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Addressing Learning Disabilities in the Inclusive Classroom
A Collaboration between the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta and the Alberta Teachers Association
April 23, 2015 – ATA Webinar – Allison McCaffrey
Goals of the webinar:
• Understand the nature and prevalence of learning disabilities.
• Discuss and experience a variety of strategies to use with students with different Learning Disabilities.
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Student in Your Pocket
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www.flickr.com/photos/wecometolearn/8066863117/
What Are Learning Disabilities …
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Two Facts and a Fib
Let’s determine which of the following statements is NOT correct for each slide.
Two Facts and a Fib
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• Students with Learning Disabilities tend to have deficits in short term memory. In looking at the tests scores you will often find these scores below the 25th percentile.
• Students with LD have a cognitive disability which is why learning takes longer.
• About one third of students with learning disabilities have attention difficulties as well.
Two Facts and a Fib
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• Learning Disabilities are easy to identify and therefore do not need a formalized assessment to be accurately diagnosed.
• As many as 50 % of students with LD will drop out of school prior to their high school graduation.
• Students with LD are more likely to encounter trouble with the law.
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LD Simulation
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• On the next page you will find a passage the replicates challenges some of our readers face in deciphering passages.
• Imagine that you are being asked to read this and then do a comprehension quiz for this. As the student what are your feelings?????
• Please feel free to write down your thoughts on the slide
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• A great on-line site that has a number of simulations of different LD challenges can be found at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/attention.html
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then we must teach the way
they learn.Source unknown
If they can’t learn the way
we teach,
Six Main Categories of Learning Disabilities
• Visual Processing• Auditory Processing• Motor Coordination Difficulties• Social Skill Difficulties• Organizational Difficulties• Conceptualization Difficulties
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Organizational Difficulties
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Conceptual Difficulties - Mathematics
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Other
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Questions?
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Student in your Pocket
How can I support him/her tomorrow?
Support After the Workshop
• ATA Library Books, journal articles, multimedia, resources• ATA Workshops Many different workshops available for only $100.00 plus G.S.T.• Teacher Welfare and Member Services Workshops and services available• Join a Specialist Council Visit the ATA website www.teachers.ab.ca• ATA Ed Trust grants an bursaries available Grants and bursaries for PD, courses and projects• Become an ATA Instructor
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