My friend's sister is a teacher for the mentally challenged. She doesn't teach in a school anymore though. When she did teach special ed in school, she volunteered at a place where they help students who are challenged write essays for school or for applications for college or even helped out with the applications for a job if they needed one. She ended up moving there full time to work.
It is basically an essay writing service that they give to those who need some extra help completing their assignments. It is a great place for those students to go and they give them an extra boost to help with their future.
A lot of them are on the right track already, but they need that extra boost when it comes to a custom essay for an application or even a custom research paper for a project.
Sarah said that most of the students that come in are there for help finding a job or applying to schools. So when they come in they find out about the person and then they look for what they like to do and what they are good at and then they help them with finding local job openings or if the student has already come in with a job application they take it from there.
They help them not only fill out the applications, but they teach them to be able to do it in the future. They also help them with resumes and knowing what kind of power words work the best to describe them and their past experiences. Sarah was also telling us one day that a lot of the special education students that come through have had schooling and are right where they should be education wise, but they haven't really been given chances that other students who aren't in those special education classes have been given.
When you are in ‘regular' classes you are expected to go on to college and you are given those tips on resumes and applications and essay writing and so on and the special education classes focus more on day to day activities and basic fundamentals and life skills. She said that now they are trying to focus more on giving them every opportunity possible and teaching them to mold their future how they want it to be.
