For those who had special services in grammar school or high school, do you feel that those services helped? How have they prepared you or hindered you?
I have a couple reasons for asking these questions. I am studying to become a teacher and need to ask three adults with learning disabilities about their experience with any special services they received in school.
I am also interested in any information you can give me concerning your feelings about special education opposed to mainstreaming because my daughter has a learning disability. I’m not sure if the stress of keeping her mainstreamed is worth it. In her case, her curriculum is not altered.
~Kaye
Help or Hinder?
I recieved Special Ed services in Elementary school, and was removed against the reccomendations of the school system- due to the fact that the day care my father procured for me didn’t have transportation…and later, wasn’t put back in LD as a form of punishment from my stepmother.
They helped to the extent that I can write legibly- so that helps in filling in an application for employment…( That was really the only subject I went to the LD Resource room for….
SO, I’d say for the large part they helped….as filling out an employment application is a major step towards obtaining employment.
Hope this helps!
Genita
I did have special accomodations during both grammar and high school. To be truly honest, they were 50/50. Most of the time they helped, but the tragedy was that they did not prepare me for college level work. In a way they helped me, but in another way they didn’t. :?