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Specific Learning Disability: Dyslexia A specific learning disability, or SLD is known to be a high incidence disability. A high incidence disability is common known as a disability, which is more common to occur and appear in the public eye. SLD is a major category, which has many sub-categories, such as language processing disorder, visual processing deficit, and etc. One of the specific learning disabilities is Dyslexia. This SLD is when one visual perspectives of words, and symbols are commonly mixed up. According to author of Educational Psychology Developing Learners eighth edition, Jeanne Ellis Ormrod states, “dyslexia- …show more content…

Author of the article, Creative Teaching with ICT Support for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities states, “A creative use of ICT tools in teaching should be organized to promote studentparticipation and cooperative learning with an without SLD (Oradović, Bjeckić, and Zlatić 2015).” I infer a great teaching device would be using computers. Technology is becoming more popular in schools and is a basic skill in everyday life. This article give suggests how to teach students with …show more content…

Clarke did a few activities the one that strike me was reading an unscrambled word passage. Each student alternated and read each word in order of the seating arrangement. Luckily, I was the one of the first student to read, so I knew who was before and after me. This activity was related, but memorable at the same time. As a student with a learning disability, I struggled to process information, but I don’t struggle reading. The point of this activity was to show that a student with dyslexia struggle to read, and to show that if the student has to read out loud, he or she, is only going to remember what he or she is in charge to read. This causes an issue, because not only does the student struggle to unscramble words, but the student may not be able to summarize the passage. Once the class was done reading the passage, nobody could make up what the passage was about, let alone the main idea. The next day, each one student was folded while tasting/eating

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