Educating Special Needs Children - How Should Educators Be Trained to Teach
Special Needs Children? © 2010
Educating Special Needs Children - How
Should Educators Be Trained to Teach
Special Needs Children?
Written by: Autism Advisor
Educating Special Needs Children
Educating special needs students can be a challenging yet rewarding experience. Educators
who work with children with learning disabilities need to be specially trained to know how to
handle particular situations and personalities. People who work with or are responsible for
teaching special needs children need to first understand the different learning disabilities,
attention deficits, developmental delays, behavior problems, and other distinctive disorders
that each child may suffer from. The degree of disability of each student varies but could
include severe difficulties such as dyslexia, autism, and multiple disabilities.
It's helpful for educators to develop a clinical eye towards all students and learn how to apply
special teaching techniques to reach each student. Each student has different symptoms and
needs and therefore teaching special needs should be customized and developed to meet each
student's needs. The first step to ensuring this approach is to develop an educational plan that
is designed and modified to fit the individual based on their weaknesses.
Educating special needs students requires patience, an understanding of the medical
conditions that have an effect on learning disabled children, as well as an understanding of
the federal laws of education. This is all vital to being a positive influence and great help in
teaching special needs children. You need a solid foundation of knowledge relating to
students with learning disabilities first in order to effectively help teach them. Beyond this, an
understanding of the federal laws that apply to education such as IDEA, No Child Left
Behind (NCLB), and Section 504 of the Rehabilitations Act of 1973, along with other
classroom and curriculum accommoda