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Learning Disabilities in the

Classroom
By: Emily Kielaszek
Identifying Children with
Learning Disabilities
✏ * general definition = “the term ‘specific learning
disability’ means a disorder in 1 or more of the basic Students with Dyslexia see writing
psychological process involved in understanding or in like this which will cause the
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student to have difficulties reading
manifest itself n the imperfect ability to listen, think, and completing assignments.
speak, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations….

etc”

✏ ~We can identify students with learning disabilities


depending on how they are completing their class work
and socializing with other students. Students with a
learning disability like dyslexia or perceptional
disabilities have problems reading or completing QuickTimeª and a
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correctly.

✏ * Also sometimes students have physical disabilities


that can inflict and increase the chances of learning
disabilities
Information Processing Model
✏ The Information Processing Model (IPM)
describes learning as a series of components
that involve sensory stimulation/input,
processing/thinking and output or sharing of
what has been learned
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a large amount of knowledge using their 5
senses in a short amount of time and how
they obtain the information through practice,
and their short and long term memory.

✏ Some students cannot absorb information,


process it and then recite it back, so this
model helps students find a way to gather
their information, practice it, store it in their 4 major components of an IPM is input, output,
long term memory and that’s to the initial
practice they can retrieve it and recite it processing, and executive function
back just as they learned it.
Primary Cause of Learning
Disabilities
✏ Although some people believe there is a
primary cause of learning disabilities, there is
NOT one primary cause of a learning
disability.
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✏ When students were studied, many students are needed to see this picture.

with learning disabilities have identified some


neurological differences and sensory deficits
associated with their said learning problems.

✏ Some believe there are some factors that


increase the possibility of having a learning
disability. The factors are
✏ *genetics QuickTimeª and a
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✏ *environmental factors from


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inadequate prenatal health care to


exposure to harmful substances
The Affects Sensory Memory, Short-term Memory
and Long-term Memory have on students with
Learning Disabilities
✏ *Sensory Memory - the ability to accommodate a
large amount of information for a short period of
time (2-3 seconds) and allows us to take in
information and interpret what we are seeing,
hearing, tasting, smelling, etc.
✏ Short-term Memory - temporarily storing
information while simultaneously completing tasks;
involves strategies for consciously storing
information, such as rehearsal. QuickTimeª and a
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Long-term Memory - a way of storing


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information in the brain for future retrieval

✏ *All three parts work together to help a student


absorb information, reflect upon it with practice
and understanding and store it for when it is
needed. If any of these parts are not working to
their fullest potential then the student will have
some difficulties in learning, abstaining and
presenting new information.

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