LEARNING DISABILITIES (SLD or LD)
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Definition:
This definition and term explanations are based off of the Do2Learn organization in North Carolina. (Do2Learn, 2015, p. 1) Characteristics: Reading
Math
Socialization
Attention & Behavior
(Do2Learn, 2015, p. 1) Assessments to determine disability: Individual and group Standardized and informal Formative and summative The aforementioned "measures yield comprehensive quantitative and qualitative data about an individual student. The results of continuous progress monitoring also may be used as part of individual and classroom assessments. Information from many of these sources of assessment data can and should be used to help ensure that the comprehensive assessment and evaluation accurately reflects how an individual student is performing. Evaluation follows assessment and incorporates information from all data sources. In this paper, evaluation refers to the process of integrating, interpreting, and summarizing the comprehensive assessment data, including indirect and preexisting sources. The major goal of assessment and evaluation is to enable team members to use data to create a profile of a student's strengths and needs. The student profile informs decisions about identification, eligibility, services, and instruction. Comprehensive assessment and evaluation procedures are both critical for making an accurate diagnosis of students with learning disabilities. Procedures that are not comprehensive can result in identification of some individuals as having learning disabilities when they do not, and conversely, exclude some individuals who do have specific learning disabilities" (National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, 2015, p. 1). Teaching strategies:
Scenario: In my classroom, I like to utilize educational websites such as Reading Eggs, Math Seeds, and Khan Academy to practice reading and math skills in a different format. Students enjoy the engaging individualized instruction that computer time provides, as each of these websites is designed to teach at a student's current instructional level. Reading Eggs, as other fluency websites, is designed to "promote reading fluency and promote reading comprehension" (Mastropieri & Scruggs, 2014, p. 330). Reading Eggs has a plethora of "maps" that students follow from lesson to lesson, playing games, reading words, practicing oral reading, spelling words, and listening comprehension. Students are asked to use higher-order thinking to work their way up the ladder from rote memorization and menial tasks to applying their skills to reading comprehension pieces. Students who are at a lower level who become easily frustrated in a regular small group setting (my class has 6 students) work better on the computer because they are learning through games, and learning by doing. This type of learning seems all "fun," and not all "academic." Websites:
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