The Characters Dick, Jane, and Spot Dick, Jane, and Spot are all characters that are used to teach Elementary School Children reading and spelling skills. Spelling is a difficult concept to master, especially when learning the spelling of American Standard English. "George Bernard Shaw said that the word fish might as well be spelled ghoti--using gh as in rough, o is in women and ti as in vacation"(Glazer 99). Sometimes the spelling of certain words can seem illogical and may have no other similar spelling in the language. When a young child looks at these words, the student cannot use logic to spell certain words. Learning Disabled children have a hard time conquering spelling and it may be the hardest task for elementary school children with learning disabilities to conquer. The question has been proposed of whether or not children with learning disabilities need to be taught spelling differently in comparison to children without learning disabilities. Children with learning disabilities learn at a slower pace and do need to be taught spelling differently than students without learning disabilities. According to the learning disability information web site," A learning disability is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding and using language spoken or written which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, spell, or do mathematical calculations." Basically, there are two parts to a learning disability: one is processing and the second is discrepancy. Learning disabled students have a hard time unders... ... middle of paper ... ...teaching strategy. Hodges puts more emphasis on making sure that the student understands the meaning and relationship of words and not the basic rules of spelling. A rule based strategy must be taught to learning disabled students in order for them to learn spelling. Hodges believes that spelling can be taught through spelling activities such as Dick and Jane books, knowing the definition of the spelling words, using the words in sentences, and using the dictionary. This method has been proven ineffective in teaching learning disabled elementary students. Learning disabled students learned better when they were taught spelling rules in which they used morpheme and phoneme strategies to spell the words. Learning disabled children are not stupid, their brain just chooses to learn a different way in comparison to children without learning disabilities.
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Special Needs: Students will receive extra time to complete the task. They will do fewer descriptive details.
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This project examines the plural making rules acquisition of a 5-year old child. The child participated in this project is an Emirati. He is bilingual; he speaks both Arabic and English. In this project, the initials H.K will refer to the child.
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Shipoopi came from one of my older brothers who watched an episode of “Family Guy” and was not trying to say a curse word, but instead said shipoopi. The word stayed with us because we never say any curse words and were raised not to. At first it was only him but then after a while it was all of us, and as time went by the word transformed from “shipoopi” to “poop.” Even though we rarely use shipoopi it is still used but not as often as before. In addition, shipoopi has little history, and is used mainly by us in many circumstances that we come across.
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It is required that the student be placed in the setting most like that of typical peers in which they can succeed when provided with needed supports and services (Friend, 2014). In other words, children with disabilities are to be educated with children who are not disabled to the maximum extent appropriate. Removal may only occur when education in regular classes, with the use of supplementary aids and services, cannot be achieved satisfactorily (Yell, 2006).
Learning Disability is a recognized category under the Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA) 2004. Students identified as having a Learning Disability after undergoing an Initial Evaluation, are approved for the support of special education services. Under the IDEA all student, regardless of their disability, have the right to a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in their Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). Learning Disability is a widely used, universal term that describes specific kinds of learning problems that students may have. A learning disability can cause a student to have trouble learning, retaining and using skills in reading, writing, math, and comprehension. (Sillman, Bahr, Beasman & Wilkinson, 2000)
When children do not seem to learn in school, some edifiers and parents may cerebrate the child is just imbecilic or does not have a desire to learn. What they fail to realize is there child has a learning disability. A learning disability can make a person feel like it takes over their lives. But with the right assistance and hard work it will not affect their future success.
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Accommodations will help students achieve these academic goals, which can be instructional or environmental changes that help students to successfully understand and respond to the regular curriculum. These kinds of accommodations may be a change of seating in the classroom, sitting up front during story time or allowing more time on an exam. For example, a child who may have dyslexia needs to have an additional 20 minutes on exams, or have test questions and answers read to them aloud. These are accommodations made in order for the student to have the best chance of success. A student, who does not have a learning disability, doesn’t need those accommodations and would not necessarily benefit if they were given to
There are multiple different types of disabilities that a student can have. They can have something physically wrong with them but not have anything mentally wrong. A student can have something mentally wrong, but nothing physically wrong. Depending on the situation this could be simply just a learning disability or something more severe. If there is something medically wrong with a student they will be placed on a plan as well. Why should this affect the way a student learns?
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