Do You Think The Twins Could Benefit From A More Inclusive Educational Environment

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1. Put yourself in the special education teacher’s place. Do you think the twins could benefit from a more inclusive educational environment? If I were the special education teacher for Mark and Matthew and they both were unable to read and write, I would start working with both boys with an intensive phonics program within the self-contained environment. I would employ some of my available resources such as computer aided phonics programs, flash cards (i.e. alphabet, sight words), audio books, and white board lessons. My focus would be to help the boys to grasp concepts of how to sound out letters and work up to forming words to increase their vocabulary as well as their word recognition skills. My intense work would be in conjunction with both boys receiving speech therapy so that we can work out any other more extreme issues that the boys may be having with speech and language. Next, I would continue to build on the boys’ word bank, and start to help them put clusters of words …show more content…

art, music, computers). The resource classes will give them great social interactions as well as help both boys to use their new language skills in more effective ways. Also, remaining in the self-contained environment would allow the boys to receive more detailed instruction. If the boys go out into an inclusive environment for their core English and grammar lessons, they could possibly get lost because the teachers with higher functioning students will not have the time to devote to the extra accommodations the boys may need. My belief is that the interactions with their peers in resource classes will give Matthew and Mark some strong models to pull some good language structure skills from as they work more intensely in the self-contained