Hi, I am a college student working towards an elementary teaching credential. I have an assignment for my mainstreaming class where my group has to pick a learning disability that we would teach to an elementary class and develop a follow-up activity that would help the students understand what it is like to have the disability and be in a classroom with the disability. My group chose to do our assignment on Diabetes. If anyone has any ideas that they would like to share we would be greatly appreciative. Thanks for your help!
-Kevin Blankenship
Re: Diabetes
I have to agree with Kate. Diabetes is not a learning disability. Pick some type of processing disorder or dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dysnomia, but a physical disability is not a learning disability. Need any suggestions let me know.
If I understand you correctly, you have picked diabetes as a learning disability?
I had a student 6 years ago that was diagnosed with the condition in Kindergarten. She is not learning disabled, in fact, she is a straight A student. Could I suggest that instead of doing something on diabetes, look through this board and find another area. You started in the right place, but I think you’ve been misguided as to what learning disabilities are:) Diabetes is a disability but not a learning disability.