My Supports

     In my home environment, my husband provides me with the needed support to make our household function.  He provides me with support by maintaining our finances, working as team to raise our daughter as well has be my sounding board for any outside stressors that I may be experiencing.  In addition, he provides me with the needed time and space to be the best student I can be.  He also is my proofreader! As a result, when I earn my grades each semester we share the credit of the hard work needed to earn a Masters of Science.  I believe the support my husband provides me with is beneficial because when people are stressed or overloaded with too many tasks they tend not to be as successful as I have been able to be due to the support I receive.  In addition, the support he provides me with always reassures me that I have someone in my corner wanting the best for me.   I believe it would be extremely difficult to be a successful mother, wife, and student if it wasn’t for the support of my husband.  He is my better half that balances out my busy schedule.  I also believe if my husband was gone from life I would struggle tremendously.  I do not think I would be a graduate student as well as I do not think that our daughter would be as well rounded as she is because she would be unable to participate in the activities of her choosing due to the limited time I could provide her to support her in her endeavors.   
     In my work environment, my co-teachers and clinicians provide me with the needed support I need to be the best early childhood professional I can be for the children and families that I serve.  They provided me with various resources that I can implement into the curriculum and learning environment to maximize each child’s learning experiences.   In addition, the clinicians provide me with the needed trainings and techniques to provide early interventions to atypical developing children.  The support I receive at work is beneficial because the children and families I serve are able to receive endless resources from various perspectives in the field of early childhood development.   I believe if I did not have the support from my co-teachers and clinicians the children and families would suffer because they would be missing the collaboration needed to fully accommodate the individual needs of the children and families being served in the program.  In addition, I believe if I lost the support from these early childhood professionals I would not be able to be a successful educator or resource for children and families because I strongly believe it takes many early childhood professionals to collaborate to fully create a curriculum and learning environment for atypical and typical developing children. 
     When I think of challenges that I would face if I did not have the support from the clinicians I work very close with at work, I envision a chaotic learning environment that did not meet the needs of the children.  I see a classroom with learning centers setup without the needed adaptive learning materials to accommodate the needs of the atypical developing population being served.  I also see uneducated teachers providing low quality early interventions to children who are in need of a high quality early intervention program as an attempt to meet the needs of their adjusted age as well as provide them with various resources to shorten the gap between the children’s chronological age and adjusted age.  In conclusion, I believe the early intervention program I work with require the needed support of all clinician due to the individual needs of the population being served in the program.  The children and families need the support from all clinicians and teachers to accommodate the individual needs of the children, hence the reason it is vital for the collaborations between the families, clinicians, and teachers.