Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of home-based services. Do you believe the advantages outweigh the disadvantages or vice versa? Why?
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The advantages of home-based services include familiarity of the setting and primary teacher (the parent) for the children. It is also believed that skills learned in the natural environment are easier to maintain. Another advantage is that parents are intimately involved in their child’s learning, where they learn important intervention strategies and can provide ongoing support to the child. Other advantages include minimal routine disruptions and potentially reduced costs such as no transportation requirements, especially if a child lives in a rural setting. Disadvantages may include the heavy commitment and responsibilities laid on the parents, some of whom may lack the ability to provide effective intervention. There may also be difficulties related to single-parent homes, poor living conditions due to poverty, and safety risk factors. There is also the downside that interactions with other children are limited or nonexistent due to home-based services. Finally, such service delivery puts added time and stress on professionals who must spend considerabe amounts of time driving. Considering all advantages and disadvantages, most students will likely say that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. This is especially true since the goal of home-based intervention is to advance a child’s developmental status, while at the same time increase the well-being and competency of the family to help their child.
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It is important for a reading teacher to know that
A. While improved word recognition boosts comprehension in a variety of ways, focus on word identification strategies does not. B. In a word identification program, work with affixes should include recognition of specific prefixes and suffixes as well as identification of words when these are added to root words. Attention to meanings of these affixes, however, is only considered a necessary part of these activities if meaning vocabulary instruction is a goal for the student's remedial program. C. Though sometimes a controversial procedure, research has confirmed the utility of teaching most of the more common phonic generalizations that are found in published programs, for example, "When two vowels are side by side, the first is long and the second is silent". D. Research has shown that giving students opportunities to practice, in real texts, words that contain the sounds and patterns they are learning facilitates learning. An example is using simple books like Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop when practicing consonants and short vowel sounds.
Curriculum changes are a result of ______, according to Oliva.
a. cooperative endeavors b. individual teacher decisions c. district mandate d. textbook advancements
_____ are events such as headaches, allergies, hunger, a previous difficult situation, or something that is troubling the student
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