By Vanessa Trum
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
EDI 600 Psychological Foundation of Education
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 19, 2010
“How Difficult Can This Be?” is a movie that should be shown to all educators, parents and students. I think it is so important for everyone to understand that students with disabilities need extra help in learning environments.
I currently tutor a boy with learning disabilities. His IEP says he needs a scribe and double time on tests. I often hear his parents saying he is not trying hard enough, and even teachers in his school find him very frustrating to deal with. When we do his homework together, I find I need a lot of patience, but I realize that he is doing his best. I can not sit there and constantly say, “Come on, you know this”. With English especially, we will sit there and it will take him about 10 minutes to read one page in a book. To help him along, we take turns. I will read one page, and then he will read one. He is able to almost word for word recite back to me what I have read aloud to him. When it comes to him reading however, he can not tell me what he had just read.
The movie opened up the minds of the people involved in the experiment as well as the students in the class. It is so easy to blame a student’s learning disability on behavior problems instead of working with the student to help them learn better. I find it upsetting and believe it is important we all become aware of what learning disabilities really are.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 19, 2010
“How Difficult Can This Be?” is a movie that should be shown to all educators, parents and students. I think it is so important for everyone to understand that students with disabilities need extra help in learning environments.
I currently tutor a boy with learning disabilities. His IEP says he needs a scribe and double time on tests. I often hear his parents saying he is not trying hard enough, and even teachers in his school find him very frustrating to deal with. When we do his homework together, I find I need a lot of patience, but I realize that he is doing his best. I can not sit there and constantly say, “Come on, you know this”. With English especially, we will sit there and it will take him about 10 minutes to read one page in a book. To help him along, we take turns. I will read one page, and then he will read one. He is able to almost word for word recite back to me what I have read aloud to him. When it comes to him reading however, he can not tell me what he had just read.
The movie opened up the minds of the people involved in the experiment as well as the students in the class. It is so easy to blame a student’s learning disability on behavior problems instead of working with the student to help them learn better. I find it upsetting and believe it is important we all become aware of what learning disabilities really are.
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