As the mother and teacher of my son, now age 14, I have made an observation that I would like to see discussed by others who know more than I do…preferably Speech Pathologists out there who deal with this. I feel that my son’s problem with learning math is strongly related to the language problems he has (processing problems) In my opinion, if the language processing problem was not there, the math problem would not be.
Is there a school of thought on how to “remediate” this?
Re: math instruction for language based LD students
As a special education teacher and a person with both a language learning disability and a math learning disability, I can speak with some experience. I struggled with math and certain aspects of language throughout my childhood. I was able to graduate, but did very poorly in math related subjects such as chemistry in high school, I avoided Spanish and higher maths as well.
When I reached college, I dropped out after being blindsided by math and Spanish. As I matured I developed strategies to be successful in math skills for my job. I returned to college and I hit a brick wall trying to learn Spa
Re: math instruction for language based LD students
As a special education teacher and a person with both a language learning disability and a math learning disability, I can speak with some experience. I struggled with math and certain aspects of language throughout my childhood. I was able to graduate, but did very poorly in math related subjects such as chemistry in high school, I avoided Spanish and higher maths as well.
When I reached college, I dropped out after being blindsided by math and Spanish. As I matured I developed strategies to be successful in math skills for my job. I returned to college and I hit a brick wall trying to learn Spa
As a special education teacher and a person with both a language learning disability and a math learning disability, I can speak with some experience. I struggled with math and certain aspects of language throughout my childhood. I was able to graduate, but did very poorly in math related subjects such as chemistry in high school, I avoided Spanish and higher maths as well.
When I reached college, I dropped out after being blindsided by math and Spanish. As I matured I developed strategies to be successful in math skills for my job. I returned to college and I hit a brick wall trying to learn Spanish at age 38. I visited the dean and he sent me to the campus psychologist who tested me and found I had disabilities in both areas. He told me that most often a person with a language disability will have a correlated math learning disability as well. I took his word and they developed alternative curriculum for me in Spanish so that I could graduate.
I doubt that your son’s problems im math only exist because of his other disorder, however, it is possible. I more think that they are both true disorders that are connected in some way ny related proccesing disorder in the brain.
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Bill