Reflection 4: A topic in Language education that I want to know more about.

In my years of study, I have learned many things about teaching, different methods and some very effective techniques. However, I realized that I did not know much about how to work with students with developmental disabilities. So, I would really like to know how to work with these students and also how could I evaluate them. Students with developmental disabilities are a rapidly growing minority on schools,this is the main reason why schools are facing the ethical dilemma of how to balance the rights of students with learning disabilities with the academic integrity of a course of study.

The other day, I was talking to the teacher who I am working with about this issue, and she told me that a small percentage of students with disabilities, specially those with severe cognitive disabilities, are not able to participate in the assessments that their teacher has developed for all the students, so they have to be assessed differently.

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