For my first grade class, I would use technology to help accommodate the needs of students with disabilities. Current classroom accommodations for students with disabilities include using an audio recorder to record lessons (the student can play them Continue Reading...
Students individualized education program (IEP) The term IEP is used to refer to the special program or plan that is created with a specific student in mind due to the disability that they have in class which prevents them to learn as fast or with e Continue Reading...
Inclusion of Disabilities in the Classroom During the later years of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium, it has become abundantly clear that we are living in an increasingly diverse world. Indeed, the diversity of the world has inc Continue Reading...
Teaching Historical Events to Student With Disabilities Our perspective of the concept of the passing of time and our place in the history of the world is important to us towards our growth and evolution. Lacking a sense of time and space, one is pr Continue Reading...
This is particularly true for students with learning disabilities. Secondary students' reading performance reaches a plateau during their high school years, and it is clear that the performance gap between their abilities and what they are expected Continue Reading...
Long-Term Effects of Social Promotion on Student and Teacher There is a problem in an urban elementary school in Eastern New York. This problem specifically is the social promotion of fifth grade students. Currently, nothing is being done to addres Continue Reading...
Among all the measures, sentence imitation illustrated the greatest power in discriminating poor and adequate readers (2010). Another study conducted by Flax, Realpe-Bonilla, Roesler, Choudhury, and Benasich (2010) studied the profiles of children Continue Reading...
Conclusion For the new teacher, the most important factor in resolving issues concerning students with learning disabilities is to recognize the high incidence of depression and other emotional disturbances that go along with it. Early treatment a Continue Reading...
deficits of students with mathematics disabilities? Mathematical skills are definitely just as crucial as literacy and reading skills when it comes to succeeding at school and beyond. Of late, researchers and policymakers have focused considerably Continue Reading...
Expounding upon a group that has received little attention, and in fact has only been acknowledged for a few years, Vaidya's article is beneficial to the teaching and learning community. Although the identification of such gifted/learning disabled Continue Reading...
Either one of these things can lead to acting out. The students in her LD classroom are often grouped together during specific tasks, so they have others to talk to and work with. This helps them to be less frustrated and keeps them from feeling as Continue Reading...
Distance learning education provides a wide range of resources and learning experiences that are usually much more diverse than the traditional brick and mortar classroom can furnish. This makes this mode of learning more adaptable to a variety of n Continue Reading...
Because of the lack of clarity and certainty regarding mental retardation or intellectual disability, the effect of having students with this issue in a classroom can be somewhat more chaotic than with other developmental disorders, where specific Continue Reading...
It did not tell students promptly if their requests were granted, did not communicate with students and parents about providing reasonable accommodations in a timely, interactive, or sympathetic fashion, and adding the additional requirements for st Continue Reading...
Of challenge too is finding a method that can best help the student gain and retain (as well as improve) reading skills both in and out of the classroom settings The if/then statement If self-instructional training is used then student's reading s Continue Reading...
The article is extracted from "Learning Disability Quarterly," a magazine specialised in researches on various aspects of learning disabilities. In addition, it has a high level credibility and is also extremely useful for researchers interested in Continue Reading...
memory on Learning Disabilities. I believe that there is a strong correlation between the two and that short-term memory is directly affected by Learning Disabilities. Participants in this first study (Mastropieri, Scruggs, Hamilton, Wolfe, Whedon Continue Reading...
Adults With Learning Disabilities It has been estimated (Adult with Learning Disabilities) 1 that 50-80% of the students in Adult Basic Education and literacy programs are affected by learning disabilities (LD). Unfortunately, there has been little Continue Reading...
Social Promotion on Students With Learning Disabilities Prospectus: Effects of Social Promotion on Young Students with Learning Disabilities Social promotion in various learning institutions is a practice where the students are promoted to the next Continue Reading...
Students that are talented apart from also having learning disabilities are those that have an exceptional talent/gift and are capable of achieving high performances, but who also have some sort of learning disability, which makes a certain feature Continue Reading...
Educational Diagnosis The ethical dilemma of diagnosing a learner with a disability when there are other alternatives for support Resnik (2011) defines ethics as "norms for conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior." As Continue Reading...
IEP Student With Intellectual Disability Goals and IEPs: Aiden One of the critical components of any IEP is 'goal setting.' Goals are determined for each individual student and a specific instructional plan is designed to meet those goals. Goals a Continue Reading...
Learning Disabled During the course of a child's school years they will learn to define themselves as a person and shape their personality, sense of self-concept and perception of their potential for achievement for life (Persaud, 2000). Thus the ea Continue Reading...
Serving students with a full range of abilities and disabilities in the general education class room with appropriate in-class support is how Roach (1995) defines inclusion using this practice. Friend & Bursuck (1996) noted that children with d Continue Reading...
There is little doubt that students with special needs require more support services, and the article referenced above adds clarity to that assertion. What also is true is that often students with disabilities are harassed, made fun of and even bul Continue Reading...
A group approach is considered beneficial as teachers "need to rethink their traditional teaching roles and expand their repertoire of teaching skills to include techniques that help students enhance their comprehension" and students who receive ind Continue Reading...
Teaching Special Education Students In the classroom, teachers are primarily responsible for ensuring that special education students are provided with equal opportunities for education. While instructors should not lower academic standards in the c Continue Reading...
Teaching Strategy for Special Ed Special Education Standard Direct instruction is the most widely-used teaching strategy, although it has become controversial in recent years. Critics argue that it limits the creativity of good teachers and provide Continue Reading...
Learning to read and write are complementary skills. While in the younger years, writing depends on reading skills, by middle and high school, they are complementary skills: reading is necessary to do writing assignments, while writing about what has Continue Reading...
Teaching Impression and Reality Out of all things I expected myself to do, teaching was probably the least of my expectations. However, things unraveled and led me to get a job at ICCD School. Prior to this job, I had no experience as a teacher at Continue Reading...
Foundations Do you think this student might have a learning disability? Why or why not? learning disability is referred to as affecting acquisition, organization, retention, and understanding of information, both verbal and nonverbal, as gauged fro Continue Reading...
Great emphasis is, for example, placed upon the emotional factors implied in the definition, while the educational factor is somewhat underemphasized. This means that children suffering from behavior or emotional disturbances will not be eligible fo Continue Reading...
Special education field advisory One of the challenges of special education in the modern, standards-focused environment is the fact that while special education almost by definition demands individualized attention on the part of the teacher, stan Continue Reading...
In other words, it can be criticized for being somewhat discursive and for not providing any form of comparative analysis. Alternatively, one could argue that methodologically the research falls into the category of a case study, a legitimate form Continue Reading...
curriculum models used in early childhood education programs. The main curriculum models utilized in ECD programs for children with disabilities include behavioral, cognitive and combination models. Developmental Model: This model has an enrichme Continue Reading...
These benefits arise because of implementing both assistive technologies and Information Communication technology (ICT). The implementation of technology in classrooms usually has benefits to both the disabled students as well as the teachers (Kirk, Continue Reading...
One trend that needs to be altered is the development of perceptions that stress the ways in which the environment of the classroom and school can be improved to better accommodate and support LD students, which will likely in turn assist all studen Continue Reading...
In order to build an age-appropriate vocabulary in the English language, ESL students must learn words at a faster rate than normal (Lipka, Siegel, & Vukovic, 2005; Drucker 2003). This results in a widening gap between the reading and comprehens Continue Reading...
Dyslexia is a learning disability, and is a relatively broad term. It makes reading difficult because of the lack of learning comprehension and fluency seen by the dyslexic person (Cherry & Kruger, 1983). There are many ways in which dyslexia can Continue Reading...
