Learning disability

Man oh man! Do you know someone with dyslexia? Dyslexia is a learning disability. This is a disability that you come in this world with. When you or someone has dyslexia it means that you have trouble with reading, writing, and spelling and sometimes with talking. You have some famous people who had dyslexia. First of all, dyslexia can be inherited. You can get it from a family member and it can be more than one person in the family to have dyslexia. It occurs in both children and adults. When…

that person that helps children mentally, emotionally,with their physical and learning disability? You want to be able to teach them and help them. Special education is an inspiring career and at The University of Texas at Brownsville has the program that will best prepare you to teach special education students. “Special education teachers work with individuals who have emotional, physical and developmental disabilities. They work in classrooms, hospitals and clinics by assisting in personal…

because it is possible that these students are not aware of the use of literacy supports or have trouble taking responsibility of their own educational needs. MacIntire’s article, “Colleges Face Calls for Better Support of Students with Learning Disabilities” (July 2, 2015) reminds us that many college students may not have the self-advocacy skills required to get the support they…

are different. Special educational needs (SEN) refers to children with learning difficulties that make it harder for them to learn compared to most children of their age. Examples of special educational needs include emotional issues, trouble with organising, showing inappropriate behaviour, and difficulty with reading, writing or understanding information (Nidirect, 2014). Within SEN, a distinction is made for specific learning difficulties, which include dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and dyslexia.…

Primary diagnosis: Speech and language delays. Secondary diagnosis: Intellectual disability. The claimant was a 7 year and 11 month old boy. Alleged disability: learning disability, could not speak understandable words, could not tie his shoes, could not wipe himself after using the toilet, and hyperactivity. His mother reported that he was unable to cut geometric shapes with scissors, unlock a key lock, could not follow simple directions, and did not say his last name when asked for his…

Less than thirty years ago, a learning disability (LD) such as dyslexia was associated with "stupidity and laziness" (2005, Butterworth, p. 456). Such a notion is difficult to imagine in our world today, which we owe to scientific evidence allowing us to understand the genetic factors contributing to LDs. Yet, a number of LDs, such as dyscalculia remain relatively unexplored despite increasing awareness and acceptance of LD in general. Nonetheless, awareness establishes an environment of…

schools to support and monitor the academic and learning needs of students. During the screening process, teachers collect data to help them identify struggling students who are failing to meet the expected grade-level benchmarks. Additionally, the data supports the educational decisions teachers make for incorporating multi-tiered intensive research-based interventions, defining nonresponsiveness to instruction, determining the presence of a learning disability, and improving student growth…

sometimes sexual can affect every aspect of a child's life and development. Sibling jealousy/rivalry There are many influences on children's development by their family such as birth of siblings and the child's interactions with the sibling such as learning how to win, lose, love and even fight and the influences that their sibling has over them. Sometimes there may be a lot of jealousy and rivalry between them. Neglect For various reasons some children are neglected and not looked after…

highlights the ways in which society has developed a greater understanding of individual learner needs – whether they have a Special Educational Need/Disability (SEN/D) or not. Fuchs & Fuchs (1994) argued that integration is about children ‘fitting in’ to mainstream school without any major changes to its curriculum or style of teaching and learning, whilst inclusion…

reading promotes independent learning and improves self-esteem (Johnson, Philips and Peers 1999).Indeed it was observed in practice that a multisensory approach to lessons created a marked improvement in productivity and quality in the majority of students (PLL, 12 /11/11], Appendix 1,pg3). Turner and Pughe (2003) argue that inclusion is an entitlement and for dyslexic learners is something that can be achieved by using a variety of strategies to support their learning. Although this argument…