Learning Disabilities

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Learning Disabilities

• Working To Provide The Best Learning Environment

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Disabilities

• Autism
• Deafness
• Deaf-Blindness
• Hearing Impaired
• Mental Retardation
• Multiple Disabilities
• Orthopedic Impairment

• Other Health Impairment
• Serious Emotional Disturbance
• Specific Learning Disability
• Speech-Language
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Visual Impairment includes Blindness

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Childhood Disorders Signs of Behavior

• Decline in school performance
• Excessive anxieties about school or other
  situations
• Excessive irritability
• Persistent disobedience and aggression
• Monotone speech, unusual quiet
• Fidgeting, inability to remain still

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Childhood Disorders Signs of Behavior

• Complaints of pain that seem to have no physical
  cause
• Crying
• Substance abuse
• Inappropriate outburst

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Depression

• Excessive sadness or guilt
• Feeling of helplessness, hopelessness or
  worthlessness
• Lack of interest in normal activities
• Loss of energy, fatique
• Thoughts of death, thoughts of suicide
• Changes in appetite
• Difficulty concentrating
• Low self-esteem

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Accommodations Modifications

• Difficulty completing assignments
• Difficulty with test Taking
• Difficulty with tasks requiring memorization
• Difficulty learning from written material
• Difficulty learning from spoken materials,
  lectures, etc.

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Accommodations?

• These are any efforts to change the environment
  or the curriculum so that students with
  disabilities can achieve success. Accommodations
  should offer the least amount of alterations
  necessary for the student to benefit from the
  instructional environment.

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Basic Strategies for Accommodations

• Alter the way in which information is presented.
• Alter the way materials are used
• Alter the physical environment

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Test Modifications Strategies

• Have another student or teacher read the test to
  the student.
• Provide additional time.
• Highlight key words or terms.
• Reword the test to eliminate confusing
  vocabulary.
• Use white space to make information less
  confusing.

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Electronic Resources

• The National Information Center for Children and
  Youth with Disabilities
• http//www.nichcy.org/