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2. WHO ARE EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN???
• According to Krik of the American National society for the study of
education, “An exceptional child he is who deviates from the normal
child in physical, mental and social characteristics to such an extent
that he requires a modification of school practices or special
education services in order to develop to his maximum capacity.”
4. PHYSICALLY EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
• SENSORILY DISABLED CHILDREN:
Children who are blind, deaf or dumb are classified under this.
• CHILDREN WITH MOTOR DISABILITIES:
Children with damaged parts of the body which makes the child’s motor movements of the body
irregular and uncontrolled.
• MULTIPLE HANDICAPPED CHILDREN:
Children who are suffering from more than one physical deformity.
5. MENTALLY EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
• GIFTED CHILDREN:
The term gifted encompasses those children who posses a superior intellectual potential and
functional ability to achieve academically in the top 15-20 percent of the school population.
They have an I.Q of above 140.
• CREATIVE CHILDREN:
According to researchers, children with average intelligence has been found more creative.
• MENTALLY DEFICIENT CHILDREN:
Children having negative abnormalities are mentally deficient.
Their I.Q is less than average.
6. EDUCATIONALLY EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
• EDUCATIONALLY BRIGHT CHILDREN:
They have a high adaptability to learning, understanding and assimilation of thoughts of high
standards.
Their I.Q is higher than normal children.
• EDUCATIONALLY BACKWARD CHILDREN:
Children who are educationally backward in their age group by 1 or 2 years.
• LEARNING DISABLED CHILDREN:
These children are educationally average or good but experience difficulty in learning any special
subject.
7. SOCIALLY EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
• DEPRIVED CHILDREN:
The state of deprivation arises among children due to some social, economic and cultural
deficiencies.
• MALADJUSTED CHILDREN:
Maladjusted children cannot make adjustment in the society due to family problems, personal
problems, health problems, emotional maladjustment.
• PROBLEMATIC CHILDREN:
These children create problems from very young age.
They create problems for everybody.
8. • JUVENILE DELINQUENTS:
Children who are involved in anti-social activities, breaking laws, doing destructive work like
murder, rape, violence, thefts.
• DEVIANT CHILDREN:
Deviant children are those who lack conformity to their role expectation in a given social situation.
• EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN:
The children are unable to maintain satisfactory inter-personal relationships at home, in the
neighborhood, school and society.
10. INTRODUCTION
• When the parents identify that his or her child suffers from
disability or a chronic illness it becomes a challenging task for
them.
• Initially, parents will feel alone and isolated.
• Parents views when they first discover that their child has
disability:
◊The day my child was diagnosed as having a disability, I was
devastated and so confused that I recall little else about those
first days other than the heartbreak.
◊Another parent describes it has a “black sack” being pulled down
over her head, blocking her ability to hear, see and think in
normal ways.
◊Another parent describes it as “having a knife stuck in her heart”
11. COMMON REACTIONS OF PARENTS
• DENIAL:
Denying how this can happen.
• ANGER:
Anger which may be directed towards the medical personnel who provided the information
regarding the problem.
• GRIEF:
something which they do not know how to explain or deal with.
• FEAR:
It is the immediate response shown by most of the individual. They usually fear for the
unknown than for the known. They fear regarding the child’s condition that it will worsen. The
fear almost immobilize the parents.
12. • GUILT:
Guilt regarding whether they are the reason for this.
Guilt feelings may also be manifested in spiritual and religious interpretations of
blame and punishment.
• CONFUSION:
Confusion marks the traumatic period.
Confusion leads to sleeplessness, inability to make decisions and mental overload.
• POWERLESSNESS:
The changes which are happening is very difficult to accept.
It is hard to rely on judgements, opinions and recommendation by others.
13. • DISAPPOINTMENT:
Threat to many parents’ egos and a challenge to their value system.
• REJECTION:
Rejection directed towards the child or towards the other family members.
Serious form of rejection, and not that uncommon is a “death wish” of the child.
14. SEEK THE ASSISTANCE OF ANOTHER
PARENT
• They can seek the help of another parent.
• They may not realize the importance of the child today but there will be a time in the
parents life when they realize having a child with disability is a blessing.
• First, identify the another parent of a child with a disability.
15. TALK WITH YOUR MATE, FAMILY AND SIGNIFICANT
OTHERS
• Parents usually do not communicate their feelings with others.
• One spouse is often concerned about not being a source of strength for the other mate.
• Trying to explain it to others.
• Talk to children.
• Identify others within the family structure who can establish a communicative bond
with them.
• Talk with significant others.
16. RELY ON POSITIVE SOURCES IN YOUR LIFE
• Positive source of strength and wisdom might be minister, priest or rabbi.
• Next could be good friend or a counselor.
• Taking the problem to God also would help them.
• When feelings are painful reach out and contact someone.
17. • TAKE ONE DAY AT A TIME:
Fears of the future can immobilize one.
• LEARN THE TERMINOLOGY:
When they are introduced to new terminology they should not feel hesitant to ask.
• SEEK INFORMATION:
Usually, parents seek the tons of information on the disability.
• DO NOT BE INTIMIDATED:
Do not feel inadequate in the presence of people.
Do not be intimidated by the educational background.
Do not bother about asking a lot of questions.
18. • DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SHOW EMOTION:
Do not repress the emotions.
• LEARN TO DEAL WITH NATURAL FEELINGS OF BITTERNESS AND ANGER:
Recognize the anger and learn to let it go.
Acknowledge and work through the negative feelings.
• MAINTAIN A POSITIVE OUTLOOK:
A positive attitude will be one of the genuinely valuable tools for dealing with problems.
• KEEP IN TOUCH WITH REALITY:
Accept the life as it is.
Accept the change.
• REMEMBER THAT TIME IS ON YOUR SIDE:
Time can heal many wounds.
19. REFERENCES
• Kar Chintamani (2016) Exceptional Children: Their Psychology and Education Reprint Edition,
New Delhi, Sterling Publishers.
• http://www.familyvoices.org/admin/work_caring/files/nd20.pdf
• https://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2014/09/02/15-truths-parenting-special-kids
20. THANK YOU
CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AREN’T SENT TO
SPECIAL PARENTS BUT THEY MAKE PARENTS SPECIAL
Editor's Notes
H J. Baker has emphasized that these children do not form a separate class. Even they are not also distinct from normal children (Baker, H J.; 1953). These children are far enough below or far enough above the average range. They need specialized attention which is not provided in regular classrooms.
Exceptional children have dissimilarities among themselves when compared with other children. Some of them are exceptional due to physical disabilities, intellectual deficiencies, abnormal educational achievements
*physical impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by congenital anomaly, disease and by other causes.
*Children who are blind since birth, partially or seriously short sighted, deaf or dumb.
Deaf: This handicap means an inability to hear within normal limits due to physical impairment and in processing linguistic information. Hearing disorders affect various aspects of mental maturity, and educational and social attainments.
Blind: unability to see within normal units.
*Which can be totally or partially damaged by polio, paralysis, irregular blood pressure, accidents or long illness.
*Eg: The child might be suffering from deaf and dumb or could be deaf, dumb and blind. It includes emotional disturbance along with either disabilities like epilepsy, mental retardation, etc.
*Mentally exceptional children: Children of abnormal intellectual. The intellectual abnormality can be of positive or negative.
*who have talent of a high order in such special areas as mathematics, mechanics, science, expressive arts, creative writing, music and social leadership and a unique creative ability to deal with their environment. The gifted children do their work in an expected time without any help. They want to do something unique which they cannot do in a class with normal children.
*Gifted children have the quality of creativity up to some extent but it is not necessary that every creative child has more mental ability than an average child.
*Some mentally deficient children are educable while others with severe mentally deficient are trainable only. Educable children can be trained in a class for normal children while with severe mentally deficient children cannot be trained for any work.
*educationally exceptional children: Children those who are different in reading writing abilities when compared to a normal child.
*They have a long memory span of things which they have learned. They create records, secure positions in merit. They need a good environment and good teachers.
*This is due to 2 reasons: a defective educational environment and the use of wrong educational methods and mental retardation of the child.
*Children with dyslexia: reading literature, dysgraphia: difficulty in writing, dyscalculia: difficulty in mathematics.
*Children under this category are usually socially deviated due to their personal problems, behavior and emotional status. It is impossible to give them education with normal children.
Maladjusted children are usually aggressive.
*Problematic child: telling lies, thieving, quarelling, bed wetting, nail biting. Teacher, parents, classmates, neighbours, society
*
*children who are below 18yrs of age.
*Conformity:
*the academic performance is affected to a great extent.
Point 1: they begin a journey which takes them to life often they are filled with strong emotion, difficult choices , interactions with many professionals and specialists, an ongoing need for information and needs.
Point 2: since they do not know where to begin search for information, assistance, understanding and support.
Denial: This cannot be happening to me, to my child, to our family.” Denial rapidly merges with anger Anger: can cause misunderstanding between husband and wife, with grand parents or significant others. Early on, it seems that the anger is so intense that it touchesalmost anyone, because it is triggered by the feelings of grief
Fear:What is going to happen to this child when he is five years old, when he is twelve, when he is twenty-one? What is going to happen to this child when I am gone?” Thenother questions arise: “Will he ever learn? Will he ever go to college? Will he or she have the capability of loving and living and laughing and doing all the things that wehad planned?
Fear about society’s rejection and the brothers and sisters will be affected, husband or wife will love this child.
Guilt: Did I do something to cause this?Am I being punished for something I have done? Did I take care of myself when I was pregnant?Did my wife take good enough care of herself when she was pregnant? Why has god done this to me?,
Confusion: They do not understand what is happening and what will happen. They tend to new words which they don’t even know the meaning of it and the description also will not be understandable for them.
Powerlessness: though the parents cannot do anything about this. Paarents want to feel competent and capable of handling their own life situations. Outsiders are always strangers.
Disappointment: depending on the previous expectations it create reluctance to accept one’s child as a valuable, developing person.
Rejection: one of the common reaction which is experienced by the parents. A feeling that many parents report to their deepest points of depression. So many different feelings can flood the mind and heart there is no way to measure intensely the experiences.
They can seek the help from many sources.
When the couples communicate at difficult times it gives them the greater strength. Try to explain each other the feelings, try to understand when you dot see things the same way. If the parent is not emotionally capable of talking with the children or seeing to their emotional needs. Significant others are best friend or your own parents. Emotional burden is very much during this time which can be reduced when they talk to others.
Go to the previous ones and identify few now. Pain when divided is not nearly hard to bear the pain in isolation.
Live with the reality of the particular day. What ifs and what thens of the future.
When they do know a word mening during the conversation they can stop and ask the meaning of it.
Usually the fathers do it because they believe it to be a sign of weakness to let know people know how they are feeling.
The parents will be better equipped to meet new challenges, and bitterness and anger will no longer drain the energies and initiative.