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- 1. How do we identify children with learning disabilities?
- 2. How we identify children with learning disabilitiesSchools will administer screening tests in reading or arithmetic in the early grades to discover children who need special help before they have identified themselves to their teachers through either failure or extraordinary success in school. Screening enables the schools to plan an appropriate program for the student.
- 3. A child may be referred for special education services for many different reasons. However, the main reason is because of the observations by school staff that this child differs from same-age children in a significant way that is affecting his/her learning in school.How do we identify children with learning disabilities?School Systems establish a prereferral committee or a child-study committee, to find ways of coping with a child’s behavior short of a referral for special education services.
- 4. Interindividual difference is a substantial difference among people along key dimensions of development. Areas of inter-individual differences include academic aptitude, academic performance, language development, and psychosocial development.
- 5. Students assessment is designed to capture the strengths and weaknesses of individual students and to determine whether the student is eligible for special education services.How the Information Processing Model is used to show the impact a learning disability can have on learning
- 6. Is there one known primary cause of learning disabilities?Primary causes of learning disabilities have been shown through research to be genetic for the most part, and neurological including connection within the brain. So learning where those deficits are and then building on the strengths of that individual will make the capacity to combat learning disability function at its optimum.Sensory Memory Affects on Students with Learning DisabilitiesSensory memory is the ability to accommodate a large amount of information for a short period of time(2-3 seconds) and allows us to take in information and interpret what we are seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling ect.Your ability to see motion can be attributed to sensory memory. An image previously y to see seen must be stored long enough to compare to the new image. Visual processing in the brain works like watching a cartoon -- you see one frame at a time.
- 7. You lose concentration in class during a lecture. Suddenly you hear a significant word and return your focus to the lecture. You should be able to remember what was said just before the key word since it is in your sensory register.
- 8. If someone is reading to you, you must be able to remember the words at the beginning of a sentence in order to understand the sentence as a whole. These words are held in a relatively unprocessed sensory memory. Short Term Memory Affects on Students with Learning DisabilitiesShort term memory: Temporarily storing information while simultaneously completing tasks; involves strategies for consciously storing information, such as rehearsal
- 9. Studies on memory and learning show that short term memory problems can be a factor in a person's ability to learn new things. Short term memory is usually the starting place for processing information and events into out long term memory storage. If a person has issues utilizing short term memory then they will often have problems with learning facts, names, figures, etc.
- 10. Short term memory problems can significantly impact learning new information or retaining new events in a person's life. The ability to function in the present and future can be drastically altered if a person has severe limitations in short term memory.Long-Term Memory Affects on Students with Learning DisabilitiesThe knowledge we store in our long-term memory affects our perceptions of the world and influences what information in the environment we attend to. Long -term memory provides the framework to which we attach new knowledge.
- 11. Long –term memory stores information that we have made our own to draw on for future use.
- 12. Schemas are mental models of the world. Information in our long-term memory is stored in interrelated networks of these schemas. Related schemas are linked together and information that activates one schema also activates others that are closely linked. This is how we recall relevant knowledge when similar information is presented. These schemas guide us by diverting our attention to relevant information and allow us to disregard what is not important.
- 13. Since LTM storage is organized into schemas, instructional designers should activate existing schemas before presenting new information. This can be done in a variety of ways, including graphic organizers, curiosity-arousing questions, movies, etc.
- 14. MORAL DILEMMAWhat are your personal beliefs about this issue, and how will your beliefs affect your professional decisions? I feel that a student with a learning disability should be credited the appropriate necessities in order for that student to learn to the best his/her ability. I don’t think that what I believe will effect my professional decisions because that is the professional thing to do . If a student in your class has a learning disability then he/she should receive extra help. If the students have a problem with that then they simply need an explanation as to why the student receives extra attention. Our job as teachers is to do all that we can to help a student learn.How I will handle the situation: It is important as a teacher to explain to the students why Kevin is given these accommodations. The other students in the class just think that Kevin is being rewarded these accommodations, but after explaining to the children why he is given these special the rights, students will come to an understanding. The teacher needs to tell the students that Kevin has a learning disability, but stress that Kevin is no different then anyone else, he just needs a little more time then others.What does “fair” mean in the educational context for individuals with special learning needs?The word “fair” along with an individual with special learning needs, does no go together in my opinion. If a student has a learning disability then that student should get all the help and extra time needed to accomplish their learning goals. I feel as teachers we are responsible for helping students with special needs in everyway that we can. Our goal is for the student to learn the necessary material and if that means that the student needs extra time n a test because he/she learning disability then it should be given to them. Students with special learning needs deserves and necessary accommodations if that means the student will learn.