Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Topic: Expectations for Disabled Children.

10-second review: What happens when children are treated as if they are disabled and therefore incompetent? “If children are repeatedly treated as incompetent and disabled and/or regard themselves in this way, they will begin to identify themselves as incompetent, disabled human beings.”


Source: B Edmiston. Language Arts (March 2007), 343. The elementary school publication of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).


Comment: Common sense. RayS.

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