The Prospector (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 7, 1980 Page: 4 of 16
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Clinic prompts frustration and fulfillment
Forty-seven students taking part in a
Special Education Clinic will experience
feelings ranging from satisfaction to
frustration after each of the sessions.
The clinic, in which students teach
handicapped individuals, takes place every
Thursday afternoon in various rooms of
the fourth floor of the Education Building.
One feeling of satisfaction was expressed
by Rebecca Hernandez, one of five
supervisors of the clinic which is conducted
b y
udents in the
special-education-for-the-classroom-teacher
course.
“1 really enjoyed it,” Hernandez said.
"It is really fulfilling to work with a child
and actually see an improvement.”
Hernandez took part in the program
during this past summer.
Frustration results when a student feels
he has not gotten through to his client.
This was the case on Sept. 25, the first day
of the clinic, for one student who began to
cry after she finished working with an
autistic child.
Elva Duran, professor of educational
psychology and guidance, developed the
idea for the clinic.
“We really needed it,” Duran said. “We
tell them all this theory on how to work
with the autistic. But unless they do it and
watch a model (like Duran), they’ll never
learn.
“A lot of times, we send them out to the
schools and unfortunately they don’t have
good models because special education is
so new here,” she continued.
The clinic started in the spring of this
year and is currently in its third session.
The clients are brought to the clinic by
their parents. Duran said parents learn
about the program through
word-of-mouth.
“The students must talk to the parents
first,” Hernandez said. “They ask them,
‘What do you want your child to learn
what do you want us to teach him?"
The clinic tries to involve the parents as
much as possible. Parents can, and do, sit
in on the 90-minute sessions. The students
keep the parents aware of everything the
child is learning. Thus, the parent can assist
the child at home as the child is doing his
worksheets.
As far as who can participate in the
program, Hernandez said there are no
restrictions as to age or degree of handicap.
Currently, the clinic is helping three
children in various degrees of autism and
others who need help in specific areas like
reading, spelling, writing and math.
“Some need help in everything,”
Hernandez said. “One boy needed help
writing his name and knowing the letter
sounds.”
The students use direct teaching that
incorporates “on task” ideas — meaning
the child continuously is engaged in very
focused learning activity. In the current
semester, a one-on-one teaching situation
exists in which the students have to
prepare lesson plans for the client they are
helping. The lesson plan is a step-by-step
outline of what they are going to say and
do, as well as how the client may respond.
The five supervisors have gone through
the course and their job is to answer
any questions the students might have
and to correct any procedures they observe
are being conducted improperly.
Duran also supervises the clinic and is
there so that when problems arise, like
they did during the first session with the
autistic child, she immediately can tend to
them.
During the summer, Hernandez worked
with a boy who had a problem with
reading, a behavioral problem and suffered
she said from a lack of confidence.
“At first, he was apprehensive because
he was under the impression that I could
flunk him,” Hernandez said. “I had to
explain to him that my job was to help him
to read. After that, he was more receptive
to what I was trying to do.”
Hernandez said most of the students get
very good results with their clients because
they have to think everything out in
advance in order to complete their lesson
“Some (students) neea nelp in
everything, one boy needed help
writing his name and knowing the
letter sounds.”
—Rebecca Hernandez
plans.
As for the success of the program,
Hernandez said many of the clients who
participated in the summer clinic were
from Canutillo and their teacher said she
noticed an improvement in them.
What does the future have in store for
the Special Education Clinic?
“I’m going to expand this clinic to
include a lot more Hispanic handicapped,
using a lot of Spanish and English,” said
Duran. “That’s where my dream is to
expand it to that population because it is
not served in El Paso - not in the resource
rooms.” _________
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