subject: Promoting Success In Special Needs Students [print this page] Special needs students are called special for a reason. They are exceptionally unique and out of the ordinary. Thus, they require a different approach to promote success within themselves and in society.
The first thing to remember is to never belittle them. Any child, not just a special need child living with shame, isolation and anger will experience a negative life. Special need students require special guidance. This guidance will help them to develop personal skills, self-esteem and confidence that will support their success.
The first step is to help them develop self awareness and self-acceptance. Special needs students often have issues accepting themselves. Thus, we can help them identify their strengths and promote them and identify their limitations and work to overcome them. More often than never, most special needs students have special and amazing ability and talents. Thus, it is important that they accept their weaknesses. If they don't they will succumb to overall life failures.
Next, special needs students must develop their proactive skills. They need to involve in many different kinds of activities and interact with many different types of people. This will help them build a great self-esteem. It will help them grow to be useful and respected people in society.
Other than that, it is important to help them cope with their emotions. Too often special needs have rage and anger all bottled up. We need to help them cope with their stress and feelings of failure. Once they get to deal and overcome these feelings, they will have a more positive outlook in life. They need to learn to identify negative emotions. Negative emotions are strong and can be a reason to failure.
Perseverance is another important factor that can help special needs students. Setting goals and sticking to them is important. Failing once must not be a reason to quit and give up. Successful people set long-term goals. They need to be flexible and be open to any unexpected outcomes.
Helping special needs students is an important work. Helping them be successful is a satisfying job. Their success is your success. Help them be someone respected and successful one day.
