Beth Lasley
Published on Mar 24, 2019
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F.A.T City stands for Frustration, Anxiety, & Tension. These are what most students with learning disabilities struggle with every day of their lives.
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Anxiety
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Students with LD's find themselves anxious which affects their performance in class. They tend to hold their heads down hoping the teacher will not call on them. In order to remedy this, it is good to talk with the student and devise a plan so that the teacher will know when to call on them. It is also good to call on the student when you know they have the answer. Also slow things down, so that the LD student has time to think.
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Processing
Students with LD have to work double time to process information, especially when being called on. They have to process the question, and then work to process their answer. This is because they tend to work and pay attention to everything around them, so they are processing many things at one time. We have to think about LD students as being distracted by everything instead of thinking of them as not having an attention span. We do not need to punish them for being distracted. If they are punished or laughed out this will only make them more anxious.
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Students with LDs tend to not volunteer because there is a risk of them not getting the wrong answer. Students that struggle with processing do not like surprises. They usually do not get positive reinforcement if they get an answer correctly, so they do not want to take chances. They get a mindset that might get embarrassed, so why should I even try. We as teachers need to set them up for success. When they have a small success, then they will grow more confident and volunteer more.
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Visual Perception
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Not every student sees things the same way. Because of this teachers need to not assume everyone understands by simply "reading" the directions. We often think the student is not trying hard enough. Students can see what we want them to do, but they cannot perceive what we want them to do. Students need to be told directly what they want them to do. When they hear it, they can then understand and do the task at hand. We need to make sure to model and give direct instruction for LD students.
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Reading Comprehension
When I was in school reading comprehension was taught primarily through the use of vocabulary. Now the trend is changing. In the video, it pointed out that just because you know what a word means, you still may not understand what it is saying. Comprehension today stresses the use of background knowledge to help students understand the context of what they are reading. We need to stop expecting kids to learn on their own and model what we are understanding as we read passages aloud. This will help them with comprehension.
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Oral Expression
Dysnomia is when a student struggles with finding a word. This is a retrieval problem that many LD students have. The student has a problem getting the info they need out of the brain and then stores it in the wrong place when they put it back in. The LD student can only do one task at a time (cognitive task) as opposed to a student that can perform more than one task at a time (Associative task). For students with dysnomia, speaking becomes a cognitive task. As teachers, we must give them the time they need to retrieve the information they are searching for.
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Reading and Decoding
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As teachers, we should never tell a student that a task is easy. Kids get exhausted when they struggle with reading. They spend so much time working on decoding that they do not get the full or any comprehension out of the text. As teachers, we should provide them with an auditory representation of the text so that they do not have to spend massive amounts of time decoding the words.
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Fairness
Students with LDs usually have a lot of rocks stacked against them. They may suffer from anxiety, low self-esteem, have dyslexia, have ADHD, or any other sort of disorder. In order to make things balanced for a child, we need to make sure that they are getting what he or she needs to succeed. We have to be "fair" to that student and provide the modifications that they need to do their best work.
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