SPCE 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reading Disability, Learned Helplessness, Graphic Organizer
4 Oct 2016
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Characteristics of learning disabilities: unexpected underachievement, lack of motivation or poor attribution, attention deficits, inability to generalize, faulty information processing. Students with ld may also develop learned helplessness and be inactive in the learning process. Social skills: about 25% of students with ld are typical or above average in social skills. This area affects most of the student"s life: many students with ld are na ve and unable to accurately judge other people"s intentions. To improve social skills : students must be assessed, intervention must be implemented. Intervention includes: structured and explicit social skills instruction such as modeling, coaching practice and specific feedback, peer tutoring, reinforcement, and contingencies that reward the entire class, can help with generalization of new skills. Little is actually known about the causes of ld. Some experts are studying the interactive relationship between several genes that may be involved in reading disabilities.
