Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g0TF1Xn11507; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:01:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:01:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20020129150001.35413.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Michelle Shuttlesworth <mshuttlesworth@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3855] RE: NIFL-LD:3810 NO Support for phonetic X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 2000 Lines: 52 > One question that we need to answer is why is it that a > high percentage of LD > kids are of above average "intelligence". Could it be > that they learn so > efficiently that they learn the mistakes, both their own > and the teachers, as > well as the good stuff?? And then the whole process > becomes increasingly more > complex and confounded because it's all interconnected > within?? Art, I once heard someone refer to intelligences as how fast someone understood something. In my experience, many people with high levels of intelligence understand and view things much differently than someone with an average intelligence. It is my belief that many times the problem is not that the student is not intelligent enough to learn, but that the information has not been presented in such a way to the student that they can understand it in the first place. I, myself, have a learning disability and I know, for me at least, that often I didn't understand what the teacher is trying to show me how to do because the teacher was not explaining it to me in a way that made sense to my view of the world. I really think that that is probably the main problem behind many of these learning disabilities that are shown. Now, I'm not trying to say that the teachers are incompetant. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with a different way of looking at the world. For instance, I had a horrid time in trying to learn my multiplucation tables because I would look at 6x8 and instead of just straight out sayign that the answer was 48, my mind seperated it into 3x4 + 3x4. I still have no idea why. It's kind of like that. By the way, that is not how my teacher taught me to do the problem. I created that version on my own in an attempt to put her answer in line with my own. I hope that made some semblance of sense. Michelle __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com
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