Hello!
I am a graduate student learning about learning disabilities. One of my assignments is to interview someone with a learning disability, and I don’t know anyone personally. I thought maybe some of you could help me. The following are the questions which I am supposed to ask, and I would be grateful for any responses received.
1. Define the term learning disabliity.
2. What are some of the characteristics of LD?
3. What are the biggest obstacles in the classroom for students with LD?
4. What are the biggest obstacles outside the classroom for someone with LD?
5. How do you test for learning disablities?
6. What legal rights do people with learning disablities have?
7. What advice would you give to someone planning to work with LD students?
Thank-you!
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Hi,
I have a learning Disability. To me a learning Disability is just saying that a person has trouble learning. It does not mean that they can’t learn it just means that they might be slower than the average learner. It is hard to say what come characterizes of people with LD are because they look like the average person. When I was in school the biggest obstacles in the classroom for me was that I would always get picked on because everyone know that I hade a learning disability because I would get pulled out of the “general education classroom. The way that you test for learning disabilities is that a students parents or teacher need to refer them to a psychologies who will run a series of tests one of wish is the IQ test and I believe they do the IOWA test for basic skills. The legal right people have with learning disabilities is to get the services that they need. The advice that I would give someone planning to work with students with LD’s is to just be patient and try to keep it confidential so that the other students don’t know. It should be up to the student with the learning disability to tell other students if they have one or not. Just keep that in mind.
~ AngelKovach01
PS. just so you know I am telling the truth about what I said. I don’t know what that other person problem is.
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I agree. Your questions are pretty vague.
What are the laws? Ask a lawyer!
How do you test? Ask a nueropschologist!
Characteristics? LD is so broad that this is like asking what are the characteristics of black people or white people. How do you even answer that!
I certainly can not tell you what the biggest obstacles are for LDer. I can only tell you the biggest obstacle I have faced or my child has faced. I might have an OPINION on the biggest obstacles but as I haven’t reseached it, it would be only an opinion. If some Chinese person with an oddly shopped foot told you the biggest obstacle for Chinese people where finding shoes that fit, would it make sense. Same thing with how your questions are worded.
The question that does make sense to me is #7. My advise to anyone working with LD students is to remember that each one is an individual with individual wants, tastes, and desires.
ME
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[quote=”merlinjones”]I am not trying to be rude, but you can go to the director of the offices of student disabilities at your university and ask for help with that. The director might know of some choice, cool as heck individuals who would be willing to be interviewed. With the internet, you never know who might respond to a question as ambigously worded as yours.[/quote]
Thank-you for this suggestion! It is a great idea. I am still interested in what others online might have to say though. The questions are very open, but I hope that allows for people to answer them in relation to their own experience. I also want to know what people think rather than text book answers. I appreciate the feedback!! It is helpful.
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Thank-you to both of you who responded to my individual questions! Your answers and feedback are useful to me. I am looking for the personal experience and ideas that you gave rather than exact textbook answers. Anyone else who has thoughts that they would like to share would be appreciated too! I am sorry if the questions are vague. Maybe I can clarify a little. I am interested how people with learning disabilities would define LD and what characteristics they would describe. I am aware that the characteristics vary, but what are some of them? I would like to know from the perspective of someone with a learning disability what obstacles are faced. That I hope will help me when working with LD students. I guess as far as the testing and rights go, part of my assignment is to have someone with LD decribe them to me. I don’t know if this explanation helps or not. I welcome more help.
I am not trying to be rude, but you can go to the director of the offices of student disabilities at your university and ask for help with that. The director might know of some choice, cool as heck individuals who would be willing to be interviewed. With the internet, you never know who might respond to a question as ambigously worded as yours.