A vast number of vulnerable new programs have been designed to provide appropriate education for all children. Perhaps most vulnerable are the programs for children with learning disabilities. Personal experience in a variety of job roles has revealed a number of skills and characteristics needed by auxiliary staff personnel to fulfill their professional commitment to children with learning disabilities, to establish their professional identity, and to find job satisfaction in programs that were implemented in haste to meet the new laws, regulations, and guidelines.
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