Theoretical Foundations In Learning Disability

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.

There are many factors that influence and hinder a child or young personâ€TMs development such as physical disability, learning disability and health concerns. As children and young people

The cognitive theory of development is the human intelligence enhancement of an individual throughout their life-span. There are four stages that are involved in the intellectual development of an individual during his or her life. Complexity and abstraction are evident with increase throughout the cognitive development theory of any normal person. The four stages of the cognitive development theory comprise of sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages. First and foremost, the initial phase being the sensorimotor stage, it entitles a duration from when one is born to the time he or she acquires language knowledge. The phase ranges as from zero to two years from birth time.

Introduction: "How many of you have spoke your first word before kindergarten?" "Or did you learn how to read and write at an early age?" Some children have a hard time communicating to express their needs. Others might have trouble with certain skills such as daily living skills ranging from doing laundry and cleaning the house to dressing themselves. Most children are struggling academically in several subjects such as writing, mathematics, reading, art, and so on. Also, some children are very sensitive to certain things around them such as enormous crowds and lights

Disability affects development and learning because disability affects children's development in different ways. That can be physically and sensory, social, emotional and behavioural and learning or cognitive.

In addition to what you have already learned about Piaget, know that he is identified with having a guiding metaphor of human development with the child as an independent, curious scientist.

One of the history's greatest figures, Nelson Mandela, once said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Over the course of years, this statement has only become more relevant. Maybe that is the reason why the topic of the decline of the American education has been recently spurring such a heated debate among national academic and teaching communities. In “The Chronicle of Higher Education”, Carl Singleton, a faculty member at Fort Hays State University, also presented his reflections concerning the U.S. education system.

Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, studied cognitive development from a biological perspective. As part of his theory, he looked at organization and adaptation which were the two main principles in the human 's mind and development. He further explained that human beings dependably strive to acquire a state of balance. Adaptation occurs when children encounter cognitive disability, this is known as, the situation where children will see the world as it is, and what they’re experiencing. Therefore, children incorporate new information and combine it with the existing one. Piaget refers to this as accommodation. This process occurs when new information does not fit well in the structures that already exists. For example, a child sees an earthworm

Chapter 5 discuses developmental psychology, behavioral psychology, and cognitive psychology. Developmental psychology allows us to understand how difficult learning is. The biggest factor of developmental psychology is how mature the cognitive skills of the child are. The process of the child’s cognitive skills take time and if the child isn’t allowed to time properly mature cognitively, the child could be faced with cognitive issues. Every child learns differently and at different rates. This is referred to as developmental variations and they should not be interrupted as long as they are learning and progressing. Students should learn through the stages of learning; exposure, grasping the knowledge, independence, and application. These are

Dudley-Marling, K. (2004). The social construction of learning disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 37(6), 482-489.

His parents could require him to work out five word problems, with a goal that he work out four out of five (80%) correctly before moving on to higher level problems. As his math and applied problem fluency increases, the problems could be harder and the number of problems per session can be increased (7, 8, 9, 10 word problems per sheet). The focus can still be on 80% of the problems correct even as the difficulty and quantity of problems increase. This is based on “Standard - CC.2.1.4.B.2 Using place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic” and “Standard - CC.2.1.5.B.2 extending an understanding of operations with whole numbers to perform operations including

In the nursery I am in there are SEN policies and procedures to be based on a range of legislations to help guide us to meet specific needs of the child. Legislation in the UK prohibits discrimination in education and supports inclusive education. The UK also has obligations under international human rights law to provide inclusive education for all children.CSIE (2013) Legislation and guidance for inclusive education. http://csie.org.uk/inclusion/legislation.shtml (

Young children and adolescents who do not have fully developed cognitive abilities are seen as incompetent. To be competent is to have the ability to understand and appreciate the consequences of treatment and non-treatment, and in Canada, patients are presumed competent until shown otherwise. Competence models for adults presume that "patients are autonomous, have a stable sense of self, established values, and mature cognitive skills" (Harrison, 1997, p. 30), all of which are underdeveloped in children. There should be a continual review of a child's competence because children's cognitive abilities are still developing. When investigating the competency of a child, qualitative social research is the better approach than developmental psychological research because it is informed by critiques of the child development theory to investigate how children's competencies are recognized, denied, encouraged or inhibited (Alderson, 2013). Qualitative social researchers establish a friendly rapport and interactions with children to better understand their perspectives and reasoning instead of using study methods that detach themselves from the children which could make them nervous and underperform in the conducted studies. Through this method of assessment, it has been shown that children with chronic illnesses or disabilities

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.