"It was not the most outlandish thing she might’ve said, given how little was known about learning disabilities in the early 1950s, and how little training a teacher" (Schultz 2011)
Response:
I chose this quote because until the mid to late 1970's there were no special education teachers, class rooms, or specifications. Learning Disabilities are students with average or above average intelligence that have a difficult time reading. Sadly some teacher still ignore the issue of learning disabilities or try to use that as an excuse to not help or get rid of "problem" children. I know its difficult having upwards to 32 children in a classroom but we have to make time to be the teacher our students need us to be.
References:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/with-dyslexia-words-failed-me-and-then-saved-me.html
Related Resource:
wvde.state.wv.us/osp/RtiImpGuide91906.DOC
I chose the West Virginia RTI guide (Response To Intervention) because it is a program to combat this exact problem. RTI also called the 3tier system catches possible learning disabilities in the first grade and allows children to get the help they need to achieve their reading goals.
"The
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA) provides school
districts the opportunity to develop research-based procedures for determining
whether a student has a specific learning disability. Traditional identification procedures
required a severe discrepancy between the student’s intellectual ability and
academic achievement that was often not evidenced until second or third grade,
well after the time that most children acquire beginning reading skills. As a result, young struggling readers often
have not received the timely and adequate reading instruction required to
prevent lifelong reading difficulties" (RTIguide).
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