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Ana V. Torres EEC 3403 Assignment: Family Profile Activity Iris Module on Collaborating with Families: Activity 1 (Page 2) One way for teachers to support families is to try to understand what it would be like to raise a child with a disability. Imagine yourself as the parent in one of the three scenarios below: 

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Your eight-year-old child was recently evaluated for a learning disability. This is your first child and you had no anxiety about his development until his new third-grade teacher voiced her concern about his difficulty with reading. Soon the results of the evaluation come back, and you are informed that your child has a learning disability in reading. In addition, the school states that it would like to evaluate him further for attention deficit disorder. Your 14-month-old daughter is not meeting the expected developmental milestones. Her pediatrician evaluates her based on your concerns and refers you to an orthopedic specialist, who diagnoses your daughter with cerebral palsy. You are told that this condition will likely affect her mobility skills, language development, and, possibly, cognitive abilities. Recently, your two-year-old son has stopped communicating and has begun exhibiting some self-injurious behaviors (e.g., biting himself, banging his head into things). Watching the Oprah show one afternoon, you hear a guest describe the characteristics of young children who have autism. You recognize the same characteristics in your son and call your pediatrician to schedule a visit. Your fears are confirmed after this visit and subsequent visits with specialists for assessments.

Select one of the scenarios above and reflect on the following questions: 1.

What do you think your immediate reaction would be? My immediate reaction would be angry because it is not fair that my children have to go

through this condition. I know that every parent wants their children to be healthy. So, receiving this information about my daughter will make me wonder what I did wrong or why I deserved this situation in my life, and if hope is actually the last thing we lose. 2.

What sense of loss might you experience? The sense of loss I might experience are depression because I will experience uncontrollable

tears. Also, I might experience anxiety because I will be conscious that everything will change for me as a mother that it might affect my attitudes, values, beliefs, and routines.

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How do you think your current friends and family would respond when you told them the news? I think that my current friends and family would respond with support when I told them the

news. In my family, I used to have a cousin with down syndrome, and that makes our family more united. I do not think that my family or friend will stop love my daughter because it has already been labeled. However, what I think my friends would not understand is the change I will experience because of my daughter's condition; probably, I am not going to have a lot of time to hang out with them because my daughter will need more than me than ever. 4.

How do you think your life might change? My life will change completely. I might have a conversation with my husband or family

about making a sacrifice of me getting a part-time job or work from home or not work at all depend on my economic situation. But what I know for sure is that all of me is going to be consumed by helping my daughter and finding sources that improve the way of living of my daughter. 5.

Do you think your dreams for your child would change after learning of the disability? Explain. It is not like I am a negative person, but yes, I do think that my dreams for my child would

change after learning of the disability because this condition affects movement and muscle tone or posture. And this does not have a cure, so it is a disability that my daughter will have for the rest of her life. 6.

What would you want teachers to do to help you and your child? Thanks to IDEA, I do not have to worry about my daughter being rejected by a public

school. However, what I want for teachers to do to help my child and me is to try to get to know my child by putting aside her condition. That the teacher communicates and shares with me all the sources that she might think it will help my daughter. Also, to be proactive and active about bullying. Hence, to include my daughter in many activities as possible and make the classroom physically accessible.

Iris Module on Collaborating with Families: Activity 2 (Page 4) After reading this article and learning about the challenges associated with parenting a child with a disability, identify at least three issues that affect families of children with disabilities or their siblings. For the three issues you identify, list two ways that you or your school might provide information or support to the family so they can have some time to be more involved with your school. Use the worksheet below to record your responses.

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Ways Schools Can Help

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2.Finances

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3.Emotional Support

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The school can offer home visits by delivering services to their young children with disabilities. The teacher can offer the options of having parent-meeting conference via video call like with the app ZOOM.

Give parents the option for parents to reach out to school staff who is an expert on financial topics. Offer fundraiser’s activities with the goal of help families in critical financially conditions because of all the medicals bills.

Offers programs about parents' support groups at school. Offers information about other families who are going through the same situation so they can get in contact if both families desire it....