I agree. Tutoring is another great strategy to aid those students with learning disabilities. Tutoring provides students with the opportunity to receive 1:1 attention - and more time - which aids the learning process!
Mark McMullen
Giving students more time to complete assignments is a great strategy. Also, asking students how instructors can best help them learn is another great strategy!
Mark McMullen
The best support I found is family support. Adult students have told me of their children helping them with math and English work. Several students ask if they can tape the lesson for review later. Technology has made writing an essay focus more on content than grammatical errors.
Hi James!
Yes, I agree that there should be internal structure in place to assist students with these matters. An instructor is not a be all, end all.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED106 Facilitator
Instructional help can be tailored to the students needs by getting feed back from them on what procedures wrked for them in the past. This must be done through the Student Services Department by qualified staff, not by the Instructor informally.
Providing appropriate lecture or study guides that fit their learning disability. If there is a class with several students with learning disabilities, this can become time consuming to meet everyone's need.
I find for me is to spend time with the student and find out how I can help them. Most of the time they do not want to talk about it but throught communication of wanting to help them ,they will let me help them to be sucsessful.
I agree.Giving students more time is essential.Also, inthe past, I have let one student with severe dyslexia record our sessions,so he/she could play i back and make notes from it.All of this,of course with the permission of our director
I have read all the replies and will incorporate these ideas into my classroom. Great ideas!
Good job Daniel!
An instructor only has to pay just a little extra attention and be patient with the student.
Good job!
Jane Davis
ED106 Facilitator
The best that I can give is increased one on one support with my students. In a Culinary setting this does not happen often but it does still happen. Right now I am teaching Culinary math and I may have one student that can cook incredibly well but cannot do the math. I supply tutors and really spend individual time with the student. Some times even failing once and taking the course again brings understanding out of the student.
Assuming that a person with a learning disability has identified them self, and that I have investigated what has worked for them in the past. I’ve found that being as clear and concise as possible in the lecture portion of the class that most students with learning disabilities don’t have too many problems communicating the words. With the use of PowerPoint’s and boxed important words or short phrases the focus is on the written and auditory word. This benefits all learners in the class. I might say write down this one word, with as short as possible description. Then share the results with the entire class. After class or on break I’ll ask the student with the learning disability how they feel about the exercise and what they wrote. I think that the key to comprehension is allowing enough time for the learner to process the information with or without a learning disability.
I'm dyslexic--however taking the last quiz in 53 seconds gave me less time to forget the material I just read.
Hi Jeffrey!
Great idea! Note talking is sucha vital part of the learning experience and certainly has given techniques.
Good job!
Jane Davis
ED106 Facilitator
One type of support I have used in the past with learing disability students is to show them different ways of note talking that they would understand.
Giving the student more time.
I believe discussing with the student the different ways of learning that has worked in the past and utilizing them as best possible with your class would be a good start to providing support.
Provide opportunities to practice new concepts. Also, by making accomodations within the class all students can benefit from the additional support.
A good review has proven to help these students to improve thier scores.
The first is "good" communication. There are many accomodations which can be made to lend support to students with disabilities. General support can be coaching the student as to where to sit in the classroom (up front away from disturbances), an instructor should write difficult terminology on the board (for the entire class, but also helps those students with disabilities), Repeat or summarize directions given to the entire class to the individual with the disability after class. The instructor should allow for additional technology to assist the student in taking notes and understanding the material in class (like a calculator, computer, voice recorder, etc.) These are just a few suggestions to help students with learning disabilities.
