What could you do to assist students with Learning Disabilities?

Help students with Learning Disabilities by:

Offering a clear and detailed statement on syllabus inviting collaboration (basically, provide students with necessary accommodations in the classroom to ensure academic success)-

● extended test time

● common set of class notes (either student generated or teacher generated)

● extra review sessions before exams

● extra credit for sessions with tutors, attendance at extracurricular, co-curricular events.

Try to build a respectful, collaborative relationship with the student that is struggling with obstacles due to their learning disability.

Communicate and listen to the student with learning disabilities. Find out how they were able to succeed in other courses, but be ready for an incomplete answer; they may not be the experts we hope they will be in this collaboration, and we have to manage a very delicate communication process and be open to experimentation.

Offer the student advice: for example, how might similar strategies or technologies enable success in the foreign language classroom?

Enable autonomy: help students with learning disabilities form their own connections with others in the school.

Berber, T. E. (n.d.).Strategies for Helping Students with Learning Disabilities. Retrieved April 20, 2009, from http://www.miusa.org/ncde/spotlight/outline2.