{"id":25289,"date":"2019-10-25T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=25289"},"modified":"2019-10-25T11:45:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:45:39","slug":"students-with-intellectual-disabilities-embraced-in-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/students-with-intellectual-disabilities-embraced-in-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Students with intellectual disabilities welcomed in colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Various colleges have adopted the trend of accepting students with intellectual disabilities and transforming their lives by equipping them with fundamental life skills.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThis approach has been instrumental in enabling these students to secure employment opportunities.<\/span>
\nNevertheless, the prosperity of students with intellectual disabilities in learning institutions is being threatened by federal funding because some programs may be in a cash crisis from 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students with intellectual disabilities\u2019 lives enhanced<\/b><\/h2>\n

Some institutions of higher learning have crafted outstanding programs to suit students with intellectual disabilities.\u00a0<\/span>
\nFor instance, Utah State University has a program where these learners are taught socialization skills. A game known as \u2018Get-to-Know-You-Bingo\u2019 is pivotal in this undertaking.<\/b>
\nCourtney Jorgensen is one of the beneficiaries, and her parents have shown their delight of their daughter being able to attend college. Previously, they had the idea that a college education was not guaranteed based on their daughter\u2019s condition.<\/span>
\nThe programs developed to suit students with intellectual disabilities by institutions of higher education are offering hope to many families, and this is laudable.\u00a0<\/span>
\nUtah University also has another program called Aggies Elevated, and it accommodates students with autism and down syndrome, among others. It has been stipulated that all of them have IQs of at most 70.<\/b><\/p>\n

Students with intellectual disabilities\u2019 progress<\/b><\/h2>\n

Institutions of higher learning are doing an outstanding job of developing programs to meet the needs of students with intellectual disabilities because most of them would just be confined at home or working menial, minimum-wage jobs.<\/span>
\nStatistics show that adults with cognitive disabilities have an <\/b>employment rate of just 19%<\/b><\/a>. Moreover, their pay is low because they make half of what those without disabilities earn.<\/b>
\nStudents with intellectual disabilities are, therefore, being equipped with exceptional life skills that will come in handy in eradicating this trend.\u00a0<\/span>
\nFor instance, the Aggies Elevated program objective is to prepare learners for independent living and meaningful work. The program takes two years, and students are presented with certificates, as well as confidence and connections required for them to be self-sufficient adults.\u00a0<\/b>
\nOn the other hand, <\/span>disabled learners are being pulled out of <\/span>WA (West Australian) schools<\/span><\/a> by their parents at an alarming rate. This has been instigated by their concerns that their children are not getting optimal classroom support.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Various colleges have adopted the trend of accepting students with intellectual disabilities and transforming their lives by equipping them with fundamental life skills.\u00a0 This approach has been instrumental in enabling these students to secure employment opportunities. Nevertheless, the prosperity of students with intellectual disabilities in learning institutions is being threatened by federal funding because some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}