Research that Benefits Children and Families-Uplifting Stories

I would choose the topic of Children with disabilities to research. I believe that it is very important for children and their families with disabilities to be able to get the same education and care that children without disabilities get. the National Center for Learning Disabilities/NCLD have been researching this topic and have been helping  children and their families since the 1990's.

I think that this is important because children with disabilities need to help they deserve and it is important to know how to help them and how to make things available to them and their families. I also believe that research would benefit the early childhood field be helping and informing professional educators with all the information that they would need to be able to help these children and their families in their schools, daycares, and communities.

My Personal Research Journey

The topic that I chose for the simulation is the gender role in play for boys and girls. I chose this topic because I have seen as a professional parents, fathers in particular get very worried when they see their sons playing house or dress-up with the girls in the classroom. The children in my classroom now are 1-1 1/2 years old and in my past classrooms the children were 2-3 years old. It always throws me for a loop when parents get upset when their children are not playing with the toys that they think they should be playing with. Society and the world is guilty of putting children in curtain gender roles and when it comes to play they are suppose to keep those gender roles. I DO NOT believe in gender roles for young children when they are playing. I think they should be able to express themselves equally and without judgment.

I found my research on this topic to be very exciting and interesting. It was very important to me to find out what other professionals in the Early Childhood field have to say about this topic. If anyone has any information about my topic please feel free to let me know.