1. Have you have any personal experience related to special needs?

Yes I do have a personal experience related to special needs. I work as a

preschool teacher. First year when I started my job, I have a kids that have a
Learning disability. She was 6 years old and have a Dyslexia. Now I have a
student that have Mild Autism .. And next year I will have one Student that have
a same problem that is Mild Autism but his parent says that he live in her own
world. Even though they are special children they are very kind and listen to the
teacher . At first it is very difficult to teach them to write and read but now they
can write and read even if it is slow and not like normal person.

2. How do you know if someone doesn't 'fit' into their stereotypes?

Stereotypes are based on generalizations about people, sometimes accurates

sometimes not. Based our interaction with children on stereotypes can limit our
ability to predict behavior. Sometimes many other misconceptions about children
with disabilities exist. We don’t have to judge the children that have a disabilities
cannot take care of themselves. For example, when we see the kids with autism
we see them as them are hyperactive and we don’t want to take care of them,
but many of them are strong and physically capable to do a job or a task in many
situations and most of them are independent.

3. What stereotypes that limits our ability as teachers to predict a learner's

cognitive performance and behaviour?

I think the stereotypes that limit the ability as teachers to predict a learners
cognitive performance and behaviour is the teacher does not know well about
special student abilities. For example, when the teacher hear that they are not
supposed to be good at something, they underperform, often unconsciously and
the teacher just ignored them. On the other hand, if they are supposed to be
good at something or if someone believes in them, they are more likely to do
well. Students want their educators to believe in them and students perform best
in situations where there are high expectations.

4. What are the strategies that you would recommend for teachers to
communicate with parents of special needs learners?

The strategies that I would recommended for teacher to communicate with parent
of special needs learners is first of all teachers should initiate contact as soon as
they know which students will be in their classroom for the school year. Contact
can occur by means of an introductory phone call to introducing yourself to the
parents and establishing expectations. Then clarity and usefulness of
communication. Parents and teachers should have the information they need to
help students, in a form and language that makes sense to them. When opening
up communication, always start with a compliment about their child. arents will
not get tired of hearing how awesome their child is. A teacher should never begin
the discussion about how the student is struggling with decoding and compliance
until he or she has given an overview of how absolutely adorable the parents’
child is and maybe even start with a cute story. Then the important things to do
is, do not tell a parent to teach their child to behave. Make sure to work with a
parent to institute some type of communication and consequence arrangement.
Telling a parent simply to talk to your child about this or that behavior is not
appropriate. It shows that the teacher did not deal with the situation, cannot deal
with the situation, and believe the parent can magically with a simple discussion
make the child act appropriately when the parent is not present .