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Test Your Skills! Try These Tricks with Your Students with LD

Students with learning disabilities tend to struggle in these critical areas: organization, test taking, study skills, notetaking, reading, writing, mathematics, and advanced thinking.

You can actually break these skills down into smaller subskills and teach students techniques for targeting their trouble spots.

Our quick quiz introduces you to strategies designed to enhance your students' skills. How many can you match? Read More

The Preface to Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities

In the preface to Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities, learn how the authors—a college professor with ADHD and a poet with a learning disability—met and teamed up to write this book, inspired by their shared experiences. Read More

The Role of Teacher Effectiveness in Children’s Reading Achievement

This chapter excerpt considers the knowledge and skills needed to be a successful teacher of reading as well as how schools of education might better prepare elementary-level educators to teach reading to children from a variety of backgrounds. Read More

Use of technology in teaching

This chapter discusses the use of technology in teaching students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, OWL LD, and dyscalculia. The use of computers in content area instruction, as well as the use of computers for accommodation and explicit instruction, is covered. Read More

The Magnocellular Theory of Dyslexia

This excerpt examines the research supporting the belief that fundamental phonological reading problems in people with dyslexia may be due to mild, but pervasive, impaired development of magnocellular systems throughout the brain. Read More

Motivation and the struggling reader

Read this chapter to learn about the importance of motivation and engagement related to reading success. Research-based practices for increasing motivation and engagement are discussed. Read More

Planning Checklist for Implementing Schoolwide Reading Intervention

Excerpted from Effective Instruction for Middle School Students with Reading Difficulties, this five-step checklist helps administrators evaluate their school's current reading intervention process and develop plans for implementing change. Read More

Reading comprehension difficulties in struggling readers

This chapter excerpt from Unraveling Reading Comprehension explains the various types of poor readers, and takes a closer look at the barriers to successful comprehension. Read More

Rethinking Students: Presuming Competence

This chapter from The Occupational Therapist's Handbook for Inclusive School Practices introduces the concept of rethinking students. Rethinking a student entails getting to know the student and then reflecting on how you see, treat, provide services to, and work with him or her. Read More

Rethinking Students: Presuming Competence

This chapter from The Speech-Language Pathologist's Handbook for Inclusive School Practices introduces the concept of rethinking students. Rethinking a student entails getting to know the student and then reflecting on how you see, treat, provide services to, and work with him or her. Read More