Teaching Strategies

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The paper attempts to aid teachers who are attempting to teach this population of learning disabled students to read. The writer explores the characteristics of the learning disabled in detail in order to depict the extensive difficulties they encounter in learning. Because many learning disabled students suffer from low self-esteem, the guide provides strategies that have been proven in other schools to help students with LD learn and enhance their self-esteem.

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"Extending from the definition given above, learning disabled individuals are unable to process and produce information normally, thus causing a disparity between their actual ability and performance. Having a learning ability does not mean that one has low intelligence. In fact, most people with LD are of average or above-average intelligence. However, their performance in schools is adversely affected by their information-processing difficulties (Shapiro, 1998, p. 86). Students with LD experience a variety of difficulties in reading, writing and spelling. Some students have problems understanding words or letters in sequential order. Others can read the words, but do not understand their meanings. Then there are dyslexic children and adults who cannot pronounce specific letters and sound out words even though they understand the meanings and possess good reasoning skills (Wingert & Kantrowitz, 1997, p. 57)."

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