Supporting Students with PTSD | Origin: ED130
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Teaching Students with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder --> Supporting Students with PTSD
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It is helpful to know that even though the IEP is not used past high school, it can still be referred to to determine what helped before that may be helpful as the student navigates college.
I learned that students with PTSD may struggle with focus, anxiety, and emotional triggers in the classroom. I plan to create a supportive, trauma-sensitive environment with flexibility and understanding to help them feel safe and succeed.
This module helps me reflect on the practices in our institution, and how we might adjust or attempt to better support our student body, especially with regards to the processes in place and mentorship, rather than self-navigation.
This module helps with identifying students who are dealing with PTSD. As an instructor identifying this early can aid in students' overall success.
It is good that an IEP can be put into place for k-12 up until the age 21, however it is a bit tougher when the attend the Colleges forward and needs to be worked with HR to ensure proper care is being taken for the student wherever needed.
Programs exist to assist students with PTSD or TBI. Instructors need to make such students feel welcome in the classroom.
I learned that PTSD is a mental disorder and students who have this need to register through the Student Services department to alert instructors and get awarded accomodations. All students with a learning disability should be encouraged to report it so teachers can work with them.
Teaching students with PSTD and all the ways we can help them to get support through the school.
Nobody should lose out on an opportunity to learn solely due to a disability.
Learning that TBI's are the leading cause of death and disability in the U.S. was surprising. I would have thought cancer, heart isssues, etc. Depression being the leading symptom of TBI's is something I have already noticed in some of my students. The course is helping identify ways to support these folks the best I can so they can have a successful experience at my school.
Understanding the role of an IEP in career education is very important. I can see how it can be helpful to use an IEP as more information to understand what students have had and needed in the past can. Knowing what is available to help students with PTSD is reassuring to me.
Supporting students with PTSD in the classroom requires establishing a safe and predictable environment and it can be helpful to assign a student a mentor
I did not realize that if we have access to a student's IEP, we can still use the development of that to apply appropriate accommodations for post-secondary students.
While I do have a good understanding of most of this information, I found some good take-aways to remember. Regarding self disclosure, which can be very uncomfortable and difficult for some students due to a variety of reasons including that they will be seen as less than or dumb, that peers will be critical, and a desire to be like all the rest of the students and not stand out. Many try to be independent and not seek assistance which often leads academic trouble because they needed accommodations, the most common of which is needing more time to complete assignments and tests.
For students with PTSD, when they disclose this information to their instructors, the new awareness could be used to devise a strategy for greeting the student and gauging how the student is doing that day, and a plan can be devised to help the student through the upcoming class session. If the student with PTSD feels comfortable in the class right from the beginning, the chances increase that they will successfully complete the course.
I found it interesting that a little over 11% of the students enrolled in post-secondary settings have a disability as I thought it would be higher. This number has grown over the past five years as the students completing high school with disabilities are better prepared to make the transition to further education (National Center for Education Statistics, 2016). The disabilities represented by these enrollees include learning disabilities, autism, TBI and PTSD, as well as vision, hearing, and orthopedic challenges to name a few. Thus, instructors are going to have approximately one tenth of their students coming into their classes with a disability. This is why they need a general working knowledge, like that of this module, of the different disabilities and how to work with students who have them.
IEP can be a useful tool for a student with disability.
Personally, I was not aware of the IEP developmental plan students had available for them in their younger educational years. What a wonderful tool for the educational program to have developed. It's was emotional overwhelming to know the statistics of these younger children to have developed PTSD. As an educator for adults, I appreciated knowing this information and how it can impact how I approach my students and teaching skills.
I learned the importance of accommodations and the impact they will make on the students.
There is a difference between a 504 Plan and an IEP. The IEP only follows the student until they graduate 12th grade or reach the age of 21. The 504 Plan can help them with college accomodations
I learned more information about people with disabilities and how to help them. IEPs are fairly new to me, but it was great information to have just in case. This will truly benefit the students and their success.
