Bella's OLD FNED Blog

 It was interesting to read Thomas Hehir’s “Eliminating Ableism in Education” because it is important to address the critical need to create inclusive educational environments for students with disabilities. He emphasizes the necessity for those with “ablelism” to ensure that all students have equal access to education and opportunities for learning. Opportunities for learning means that children in special education classrooms are also challenged and not left behind just because they are catergorized with a disability or 504 plan. By working towards providing adequate learning scaffolds for a child with a disability promotes equity and inclusion in education. Judith Butler & Sunaura Taylor’s video “Examined Life” is great example to better understand the needs and challenges experienced having an impairment. The video addresses the notion for “abled people” to reconsider the understanding of all human experience. Just as Taylor states, “we all need help” and everyone, no ...

 Reading Aria Richard Rodriguez’s, “Tongue Tied” article maybe me think loss of “individuality.” Such loss profoundly affects not only the individual but also the family. There are two quotes which demonstrates the loss of identity for a childe working to learning English as a second language. Rodriguez states how after seven years of age she finally came to believe in her identity. An identity that had always been there but because Spanish or any other language aside from English was spoken at home it was determined to make her believe that she was an outsider. As if someone who is not from this country. However, that wasn’t the case. Rodriguez has always been an American citizen and her lack to speak the “public language” made her believe otherwise. Rodriguez demonstrates this sad experience by writing, “At last, for seven years old, I came to believe what had been technically true since my birth. I was an American citizen” (p. 36). I can only imagine how the lack of identit...