Link with good info on LD and accomodations

I just went to the website. There is a problem with the strategies for the different learning difficulties, that is, they are accommodating for the deficiencies not remediating. We know what to do for many of the deficiencies so we have to remediate, not accommodate. Of course, until the deficiencies are remediated, we need to do some accommodations but not as much as I have seen in some of the IEPs.

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There’s a necessary place for both, especially if the learning disability is severe. If you have, say, a 4th-grader with severe dyslexia and dysgraphia, who can’t read or spell past the pre-primer level or write anything that can be read, that child will HAVE to have accommodations or miss out on receiving the information his classmates are learning by reading. Books on tape, oral exams, computers, manipulatives for math, etc., will be necessary elements of his education. At the same time, however, he absolutely must receive appropriate daily remediation of his disabilities, so that hopefully, the day will come when he will be able to do without the accommodations, or at least not have to depend on them so heavily.

Yours truly,
Kathy G.

Shay wrote:
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> I just went to the website. There is a problem with the
> strategies for the different learning difficulties, that is,
> they are accommodating for the deficiencies not remediating.
> We know what to do for many of the deficiencies so we have to
> remediate, not accommodate. Of course, until the
> deficiencies are remediated, we need to do some
> accommodations but not as much as I have seen in some of the
> IEPs.

The lists include teaching sound/symbol connections, etc. and even mention visualizing/verbalizing program (though not with capital letters, perhaps so it doesn’t look like they are advocating a specific product). THey’re just down at the end.