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in article , BCITORGB
at wrote on 4/6/05 12:03 AM:

KMAN:
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I made no such presumption. The context was a student (and many more
like her), who repeatedly interrupted classroom activities with
violent
vocal and physical outbursts.

That's a hindrance!

Nope. It's an opportunity likely combined with a cry for help.

I agree with Scott.

The person is screaming "Why am I in this classroom with a curriculum
that
has no relevance or consideration for my needs, where I am being
humiliated
on a daily basis in front of the other kids who see that I am lost and
full
of anxiety and I don't have one friend and only thing worse than this
is
going to be when school is over for me and I haven't learned what I
need to
learn to participate in the community and I will be alone in the
basement of
my parent's house waiting to die for 50 years which is even worse than
sitting here and being humiliated."
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Of course. It depends on perspective. And in these cases, there are
several, and each is valid. To the average kid in the classroom,
seemingly irrelevant oubursts are a hindrance.

I'm sympathetic to the fact that it may represent something quite
different to the person with disabilities.

frtzw906

That's really the only reasonable way to look at it.

If the non-disbabled kid was put in a class where the curriculum was
designed for kids with intellectual disabilities, it wouldn't take long for
that kid to share his displeasure. I doubt his complaints would be
considered in terms of how the kids with disabilities were being
inconvenienced by his behaviour.