Insights from a Special Ed Student Interview
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ScribdTranslationsInterview with a 7th grade Special Education student
In which institution have you practiced?
In preschools, elementary, and secondary regular education schools that have a
USAER service; and in CAM from initial level to work level.
Example: Tajonar Preschool
CAM #15
2. What tasks to carry out?
The tasks that are carried out depend on the needs required by the
student body.
As curricular adjustments, or access adjustments.
3. What population do they work with?
We mainly work with students who have some disability, special educational needs.
(Special Educational Needs) or students who have any barriers to
access the ordinary curriculum
4. What are the main difficulties they encounter in the provision?
of their services?
The biggest difficulty has been the poor attention and irresponsibility of the parents.
they show in the progress of their children, the overprotection that some have and the
way in which some teachers teach their classes in an ordinary manner without seeing or
achieve some accomplishment.
5. What have been your greatest achievements or satisfactions?
The greatest satisfaction has been to make students autonomous and useful for
being able to face life, also include them in society as participants in events,
at the same time they acquire their own alternative language that helps them to
expressing oneself, access to reading and writing with a child with Down syndrome and the
The main satisfaction is making a student happy and providing them with a dignified quality of life.
6. What do you think should improve for your work to have a greater reach?
What would improve the job is working together including parents.
society and teachers making a commitment for the benefit of the student, providing
the sufficient foundations in the school including innovative material that captivates the
student, faced with the role that parents must play and the
functions to be fulfilled by reinforcing activities and finally society accepting and
including them.
7. What can you recommend to us as students of the Normal School?
so that, as teachers, we collaborate with support services for
educational inclusion?
The main recommendation is to detect needs and seek solutions in cases.
special services that require it and the approach to support services, work
through playful activities that leave meaningful learning instead of
routine and ordinary teaching, carry out activities that break with the
societal prejudices.
It is necessary to increase and ensure quality educational support for the
children with educational needs, priority should be given to those who
have a disability, and through strengthening the process of
integration of special education services has been able to provide service to
more children, although I still feel it is insufficient. The participation of parents of
family and teachers are very valuable since they are the main ones
responsible for including everyone either through adjustments and covering this
way the needs or providing them support with some of the services
from CAM, CAPEP, and USAER because not all facilities have it.