Students with Learning Disabilities

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Students with Learning Disabilities

• Devan Whitaker
• Jessica Grandlinard
• Phylicia Kelly

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Definitions

• Federal a disorder in one or more of the basic
  psychological process involved in using language,
  spoken or written, which may impact ability to
  listen, think, speak, read write spell, or do
  mathematical calculations
• National Joint Committee on Learning
  Disabilities a general term that refers to a
  heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by
  significant difficulties in the acquisition and
  use of listening, speaking, reading, writing,
  reasoning, or mathematical abilities

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Learning Disability

• A disorder characterized by difficulty in
  learning because of a central nervous system
  dysfunction.
• Problems in reading
• Problems in writing
• Problems in math
• Problems in speaking
• Problems with thinking

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Activities What is it like to have a learning
disability?

• Reading Disability (Visual Processing Disorder
  and Dyslexia)
• Activity Reading activity
• Activity Story activity

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Identification

• Traditional approach IQ-achievement discrepancy
• Now, use Response to Intervention

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Characteristics of Disabilities

• Reading
• Writing
• Speech
• Math
• Overall

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What Teachers Need to Do!

• Understand how children learn and develop
• Provide learning opportunities that support the
  intellectual, social, and personal development of
  each learner
• Use a variety of instructional strategies to
  encourage critical thinking, problem solving and
  performance skills
• Make the aspects of subject matter meaningful for
  students

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Differentiated Activity For Students with Writing
Disabilities

• RAFTS
• Why use RAFTS?
• Includes writing from different viewpoints.
• Helps students learn writing skills.
• Teaches to think creatively about responding to
  writing prompts.
• What are RAFTS?
• Role of the writer
• Audience
• Format
• Topic
• Strong Verb

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Example of RAFTS

• Bear Park Ranger Letter Bear
  Killings Outraged
• Dear Park Rangers,
• I am outraged with the amount of Black Bear
  killings that have occurred in the last few
  months. Altogether thirty eight bears have been
  killed by hunters, drivers, and in the last two
  months in Banff National Park alone. That is not
  counting the other three hundred forty three in
  the rest of Alberta and the other seven hundred
  forty five in British Columbia. In the next three
  months I am expecting the some sort of action or
  I will be forced to take legal action.
• A concerned Black Bear

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Modify

• Roll playing
• Choose topic of your choice

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Example of Concept Sort Science
Flowers Leaves
Water
Gardens Weeds
Forest Air
Trees
Sunlight Soil
Roots
Stems

• Categories
• Types of plants
• Parts of Plants
• Where Plants Grow
• What plants need to grow

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Differentiated Activity For Students with Reading
Disability

• Concept Sort Vocabulary
• Why use Concept Sort?
• Introduces new vocabulary students will see in a
  text.
• Provides teachers information about what students
  already know.
• What is Concept Sort?
• Teach a concept through a set of cards with
  vocabulary words printed on them.
• Learn what they already know
• Teach what they need to know

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Modify

• Use pictures along with the words.
• Use large letters that make the cards easily
  readable.
• Have students work in pairs or small groups.
• Flowers

http//www.starfall.com/
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Differentiated Activity For Students with Math
Disabilities

• Blocks
• Why use blocks?
• Meets needs for students who have a visual
  processing disorder.
• Helps students who struggle with operations of
  problems by physically seeing it.
• Gives hands on learning.
• Modify the use of blocks based on students
  learning level
• Teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication,
  division
• What are blocks?

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Resources

• Exceptional Learners An Introduction to Special
  EducationI Hallahan, Kauffman, Pullen
• http//helpguide.org/mental/learning_disabilities.
  htm
• http//www.readingrockets.org/strategies/word_maps
  
• http//www.readingrockets.org/strategies/raft
• http//www.readingrockets.org/strategies/concept_s
  ort
• http//www.starfall.com/