Learning disability

This IEP meeting was for a student, whom I will call Laura, for an annual IEP meeting. She is an ELL student, so the meeting started with us waiting for about 45 minutes for the translator. She was late due to another meeting, and the mother spoke no English, so we had to wait patiently. Once everyone was in attendance, we started with introductions. The people in attendance at the meeting were as follows: special education teacher, general education science teacher, mother, interpreter,…

Neuropsychological Treatment of Dyslexia in the Classroom Setting Due to the differences in learning and the range of deficits presented, it has been difficult to diagnose and treat dyslexia, a prevalent reading disorder. Some of the methods currently used for treating this learning disability focus on strategy and cognitive development instead of brain process relationship and have not produced steady outcomes. Since dyslexia appears to be caused by neuropsychological deficiencies and…

Within the walls of a public school system, the defining moment of a school success is an effective Student Support Team, merely because the rate of students and their attendance are drastically changing. These situations along with many other variables tremendously affect African American males and the graduation rates across the country, state and right at Wilkinson County High School. Importantly, the student support team will have a positive outcome in the school system in solving the…

My mother never read books to me when I was younger so I didn 't really know anything about how to read nor was I very interested in learning until my uncle started working with me. My mother and stepfather were both quite mean and abusive. As I got older I used reading to cope with my dysfunctional home life. I would read to stay out of trouble and out of my parents way, but I would…

surprising how often dyslexia occurs within a population. Many people, from ordinary people to famous scientists to actors have been diagnosed with dyslexia; Orlando Bloom and Alexander Graham Bell are two of the long list of people. Despite their disabilities, these people have been able to live successful lives. Even Agatha Christie, the talented writer of sixty-six detective novels and six romances, was able to overcome this manageable condition. While many people believe that dyslexia is…

The first assessment took place because Shannon was in a car accident resulting in a severe concussion. Shannon is struggling with maintaining a clear head and new information. Her doctor suggested taking a semester off for her brain to heal and Shannon wants to know how her current intellectual functioning using the WAIS-IV and WJ-III. Shannon’s Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ= 84) was in the low average. Her Verbal Comprehension (VC=76) was borderline and Perceptual Reasoning (PR=91)…

dyslexia. Dyslexia is in no way a determining factor of intelligence. Dyslexia varies in each person that has it, but all of them will read at a lower level than usual for their age. Of students with a learning disability, eighty percent have dyslexia making it the most common learning disability. Dyslexia is more common in boys than it is in girls. The ability to understand spoken words is something the brain develops at a very early age, it is called language acquisition device. When a word is…

Abstract: Developmental dyslexia is a learning disability caused by neurological differences in language processing, affecting approximately 5-10% of the U.S. populations’ ability to speak, read and write. Because of this difficulty with text, different forms of language representation, such as visual art-making, may provide students with dyslexia the opportunity to communicate their ideas and express themselves in educational settings. Positive outcomes for those with dyslexia include healthy…

Student A is a nine-year-old healthy female in the third grade. She was born in the Dominican Republic and migrated to Miami, Florida as a toddler. The child is experiencing difficulties in all content areas and demonstrates poor memory skills. She is receiving the intervention pull out service and is allocated in the Response To Intervention Tier II process. The student receives additional services for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) level III. Student A struggles only in…

the time was an privilege being I got to get out of class, later became something I would be ashamed of. Although I have never let Dyslexia control me, it has affected me in many ways. When I was in the first grade I was diagnosed with the learning disability. There were many misfortunes that I had to learn to confront. One being homework. Homework always took twice as long to do as my siblings. I can remember sitting at the dinning room table for what seemed to be hours only getting up to use…