Learning Disability And Its Impact On The Classroom

In the United States today, there are over fifty-one million disabled adults and children. Throughout our nation’s history, we have not allowed the best treatment and care for these numerous citizens. But, in the recent past, the government has passed laws, made exceptions, and thoroughly tried to provide accommodations to these people with special needs. While this is true, America, as a whole, still views this group as strange or different. Even though this is exceptionally normal, it is not correct. The United States needs to be opened up to the truth about their fellow American citizens. The people of America ought to understand that these disabilities affect not only those who are disabled, but that it affects the family and friends

Learning Disabilities Online’s mission is to assist children and adults with learning disabilities to reach their full potential by offering advice and up-to-date information. They also offer educators with authoritative information about learning disabilities so they have a place to obtain any help that they may need. This site offers reliable information so a parent or a teacher can research learning disabilities and get information such as the definition of learning disabilities, the signs to look for, how to respond, and how to get help. It is estimated now that 2 million children in the United Sates have ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and they offer

     When a child doesn’t seem to be learning, some teachers and parents in his/her life might criticize the child and think of them as stupid, or maybe just too lazy to want to learn. What they don’t realize is that the child might have a learning disability. But how are these children being helped? There are many programs, special schools and facilities, home teaching methods and many other ways in which children with Learning Disabilities are being helped.

PS. 45 is a school in in Staten Island New York, serving 900 students, 61% of the students are economically disadvantaged. This is a diverse school where 5% of students are Asian, 17% Black, 48% Hispanic and 27% White. They have a population of English Language Learners that take up 6% and 23% of the school's population have disabilities. I am observing a 4th grade classroom at P.S. 45. This class is a general education class with 26 students, two of these students are English language learners and two others struggle with focusing. There are also a number of students in the class that need extra support.

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Under IDEA (2004), Disproportionality continues to exist in several categories listed, especially the categories of the Specific Learning Disability (SLD), Emotional Disturbance (ED), and Intellectual Disability (ID) ,(Gamm, 2007). Disproportionality is defined as the “overrepresentation” and “under-representation” of a particular population or demographic group in special or gifted education programs relative to the presence of this group in the overall student population (National Association for Bilingual Education, 2002). So many factors are responsible for this disproportionality, but the key factors, as apparent from researchers are; (1) gender difference, (2) overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse CLD population, (3) unsuccessful teaching approaches, (4) poor classroom management skills, and (5) assessment policies and practices.

While perceptions of learning disabilities (LD) may vary according to country, culture, and teachers, it is often necessary to diagnose students in order to receive funding for services. It can be helpful to recognize those learning disabilities that students may have in order to provide extra assistance when necessary. It would be advantageous, too, if wide recognition of LD could take away the stigma that is often present. However, since LD is a multi-faceted topic, labeling often carries a negative connotation and can lead to ostracizing of students. It is beneficial for a student if the classification of a student with LD results in an enhanced educational experience.

When you think of overcoming challenges in life, think of a game of baseball. The pitcher throws a player a curve ball, but he doesn't know until the pitch is thrown. Just like you, you have no clue what challenge is coming your way next. Your life could be flawless, but at the last minute, just like a curve ball; it changes. The curve ball represents the challenge, I encounter every day of my life; learning how to manage with a learning disability. Attention Deficit Disorder "ADD."

Overbrook Educational Center is a public school outside of Philadelphia. The student body is predominantly made up of students of a minority background and almost one-third of the students are visually impaired. Although the entire school is not special education, many of the classrooms are considered special-ed. My field placement is within a mixed second and third grade classroom comprised of students who all have varying degrees of visual impairments. There are ten students and two of them read using braille and write through a braille typewriter. The others read and write without braille, but use certain specialized equipment such as magnifying monitors to make it easier to see the letters and words. The students are all behind where the majority of other students their age are, lagging behind students in non special-ed classrooms particularly in the subjects of reading and writing. They all know the letters of the alphabet and how to write those, but are mostly unable to form the letters into words and sentences. My participation is primarily working on the students reading and writing skills and I’ve found that the purpose of education in the classroom is predominantly focused on “catching up” these special education students.

The class I will be working with in the fall is 4th/5th grade self-contained, interdisciplinary team combo class in an elementary school in a low income residential area were 82% of the students receive free or reduced lunch. Although the school is located in a residential area if one was to drive less than a mile one would have reached a really busy intersection filled with shopping centers and bus stops. The closest library and boys and girls club is actually farther than the shopping center which can be a bad thing but even then these places designed to help enrich students are no more than two miles away. The schools demographics consists of 1.2% American Indian/Alaska Native, 0.09% White, 70.5% Black, and 27.3% Hispanic. 15.25% of the students who were once placed in an English learner class have reclassified while 15.22% still remain in English learner classes. According to the previous teacher who taught the class I will be teaching in the fall, last year she had three English Learners, and six other students who had just been reclassified. There was one serious behavior problem which involved one of the three students identified with a learning disability whom went to Resource. She had another student who seemed to have a learning disability, but the parents refused to have the child tested. At the beginning of the school year one child was considered to be gifted, and by the end of the school year the number had gone up to three. Since it was a combo class and many

Background: Children and adults with learning disabilities are at risk to drop out of school which can then lead them to commit criminal acts compared to people without learning disabilities. This study reviews the effect of learning disabilities in adults and children primarily. Method: Longitudinal and correlationals studies were conducted on students with learning disabilities. Results: Eight studies were included in this research. Correlationals studies showed positive correlation between learning disabilities and violent delinquency. Another correlation study showed that children without learning disabilities did better in math compared to children with learning disabilities. A longitudinal study showed that children with learning disabilities

One of the most challenging experience I went thought was during all of my elementary school career I had a speech impediment. I went through seven years of speech therapy to correct my mispronunciation of the letters l, r, and t. The speech impediment caused me to be teased and be put down as possessing a learning disability. I did struggle with learning how to read and how to spelling words, because I would sound out the word wrong. Today I see it as a learning experiences because I never look at someone with disabilities as being stupid or unable to do something. If I was to ever do that it would be looking down on myself because I still have moments where I cannot say a word correctly or it affects my spelling or reading. Having a speech

Shane has a specific learning disability that affects reading that he realized he couldn’t read, write or keep track like other children. But he didn’t give up but found a method to keep his love of language and learning alive by getting his books on tape. This may help his mental state as he was able to read the books he loved independently and continue to learn new words and ideas from it. The audiobooks always the most important adaptation for him even after that. The disability may affect his eye to read but the book on taped allowed him to use his ear to listen it. The second way is the helping from Dr. Dennis Higgins. He not just Help Shane to build up his confidence and also help him to overcome his disability.

After I got a text message from the bully at six in the morning, I just wanted to scream and cry at the same time. I sat on my bright pink chair and stared at my phone in darkness.It all started when a new girl came to the school during december right before winter break.The first day she came she was already the most popular girl in the school. Her name was Samantha kennish. Originally no one was by my locker,but then they put hers right next to mine. She started to be mean when I got a question wrong in history. I felt like I was a person who just failed their test. Samantha didn’t realize that I have a learning disability and I was trying to answer the question to the of my best ability . My learning disability makes me not be able to focus all the time. Samantha was the only girl who was making fun of me saying ”you are a nobody and will never be anybody.” Until she got her friends to join in. This text message I got on a freezing cold january day made it even worse than it already was.

The modern classroom has many challenges that face it. Shrinking budgets, less parental involvement, higher expectations, and growing class sizes, just to name a few. If this list was not daunting enough you also have the special needs students that have an array problems in your classroom that need specialized attention, lessons and seating. There are many forms of diverse learners from students who suffer from ADHD to physical disabilities to students with autism to ones that are bullied in school. There are so many things going on in our students lives we sometimes forget they have lives, pressures and disabilities that affect their performance and attitude in our class that have a profound impact on how they learn. For this paper I