DISABILITY CHILD ENGAGE THROUGH ACTIVITY

Disability child engage through activity using PECS

Introduction

The aim of the assignment is to select a type of disability child, develop a set of materials that would help a child with particular disability, to interact and engage in an activity. Children with disabilities are the most marginalise and excluded group of student. Discrimination increases the disability intrinsically in nature.

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.

Reading and learning disability due to deaf or hard to hear

A little far island in Maldives which is located from the main city in southern part is Villingili. Raafiu, age seven is the second of four children, and he having the deaf or hard to hear from childhood, when he grown up he found the disability in reading, because not able to follow the instruction of the teacher in the class room. There is A’ level school but there are no resources for such disabled child, he do not have interest to go to school, because of his disability.

Difficulties in lives and views

Some islanders tease him about the disability. Who are not know much about him they were trick to play with him, they know that he cannot able to heat clearly. The teasing also sometime hurts the mind. Going to the school difficult because someone have to come to drop to school. In school, sanitation is a very challengeable thing to do. The cleanness of the wash rooms are not good, special setup for disabilities are not made. Participation in classroom activities are difficult, while other do the activity mostly everyone ignores. That discrimination hurts remembers the disability and mentally disappoint.

Suspected that when he has a much more difficult time than other students in pronouncing or rhyming words or in learning numbers, the alphabet, the days of the week, colours, or shapes. (Griffin, 1998)

Development delay

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.

Material used PECS

The picture exchange communication system (PECS), allows the child to communicate with teacher and slowly the behavior enable the verbal communication in the surrounding. PECS is recommended in such situation when child in disability. Child feels isolation and fear of society while communication (Schwartz, 1998). The knowledge of society and education helps the child to overcome from the fear.

PECS was developed in 1984 by Lori Frost, MS, CCC/SLP and Dr. Andrew Bondy (Frost, 2003). The goal of (PECS) is to teach children with disabilities a fast, self-initiating, functional communication system. PECS begins with the exchange of simple icons but rapidly builds "sentence" structure.