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UNIT SIX. The Education for Handicapped Children Act




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The Education for Handicapped Children Act of 1975 requires that local educational agencies maintain individualized educational plans which include a statement of the child's present level of educational performance as well as prevocational and vocational skills. Like any other group, handicapped students are not homogeneous. They differ in interests, skills, and aspirations, and such individual characteristics must be identified. The following should be taken into consideration:

1. The assessment of work potential should focus on the strengths of the handicapped child rather than on his or her weaknesses.

2. Handicapped students should not be compared directly with nonhandicapped students, since the former have probably suffered restrictions on exploratory experiences leading to the development of interests and skills. Even in the case of handicapped students who appear to possess little interest, skill, or aptitude in anything of a work nature, the search must be made for a possible work motif. Even the simplest activities must be considered in terms of potential for work, since these may furnish the clues which lead eventually to realistic work activity.

3. Handicapped conditions differ in the degree and kind of restriction. Within this population, any one or a combination of the following conditions may be present: physical (as in the case of a below the knee amputee,), mental (as in the case of an educable mental retardate), social (as in the case of a badly burned adolescent isolate), emotional (as in the case of a withdrawn schizophrenic youngster), educational (as in the case of a slow learner). Regardless of the handicap or its secondary effects, it will be necessary to determine what special needswhether prosthetic, mechanical, or therapeuticare required to maximize the student's work potential.

4. Because of lack of experience, unfamiliarity with test-taking, or an emotional overlay, which calls for interest or aptitude testing of the handicapped child, it is probably necessary to do such testing on an individual rather than group basis.

5. Parents must be consulted and counseled when work plans are made for their handicapped offspring. Acceptance of a realistic plan for work may well depend on how they have accepted the fact of their youngster's limitations.

6. Because of the lessened mobility of many handicapped students and their resulting propensity to remain within the geographic area in which they have lived, local labor market data related to work opportunities unimpaired by their handicapping condition are essential.

7. Placement of handicapped students may involve helping prospective employers determine how, through improvisation or the use of mechanical aids, a particular job routine can be altered in such a way that the handicapped youth can adequately function in it.

8. Community agencies will need to be used in terms of their special expertise on specific handicapping conditions for purposes of assessment, support, and/or placement.

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*** UNIT SEVEN. Creativity and Disability

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Imagine that you have a dream. That dream is to be a professional performing or visual artist. Perhaps you want to be a singer or a dancer, or maybe you might want to be a painter or a sculptor. Some people would tell you that this is an unrealistic dream and that you should concern yourself with more important things. Let's also say that you have a physical or mental disability. Should that dream be less realistic or less attainable? It certainly would not be any less important to you.

I would like to look at the issue of arts for the disabled. I would like to show you that the arts are vitally important to special populations, and that the disabled are capable of a wide range of creative expression. More that just the "arts and crafts" that are sometimes associated with them. Finally, I would like to show you not only how to be involved with arts for special populations, but also why you should.

Artistic expression is important for everyone. It provides us with a way to feed our need for self-improvement and self-esteem. For the disabled it can be even more important because other ways of expression are sometimes limited.

Artistic creativity and disability have long been tied together. We have all heard that you must "suffer for your art". Because disability limits other activity, it figures heavily into artistic creativity. For the disabled, the arts provide a vital means of expression and achievement. Persons with disabilities have a great need to excel. Often this is to compensate for things they feel that they lack. Lord Byron, who had a club foot, put it this way: "Deformity is daring. It is its essence to overtake mankind by heart and soul and make itself equal - the superior to the rest. There is a spur in its halt movements to become all that the others cannot, in such things as still are free to both". I can attest to this myself. You cannot know what it means to me to be able to stand here today and compete on an absolutely equal footing. Because the arts are such an accessible means for the disabled to build their self-esteem, they are often used as a tool in therapy. Availability of arts experiences for special populations is vital.

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the famous Fifth Symphony by Beethoven, - what do these great works have in common? Handel's Messiah, Milton's Paradise Lost, certainly they are all classics. Each one of them is a masterwork, a testament to its creator's timeless artistic skills. But what else do they have in common? The Telltale Heart by Edgar Alien , Tartuffe by Moliere, Robinson Crusoe by Robert Louis Stevenson, even Stevie Wonder singing Ebony and Ivory - what do they have in common? These are the works of disabled artists.

Disabled artists display a wide range of creative capabilities. Our culture has benefited greatly from the works of these disabled artists, and we are proud to list them among our number. But these are only a few. The number of disabled artists is great:

Whistler, Monet, Renoir, Schumann, Lionel Barrymore, Chopin, Vivaldi, Paganini, D.H. Lawrence, Stevie Wonder, Byron, Matisse, Van Gogh Sarah, Bernhardt, Itzhak Perelman, Chekov, Mozart, Helen Keller, Billy Baity, Sir Walter Scott, Ray Charles Ronnie Milsap, Joce Feliciano, Emily Dickinson, Toulouse-Lautrec.

With paint and crayons I will draw

A world of beauty, strength and awe.

With costumes, makeup, words to say,

I'll be an actor in a play.

With just one lesson, just one chance,

I'll twirl and swirl in wondrous dance.

With instruments and with my voice,

I'll make the music of my choice.

With just a little of your time,

I'll be a silent, perfect mime.

The arts will let the whole world see,

Beyond the "dis" is "ability"!

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UNIT EIGHT. The Barriers Destroy

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There are things that we all can do to ensure that the arts continue to be available to special populations. There are a number of organizations whose purpose is to provide services for the disabled. Money for these organizations are always less than what is needed. And if you cannot make a financial contribution to help to provide arts opportunities to the handicapped or if you wish to help further, they always need volunteers. It isn't difficult to become involved. All you have to do is ask, "How can I help?"

Another thing that we can do is support legislation designed to provide equal opportunities for the disabled. This may not have a direct effect on arts opportunities, but it will affect our society's perception of special populations over time. Our society comes to see the disabled, not as people who lack ability, but people, who like everyone else, are simply doing the best they can with what they have; then art will, as it often does, imitate life.

The question then becomes "Why should I become involved if I don't have a disability?" Maybe you will become involved because you know someone with a disability whose quality of life could be improved through expo-sure to the arts. Maybe you will become involved because it will give you own sense of achievement and self-esteem. Or maybe you will become involved because you, or someone you know, may become disabled, and you will realize then what important role the arts play for the disabled. Availability of arts experiences for special populations is vital.

I cannot hear, I cannot talk, I cannot even see.

I cannot run, I cannot walk, but look inside of me!

For through I think uniquely, and I travel in a chair,

My journey's filled with passion and with bold artistic flair.

I long to leap, unfettered, on flights of fancy free,

To mold the lifeless clay to visions only I can see.

To paint with strokes of wisdom, to pen the purest page,

To play the ageless actor on the timeless human stage.

To sing and play and juggle!

To dance and shout and mime!

To share my spirit's struggle

In my very special rhyme!

I am the Child Disabled, I am your brother-son:

I am your sister-daughter, the world's forgotten one.

So bring the arts unto me! The barriers destroy!

The handicap of yesterday is Tomorrow's Child of Joy.

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