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    Anderson SPED 601- Advanced Study of Learning Disabilities Dr. Robert Isherwood 24 June 2016   Introduction Dyslexia is one type of specific learning disability or SLD. Dyslexia is a brain-based type of SLD that weakens a person’s ability to read. It is not related with a person’s IQ but has a strong connection with phonological awareness, short-term memory and rapid naming. Most people with Dyslexia have normal or even high IQs. Many children with reading disabilities like dyslexia attend general school

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    student with a learning disability. College students with a learning disability can sometimes be overlooked or not represented in the classroom setting that Beneful for them. My initial impression of a person that has a learning disability is having trouble retaining information that can be seen as simple to others. They need a little bit more help which can be tutoring, study method or extra time on assignment. After this project, I have a new respect for people with learning disability. They must do

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    Dyslexia is a learning disability characterized by difficulty in reading fluently, as well as comprehending what is read, even in the absence of any other disabilities and with a normal IQ. There are several categories in which individuals with dyslexia may have trouble, such as language skills, phonological decoding and awareness, verbal comprehension, rapid naming, processing, and auditory short-term memory. One factor that stands out with dyslexia and one that causes a lot of controversy is

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    impossible. Sometimes they have a learning disability. Learning disabilities are serious and need to be addressed or your child's difficulties in school may never be solved. But how do you know if your child's problems stem from a learning disability or something else? When Andrew struggles with the multiplication tables, it could be a symptom of a much bigger issue which hours of math-drill won't solve. Better than math-drill is finding the real issue. Does Andrew have a learning problem? By ignoring that

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    The Adult Learning Disability Service for Lancashire Care NHS is a sector in the trust’s community health services, that are there to enhance the health of individuals with a learning disability and assist them to connect them to any health care that they may need by assisting mainstream health services by creating an unbiased adaption to help people with a learning disability to access them also by producing specialist health assessments and interventions (Lancashire Care NHS, 2018). Lancashire

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    assumption that people with disabilities do not have the same wants and desires as people without disabilities; they are included in our society as a whole. Additionally, laws like the ADA

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    Dyslexia is not a condition, it is not something that will go away and it is not contagious. Dyslexia is a lifelong condition that a person is born with and will have to learn to live with. It is a neurological learning disability that causes problems with language based-skills and can affect around 10 to 20% of the population ("Dyslexia," 2014). A person that has dyslexia can have difficulties with the areas of reading, writing, spelling, speaking, math, and or short-term memory. Having dyslexia

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    One of the sections of this chapter that really stuck out for me was the Etiology of learning disabilities which explains the variety of reason behind disabilities such as: Acquired Trauma, medical factors, Genetic/Hereditary influences, and environmental factors. I am sure many people can agree that the stigma surrounding learning disabilities is usually pointed toward the child being born with the disease and not everyone considers the many other factors which cause these defects. Personal story

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    Specific Learning Disabilities Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Specific Learning Disabilities Part One Disability Components According to IDEA Students with specific learning disabilities usually have challenges in acquiring reading and language skills. According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a child may be determined to have specific learning disability only if he/she is found to have a discrepancy in oral expression, listening comprehension, written

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    "I'm just starting my sophomore year in college.... I first knew I had a learning disability when I was in first grade. A learning disability is like any other disability, but in this case it's the learning process that is disturbed. There is something that's stopping me from learning in the average way. I know it's not that I can't learn. I can, but I learn differently and it's often much harder for me.... This in turn means that I have difficulty with reading and spelling, and also with

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