Jason Kupper

Defining Learning Disabilities

I think out of all the sections of the course this final one was the most useful one to me personally and something that is completely relevant to my course. I myself do not have a learning disability and without formal training on the different areas that encompass the subject it is sometimes difficult to comprehend what must be going on in the mind of the learner. I found it useful to identify the different disabilities and most beneficial was the part about the individual education plans or "IEP's". Because of the generation that I grew up in, IEP's were not identified the way that they re today so it is still a relatively new topic for me personally.
Knowing about past IEP methods is very useful in determining the action plan for the individual learner and what direction needs to be taken to make the overall experience for the learner a progressional one where they can comprehend and retain the material.