Learning Difficulties and Disabilities

Learning difficulties and Disabilities This paper will examine how a child with a disability or with special needs is affected in life. This paper will take the form of a case study about a child who has Down syndrome. A definition of Disability is “ a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day to day activities.” (Disability Discrimination act 1995). Special needs …

…views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.” The use of the word ‘special’ when describing children as in special needs children can in itself be seen as discriminatory “More recently the use of the word ‘special’ has been questioned on the grounds that the needs of many disadvantaged children with attainments significantly below average are in fact ‘normal’ but simply unmet (Galloway et al. 1994).