Learning Disabilities Assignment 1. Identify legislation and policies that are designed to promote the human rights‚ inclusion‚ equal life chances and citizenship of individuals with learning disabilities One of the main causes of discrimination is the fear and lack of understanding of others because they are different. In order to prevent discrimination it is important to value people and treat them differently in order to meet their different needs. The legislation and policies that are designed
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Unit 201 Outcome 1 Intellectual and commination 0-3 months They baby develops through the scenes of sight‚ feeling and hearing. Showing awareness of outside stimuli through movement. At first these movements are reflexive e.g. starling to sudden sounds. But as the baby develops these responses these behaviors become intentional. For example the following of eyes of which they may focus on faces and respond with their own facial expressions. At the same time the baby develops a small range
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Learning Needs – Learning needs have a huge effect on a child’s development. A learning disability affects the way a person learns new things in any area of life‚ not just at school. It affects how they understand information and how they communicate. A child with a general learning disability finds it more difficult to learn‚ understand and do things compared to other children of the same age. The degree of disability may vary greatly from some children who cannot or are unable to speak and
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Summary: Students with learning disabilities have always been present in our school settings. Unfortunately for many‚ many years it was an "invisible condition" that was not supported by educators and parents. No doubt little was known about why a child had a reading disability‚ now known as being dyslexic; or a writing disability now labeled dysgraphic. Many children even suffered from dyscalculia‚ a math disability. But think about the many years of frustration and embarrassment so many students
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of their disability or ilness and wont be able to live fullfil life. 1.2 The level of care a person needs or the type of care they require varies from person-to-person. All assessments should be done with a person-centred approach to agree on care plan a made around the individual and their needs. All service user must be always aware of their care plan and the tasks its include and to be discussed with service user at all the times. Just because two people share the same disability this does
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Ethical Statement Ethical considerations have been covered by names being changed‚ protecting all identities of settings and individuals. Consent forms have been signed. Parents have been advised of the right to withdraw. Part 1 The child I have chosen to focus on is a 3 year old girl who I will refer to as Liz. She lives with both parents and has an older sibling who is of primary school age. Mum is expecting a baby in June. I have been providing day care for Liz for the past 10 months
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Assignment 4 – Supporting Learning Activities and Assessment for Learning QUESTION 1 1a) Explain how a learning support practitioner may contribute to the planning‚ delivery and review of learning activities Introduction Helping in activities would be delivery‚ if you pass on ideas‚ observations or suggestions that would be contributing to planning. Do you give feedback to your teacher about how the sessions went? The teacher use s that information to inform their planning‚ so you contribute
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Learning Disabilities and Children Learning disabilities are types of learning problems that can cause individuals to have difficulties in using their skills. The skills that are affected are speaking‚ writing‚ listening‚ and reading. Learning disabilities depend on an individual because a person who has disabilities is not necessary that he has the same learning disabilities with others. People who have learning disabilities such as dyslexia‚ dysgraphia‚ and dyscalculia‚ may show challenges
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Robert Hutchinson Supporting Children with Learning Disabilities John K. McNamara Brock University This Journal is pertaining to the most effective way to support children with learning disabilities‚ and how to best identify those who are at risk for being learning disable. Early intervention is by far the best course of action‚ but the model that is in place for early detection has been very problematic. Reasons being is that the current model compares IQ scores with achievement
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CATEGORIES OF L.D. LEARNING OUTCOMES After completing this section‚ you should be able to: • describe five categories of learning disabilities‚ • describe the learning process‚ • identify accommodations which would be appropriate relating to each category‚ • recognize and apply appropriate strategies to case studies. BEFORE YOU BEGIN Based on information obtained to date in this course‚ can you group some of the particular learning disabilities into categories?
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