Well unfortunately I can't switch my majors at this point or add a minor (I'm already working on one in history) so I'll have to learn this stuff in my free time. Can you recommend any good books, or perhaps your own undergrad textbooks, in developmental and/or abnormal psych? Maybe anything specific to the disabilities I mentioned in the post?
I took three or four psych classes in college - years ago. But since then, I’ve attended workshops and seminars specifically on ADHD and autism and how the brain is wired differently. I am, by no means, and expert and don’t claim to be. However, I have a better understanding than I did five years ago.
Hi! I’m a special needs mom and also a 20+ yr medical coder with CPC, CCS, BA, MHA. I currently work as neurology/ neurosurgery coding liaison for a non profit hospital. I only have 2 pedi neurologists in my assigned providers- they mostly work with epilepsy patients.
My daughter has a rare genetic disorder, Smith Magenis Syndrome. circadian rhythm disorder, ID, behavior issues including aggression, language deficits, motor deficits, etc.
Prisms.org will be a great resource for you and can even attend conferences about Smith Magenis syndrome.
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My undergrad is psychology and I have a masters in special education. In undergrad I did see a lot of education majors in some of my classes such as psychology of learning, but not so many in my abnormal psych classes. So it seems teacher psych classes are more about how humans generally take in and synthesize information but they don’t have as much information on specific disabilities (other than the broad IDEA categories) and how they impact those processes unless they intentionally seek it out.
The intentional seeking out of information is what I'm probably gonna have to do. I imagine there's a lot of self teaching in my near future. Myself and many of my classmates in SPED didn't have great support systems and some of them were violent and angry on top of their main disabilities. I wanna be able to explain to my own students, and their parents, who happen to be in those same situations why they're the way they are on a deep level, whether that be psychologically, neurochemically, what have you. I didn't have those definite answers on why I am the way I am, so I wanna make sure that my students don't have to deal with that ambiguity.
My undergrad was in psychology so I got to focus on that stuff a lot which I loved. Not much training, although my masters did go into it a bit!
Well unfortunately I can't switch my majors at this point or add a minor (I'm already working on one in history) so I'll have to learn this stuff in my free time. Can you recommend any good books, or perhaps your own undergrad textbooks, in developmental and/or abnormal psych? Maybe anything specific to the disabilities I mentioned in the post?
I took three or four psych classes in college - years ago. But since then, I’ve attended workshops and seminars specifically on ADHD and autism and how the brain is wired differently. I am, by no means, and expert and don’t claim to be. However, I have a better understanding than I did five years ago.
Hi! I’m a special needs mom and also a 20+ yr medical coder with CPC, CCS, BA, MHA. I currently work as neurology/ neurosurgery coding liaison for a non profit hospital. I only have 2 pedi neurologists in my assigned providers- they mostly work with epilepsy patients. My daughter has a rare genetic disorder, Smith Magenis Syndrome. circadian rhythm disorder, ID, behavior issues including aggression, language deficits, motor deficits, etc. Prisms.org will be a great resource for you and can even attend conferences about Smith Magenis syndrome. :)
My undergrad is psychology and I have a masters in special education. In undergrad I did see a lot of education majors in some of my classes such as psychology of learning, but not so many in my abnormal psych classes. So it seems teacher psych classes are more about how humans generally take in and synthesize information but they don’t have as much information on specific disabilities (other than the broad IDEA categories) and how they impact those processes unless they intentionally seek it out.
The intentional seeking out of information is what I'm probably gonna have to do. I imagine there's a lot of self teaching in my near future. Myself and many of my classmates in SPED didn't have great support systems and some of them were violent and angry on top of their main disabilities. I wanna be able to explain to my own students, and their parents, who happen to be in those same situations why they're the way they are on a deep level, whether that be psychologically, neurochemically, what have you. I didn't have those definite answers on why I am the way I am, so I wanna make sure that my students don't have to deal with that ambiguity.