F.A.T

Learning Disability =
Exclusion

Anxiety

• Can be created by pressure from the teacher Ex:''Look at me when I'm talking to you!''
• Effects performance in students
• 1st reaction when a Learning disabled (LD) child feels anxiety is to look away

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Processing

Distractibility: Pays attention to everything
Attention Span: Doesn't pay attention to anything.
LD children have distractibility

Too fast! The gift of TIME
LD child has to process question before processing the answer

Don't call on a LD child for answer without a cue they know about and call on them first they may only have one answer.

Risk Taking

Why should I play this game?

• LD children do not like surprises
• LD children do not volunteer to answer a question because they are not positively reinforced or encouraged
• LD children fear embarassment

Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

• very complicated for LD children
• previously taught through vocabulary, but this does not work for LD child
• Needs Direct Instruction
• What is the LD child's background? It can impact their comprehension

Reading & Decoding

• Spatial orientation changes how the LD child sees letters. Ex: Pqbd confusion
• LD child will not remember content because all effort went to decoding
• Auditory input helps LD children to understand

Oral Expression

oral Expression

• Dysnomia-word finding problem in LD children
• Storage and Retrieval Issues don't connect-Information gets misplaced
• so difficult it causes more anxiety
• give LD children more time

Oral Expression

• Associative Path-can do multiple tasks at one time
• Cognitive Path-can only do one task at a time
• Speaking is a cognitive process
• LD child cannot listen and take notes at same time

Visual Perception

Can see, but not perceive
No meaning
Sees things differently
LD child gets mixed messages

Don't

• Say "look at it harder!"
• Bribe
• Punish
• Blame the child

Do

• Direct Instruction
• Motivate and Encourage
• Give the gift of time
• Use auditory techniques

Fairness

• Children learn by what they see more than what you tell them
• Does not mean everyone gets the same thing, but that every child gets what they need
• In order to be fair we have to treat every child differently

Be
Fair!