Journal Entry Ch. 7 Disabilities

I work in an autistic unit so all my students have a learning disability. One particular student is autistic, ADD, and he can not speak. This is a great challenge to communicate with him as a teacher. It gets frustrating for him because he can not express himself. How would it feel to never be able to tell someone your feelings? Being with him daily throughout this school year has been a great learning experience for me. We have to find new ways to teach, and accommodate him. Recently, he received a machine from a grant. This machine has a keyboard and different things he can push to help him interact and communicate with us. This machine will even speak the things he pushes so we can understand what he is trying to tell us.