Step 1: The following is a situational exercise. Read and use the information that you've learned in this lesson to follow the instructions. You are a counselor at a homeless shelter, and you are meeting with a client for the first time. You introduce yourself and begin to try to establish trust between the two of you. You explain a little bit about your experience as a counselor and success stories of people that you know who have recovered from homelessness. In an attempt to help the client, you begin to ask questions to discover this person's needs.

Step 2: Make a list of the questions that you would ask this person.
Step 3: List other problems that you think may go along with homelessness.
Step 4: Think about any services and/or resources that may available to help your client.
Step 5: Write ideas for solutions to the problems you listed in Step 3.

the answer is: false

yes it did. that's been proven time and again. i used to be an elementary school teacher myself, and i worked with thousands of kids with cerebral palsy across the nation and in canada. what i observed was that children with dyslexia were struggling to read and learn. it was a serious issue that impacted teachers all over the country, but it was so often ignored and denied.

and children with disabilities – children who have learning disabilities – they got to spend a lot of time reading in a classroom.

i could not believe there was never any kind of conversation in my school about how to provide more opportunities for students with disabilities. the education system was still looking for ways to keep the pressure on children's teachers to improve their grades, that they have to be teachers who were in the grade for eight years, and they weren't even being evaluated.

so why weren't parents or guardians concerned about whether their kids were being by this system, if they could not see their kids in a classroom that they could improve? why couldn't you say, "i think you need to improve your reading skills," right? and they certainly believed it when i pointed it out to them. it doesn't matter if you said, "you need to go to an optometry class, or to a teacher's camp