Learning Challenges

 Ever felt 'stupid' in school?

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 Learning Challenges
 Neurological functions required for learning
exist on a continuum

 Many students with exceptionalities have

difficulty with some neurological functions
 Examples of Learning Challenges
 Learning Disabilities (LD)

 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)


Traumatic Brain Injury

 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

 Identification
 The ability to recognize (name/sort) sensory
information


 'blank look' when given directions

 Inability to retrieve words/facts

 Example of Identification Difficulty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP8hkopObvs
 Quiz 1: What language?

Fùqīn shuō ‘Guò lái zhè lǐ!’

 Quiz 1: Answer

 Mandarin Chinese
 (translation: Father said, Come
here!')
Quiz 2: What language

Toda raba
 Quiz 2: Answer

 Hebrew
 (translation: Thank you very much)
 Discrimination
The ability to notice subtle likenesses and
differences between items
-hop or hope, + or -, aminal vs. animal

-headaches when reading

(especially black on white)

Quiz 3: Which country's flag?
 Quiz 3 answer

Russia
Quiz 4: which country
 Quiz 4 answer

– Greece
Quiz 5: which country
 Quiz 5 answer

- Ireland
Quiz 6: which country
 Quiz 6 Answer

– Japan
Quiz 7: which country
 Quiz 7 answer

– Vietnam
Quiz 8: which country
 Quiz 8 answer

– India
 Sequencing

The ability to remember the position and order

of things

-Spelling: c-a-t

-Math operations
 Quiz 9-12: spelling

On your own paper, spell the words that Kathy

dictates
 Spelling answers
9. Sergeant

10. Phosphorescence

11. Gauge

12. buoyant
 Figure-ground
Demonstration:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8
 Figure-ground
The ability to focus on the relevant and ignore
the irrelevant

- attention, distractibility

- extreme sensitivity to lights, smells, sounds

 Closure
The ability to activate prior learning to form a
gestalt

- knows the details, but struggles with the 'big picture'

- concrete thinkers; can't see/hear between the lines

- frustrated without step-by-step directions

 Example of Closure

The quick brown fox

jumps over the

the lazy dog

 Quiz 13-18: Put it together

– Listen to the 5-second music clips

– Identify the show/movie

 10 Minute Coffee/Stretch break

* Memo: $6 due; give to your cohort

rep
 Group Activity
Time: 10 minutes

Task:
Please discuss specific strategies to
accommodate these learning challenges in your
classroom

(You will share 2-3 ideas with the whole class)

 For tomorrow

- Look over the Gender Identity folder in

Week 1 Course Readings

- Don't forget your $6