359 July 7‚ 2013 Learning Disabilities and the Classroom With every classroom you are able to see a dynamic between students and their teacher. It takes a strong teacher to really make everything accessible to all students including student with learning disabilities. The class that I watched was Christina Hilliker’s second grade. The disabilities that were part of this great dynamic were Downs‚ Autism‚ ADHD‚ auditory processing and behavior issues that cause learning difficulties.
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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? Did you notice any reference to categories during your readings
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Running Head: Emotional‚ Behavioral‚ and Physical Disabilities Emotional‚ Behavioral‚ and Physical Disabilities Marie Butler-Goble Grand Canyon University SPE-226 Professor Amy Petrovich April 28‚ 2013 Emotional‚ Behavioral‚ and Physical Disabilities Teaching students who have emotional‚ behavioral‚ and physical disabilities such as hearing or vision loss or traumatic brain injury can be challenging. The experience can also be extremely rewarding for educators who through
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When you hear the word "disabled"‚ you think someone who can’t function properly. Technically‚ you would be correct. A disability is any type of condition that makes it harder for someone to try and function in the world like other people do. It can be physical‚ mental‚ or educational. Disability rights didn’t always exist though. Ever since the 19th century‚ there were tons of problems and arguments before the U.S. finally made their decision about how to treat such a subject. I still don’t think
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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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Abilities of People With Disabilities Chris Moore Assumption: A person with mental retardation cannot be trained to perform a job as well as an employee without a disability. Fact: Over two thirds of Pizza Hut employees have mental retardation. The average turnover rate (the rate at which workers quit) of these employees is a modest twenty percent compared to a one hundred and fifty percent turnover of employees without disabilities. It is this kind of thinking that limits the ability of people
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In our society‚ presently‚ persons’ with disabilities as a whole are often stigmatized as broken or useless (Michalko‚ 2002). This is no different for women with disabilities‚ as strong cultural assumptions for this population have been formed. These assumptions are formed due to attitudes and beliefs‚ especially focusing on body image‚ religion and language (Charlton‚ 1998). In general‚ women in our society are already oppressed‚ for example women make less money in the workforce then do men (Katz
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Da Vinci vs. Michelangelo Lanita N. Clark ART 101 Mr. M. McGrath April 1‚ 2013 There is the painting of “The Last Supper” which was an emotional yet interesting version of events in history as we know it and he portrayed it very well to show the leadership and authority Christ had over individuals who believed. He was an early-renaissance artist that was not only a painter he was also an architect and he incorporated anatomically
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Assisting Sport for Disabilities Disability Identification Due to the Paralympics being held in London in 2012 the British public were treated to a media extravaganza. With the fantastic live coverage that was available‚ we not only got to witness a fantastic spectacle where competitors would compete to a very high level‚ we also got to see behind the scenes footage of how the athletes live with their personal disability in their day to day lives. These high profile athletes brought awareness
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issue of disability in sport via a literature review; to establish how gender is presented as it intersects with disability; to examine the role of media in sport for disabled; to interview professional tennis players; and to draw a conclusion and give recommendations. In-depth qualitative interviews were used to encourage female disabled athletes to talk about their lives and sport; all of them were professional tennis players. The interviews helped to explore how gender and disability intersect
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