Saturday, September 8, 2012

Neglected meaning full life

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"
DAD: "Yeah sure, what is it?" replied the man.
SON: "Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?" the man said angrily.
SON: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD: "If you must know, I make Rs.200 an hour."
SON: "Oh," the little boy replied, with his head down.
SON: "Daddy, may I please borrow Rs.100?"

The father was furious, "If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior."

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?

After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that RM.50 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.

"Are you asleep, son?" He asked.
"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.

"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier" said the man. "It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the Rs.100 you asked for."

The little boy sat straight up, smiling. "Oh, thank you daddy!" He yelled. 

Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

"Why do you want more money if you already have some?" the father grumbled.

"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied. "Daddy, I have Rs.200 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to havedinner with you."

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness.

It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time withthose who really matter to us, those close to our hearts.

Do remember to share that Rs.200 worth of yourtime with someone you love.

If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days.

But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

A CASE STUDY OF READING DIAGNOSIS, INSTRUCTION AND RECOMMENDATION.

Introduction
The aim of the assignment is to do a case study of reading diagnosis, instruction and recommendation. Reading plays an important role in studies and student should read lesson. Student learn differently that at different ways not all students will develop in the same way same rate. It is important that a student who has reading difficulties are best addressed when they are got at young age. When a student has a disability he or she has been formally identified. We should provide the targeted instruction to remediate difficulties and increase skill level. Early reading skills are essential for becoming a great student.
World health organization explained about Disability is any restriction or lack, resulting from an impairment, of ability to perform any activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being. Eighty percentage of disability lives are poverty, marginalization and inadequate educational opportunities (UNDP, 2003). Indeed, as Harlan and Robert (Harlan & Robert, 1998) pointed in their discussion of the Americans with Disabilities Act, “There is a great difference between passing a law and the social process that leads to actualization of the intended reform” (p. 398).
 Background of the child

Be aware of how each child is doing. A student between 5 to 7 years should be checked, for example he or she has a much more difficult time than other students in pronouncing or rhyming words or in learning numbers the alphabet, the day of the week colour or shapes  (Griffin, 1998). The student who has the disability in reading are unable to find great adventures that unlock the imagination and enhance the creative mind. So Sam has been with kindergarten he expressed difficulty in learning letters and sounds. So when he moved to grade 1. We hoped he would get some improvement but he didn’t. A survey report says that in Maldives 30,000 disabilities are there, government giving pension and care to the disabilities (Treasury, 2015). The development delay happens because of surrounding behavior acceptance of disability, understanding of disability are very less. There discrimination avoiding when common work place. He could not realize and practice the activities so it affect his social developmental delay. And parents used to have other kids than that disable kid. So their concentration about the normal kid education arrangement expenses and life future. But the idea of disabled children have to participate in community or country scale decision making that is vital to improve their lives and fulfilled the development  (Lunt, 1994).
Summary of observation

The student Sam has difficulty with reading it can be a challenge to teachers and emotional for both parents and students. Sam has good grass mote skills and has many same age friends. He has difficulty with handwriting he has always been considered complaint and good at following adult’s directions. Sam lives with his parents and older sister. There is no family history of reading disabilities. Birth and growth is remarkable. He has normal sleep and growth and no history of bed wetting. When he asked to read an essay so frequently guessed words and seemed to use the picture as clue.  He was not a fluent reader.

 Diagnosis of the problem

The problem of disability in reading of a child Sam is diagnosed, while he struggled to read the words, unable to pronounce the word properly
 Parents, Preschool and primary teachers play an important role in providing education to a child. The child Sam with reading is found by teacher and parents in the age of 6. He is very much struggled to read the words. So in the early age we find this difficulty it is easy to cure by giving targeted instruction.

 Instructional Strategies and evaluation of the child’s progress

The child with this reading disability will be improved through handling some instructional strategies. They are
v   Record the students reading aloud on their own
v   Ask the kids to use fingers to follow reading
v   Teach vocabulary early
v   Create a stress free environment
v   Ask the student to repeat the  word  he read
Then after this practice we have to evaluate his improvement. It he gets improvement we can use this remedial measures or otherwise we can use other method which is suitable for him.

Recommendation for future instructions

 Recommendations regarding reading practice had developed sufficiently in the scientific world. Nowadays more information literature we have to give clear guidelines for this improvement in reading.
v  Giving frequent opportunities to read
v    Sufficient practice in reading to achieve fluency.
v   giving opportunity to write

 Conclusion

The child with this disability or dyslexia has been identified in his early age. So the measures which has been taken to help the child to overcome his disability is easier. The chid with the good environment, his reading ability is not good. So his background of birth is not at all a reason for his disability, so it is really a solvable problem of him. we identify the problem is earlier. So 90 to 95 percentage of this problem will be solved by taking all this remedial measures that child will get good future and become a great student. 

References

Griffin, S. B. (1998). Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children. Washington,DC: National acaemy press.
Harlan, S. L., & Robert. (1998). The social construction of disability in organizations: Why employers resist reasonable accommodations. Work and Occupations, 397-435.
Lunt, I. E. (1994). Inter-School Collaboration for Special Needs. London: David Fulton Publishers.
Treasury, M. o. (2015). Statistical Pocketbook of Maldives 2015. Male’: National Bureau of Statistics.
UNDP. (2003). Millennium development goals. Beirut: UNDP.


Friday, February 3, 2012

~ Never Judge Anyone ~

A doctor entered the hospital in hurry after being called in for an urgent surgery. He answered the call ASAP, changed his clothes and went directly to the surgery block.
He found the boy’s father going and coming in the hall waiting for the doctor. Once seeing him, the dad yelled:
“Why did you take all this time to come? Don’t you know that my son’s life is in danger? Don’t you have the sense of responsibility?”

The doctor smiled and said:
“I am sorry, I wasn’t in the hospital and I came the fastest I could after receiving the call…… And now, I wish you’d calm down so that I can do my work”

“Calm down?! What if your son was in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son dies now what will you do??” said the father angrily

The doctor smiled again and replied: “I will say what Job said in the Holy Bible “From dust we came and to dust we return, blessed be the name of God”. Doctors cannot prolong lives. Go and intercede for your son, we will do our best by God’s grace”

“Giving advice when we’re not concerned is so easy” Murmured the father.

The surgery took some hours after which the doctor went out happy, “Thank God! Your son is saved!”

And without waiting for the father’s reply he carried on his way running. “If you have any question, ask the nurse!!”

“Why is he so arrogant? He couldn’t wait some minutes so that I ask about my son’s state” Commented the father when seeing the nurse minutes after the doctor left.

The nurse answered, tears coming down her face: “His son died yesterday in a road accident, he was in the burial when we called him for your son’s surgery. And now that he saved your son’s life, he left running to finish his son’s burial.”

NEVER JUDGE ANYONE because you never know how their life is and as to what is happening or what they’re going through.