Understanding students with learning disabilities
By Gill B.
EDI 15A Psychological Perspective: Teaching & Learning
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 13, 2009
In Education class today, we were supposed to learn about intelligence but Professor Boyanton was sick and could not lecture us today. I hope she feels better! So instead we opened class with an activity to write about how our lives would be different if we were disabled. I wrote a paragraph that generally said that if I were disabled, I’d have to rely on tools and people around me in order to get through my day. My life would be completely different because I would have experienced very different things throughout my life and would probably be a very different person.
Following this we watched the movie How Difficult Can This Be? This was a very interesting movie because it was meant to show how disabled children process information. I forget the man’s name who did the research presented to the class of adults but his lessons were very interesting and really made me understand how a disabled learner thinks.
Many of the exercises showed how and why a disabled learner can’t keep up with a class due to the way they process information. It showed that when a teacher asks a question, the other students are thinking of the answer while the disabled learner is still processing what the question was. This causes for the student not to be able to keep up with the rest of the class because once they figure out what the question was, the rest of the class is onto the next question. It made me feel bad for the kids in class that had a lot of trouble reading in elementary school, and when other kids would laugh at them or interrupt them and just take over the sentence.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 13, 2009
In Education class today, we were supposed to learn about intelligence but Professor Boyanton was sick and could not lecture us today. I hope she feels better! So instead we opened class with an activity to write about how our lives would be different if we were disabled. I wrote a paragraph that generally said that if I were disabled, I’d have to rely on tools and people around me in order to get through my day. My life would be completely different because I would have experienced very different things throughout my life and would probably be a very different person.
Following this we watched the movie How Difficult Can This Be? This was a very interesting movie because it was meant to show how disabled children process information. I forget the man’s name who did the research presented to the class of adults but his lessons were very interesting and really made me understand how a disabled learner thinks.
Many of the exercises showed how and why a disabled learner can’t keep up with a class due to the way they process information. It showed that when a teacher asks a question, the other students are thinking of the answer while the disabled learner is still processing what the question was. This causes for the student not to be able to keep up with the rest of the class because once they figure out what the question was, the rest of the class is onto the next question. It made me feel bad for the kids in class that had a lot of trouble reading in elementary school, and when other kids would laugh at them or interrupt them and just take over the sentence.
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