FAT City Workshop by Rick Lavoie

"Come on," said Betsy. "We have to pick up this corn, we don't have another can of popcorn."

"Are we going to eat popcorn that's been on the floor?" asked Susan.

"We can wash it," Betsy answered.

"That's a good idea," said Susan.

"I can wash it, come on all of you, help us pick it up."

The children went to work. It took them a long time to pick up the popcorn.

Then they took the corn to the kitchen and Betsy washed it.

All the children thought that it was just the thing to do.

Betsy put the corn into two big pans to put in the oven.

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Mural: Donor chapped on chair retreats

Associative Vs Cognitive Tasks

Associative tasks are things that you can do more than one of at a time. For example, most of us can drive a car and carry on a conversation with the passenger at the same time. However, if the weather suddenly turns bad and we are in the middle of a hazardous rainstorm, all of our concentration must be focused on the task of driving. Cognitive tasks require full concentration. They take all of our focus and keep us from being able to do anything else in combination with the task.

You can do 1 cognitive task at a time but 2 or more associative tasks - multi-tasking.

Speaking for some students - is a cognitive task.

Activity - Speaking as an associative task

-round robin story

-I'll give a sentence then we'll go around the room

-Each sentence has to connect to the one before it in order to tell a story.

Speaking as a cognitive task - same activity except you can NOT use the letter N

Reading Comprehension

FAT City

Activity: Do you know all the words in this list?

are between

consists continuously

corresponding curves

draws variation

graphs if

isolated know

making only

often with

one points

relation set

table value

variables

Conclusion

Read this passage:

If the known relation between the variables consists of a table of corresponding variables, the graph consists only of the corresponding set of isolated points. If the variables are known to vary continuously, one often draws a curve to show the variation.

*Basic College Math. M. Michael Michaelson, 1945

Do you agree? Would you like to take a quiz on that?

How Difficult Can This Be?

The original FAT City Workshop was created and conducted by Rick Lavoie. This is his contribution to the important process of understanding learning disabilities. By using simulations and activities you get to "walk a mile" in the shoes of a student with a disability. Although all children with learning disabilities are different each shows at least two or more warning signs and each have felt Frustration, Anxiety and Tension.

Now read this silently while it is being read aloud:

Last Serney, Flingledope and Pribin were in the Nerd-link treppering gloopy caples and cleaming burly greps. Suddenly a ditty strezzle boofed into Flingledopes tresk. Pribin glaped and glaped. “Oh, Flingledope.” he chifed. “that ditty strezzle is tuning in your grep!”

Spatial Recognition Problems

Reading and Decoding

Visual Processing

What is this?

Auditory VS. Visual Capabilities

Can you translate this story? Silent reading.

The image you are seeing is a photo of a dalmation.

FAT City Workshop by Rick Lavoie

Learning Disability Simulation