Special Education and Mathematics

In the earlier post I gave some categories of special education in which the disabled is among. We shall now dwell on the types of disability we have.  Types of Disability    We have differences types of disabilities which are;  1. Autism spectrum disorder  2. Deaf-blindness 3. Deafness/ hearing impairment  4. Developmental delays  5. Emotional disturbance /hyperactivity  6. Intellectual  disabilities  7. Multiple disabilities  8. Orthopedic impairment  9. Physical and health impairment  10. Learning disability 11. Speech and language impairment  12. Traumatic brain injury  13. Visual impairment /blind Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Autism Spectrum Disorder refers to a developmental disability that significantly affects communication (both verbal and nonverbal) and social interaction. These symptoms are typically evident before the age of three and adversely affect a child’s e...

Special education encompasses a wider range of educational system,  it is divided into three categories; 1. The disabled 2. The disadvantage 3. The gifted and talented The disabled : this are the set of people who are having one deforming or the other,  people who have their part of the body damaged. This set of people  are having  impairment,  thereby limiting them from performing a particular task. Examples are the hearing impaired,  visual impaired,  physical and health impairment,  autistic, behavioral disorder,  mentally  retarded,  learning disabled etc. The disadvantage: These are categories of peoples who don't have access to the societal norms, that is that are denied due to their condition which may be financial,  psychological,  age, philosophical etc. Examples are the normadic, migrant fishermen,  aged,  prison inmate, juveniles , homeless people etc. The gifted and talented : This categori...

INTRODUCTION Idiots, imbeciles, and intellectual impairment by Catherine Slater, M.A Cantab a history of mental handicap/ learning difficulties from 1000AD to 2000AD.The subject of mental retardation has been neglected in an ancient writings but there is enough evidence in historical records to show it existed. The causes were then as now congenital, chromosomal, intrauterine damage, premature or protracted birth, or infections and accidents in infancy and childhood. Infant mortality was high and most children with Down Syndrome, Cerebral palsy or other disability where there was a weakened resistance to infection would have succumb early to pulmonary infections, heart defects and gastro enteritis. Some would have survived, like children who had a mental disability but no physical impairments. At a time when most people lived by agriculture, herding sheep and goats or fishing and reading and writing were unnecessary, moderate intellectual disability would have been important. People ...

INTRODUCTION   Special Education comes as a result of four unrelated event, sometimes antagonistic  factors or what one may term as human characteristics, this factors are; Superstition, Wickedness, Sympathy and Curiosity. The experience of this ancient Greek, Rome and middle Ages, Europe are being observed in twentieth century in Nigeria. The Early Beginning At Calabar, Umuahia, and elsewhere, the Good Samaritan – missionaries such as, Roman Catholic Missionary, Church Missionary society, Seventh Day Adventist mission, Sudan United missionary, America Southern Baptist Convention (ASBC), United free Church of Scotland, Sudan Interior mission, these missionaries saved the lives of disabled and trained twins. Finally in the early 1950’s the disabled in Nigeria ate from the crumbs that fell from the tables of “normal” Child. To our knowledge, the Gindiri school. For the blind was the first of these to be established and that was in January 1953 under Miss price with an enrol...

engineeroot.blogspot.com Special education can be  defined as the education given to the children with special needs,  which requires special equipments, special  teaching  strategies /techniques  and special  teachers. Special education, unlike the regular educational programs tends to attend to the educational needs including  psychological ,cognitive ,emotional, social,  marital,  financial, medical and economical needs of children with special needs. It involves training these children to maximize the little potentiality in them to be effective  in every area of life. Special education offers wide range of enlightenment  and ways of helping the children with special needs to accumulate the abilities in disability.

Introduction  This site is  meant to  give an outstanding education on the concept and components of special education  in regards to mathematics  education. It will be of help to the teacher, special  educators, students, stakeholders etc in order to find and get the necessary information  needed for special education and mathematics  for their research work, assignments, knowledge  sake etc.  Visit this site every week for an educative  update and informations.