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Learning Disabilities
I. Definition A condition that causes significant learning problems, most often related to reading and writing; a disability of unexpected underachievement that is typically resistant to treatment.
A. Unexpected Underachievement poor school performance cannot be explained by other disabilities or limited potential
B. Reading/ Learning Disabilities a student's learning disability is most significant in reading
1. reading words (decoding)
2. comprehending language
3. accessing background language
4. fluency
C. Mathematics/ Learning Disabilities
1. retrieving information from long term memory
2. memorizing
3. multiple step problems
4. word problems
5. reading skills
6. information processing
II. Characteristics of Learning Disabilities
A. Negative Attributions
1. lack of motivation
2. learned helplessness and overuse of feedback
B. Being Nonstrategic not paying attention to the important features of a learning task or not structuring one's learning
1. insufficient thinking skills
a. Classifying the ability to categorize items or concepts by their common characteristics
b. Chunking organizing information by groups or topics
c. Associating the ability to see relationships among different concepts or knowledge bases
d. Sequencing categorizing and putting items, facts, or ideas, in order along various dimensions
C. Generalizing transferring learning from particular instances to other environments, people, time, or events
D. Faulty Information Processing taking in information, processing that information and applying it to complete the task at hand
E. Poor Social Skills
1. the relationships among learning disabilities language impairments, pragmatics, and social competence
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