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A Parent's Guide To Assisting Learning Disabled Children At Home, Sandra Elaine Baker
A Parent's Guide To Assisting Learning Disabled Children At Home, Sandra Elaine Baker
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Our schools are overcrowded, teachers are spread too thin, and often children with learning disabilities are left alone to get by in school (Rosner, 1993). Many of them end up falling through the cracks in the floor by middle school. Learning disabilities are not manifest in physical ways necessarily and many times go unnoticed and/or untreated (Bloom, 1996). This can be very damaging to a child both in an academic sense and in an affective sense. Self-esteem is lowered and sometimes continued failure in one scholastic area can mean failure in other areas such as reading which in tum affects …
Pre-Referral Portfolio Assessment For Limited English Proficient Students, Elizabeth Grayce Stevens
Pre-Referral Portfolio Assessment For Limited English Proficient Students, Elizabeth Grayce Stevens
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
What can be done to ensure that the needs are met of children who are limited in proficiency of the English language? Such is the familiar query of educators and professionals alike. In fact, one elementary school principal stated that this question often presents itself as the first item of business when administrators meet together (Marian Waterman, personal communication, October, 1997). How do we know where to place a child? How do we evaluate progress? When progress is limited, how do we know if the child requires special education services? The answers lie in appropriate assessment.
One Common Life, Thelma Sheree Clove
One Common Life, Thelma Sheree Clove
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The day my Grandfather died, my little sisters and brother and I were all out of school for Christmas Break in 1993. For some reason, all of us kids were hanging out in the front room of our house in Henderson, Nevada. We were laughing and talking, then the phone rang. My mom was sitting in a chair next to the phone, and she picked it up right away.