Bilingual Teacher with special education certificate in early childhood.
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Average Teacher salary for Colorado in 2003-2004 was $43,318.\n\nhttp://www.aft.org/salary/2004/download/releases/SalarySurvey-CO.pdf
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In the Philippines, all I can do is offer you this website as a place to start:\n\nhttp://www1.worldbank.org/devoutreach/july05/textonly.asp?id=318\n\nIn the United States, special education is struggling between trying to maximize what is best for each individual student, with funding concerns and a lack of understanding from people not working directly with special needs students.\n\nhttp://www.wrightslaw.com/\n\n\nElsewhere, I know Britain failed to use inclusion successfully because the teachers weren't trained correctly.\n\nhttp://www.bcodp.org.uk/\n\nOther than that, I don't know.
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Below is a link for C21 in Puerto Rico.\nGood luck w/ your search.
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Do you mean mild/moderate learning disability, or mild/moderate mental retardation? Also, are you a parent or a teacher? I am writing the rest of this response as if to a new teacher who may be teaching special education on a waiver and hasn't had the methods courses that a special ed teacher would get in a good training program. Or someone with a sped degree from an, ahem, not-so-good sped teacher prep program.\n\nIf you are a parent, talk with your child's special ed teacher about home activities to support the skills being worked on in class.\n\nAcademics:\n\nFor mild/moderate Learning Disabilities (NOT MR), remember that these kids have normal smarts. Actual content instruction should be at grade level, especially for science and social studies. Content should be presented with lots of small-group hands-on activities, videos, interactive computer, and read alouds (you do the reading). For math, task analyze computation skills and take them through step by step until they master each skill; use manipulatives whenever possible. To task analyze, break each skill down into it's most basic steps, and don't teach the next step until the first is completely mastered (unlike regular ed, where a partial understanding is sufficient because full comprehension is expected to develop from repeated use in learning more advanced steps). To deal with their language disability interference in problem solving, do word problems out loud together.\n\n If their LD is language-related, you need to do a phonics-based approach using short passages to build comprehension. Don't stop after the basic phonics.... also include rules like "empty e," where the e doesn't do anything and the other vowel is short (have, give, etc.), the 5 double vowel expectations (boat, bread, great, country, oil), the 4 sounds of "y," and so on.\n\nSite to Start: http://www.interdys.org/\n\nFor nonverbal LD, work on simple patterning, organization, and memory skills, using content area materials.\n\nSite to Start: http://www.nldline.com/\n\nFor mild/moderate MR students, work academics at their developmental level, with activities incorporating simpler elements of grade-level standards. Assess and develop hands-on activities for life skills and communication, using task analysis to break things down into the most basic steps, building mastery a step at a time. MR students also don't generalize independently, so once you teach something in one place (e.g. handwashing at your classroom sink), take it to other locations (e.g. the sink in the bathroom, another classroom, etc.).\n\nSite to Start: http://ericec.org/faq/mr-lifsk.html\n\n\nBehaviors:\n\nFor any kid, you need to determine where he/she is along Piaget's and Erikson's models. That will help you determine your approach. You should provide clear and simple rules (no more than 3 or 4), a set list of consequences and rewards, and consistent application of those consequences and rewards. A child with more severe behaviors or a need for serious social skills instruction requires a Behavior Intervention Plan, and your school psychologist can help you with that, especially as a member of your IEP team.\n\nPiaget: http://www.funderstanding.com/piaget.cfm\n\nErikson: http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/ERIK/sum.HTML\n\nBehavior Intervention Plan: http://www.mpf.org/SPIN/FAQ%20Sheets/BehInterPlans.html\nhttp://www.resa.net/behavior_intervention/
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A teacher, a pediatric nurse, a therapist, social workers, and probably more but these are a main few. Good Luck, hope this helps you. XOXO
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Here's a trick that worked for one person I know: she came to the U.S. and couldn't work legally, but in his case, this would be even easier.  She volunteered in my aunt's ESL classroom as an aide.  Over time, she even got paid to do lunch supervision.  In her case, she was an art teacher in Mexico, so it was a natural fit, but he might also have a chance to volunteer somewhere where English is spoken regularly (maybe via your church or even a classroom) and he can help out by helping the kids who are also learning English and still hear English and practice using it, himself.  Places like schools are non-intimidating (the kids don't care how you speak it!) and often teachers are glad of the extra help.  With school coming to a close for the summer, maybe there are summer school classes or vacation church school classes that need some help?  If not in a classroom, maybe there are other areas where there is a mix of native and non-native speakers that he could volunteer.\n\nAsk around.  A lot of people love getting some help, and he could be "immersed" in English without having to pay!  Good luck.
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I don't think so.  I also was advised to do this.  I worked with a home teacher every week...its been a long time so i don't remember the exact amount of time that passed.  Trust me, the teachers/doctors are only looking at what is best for your child to learn.  I appreciate what they did for me.  I think I have an easier time learning today because of this.  They tought me what to watch for when I am reading, they taught me how to read in between the lines.  They helped me to better understand math and science, english.  Just about everything.  Believe me there were times when I hated the special attention...but in the long run it did me much more good than I could have imagined.  So No, I don't think that it is discrimination.
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Hmmm ... I guess if this were true, it's pretty weird.  I'm a little doubtful that you are a teacher though, your grammar and spelling are atrocious.
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What is it specifically that you are looking to help her with?  I am a grade 6 Language Arts teacher, you can contact me here if I can be of some help to you.
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Contact the schools that train teachers.  I would start with the International House network- contact the schools that train CELTA students.  Make sure your school is a good place to work or else your reputation will be ruined really quickly!  Everyone in the ESL world knows which schools have bad working conditions and bad salaries!
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Someone's kid probably gets the job.
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well.......i hear what your saying but....fact is the kids need to learn spanish for their own future.....most professions....like doctors, nurses, correction officers, teachers.....need to communicate with all........those who don't know spanish are only hurting themselves
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Mphil?  Do you mean Ph.D., or M.A.? Do you have your Bachelor's (4-year) degree from a university yet?\n\nAnyway, New Mexico State University has an excellent special education graduate program, and many foreign students in various fields. \n\nhttp://www.nmsu.edu/
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The school has a speech therapist.  My daughter has a language disability and takes speech therapy at school.  It is free of charge and they are trained professionals that can help you.  The school must test and provide this to you under the "no child left behind act".  Don't let this bother you.  No 2 people are the same.  We all talk different, look different and learn different.  The people that treat you as if you are of lower intelligence ..well lets just say that is there disability.  Stand up for yourself and show them what you know when they try to give you extra help.  Show them you are not afraid and how smart you are.
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shes can go to first grade
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I think that makes her (the teacher) well-traveled and fluent in foreign tongues, not a "world citizen." \nI'd like to avoid becoming a world citizen (subject to world court, etc).
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A little big long but ,anyway here's my translation.\n\nLos doctores dijeron que es normal que los niños se sientan de esa manera al ser criados por un solo padre. Sin embargo, no significa que no debo ocuparme de las emociones de los niños. Necesitaría probablemente llevar al niño a una terapia o al asesoramiento. El ser un solo padre sería definitivamente difícil. Sin embargo, los  padres solteros no son mala gente. De una manera, los hace fuerte. Tienen que hacer la mayoría de las responsabilidades que los padres comparten todos por sí mismos. \n\nSource(s):\n\nI speak English, Spanih ,French, And Italian