Employment Specific Learning Disability Report

Children with disabilities can improve their social skills through participation in extracurricular activities. In 2014 an experiment was conducted by lead researcher and psychologist B.A. Brooks hoping to find if children who have intellectual and learning disabilities can develop better social skills when participating in extracurriculars rather than not partaking in any activity at all, which is described in the article “Extracurricular Activities and the Development of Social Skills in Children with Intellectual and Specific Learning Disabilities.” The experiment’s goal was to “investigate the association between frequency and type of social activity participation and the social competence of 8-11 year-old children with intellectual disability

In the article “Employment, Academic, and Extracurricular Contributors to College Aspirations” by Valerie McGaha and Jacki Fitzpatrick it states “post-high school extracurriculars can be beneficial, as individuals develop enhanced skills that would promote college success.” (McGaha and Fitzpatrick, page 24) It is understood that not every person that attends high school’s end goal is to go to college, some just want to stay home and work an easy job that pays just enough so that they can get by. However, for those that want to succeed in their career and for those that want to push themselves to their full potential, then college is most definitely the right place for them. To begin, not only do extracurriculars help benefit a student while attending elementary through high school, but they help them even when one is out of high school as well. Once out of high school a student’s goals in life change immediately. They go from wanting to get good grades and wanting to have the most friends out of anyone in their school to wanting to get a well paying job and wanting to be the best in whatever department one may be involved in. Extracurriculars and clubs help further those aspirations. June Kronholz, an education writer for The Wall Street Journal, found that students who

Alan Silliker and Jeffrey T. Quirk expand on the same idea of extracurriculars helping people who want to succeed in their careers later in life. In the article “The Effect of Extracurricular Activity Participation on the Academic Performance of Male and Female High School Students” they state that extracurricular activity participation (EAP) is mostly viewed as interfering with academics, however it is usually the parents that push their children to stay away from EAP so that it will not hinder with the child’s learning ability. Parent’s from today’s world like to have a lot of control over their children’s lives, so it makes sense to say that students are a bit afraid to participate in extracurriculars. Once children can get over a parent’s worry, however, they will find more success in their academics than they did before. Continuing on the idea of future success, the article then goes on to say “most impressive, student achievement in extracurricular activities was identified as the variable most predictive of success in later life.” Success has many definitions and meanings associated with it depending on the person. One may think that success merely means a person has a lot of money by the time they are thirty years old. Someone else may think that success comes when they finally can jump higher than they could the previous month. However, the definition of success that most correctly fits the description given in the quote is found in