How learning disabilities manifest in the classroom



Specialized Instruction

Students with Learning Disabilities

As you continue your studies in special education, this worksheet can be used to document strategies and methods you learn about.

| |Teaching methods to provide direct instruction or strategies to |

|Areas of Potential Difficulty |provide compensatory support |

|Expressive/Receptive language processing (for more information on these | |

|processing deficits, see Students with Speech and Language Disorder in | |

|Chapter 9) | |

|Inconsistent | |

|Discrepancies between in class and test performance | |

|Slow to volunteer, difficulty with timed tasks | |

|Difficulty following directions, may seem inattentive | |

|Weakness in automatic memory | |

|Difficulty remembering rote information; such as math facts, days of week, | |

|months of year, letter formation | |

|Lacks efficient and effective work strategies | |

|Unable to complete work as quickly as peers, slow to master strategies for | |

|learning | |

|Unable to abandon strategies that are ineffective/inefficient | |

|Solves problems the same way despite instruction in alternate strategies | |

|Difficulty organizing and using specific learning strategies | |

|Difficulty adjusting to new teachers & new situations | |

|Is disorganized | |

|Book bags/desks messy | |

|Written work disorganized | |

|Unprepared for class | |

|Homework missing or incomplete | |

|Struggles to prioritize and focus on important details | |

|Talks around issues, cannot summarize, poor study skills, note | |

|taking/outlining strategies, and poor reading comprehension | |

|Impulsive and unable to plan | |

|Disorganized, difficulty budgeting time for tasks | |

|Cannot spontaneously self-correct | |

|Careless with math, spelling, writing | |

Sources:

Friend, M. & Bursuck, W. (2000). Including students with special needs: A practical guide for classroom teachers. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Smith, D. (2004). Introduction to special education: Teaching in an age of opportunity (5th ed.) Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

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