Learning Disabilities

Anxiety

Processing

Risk Tasking

Reading & Decoding

• Letters: /b/d/p/q/
• content is usually missed by students because the child is having to decode

Visual Perception
You can see it but you can't bring meaning to it.

Reading Comprehension

• 95% of textbooks & 93% of teachers teach comprehension through vocabulary according to International Reading Assoc.
• Bias due to the fact that you may understand a word but it doesn't mean you will understand it when it is placed in context within a passage.

Oral Expression

• Dysnomia-word find problem
• Brain has two functions: storage & retrieve; problem happens between storage & retrieve.
• Associative task-brain can handle 2 or more tasks at once
• Cognitive task-brain can handle 1 task at a time.

Fairness

• Lawrence Colburn-a)Learn by what the see not what they do, b)morals develop
• Everyone gets what they need; not what is equal