What are the most important things we want our children to learn?

[Guest guest]

Hi

I am currently contemplating the idea of approaching a company that makes

software for people with disabilites to make a website or software that could

assist teachers and teacher aides at school to be working on the most important

things for our children. My thought is that as my daughter (Sophie) is

mainstreamed she has the advantage of being with more abled children but dosen't

get a trained special ed teacher and therefore the work she is doing is modified

work that the mainstream children are doing. While this is good, I would rather

her be developing all the things that are going to be most helpful for her. If

she had her own laptop that her aide could access that other professionals had

developed this would really get things going. For example, if we were wanting

Sophie to be working on her social skills (which I think is much more important

than cutting a straight line) then the aide could look at the website/software

for current ideas and then implement them in the classroom.

I would appreciate your thoughts on this idea and what you think are the most

important things for our children to be focusing on. I realise there will be a

huge variety of skills at differing levels needed but don't think this should be

a problem.

To get you started...........

Social skills eg please, thankyou, I would like, turn taking, reading emotions

Physical skills eg toileting, eating, holding pencils, throwing balls

Thanks

Geraldine