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Helping Learners with Learning Disabilities Ros Lugg

Discover key principles for helping learners with learning disabilities, such as using multi-sensory methods, assistive technology, and compensatory tools. Explore strategies like using visual aids, hands-on activities, and memory enhancement techniques.

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Helping Learners with Learning Disabilities Ros Lugg

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  1. Helping Learners with Learning DisabilitiesRos Lugg

  2. Key principles • Be aware of individual needs • Be aware of intellectual level • Choose materials carefully • Use multi-sensory methods where possible • Incorporate a variety of materials/approaches • Provide plenty of reinforcement • Use assistive technology/software appropriately

  3. Using existing strengths “Between 30 and 35% of all learners learn visually and between 15-20% are tactile-kinaesthetic learners”.

  4. Many learners with learning difficulties learn best by: • using pictures rather than words • seeing concrete examples of what the finished version or product might look like • knowing the object/end goal of the work before beginning

  5. visualising scenes, characters and actions as they read about them • finding visual clues in texts (charts, graphs, photographs) • using artistic means to express what they learn • hands-on activities

  6. creative dramatics – acting out stories or events • learning by ‘trying out’ rather than being told • word-processing rather than hand-writing • learning or creating raps, rhythms, rhymes or jingles

  7. Compensatory Tools • Word processor • Dictaphone or PDA • Spellchecker • Laptop • Reading/scanning pens • Speech recognition software • Voice activated software

  8. Touch typing • Practical benefit – speed, spellcheckers, editing facilities • Fine motor/neurological benefits • Kinaesthetic memory

  9. Memory processes • Attention and selection • Encoding • Storage and maintainance • Retrieval

  10. Attention and selection • Choose and attend to relevant stimuli • Focus • Select key ideas and facts

  11. Encoding Translating incoming information into a mental representation which can be stored in memory

  12. How? • Multi-media presentations – particularly good for learners with auditory processing difficulties • Mind Maps – activate visual and semantic memory

  13. Recitation • Saying information out loud - creates an auditory memory • Helps to transfer information to LTM • Activates more electrical muscle movement messages, strengthening neural pathways

  14. Rote learning • Form of auditory rehearsal • Develops auditory ‘pattern’ • Transfers information to LTM

  15. Storage • Categorization is important • ‘Filing system’ needed

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  26. Attention and selection • Encoding • Storage • Maintainance • Retrieval

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