Final Exam Flashcards
What are the 4 Stages of Adjustment?
- Ostrich Phase
- Special Designation
- Normalization
- Self-Actualization
What is the Ostrich Phase in the Stages of Adjustment?
- Parents do not deny disability, but do not fully understand it’s impact
- Coming up with reasons for why the child is different
What is the Special Designation Phase of the Stages of Adjustment?
- Acknowledgement of difference
- Families realize their child has a special need
- Seeking help and asking for supports/services (want every possible sources)
- May be seen as “demanding/confrontational” as they are advocating for services/supports
What is the Normalization Phase of the Stages of Adjustment?
- Desire for the child to feel and appear like any other “normal” child
- Want their child to be like other children
- Want their child to fit in and be seen like all the other children (see my child, not their disability)
- A new normal is seen
- Some families will request less services/supports
- Increase inclusive opportunities
What is the Self-Actualization Phase of the Stages of Adjustment?
- Accept and recognize their child needs extra supports
- Families do not view different as better or worse
- Support their child learning about their own needs and how to cope with it
- Act as advocates and encourage child to advocate for themselves
Define curriculum modification.
A change to the ongoing activity or materials in order to facilitate or maximise a child’s participation in planned activities and routines
Modifications/Adaptations
- Should be easy to implement
- Requires thought and planning but not always extra resources
- Many educators regularly make curriculum modification without identifying them as such
What are the 8 types of curriculum modifications?
- Environmental Support
- Materials Adaptation
- Activity Simplification
- Child Preferences
- Special Equipment
- Adult Support
- Peer Support
- Invisible Support
Define environmental support.
Altering the physical, social, and temporal environment to promote participation, engagement and learning
Define materials adaptation.
Modifying materials so that the child can participate as independently as possible
Define activity simplification.
Simplifying a complicated task by breaking it into smaller parts or by reducing the number of steps
Define child preferences.
If the child is not taking advantage of the available opportunities, identify and integrate the child’s preferences
Define special equipment.
Using special or adaptive devices that allow a child to participate or increase the child’s level of participation
Define adult support.
Having an adult intervene to support the child’s participation and learning
Define peer support.
Utilising peers to help children learn important goals or outcomes.
Define invisible support.
Purposeful arranging of naturally occurring events within one activity.
Why should we encourage parent involvement?
- Parents are major socializing agents
- Parents know their child the best
- Generalization of skills
- Consistency of expectations
- Child wants to please their parent
- Child acquires skills more quickly
- Offers parents access to support
- Gain more perspective on child’s strengths and needs
What are some factors that can affect family responses?
- Visibility of disability
- Proof of disability
- Severity/needs & prognosis
- Child’s gender and role in family
- Number of siblings & birth order
- Parent variables & family values
- Economic & cultural variables
- Extended family and supports
What is a family centered practice?
- A philosophy of providing services to families
- Valuing parents as the expert of their child, holding a pivotal role in their child’s education
- Promotes partnership between parent and educator
- Supports family decision making
What are the 4 Family Oriented Program Paradigms?
- Professional Centred
- Family Allied
- Family Focused
- Family Centred
Define the professional centered program paradigm.
- Professional makes all the decisions
- Professionals determine the needs of families from their own perspective
- Interventions are implemented by professionals
- Families are seen as incapable of solving their own problems
Define the family allied program paradigm.
- Professional is in charge, but family is seen as the ally
- Families are agents of professionals
- Families carry out recommendations deemed necessary by professionals, for the benefit of the child/family
Define the family focused program paradigm.
- Families needing primarily professional services advice and assistance
- Families encouraged to use professional networks or menus of services available to meet their needs
Define the family centered program paradigm.
- Families needs and desires determine all aspects of service delivery
- Professionals are seen as agents and instruments of families and intervene in ways that maximize and promote family decision making, capabilities, and competencies