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Callista
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26 Sep 2008, 9:08 pm

anbuend wrote:
Loborojo wrote:
I quote her:"The current trend is for all inclusive education, and as such in order to provide the optimum opportunity for everybody, then the differentiation has to be made between high functioning (HF) and accelerated learning, or low functioning and special needs and individual learning programmes."


What about people like me, whose learning was a combination of "accelerated" and "behind" (I would say, on a different track entirely and thus going in directions that 'accelerated' and 'behind' don't have room for), and who (despite sometimes doing well in school due to learning outside of it) have serious difficulty learning in any kind of classroom?
Individualized education. But nooo... that would cost too much... we have to squeeze all our children through the same assembly line!


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26 Sep 2008, 10:27 pm

This is an interesting question. In New Zealand there is no distinction between Asperger's, Autism and HFA and PDD-NOS. All of them are classified as Autism Spectrum Disorder. That would be the official diagnosis here in NZ. Perhaps a good thing since no one can agree on what constitutes what. DSM IV is rubbish.. it describes a child with a language delay and suggests that is normal.
There has been a move away from trying to sub-type and place people on a particular place on the spectrum here according to characteristics. Everyone is unique. From a professional point of view it changes nothing .. we still work with what is presenting as the issue at the time.