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21 years old
From: Lincoln, NE
Dual Elementary &
Special Education Major
Work Places:
Old Chicago
Beyourself Boutique
Hobbies:
Sand Volleyball
Family&Friend Time
Helping children understand nothing is impossible
Learning disabilities are problems that affect the brain's ability to receive, process, analyze, or store information. These problems can make it difficult for a student to learn as quickly as someone who isn't affected by learning disabilities.
It is difficult to learn to read when
the words don’t stand still. Can you
imagine what it is like to read when the
words and letters move up and down
on the page? Reading is not my favorite
school activity. It helps to use my finger
or a ruler to keep my place so I can
read.
How does reading this make you feel?
This is what it would be like for a student to read that has a learning disability
Experts estimate that 6 to 10 percent of school-aged people in this country have learning disabilities. For people with learning disabilities, reading can be especially difficult, but that does not affect their intelligence. People with learning disabilities have average or above-average intelligence.
He was slow in school work and did
not have a successful school experience
but later became a well-known movie
producer and cartoonist.
As a child, he could not talk until
the age of three. He did not learn to
read until he was nine. His teachers
considered him to be mentally slow,
unsociable, and a dreamer. He failed
the entrance examination for college.
Ultimately, he developed the Theory of
Relativity.
She has earned a Tony, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Grammy. She is an author and a UN Goodwill ambassador. She grew up with deslyexia while teachers brushed off her disabilty as just being slow or even retarded.
Auditory/Visual Processing
He learns his
lines by listening to a tape because he
suffers from dyslexia.
Examples
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Dyslexia
ADHD
Autism