Learning Disability Case Study

FAT is an acronym used to represent frustration anxiety and tension represented by The Fat City Workshop Part 1: Experiencing Frustration, Anxiety and Tension. Upon watching the video, I wondered why the instructor, Dr. Rick Lavoie was barking out questions and people looked uptight and timid. After further viewing of the video, I found that the mediator was asking professional individuals questions related to the book that the seminar was based on. The acronym FAT as I previously stated stands for frustration, anxiety and tension, which was the purpose of this seminar/workshop. The instructor was highlighting the kinds of situations some teachers put children in every day. Some educators do not take into account that students get embarrassed by their sarcasm, and other students who it is not directed at find it to be funny and move on.

Learning disabilities can come from a biological stance. It’s based on the way a person is “wired”. It affects the brain’s ability to process or store information. More than likely, children with learning disabilities are smarter than everyone else. They just have trouble with things like reading, spelling, or writing. Sadly, it can not be cured, however there are types of medicines that can somewhat improve it and make it easier to live with.

One of the things that has been a struggle for me over the years is the slowness of my reading and the process of absorbing written materials. I was always a bad speller and had a

Ingrid is a 45 year old Caucasian. She is a social worker, who works at a skilled nursing facility. Ingrid is a right hand dominant. She lives with her husband Tom and two children: a son, age 15, and a daughter, age 8 in a two-story colonial house in a suburban neighborhood. Before the accident, Ingrid was very active in her occupational performance. She is always eager to participate in her daughter’s education by volunteering to read in her daughter’s classroom and other school committees. All these efforts show how much she cares about her family and that she always put their educations first. Just like every other mother, Ingrid loves to spend time with her family. One day she decided to go on a skiing vacation with her family in the northwest

Dyslexia is a condition that affects learning literacy so what they think they are reading may not be what is actually there so they get stuck with understand letters they may

Of course, we are not talking here about students whose comprehension is severely impaired, because they are usually schooled individually and have a special grading system, adjusted to their needs and abilities. But in the classrooms there are often students with less obvious disabilities, which, although less severe, can also create academic challenges. Some of them, such as dyslexia or dyscalculia, are directly related to learning and may affect the speed at which students acquire the material. Others, such as anxiety or ADHD may not only disrupt learning, but also are very likely to cause discrepancies between the students’ subject knowledge and their exam and assignment results.

Sleeter, C. E. (1998). Yes, learning disabilities is political: What isn't? Learning Disability Quarterly, 21, 289-296.

The timing of identification was similar in each group. The proportion of students diagnosed with LD who were ELL matches the portion in the schools in the group with RTI. The proportion who were ELL in comparison group suggests underrepresentation with 16% of students diagnosed with LD in schools were 50 percent of students are ELL. Reading difficulties of students with vocabulary and comprehension problems became increasingly prominent as more ELL students were identified as learning disabled in third through fifth

In the Warnock report the term ‘ children with learning difficulties’ should be used to describe children are currently categorised as educationally sub normal and those with educational difficulties.Gillard, D. Warnock report 1978 - notes on the text. http://www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/warnock/ .

Now that what I have learned from SED 125 has been dicussed, I’ll move to how this all changed how I think now. When I learned about the impact ableism has on people within a society that have a disability it really interested me. I took the knowledge that I learned about ableism and created a Civic Engagement letter for my First Year Seminar. I created a letter that address three different school districts RSU 40, RSU 13, and RSU 28 Special Education Departments, about bringing some alleviation of the ill effecfs of discrimination. The letter states that with the new knowledge I learned of UDL and Inclusive Education may allow teachers and faculty members alike to stop and think before they become the “ Tiny Tims or the Super Crips” in an educational society and create an environment of striving for fullest potential of each child.

A special education teacher and mother of three children, one with an intellectual disability of Down syndrome, diagnosed as mild and high functioning, participated in interviews with the author. The interview questions focused on the respondent’s experience and views on psychoeducational testing, which determines a student’s cognitive abilities and academic performance levels that ultimately yields recommendations for instructional planning (Bell, S. M., 2002). In conclusion, the interview includes a reflection of the two interviews through a compare and contrast as well as how the interviewees’ perspective on psychoeducational testing corresponds to the author’s personal and professional roles.

My learning need is how to safeguard people with a learning disability from sexual abuse. I have chosen this topic because at my last placement it was an issue staff did not like discussing and, as a nursing student, I want to enhance my knowledge of this particular area. This essay will critically analyse how to safeguard people with a learning disability from sexual abuse and will evaluate the research papers on safeguarding issues using the step-by-step guide to critiquing research as described by (Ryan et al., 2007). This will assist me to critically reflect and analyse what I have learnt about the issues surrounding the safeguarding of people with a learning disability from sexual abuse and how this knowledge has been enhanced

Learning difficulties are also a factor that influences a child’s development. Children with learning difficulties will need extra support with certain areas of development and may develop low self-esteem because they get annoyed with themselves for not being able to do something, such as a simple numeracy problem or read a book.

He is hard to understand. His thinking level is not as high as others. The way he pronounces words are different. His mind focuses on topics that are not important to most people. It is like he is in another world. Most people cannot comprehend with him. He is lost in his mind. This scenario is a description of a person with disabilities. However, “The Poet” by Tom Wayman is about a poet employing a poem from “A Checklist in Aid in the Detection of Learning Disabilities” and how those disabilities relate to poets. “A Checklist in Aid in the Detection of Learning Disabilities” is a catalog on examples of disabilities and actions people with those problems might have. His poem compares disabilities

Intellectual disability (ID) is also known as mental retardation and is characterized by below-average intelligence or mental ability and it is necessary to have a skills for day-to-day living. People with intellectual disabilities can and do learn new skills, but they learn them more slowly. There are varying degrees of intellectual disability, from mild to profound.