Educational Implications for Students with Physical and Health Impairments



Abstract

In this study, we try to explore the Educational Implications for Students with Physical and Health Impairments. The main focus of the research is to analyze different accommodation and/or modification methods for the educational development of the students who have physical or health impairments. This Research report also gives an overview of Individualized Education Program (IEP), where the results of our research are linked with it.

Educational Implications for Students with Physical and Health Impairments

Introduction

This research is intended to evaluate different educational implication for students with physical and health impairments. Disabilities include mental, long-term physical, health related or sensory impairment. This research paper deals with accommodation and their evaluation in different schools and how effective they are. Education of disable children has been an issue of debate for decades now, in fact, now almost every developed and developing country is working on this issue.

Educational implication for students with physical and health impairments

Before going into the details of accommodations and modifications being suggested, we first need to understand the difference between the two terminologies. If talk about accommodation, it is a change in the test preparation, location, course, standard, scheduling, student response, timing, expectations, or any other feature which offers access for a student with a disability to participate in a course. Accommodation can simply be termed as the external arrangements for study, where teacher normally refers to it as good teaching strategies. A modification, on the other hand, provides a structural cognitive change in the level of the material. The major difference between the two is that accommodation can be made for any student where as modification are usually made for students with cognitive and physical disabilities. Teachers use both modifications and accommodation for improvement in the overall level of academia of Students with Physical and Health Impairments. The accommodation and/or modifications used by teachers are as follows:

Students with physical and health impairments find it difficult to be on the same level with other students, so expectations in academic subjects are based on individual goals established through observation and evaluation of each student considering his various attributes.

Students who find it difficult to write or who have difficulty in remembering spelling are allowed to use word processors for writing various reports and assignment.

As students who are suffering from physical and health impairments are usually not as good in multi-tasking as compared to a normal child, this is the reason why students are allowed to have a note-taker with them.

Although in some courses, calculators are not allowed for normal students, but when considering a student who is suffering from physical, mental or health impairment, are allowed to use calculators. However this is usually for those who find it mathematical calculations difficult.

Those students, who are not comfortable with their seating due to perceptual difficulties, are allowed preferential seating.

Those students who have difficulties in thinking and writing are allowed a longer or at times unlimited time to complete the examination

Students who are suffering from physical ...