Special Education Relevance of Information Research Paper

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Schools are pressed in terms of their funding, and cannot always provide as much individualized education as is necessary to help students in the classroom.

The results of this study support the notion that preschool intervention can be extremely valuable for helping children with autism, even before the children enter kindergarten. Unfortunately, early intervention programs are struggling to find financial support even more so than standard public schools. Furthermore, children who lack economic resources may not be diagnosed adequately by parents and physicians at an early enough age to fully benefit from treatment and may receive less individualized treatment in their school environment.

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Early interventions for 'challenged' children has consistently been shown to be valuable, and to 'pay off' in terms of the academic gains children are able to make, provided the students continue to receive support. The article's suggestion for an intervention was relatively simple, but it points to a larger problem of the need for intensive intervention even before autistic children enter grade school.

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While preschool children identified as disabled are entitled to early interventions under IDEA, the scope of who is identified as autistic at a young age may need to be widened even further to include 'at risk' students who do not yet have a formal diagnosis, but display autistic tendencies.

The specific findings of the article in terms of the potential of using 'mimicking' as a way of arousing on aspects of the children's social behavior can be performed by mainstream teachers and parents as well as special education teachers. There still remains a need for professionals to use such techniques and to teach them to parents for effective us at home. Although calls for budget-cutting continue, the cost to society will be much greater if interventions are not made, and under the law every child is entitled to access to an education that is comparable (and not necessarily) identical to his or her peers......

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