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Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities
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Students with learning disabilities have diverse, complex and interrelated difficulties, often hidden or subtle, that affect their learning. Knowledge,support and understanding from all stakeholders in the lives of students with learning disabilities are essential.
All students, including those with learning disabilities, are capable of learning given the appropriate interventions to meet individual needs. This requires understanding students' characteristics, using a variety of instructional approaches, teaching students learning strategies, providing appropriate accommodations and using time flexibly.
This resource provides practical strategies for regular classroom and special education teachers. There are no quick fixes. Learning disabilities are lifelong conditions which are not "curable" but can be managed through the efforts of the students, parents and teachers. The interventions initiated need to be continuous throughout schooling and consistent across all settings. The challenge for educators is to help students with learning disabilities become self-advocates who are knowledgeable about themselves as learners and equipped to take responsibility for their own learning.