The Developing Family

RESOURCE REVIEW

The Developing Child:

Focusing on Nurturing and Learning

Magna Systems, Illinois

VHS 28 minutes

Available at DBCC

This resource discusses children with disabilities with a focus on each individual child and their personal character traits. It also takes into account the child’s parents and how the disability affects them as they learn to cope with the situation.

Although a child has a disability, this resource reminds us that it does not make them less of a human. They still have individual likes and dislikes, and strengths and weaknesses within them. They, as normal children, have their own individual learning style, which must be taken into consideration when developing an individual education plan.

As with the child, each family has it’s own dynamics and culture that will shape how they as a group will function-encompassing the disability. Some aspects of the families growth and development will remain very similar to a family that has no child with a disability-but some of the stages will differ immensely. The stages, which occur when the child is young, although different in expectations and goals being met, are similar. The stages that will be very different are the stages that occur as the child gets older. If the child were normal, they would become