Mexican American Mothers Abilities Analysis

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Mexican American Mothers’ beliefs about Disabilities Education 252-040 The article “Mexican American Mothers’ Beliefs about Disabilities” use the Vygotsky’ sociocultural theory framework to assess the issues of language development and cultural values and beliefs as the presiding factor to understanding how women of a specific culture, namely Mexican American mothers; interpret learning and language disability in their disabled children. Moreover, the article seeks to evaluate and derive at solutions for combatting the issue that affect language disability as well as the implications for early childhood interventions, while assessing issue of culturally responsive and culturally competent service providers; and their contribution to and…show more content…
Any form of intervention that involves parent and children, service providers and an IFSP can only be effective if it involves collaboration and a level of trust and respect and the willingness to learn. Vygotsky’s sociocultural perspective is key, since it includes all these pertinent issues, which can only be achieved using cultural reciprocity and the relinquishing of biases as it relates to the mainstream culture. This allows Interventionist to acquire more accurate information about the families they are expected to assist and their measures will be geared to meeting those specific needs. Again, I think a good effort was made to identify issues that affect Mexican American Mothers in acquiring adequate assistance for their children with language disability. However, I think that improvement of this article in the form of a 1. More extensive study to include other cultures whose first language is not English. The study can also be conducted using parents’ perception on issues associated with adapting to the conventional method (using mainstream concept). In doing so you may be able to better compare the issues and see whether there is any evident correlation between the languages itself and other unforeseen issues such as socioeconomic, acculturation, and formal…show more content…
The above will be demonstrated by answering the following questions:- Did the author(s) answer all of the research questions (2 or more examples how)- Evaluating the study design and giving 3 examples of how it was designed well - Evaluating the validity and reliability of measures – do they seem appropriate?(2 reasons why/why not) | Same as exemplary except:- Only one example of how author(s) answered the research questions- Only 1 or 2 examples of how it the study was well designed- Only 1 reason in evaluating the validity and reliability | Same as competent except:- No clear example of how author(s) answered the research questions- No clear examples of how it the study was well designed- No evaluation the validity and reliability | Same as emerging except:- No example of how author(s) answered the research questions- No examples of how it the study was well designed
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