Case Study Reflection Paper

Case Study Reflection Paper

Introduction

Reading is an essential part of the education life because if a child or an adult lacks in reading, then a lot of problems will be faced by him or her even in their social life. For instance, while working online or to be a part of social networking, reading is an essential element. The paper is reflection of my case study assignment outlining my learning. It highlights how the project helped in improving my performance and in understanding the children psychology.

Discussion

People with disabilities sometimes have difficulty in certain activities deemed by others as totally normal, like travelling by public transport, climbing stairs or even use certain appliances. However, the biggest challenge for the disabled has been to convince society that they are a class apart. Historically they have been pitied, ignored, denigrated and even hidden in institutions.

Disabilities can take varying degrees. Thus, between two people with Down syndrome, one may be very limited in terms of activity, while the other (only slightly affected) may be able to do a job and be almost self-sufficient.

"Disability” is first and foremost a social phenomenon. There are many types of disabilities, which can include but do not limit to physical impairment, mental or sensory impairment that affects real people. The issue becomes important when considering that in society, 10 percent of people with physical disabilities of which only 2 percent access to rehabilitation services if you live in developing countries. The issue of disabled people is not only dynamic but also it has social, behavioural, biological, environmental dimensions attached to it.

Understanding the Psychology of the Struggling Reader

The knowledge of a struggling reader is evident by examining the child psychology closely. If the child is able to decide comprehension and has an extensive knowledge that will be definitely depict in the reading skills. Our imagination is able to recreate situations, scenes, faces, emotional states with fidelity through a good read. The mental process that requires the reading is more demanding than the projected view those same images on film or on television, where everything appears chewed and digested and where the spectacle is more prevalent than the content (Clark, 1976). Moreover, the act of reading increases vocabulary, improves spelling, increase information, improves the way children talk and stimulates the imagination. However, understanding the psychology of a special child is difficult in analyzing the struggling individual. For example, for dyslexic children words divisible into morphemes can facilitate a faster reading compared to the words not divisible into morphemes.

Several studies of the W-Read (Reading and Lexical Processes Lab) have shown that the morphemes greatly improve fluency when reading aloud. This happens both for words than for pseudo-words, long words or short, common or less common. The division into morphemes could then offset the difficulties of dyslexic children to pronounce the words as one "unit" (Daniels, Kalkman, 2000). The morphemes, in fact, are longer linguistic elements of the single letters but shorter of the words: the reading based on the ...