Students with Disabilities: Instructional Practices for Literacy A Review Of The Literature Alicia M. Genco Charleston Southern University Abstract Students with disabilities are at a higher at-risk for dropping out of high school at a greater rate than typically developing peers (Pyle & Wexler, 2012). Students with identified disabilities are required to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) according to law, and these students have unique needs that general education curriculum cannot
An identity component is the fundamental of my identity, who am I, what I do, or how I will be judge by others. The important identity component that I was able to come up with is education and it is important in my family because it was hard for my grandparents to finish school. In this essay, however, my focus is on the identity component called education because it is important to me because I want to make my parents happy that I accomplished school. My education has been a struggle in my life
find that they are often unsuccessful at this component of attempting to become employed due to the fact that they are underprepared for the nuance laden and sometimes improvisatory nature of an interview. This critical step becomes more difficult when a young person experiences difficulties with language, comprehension and/or social deficits as many of our student with disabilities do. According to the US Department of Labor, young people with disabilities ages 20-24 are employed at half the rate of
Liam is 9 years old and in grade 4 and he has met the criteria for a diagnosis of a language disorder as well as a specific learning disorder causing impairments in reading, written expression and mathematics. Due to his diagnosis, his exceptionalities can create challenges in many areas of Liam’s life including psychological processing, academic performance as well as social, emotional and behavioral skills. In addition to challenges, his exceptionalities have strengths, which can be used within
doctors and psychologists have gained the ability to diagnose specific disorders in children due to advancements in research studies and technology. One of the major classification of disorders that affect children in middle childhood are learning disabilities. Learning disabilities are a group of disorders characterized by inadequate development of specific academic, language, and speech skills. Speech disorders, Physical disabilities, and Social and Emotional disorders are all types of disorders
that examined interventions that improved the writing skills for students with learning disabilities. This article provides insights into what type of interventions and explicit instruction have provided the most positive learning outcomes for students with learning disabilities. Gersten wrote that the effective components of instruction tend to be multifaceted. The reliability and consistency of the Gersten’s components led to improvements in writing abilities for targeted students. When teaching
early intervention and RTI’s for children with early signs of a learning disability? This is a serious topic because of the increase over the years of children with learning disabilities. Instead of just placing students in special education programs educators must assess and evaluate students. As well as try early intervention programs and responsiveness to intervention known as RTI to try to delay the disability or stop the disability from forming and progressing. I have gathered articles that show
states that if a mainstream classroom is conducive to a child’s individual needs they must be educated with children without disabilities. Every effort must be made to be inclusive of a child with disabilities in a regular classroom setting alongside children with disabilities. (Gargiulo, 2006) 3. Individualized Education Plan Upon identification of a child’s disability, an individualized education plan (IEP) must be written. These IEP’s must be updated or developed annually by a team of
Synthesis Paper For this action research project will concentrate on the area of teaching and learning strategies. To be more specific, teaching reading to student with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. With the objective to find out what strategies work best with this population in regards to teaching high-frequency words. The thesis of this study is students with disabilities and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds will be able to increase his/her recognition
Special Education programming for SWD. This literature review focused on scholarly research and relevant documentation to frame information related to the following questions: 1) What are the perceptions of CTE teachers who teach students with disabilities? 2) How does involvement in the Individual Education Plan (IEP) by CTE teachers affect teacher perceptions of their preparedness and ability to work with students receiving special education services?