Accommodating Students with Learning Disabilities

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Accommodating Students with Learning
Disabilities
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Accommodating Students with Learning
Disabilities Objectives

• 1. Name different types of learning disabilities
  and how they impact learning, participation, and
  demonstration of knowledge in class.
• 2. Describe typical accommodation strategies for
  students with learning disabilities.
• 3. Discuss how technology can be used to help
  students with learning disabilities achieve
  academic and career success.

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Criteria for Being Diagnosed with a Learning
Disability

• have average or above average intelligence
• show lack of achievement at age and ability
  level and
• show a severe discrepancy between achievement and
  intelligence.

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Types of Learning Disabilities

• Dysgraphia
• Dyscalculia
• Dyspraxia
• Dyslexia
• Nonverbal learning disorders

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Accommodations for Specific Learning Disabilities
Note-taker and/or audiotaped class
sessions Captioned videos Textbooks on
tape Visual, aural, and tactile instructional
demonstrations
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Accommodations for Specific Learning
Disabilities, continued
Course and lecture outlines Assignments given in
advance Computer with speech output, spell
checker, and grammar checker Extra exam time,
quiet testing arrangements
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Resources
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Visit The Faculty Room Web site
athttp//www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/