Good evening fellow teachers and staff members. I have gathered you all here today to discuss an important topic, this topic being how to deal with learners in the classroom who suffer from diabetes. The reason for bringing you all here today in order to discuss this topic is that I have noticed an increase in the amount of diabetic students attending our school over the past few years.
Being an inclusive school, we as teachers and staff at the school need to understand the implications of the different learning barriers that students suffer from at the school. We also need to know how to overcome these learning barriers, having only the learner’s best interests for the education of the learner.
In order to overcome the challenges faced by
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Children also develop a feeling of embarrassment as they have to constantly be injected with insulin, whether at home, school, parties, outings, which children who are not diabetic do not have to experience. Children might feel that they are different and that they are being looked at differently because of their disease.
When children are made aware of the fact that they are diabetic and learn the implications of the disease that they have, they often become more dependent, they seek attention and feel the need to be babied.
As teachers we need to acknowledge how the child feels and help them to express how they feel. We need to encourage independence within the learner, the same way we encourage independence in any other learner. Also, we should help learners suffering from diabetes to find their strengths so that they can be put into extra mural classes or encouraged to do what they like in order to get their mind off the disease and thus create a more positive and encouraging environment for the learner where the learner will also be able to build relationships with other learners which could boost their