Ch 6: Behaviors & Skills for Students with Learning Disabilities
About This Chapter
Behaviors & Skills for Students with Learning Disabilities - Chapter Summary
The objective of this chapter is to help teachers review the emotional and behavioral needs of students with learning disabilities, as well as how to accommodate for those needs. Use these short, engaging and mobile-device-compatible lessons to improve your understanding of:
- How to help students overcome frustration, embarrassment, anger and self-doubt
- Strategies to help students stay on task and avoid off-task behavior
- Ways to teach students how to recognize when they need help and be able to reflect on their own work
- Promoting fine and gross motor skills in students with learning disabilities
- Techniques for teaching students organization skills
- Ways to promote study skills in students with learning disabilities
After these lessons, make sure you have a firm understanding of the skills covered in them by completing the lesson quizzes. For topics you don't understand, go to our instructors with your questions. They'll be happy to help through our ask-an-expert feature.
How It Helps
- Builds Awareness: These lesson will provide you with information about some of the special needs of students with learning disabilities.
- Teaches New Techniques: These lessons will help you learn new ways to help students with learning disabilities.
- Builds Confidence: Implementing what you learn here, in your classroom will help you improve the academic success and confidence of students with learning disabilities.
Skills Covered
By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
- Provide emotional support for students with learning disabilities
- Promote self-regulating behavior in students
- Teach students self-advocacy skills and how to self-reflect
- Help students develop fine and gross motor skills
- Teach students organizational skills
- Build up study skills in students with learning disabilities
1. Addressing Emotional Needs of Students with Learning Disabilities
When a student is diagnosed with a learning disability, teachers and parents often focus on the academic challenges that arise. This lesson will discuss how these students may be emotionally affected and how teachers can help.
2. Teaching Self-Regulation to Students with Learning Disabilities
Students with learning disabilities sometimes struggle behaviorally as well as academically. A supportive teacher must help these students learn to regulate their impulses and focus on academic growth in spite of challenges. This lesson will give you some ideas for teaching self-regulation to students with learning disabilities.
3. Self-Advocacy & Self-Reflection for Students with Learning Disabilities
It is important that students with learning disabilities learn how to self-advocate in order to take a lead role in their education. Explore strategies of self-advocacy such as problem-solving and asking questions at the right time in the right place.
4. Fine & Gross Motor Skill Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities
In this lesson, we will differentiate between fine and gross motor skills and identify ways teachers can help students with learning disabilities develop these skills to assist with their writing and other classroom activities.
5. Teaching Organizational Skills to Students with Learning Disabilities
Students with learning disabilities sometimes struggle with visual and temporal awareness in ways that lead to poor organization. Part of helping these students succeed as learners and people is teaching them strategies for organizing their work and schedules. This lesson will provide strategies for teaching organizational skills to students with learning disabilities.
6. Study Skills for Students with Learning Disabilities
Study skills are instrumental in the success of students with learning disabilities. The more we can help them develop skills in note taking, organization, test taking, and memory, the more they will thrive. In this lesson, we will explore study skills strategies that you can teach your students with learning disabilities.
7. Homework Strategies for Students with Learning Disabilities
Students with learning disabilities are usually at a disadvantage academically, particularly when it comes to homework. Let's look at how teachers and parents can work together to help their students with learning disabilities have a more meaningful homework experience.
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