Learning disability

IEPs. Following IEPs harms the student and the school. The use of conformity and obedience would surly help in increase the amount of IEP compliance. An Individualized Education Program, or IEP, is a set of instructions tailored to a child with a disability so that he or she can receive accommodation to aid in his or her education. According to the NCES, in the years 2003 and 2004- it was found that 56.85% of schools in PA had at least one student with an IEP. This would then increase to 99.4%…

Disproportionality continues to exist in several categories listed under IDEA (2004), especially the categories of the Specific Learning Disability (SLD), Emotional Disturbance (ED), and Intellectual Disability (ID) (Gamm, 2007). Disproportionality is defined as the “overrepresentation” and “under-representation” of a particular population or demographic group in special or gifted education programs relative to the presence of this group in the overall student population (National Association…

Misunderstood Minds Question 1: Briefly discuss each of the student’s specific learning disability and what you think of the interventions that they received. The first child shown in Misunderstood Minds is named Nathan Vanhoy. Nathan’s teacher became aware of his lack of phonemic awareness. Nate does not have the ability to distinguish among the different sounds and break words into their individual sounds (phonemes). In his situation he spends a large amount of time decoding words, which…

For a child with reading difficulties to stay up to par on their grade reading level it is important to help them at the earliest stage of any signs of struggling. In preschool if there is a child who seems to be at risk of developing a reading disability immediately introduce them to phonological activities (Elbro & Petersen, 2004). Starting intervention at a young age is seen to be the most effective. The earlier intervention is started the better and intense intervention it is need to for…

Dyslexia is an inherited condition that makes it extremely difficult to read, write, and spell in your native language, despite having an at least average intelligence. Dyslexia is very common, but has only been talked about in recent years. It was 1878 when German neurologist, Adolph Kussmaul, first used the phrase “word blindness” describing what we know as dyslexia today. The word dyslexia was first used by Rudolf Berlin of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1887 to describe the inability to read. In…

Reading is a very complex process and is difficult to teach to students with learning disabilities. No one reading program will work to teach all children with learning disabilites to read. Today, many students with learning disabilities cannot read or have limited reading skills. Parents, teachers, specialists, and advocates are extremely concerned with these results, because students are graduating without the abilities to read street signs, grocery items, or navigate around their communities.…

in the response to intervention process. Connecticut includes targeted interventions for students experiencing learning, social-emotional or behavioral difficulties as part of the tiered interventions, with curriculum that in addition to core academic areas, includes the creation and maintenance of a positive and safe school climate, and a comprehensive system of social-emotional learning and behavioral supports (Connecticut State Department of Education Bureau of School and District…

effect on learning outcomes for all students. There are various factors that can influence as well as hinder the educational performance of students with a disability and additional learning needs, including, policies, frameworks, guidelines and school staffing arrangements. This report…

ARTICLE SUMMARY: This article took three students with learning disabilities and discovered a new method called CCC, or cover, copy, compare, and had the children use it. These researchers took samples of the students’ work before and after they used this method. The goal was to improve students’ test scores in spelling and improve their writing abilities when given a prompt. They chose both spelling and writing because usually when students have trouble spelling they also have difficulties…

questions about the efficacy of the treatment. According to the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), 6-7% of the population has a learning disability and about 85% of those individuals with a learning disability have “dyslexia.” The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th Edition (DSM-5) classifies dyslexia as the most prevalent “specific learning…