The topic was interesting because I learned a great deal about the intellectual and biological developments of special needs children. One of the aspects that I learned was that children with special needs are mainly classified into four major categories: visual, auditory, speech, and learning impairments (Feldman, 2011). For visual, auditory and speech impairments, parts of the body used to process these types of information are usually damaged, not developing or not working properly. As for learning impairments, they include dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia. An estimated 2.8 million children in the US suffer from learning impairments (Feldman, 2011). These characteristics tend to alter physical development like mortar coordination greatly and, therefore, there is a need to alleviate them to prevent complications spilling over to adulthood.
I discovered a commendable approach to the treatment of intellectual and biological disabilities in special needs children. Dandashi et al. (2015) proposed an edutainment form of treatment for children with intellectual disability. In his research, coordination and motivation were greatly improved among the special needs children. However, the interesting point was that in Dandashi’s work, the female children outperformed the male children by as much as 10% in the coordination and motivation improvements (Dandashi et al. 2015). This was in contrary to the development of children without special needs, whereby the males outperform the females. However, I would love to acquire more knowledge about how each of the childhood needs would affect the adult life of the child and whether; any form of treatment would result in improved adulthood outcomes. Additionally, the topic was deficient in pointing out the factors associated with the progression of these special needs. It is clear that cognitive and physical development for special needs children is greatly impaired and therefore these children require a lot of support for them to live a normal childhood.
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References
Dandashi, A., Karkar, A. G., Saad, S., Barhoumi, Z., Al-Jaam, J., & Saddik, A. E. (2015). Enhancing the Cognitive and Learning Skills of Children with Intellectual Disability through Physical Activity and Edutainment Games. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 11 (6), 165-207.
Feldman, R.S. (2011). Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Development Childhood. In Development Across the Lifespan . Pearson Education.
