Special Needs:

Bridging the Gap

Alex Ashley
Junior Year
 Topic: Stereotypes placed
on children with special
needs
Research Thesis: Children with

Paper autism are misunderstood

because commonly
accepted stereotypes claim

Process they are the same, lack

empathy, and are
incapable of formulating
independent thoughts.
Why
• volunteered with children with disabilities
• wanted to gain more experience with
children with special needs
• typically starred at or viewed as abnormal
Service Learning
Experience
 • Helped special ed.
teachers
What • At McKee Road
Elementary
Where • Gained experience and
Why insight about the
special needs
community
When • Various Wednesdays in
October and November
of 2018
Product
 • Conducted a survey
What • Created and presented
a power point to
Where McKee Road
Elementary
• To inform the special
Why ed. teachers of the
techniques they should
When use to teach their
students.
• March 5, 2019
Product Evidence
Overall Experience &
Next Steps
 Overall
Next Steps
Experience
• Will be working for
• Made some really Kare Partners over the
great connections with summer
the teachers at McKee
Road Elementary • Will be attending
Wingate University in
• Learned how to better the fall with a major
communicate and in psychology
interact with children • I plan to become an
with various Occupational Therapist
disabilities for children with
special needs.
Questions?