teach kids with down syndrome." They are not all alike."
A few sentences after this it says "... down syndrome often obscures our ability to recognize the child as a child." which I believe is very true. Everyone is so worried about them being behind or causing disruption in the classroom that they forget that these students are still children. They don't want to be excluded because they are different, it could help them more to be in a normal classroom.
"Through citizenship they came to be recognized as thinking, creative individuals who added unique and valuable dimensions to the group."
I really like this quote because it is important for all types of students to be included. They give the classroom different learning experiences as well as challenges that can help students grow and learn to accept other children that might be different from them.
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