Title: What is the difference Slow Learner or Learning Disabled
1What is the difference - Slow Learner or Learning
Disabled?
- Danielle Jones Alison Scott
2YOUR TASK
- Divide up into 4 groups
- Each group will come up with characteristics/attri
butes of either slow learners or learning
disabled students - Each group will elect a spokes person to report
back to the class - you have five minutes to complete the task before
it self-destructs!
3Why is it important to be able to identify the
slow learners in a class as opposed to those
children with specific learning disabilities?
4- To ensure that the level of service and support
provided to that child is markedly improved - The learning needs of these two groups are quite
different, so it is important to make correct
identification for programming needs
5Characteristics Slow Learner
- Developmental
- May have immature language patterns or speech
problems
6- Social
- poor judgement, immature social behaviour,
prefers company of younger children
7- Personal
- frustration
- aggression
- anxiety
8- Academic
- May show proficiency with particular tasks rather
than subject areas, poor memory, difficulties
understanding several steps in a task
9- Learning
- needs to have new information linked to old,
difficulties transferring information learned in
one situation to other situations
10Learning Disabled
- Academic - reading
- confuses similar words and letters
- loses place
- repeats words
- does not read fluently
- persists in using fingers to follow along,
- does not like to read
11- Academic - spelling
- uses incorrect order of letters in words
- had difficulty associating correct sound with
appropriate letter - reverses letters and words
12- Academic - maths
- had difficulty associating number with symbol
- cannot remember number facts
- confuses columns and spacing
- has difficulty comprehending maths concepts
13- Physical
- perceptual motor difficulties
- visual perception difficulties
- poor visual decoding
- general co-ordination deficits
- poor auditory memory
- attention deficit
- mixed dominance
14- Psychological
- emotional instability (violent reactions)
- difficulty learning by ordinary methods
- low social acceptance
- low self concept/self esteem
- general disorganisation
15- Social/Emotional/Behavioural
- hyperactivity (gross, noisy, constant movements)
- hypoactivity (quiet, nervous, fidgety)
- impulsivity
- poor concentration span
- low frustration tolerance
- emotional liability
- seem paradoxical
16The failure to recognise, understand and address
learning differences has a profound impact on
individual lives. Collectively, it is a national
problem of profound proportions, affecting every
institution and system in society1998, Hello
Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation.
17For more information
- http//www.education.qld.gov.au/tal/liu/
policy/supas_04.htm - REFERENCE
- Whats the Difference - Slow Learner or Learning
disabled? by Karen Mackay in Speld News, Vol.4
No.1