...coordination, social skills and emotional maturity. Common learning disabilities include: * Dyslexia – a language-based disability in which a person has trouble with specific language skills, particularly reading. * Dyscalculia – a mathematical disability in which a person has a difficult time solving arithmetic problems and grasping math concepts. * Dysgraphia – a writing disability in which a person finds it hard to form letters, write within a defined space and express ideas. Learning disabilities often run in families. Learning disabilities should not be confused with other disabilities such as mental retardation, autism, deafness, blindness, and behavioral disorders. None of these conditions are learning disabilities. DIFFERENT TYPES OF LEARNING DISABILITY GENERAL LD INFO A learning disability is more than a difference or difficulty with learning—it’s a neurological disorder.More > DYSCALCULIA Dyscalculia refers to a wide range of lifelong learning disabilities involving math.More > DYSPRAXIA Dyspraxia, a disorder that affects motor skill development, often coexists with learning disabilities.More > ADHD & OTHER ISSUES Although not learning disabilities, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and other disorders are not uncommon among people with LD.More > DYSLEXIA This language processing disorder can hinder reading, writing, spelling and sometimes even speaking.More > DYSGRAPHIA This LD affects writing and can lead to problems...
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...i Internet is Making Us Dumber During the past two centuries the world has witnessed an explosion of technological advances. There has been much debate about the Internet, and specifically about the effects of the wed search engine like Google. Many respected writers, a plethora of articles and books have been published lately arguing both sides of the issue. While many writers claim that the internet has a negative, damaging effect on the brain and cognition, others see the benefits of technology in helping us achieve the previously unachievable and freeing us from many time-consuming activities. Based on our research and personal experience, we have found out several reasons to support the argument such as the negative impacts on human behaviour, degeneration of human abilities and contradictory information. Therefore, we strongly agree that the sheer amount of information that we have access to nowadays is actually making us dumber. Information that we have access to is making us dumber because of contradictory information. Information can be defined as facts or details about a situation, person, or event. According to Wikipedia (2013), as the world moves into a new era of globalization, an increasing number of people are connecting to the internet to conduct their own research and are given the ability to produce as well as consume the data accessed on an increasing number of websites. Users are now classified as active users because more people in society are...
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...Fine VS Gross Motor Independency The movement and actions of the muscles are called as motor skills. Classically, these are classified into two sets: o Gross motor skills o Fine motor skills Gross motor skills are involved mainly in movements and co-ordination of the gross regions of the body like arms, legs, back, trunk and other large body parts. They take part in actions for example running, walking, swimming, jumping etc. Strengthening, and balance exercises are used for developing gross motor skills that emphasize regulation of large muscular movements such as walking, running and moving the extremities in a coordinated way. Some of the exercise regimen includes: o Back strengthening o Arm and shoulder ROM o Arm and shoulder Strengthening...
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...reading and writing skills to primary students with EBD. Reading and writing are closely related, mutually supportive linguistic activities. Therefore, developing beginning reading skills through writing activities is an effective approach. Writing requires careful scrutiny of the sound and sequence in order to write words correctly and it is this cognitive process that enables the child to become proficient in the phonetic analysis skills that are the foundation of the reading process. This guide will include principles of effective instruction and some teaching strategies used to address the needs of students with EBD. At times it will refer to principles governing behavior that impact the outcomes of instruction. It will include some instructional lessons for teaching primary reading and writing, the steps to achieve the objectives and assessment procedures to insure the efficacy of interventions. Since there hasn’t been many scientifically based studies of EBD specific to these subjects (Yell, Meadows, Drasgow, & Shriner, 2009), the guide will show how a task analysis can be used to design an effective lesson. Teaching children with EBD is compounded by the fact that their behavior problems are often caused by social and academic failure (Kauffman, 2005). Therefore, part of the instructional plan must be to eliminate the behavioral problems and substitute replacement behaviors while teaching the student the necessary academic skills. So the...
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...Many people tend to believe that boys and girls learn the same amount at the same rate because they are the same age. That is not true, especially when it comes to literacy skills. No science declares that boys are better than girls, or vice versa. However, there is research that states boys develop literacy skills later than girls. Late development of language development and literacy skills in boys is caused by both the genetic makeup of the boy and his environment he is raised in. Learning language and how to read does not come naturally for children, but speech does. Early on, infants learn how to cry, giggle, and coo to express their feelings and wants. Parents and caregivers communicate with the infant through facial expressions, talking to the infant in parentese, and having face-to-face conversations. Vukelich,...
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...someone’s mood, but it can also be very beneficial to early brain development, autobiographical memory of Alzheimer patients, and language development. To provide you with more facts about music and its beneficial impact on the human brain, I found five sources that provided more facts and studies that prove the benefits of using music in everyday life and for educational purpose. I found research on the impact of music on brain development by using the scholarly writing found in Mohave Community College’s database. The purpose for this paper is to educate my readers on the positive effects music can have on...
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...general learning disability is said to have a significant impairment of intellectual, adaptive and social functioning. The way Learning Disability has been defined has been changing over different phases. The term has experienced a shift in dominance from Physicians to Psychologists and most recently to Educationist. The shift has been from an evaluation phase to instruction, education and training. Phase I Phase II Phase III Phase IV 1800-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980 1980-Present / / / Foundation Phase Transition Phase Integration Phase Contemporary Phase Phase Details Foundation Phase During the Foundation Phase, medical theories of brain function and dysfunction were formulated. Transition Phase Transition Phase emphasised more on the Clinical Study of the Child by Psychologists Integration Phase Integration Phase was characterized by the rapid growth of school programme for learning disabled children Contemporary Phase The current phase is an eclectic approach with a shift to the Educators. It is a coming together of the doctors , psychologists, parents and teacher with ultimate responsibility lying on the teachers The term Learning Disability actually was coined in 1963 here in Chicago by Dr. Samuel Kirk. Earlier to this varying confusing labels were used for children who were relatively normal or superior in intelligence but had learning problem. This term...
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...students; (2) a second grade classroom contained 23 students and five Individualized Education Program (IEP) students; and (3) a fifth grade classroom. Students exhibited difficulty recalling facts and information in a variety of subject areas evidenced through an inability to gain mastery of grade level skill areas. Research suggests that young students have difficulty understanding concepts and lack the ability and desire to learn. A successful program needs to be developed to teach these concepts. A review of solution strategies suggests that the following musical techniques proved to be helpful for increasing student recall because the songs helped with phonemic training, mnemonics, setting desired skills to familiar tunes, and linking connection to cultural themes. Research has shown that preschool children taught with an early exposure to music through games and songs showed an IQ advantage of 10 to 20 points over those children taught without exposure to the songs. In the same study, students at age 15, had higher reading and mathematics scores in comparison to children without musical experiences. Brain studies indicate that exposure to music alters and increases brain function to make the necessary connections for higher order thinking. Post-intervention data indicated an increase in students' memory recall and emotional involvement. All these increases promoted the motivational...
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...getting one’s point across to another can be categorized as communication. Communicating can be taken for granted since we all do this every day, however, it is important we have the skills to know how to properly communicate with one another. Everyone communicates differently due to their education background, where they were raised, age and gender. The one, which I am going to focus on is gender and what impact that, has on communication. There are clear gender differences in how we communicate and this can even have an affect in the workplace, such as situations can arise where there are misunderstandings between men and women. The way in which men and women communicate stem from the differences in the brain. One major structural difference is that “males generally have more activity in the mechanical centers of the brain, while women have more activity in centers of the brain dedicated to verbal communication and emotion” (Wikninews). In female brains the corpus callosum, the part of the brain that regulates communication within the brain is larger than the male’s. Another difference is “the male brain is characterized by systemizing tendencies and mechanistic thinking. Systemizing is the drive to analyze, explore, and construct a system” (Kanazawa). On the other hand, the female brain is characterized by empathizing tendencies. Women tend to empathize, identify with another person’s emotions and thoughts, and to respond to them with an...
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...in the world. The brain has a lot to do with our learning. In terms of how we learn and what hemisphere we use the most. The concept of the right and left brain think developed from research in the late 1960's by an American psychologist Roger W Sperry. The correct term for the halves would be hemispheres. Mr. Sperry had discovered that the human brain has two different ways of thinking. The right hemisphere being more visual and the left hemisphere being more verbal. The left hemisphere is known as the digital brain. The left side controls reading and writing, calculation and logical thinking. The right side is known as the analog brain this side controls three-dimensional sense, creativity and artistic senses. Mr. Sperry was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1981 for his work studying the brain. To this day researchers are still using behavioral and neuro scientific techniques to reveal fascinating and systematic differences across brain regions. The left side of the brain has different functions then the right side. The right side of the brain focuses on the visual, and processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous way. (Rosenzweig,2014) The right side looks at the whole picture first and details second. The left side of the brain focus on verbal and processing information in an analytical and sequential way. The left side looks first at the pieces then puts them together to create the whole picture. The left brain is verbal and analytical. Right brain uses pictures rather...
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...A pen (Latin penna, feather) is a writing implement used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used, with a nib dipped in the ink. Ruling pens allow precise adjustment of line width, and still find a few specialized uses, but technical pens such as the Rapidograph are more commonly used. Modern types also include ballpoint, rollerball, fountain, and felt or ceramic tip pens.[1] Contents | The main modern types of pens can be categorized by the kind of writing tip or point: A mark made on paper with a rollerball pen, and the tip of that pen * A ballpoint pen dispenses viscous oil-based ink by rolling a small hard sphere, usually 0.7–1.2 mm and made of brass, steel or tungsten carbide.[2] The ink dries almost immediately on contact with paper. The ballpoint pen is usually reliable and inexpensive.[citation needed] It has replaced the fountain pen as the most common tool for everyday writing. * A fountain pen uses water-based liquid ink delivered through a nib. The ink flows from a reservoir through a "feed" to the nib, then through the nib, due to capillary action and gravity. The nib has no moving parts and delivers ink through a thin slit to the writing surface. A fountain pen reservoir can be refillable or disposable, this disposable type being an ink cartridge. A pen with a refillable reservoir may have a mechanism, such as a piston, to draw ink from a bottle through the nib, or it may...
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...Velcy have learned lot of things for their writing expertise. This instructor is doing very good job as a teacher. Based on the experience, the instructor offered so many useful information which is important to students to improve their writing skill for future jobs. All students were listening to the instructor attentively. The first impression about instructor is her writing skills and teaching way. The first day in this class was very good and everyone was excited to be in this class. The brief introductions of all students at class were helpful for teacher to understand their pros and cons in writing so she could get the outlines and ideas to teach everybody better. Students in this class have been having so many goals, but the most important thing is to get a better job. That is reason why we have to improve our writing skills to be impressive on their resume when applying for a job. I am her to learn more about all the pre-writing techniques. Such as free-writing/brain-storming, listing, clustering and looping. Most of these techniques I like, but my favorites is listing technique which may be easier to get started. There are some challenges that I will have. Everybody got all have their challenges of their own, It would be good to challenge one another so that we can become better writers. Learning writing is good for all of use and for our future job and this class would be very important for me to improve my writing skills. Thank you. Mark,...
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...Introduction The most basic definition of a specific learning disorder/disability according to Gould (2005) cited in Rörich (2008) is when a learner has an average to above average intelligence, with normal vision and hearing, and receives the same teaching experiences as other learners his age. He, however, underachieves. He is unable to keep up with his peers and generally cannot cope with the demands of the school (pp16). Margari (2013) defines SLD’s as that which are characterizations of academic functioning that are below the level that would be expected given their age, Intelligent Quotient and grade level in school, and interfere significantly with academic performances or daily life activities that require reading, writing or calculation skills. The gist of it, is that specific learning disorders are neurodevelopmental/cognitive disorders that Hulme and Snowling (2009,pp22) define as “typically characterized by slow rates of development, either in specific domain (specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia or mathematics disorder) or more generally across many domains (general learning difficulties or mental retardation). Finally, Rorich (2008, pp16) explains that the South African contexts defines these, as barriers to learning or learning disabilities in which then a "Specific learning...
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...CONTINUOUS WRITING Music Music is one of God’s greatest gifts to human beings. Music is a magical gift we must nourish and cultivate in young …………… because music is a part of the fabric of our society. The intrinsic value for each individual is widely recognised in the many …………….. that make up our lives. If we look around us, every human culture uses music to carry forward its ideas and ideals. The value of music is shaping individual abilities and characters are attested in a number of places. In America, secondary students ……….. participated in bands or orchestra reported the lowest lifetime and current use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs. There are also scientific evidence that prove that an education in the arts makes better Math and Science students. It enhances spatial intelligence in newborns too. Thus, participation in arts and music is a ………………… experience that broadens students’ understanding and appreciation of the world around them. It is also well known and widely recognised that arts ………………….. significantly to children’s intellectual. Since music and pop culture are the norm of today’s society, they help to ……………. jobs, boost tourism, spur growth in related businesses, hotels, restaurants, and thus improve the overall quality of ……….. for our cities and towns. Success in a society, of course, is predicted on success in school. Any music …………… or parent of a music student can call to mind anecdotes about the effectiveness of music study in helping...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Context Nowadays, in UCSI University, scholars need to learn another language besides their own mother tongue. They will like to learn English language which is the second language we can learn. As a language, there are a lot of skills which we must learn, such as, reading, writing, listening and speaking. What actually reading is? Reading means the action or skill of reading written or printed matter silently or aloud. Moreover, it is also mean as the process of constructing meaning from written texts. Hence, it is not a skill that students must learn separately from other processes. Reading skill combines many complex activities include categorizing, building key terms and concepts for a subject, measuring one’s reaction to a subject, making new connections, abstracting, figuring out significance and developing arguments. In learning English Foundation subjects, there are some reasons for us to read. By reading books, we might become an interesting person. This happens because we can use information that we get from books or magazine to impress ourselves to friends or future employers. Besides, reading also can help us to learn how to write correctly. In this case, we will get good grades and also can impress our future boss who will promote us because we can express ourselves 3 correctly. The next reason for reading is to help us in developing our imagination to write many excellent stories. For doing some event, we also...
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