Chapter Nine Reflection

I really enjoyed this chapter, and thought it was very interesting. I am planning on becoming a Special Education teacher, so this chapter really related to the type of students I will be working with. This past summer I worked at an overnight summer camp for children with disabilities. It was one of the greatest experiences and I learned a lot about the children I plan on working with. While I was there, I couldn't help but think about the commonalities between which children had what disability and relate it to their race or Socio-Economic Status or family income. It seemed to me, that the children that had behavior issues or emotionally disturbed were from low income homes and more likely than not were African American. On the other side of the spectrum the children who were Autistic seemed like they were from well off families and were Caucasian. I have no idea if there is a correlation between this, but that is what I observed.