I'm in 8th grade and preparing for high school classes next year, I'm in the process of working on my schedule and an being required to choose the category of my future career. I want to work with disabled kids. I already know sign language and have a little brother with Downs. I need suggestions of careers and classes I should take.
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I'm with taking the AP (college class) Psychology as part of your college prepartory work.
I would also do well in math (you will need to take a statistics and a pre-cal/advanced college algebra), science (biology) and computers. If you school offers it, I would take a course in each of these : art (bulletin board to projects), communications, debate (lots of parent meetings), medical terminology/sciences (reading medical reports, teaching and/or performing first aid), Spanish (lots of spanish speaking kids around).
If you need to choose an "academy" to be part of, I would go medical more than anything else. You will be surprised how often you need the information and ease with medical equipment. It would also help you to know how to cut down on the amount of germ exposure!